Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1861-02-20
Threats against Traitors - Conse-
uuencee Of Puritan Persecution.


Two or three days ago In the United
States Senate, Mr.. Hale. Of New Hamp'
shire, Puritan and abo,i,ioniSt o. the
true blue type, threatened all the Nor
,hern men who did not sympathise with
the republicans in their policy Of no
compr omise and armed coercion OF The
Southern Stales--threatencd them with
the first Vengeance of Praise Gcd-base-
bones invading army. He said " tEeir
first business weuld be to take care 0i the
traitors at the North take care ofthem
with drumhend court martials and hal
tiers. As Dan,on said, in the frs. French
revolution, there is nothing in such cases
like audacity, audacity, audaci'y." The
real traitors at the North ars those who
have violated the constitution, 10 whicn
the paramount loyalty OF all is due, and
who are now seeking TO completely sub
vert it to y military despo,ism. The
stigma "trator has about as Appropriate
application 10 those for whom il was in=
tended as the term witches had Tor
tho good and virtuous women in New
England nho in the palmy days of furi>
tan rule, fell victims to the fanaiicism OF
Mr.. Hale's ancestors. Not content with
driving the Southern States out OF the
Union, the next object OF the fana,ical
crusaders is to force all men OF liberal
ideas out of the Northern S,a,es-,o sub
.ject them to persecution, even to death,
il they do not ostraciso themselves from
their native land.
As we have recently shown in two his.
torioal sket ches-one The History OF
the Puritans," and the other The Rise
and Progress of ofAbolitionism"-such have
ever been the principles and the policy OF
the New England Puritans. They say
they left old England because they were
persecu,ed there. But the truth OF his
tory shows that they always perseculed
when they had the power, and that this
was the chief reason why even handed
Justice commended the poisoned chalice
to their own lips" However that may
be, certain it is they were the first colo.
ni.ts who set an example of persecution
in this country They had hardly land
ed on the American shores when they be.
gan to put their principles into practice.
They prosecuted all other sects, aud even
their own brethren. The result was Sc
cession TO Rhode Island and Connecticut,
whore the prosecuted founded new settle
ments, to the great loss and detriment OF
the old colony for population IS the
wealth Of States, and whatever diminish
es il in new community is public Ca
lami.y. 1t was thus the Moors in Spain
the most valuable citizens OF that coun-
| fry, who preserved the arts, the sciences
and the literature after the fall of the Ro
man empire, who developed the resodr-
ces OF the peninsula, and gave wonder
ful impetus to its commercial enterpri! e
= were prosecuted and exterminated for
their religious opiuions by the inqusi,lon
under Ferdinand, Charles ". Philip H..
and Philip H.. the last Of whom totally
banished the Saracens from Spain-a de-
population which inflicted wound upon
the nation from which'it has drooped and
pinea for nearly three centuries. At that
time it stood al the head Of the European
overs. Where is it now? More than
cne hundred and fifty thousand Of tEe
prosecuted Moors took refuge in France,
where they we've received with great hu'
m0nity by the enlightened and liberal
monarch. Henry ", aud where they re.
paid the hospitality With interest by in
ulbc
whilst to Spain the result was destruction
TO its manufacturing interest, AMI finally
bloody civil wars to break down he tyran-
ny Of sn absolute monarchy and iEquisi-
tion.
There is second historical parallel
equally instructive. After France for u
sel les of years had been devastated ny civ.
i! wars Of religion and mss sacrts, including
,ha, Of ST Barthclumews day, Henry w.
III the year 1898, issued tho celebrated
Edict Of Nantes, which granted to the
lluguenots, or French Piotcstants, the
privileges Of citizenship, the right Of wcr
shipping God according 10 their own
faith. and CERTAIN lands 10 support their
churches and garrisons. For lh,s ,olera-
tiou Henry Was assassinated. But the
Huguenots continued to flourish md the
country TO p!ospcr under the liberal poll
cy which he established, ill Cardinal
Rchelieu controlled the royal councils
and vigorously pursued his maxim, that
~ there could be no peace in France un-
Ill the Huguenots were entirely suppress
ed" At length, in the year 1856, Louis
XIV, revoked the Edict Of Nantes, and
ordered the reformed churches 10 return
10 the faith Of Rome.
The ten pies Of the llugucnots were O.
molIshed, and the worshippers nlassacred
Fifty thousand escaped to the Protestant
countries Of Europe, and few to the
British Colonies OF America. They car.
ried with them their arts and wealth and
enterprise, by whicn rival ma, ons were
soon enat led 20 excel the French in their
own manufactures and the despoism
established over the human mind by the
French monarchy it became necessary 10
overthrow, by the terrors OF a sanguinary
revolution, which may one day be noces-
sary il the Northern States of America,
should Purtanism be successful in cs.abo
fishing its domination.
Another pregnant example Of the of-
tectS Of prosecution is TO be found in the
modern history of our own Anglo>Saxon
race. After the Quarts were over,brown
in England, the Irish Catholics held out
for them in Ireland, and in the fortified
city Of Limerick made their last stand -