The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-03

brity. Both concerns nave found that the
up town business will not pay. Haughwouts
place Is to be q restaurant, and WYman has re-
turned to his old location. This is one Of the
first effects Of secession upon New York mer-
chants, who find their best customers are so far
dependent upon the South that any disturbance
in that quarter compels them to retrench and
economist. Until the pending difficulties are
settled, times will be very hard Ia all branches
of trade, but more especially in those which
have articles of luxury for their speciality.
Historical Parallels or Radical Rcpub-
hcanism In England and France.
The moderate men of the republican party,
and many even Of the radical red revolution
lists who are seeking to subvert the constitu-
ton of the United States, and the political sys-
tenn established By tho founders Of the govern
naent, In order to carry out the principles Of
the Chicago platform, which they hold to be
Of paramount authority, little dream of the
probable consequences of their folly to them
selves, their children and their country.
History is continually repeating itself. 1t is
written for our instruction, but we take little
heed of its warnings. 1t is philosophy teach
ing by examples" but the examples are lost
upon us after one or two generations have
passed away. In the two greatest and most
civilized nations Of Europe-France and Eng
land-nations most intimately connected with
ourselves-one by the ties of consanguinity,
history and laws, and the other by its friend
ship in the time of our greatest need--we have
pregnant examples of the dangers, the disas-
ters and the folly OF revolutions and civil wars
for abstract ideas which are never realized by
their originators.
The Puritans in England and the Jacobins in
France originated bloody civil wars in those
countries which made them desolate, while they
utterly failed to accomplish the objects of the
revolutonists. The Puritans not satisfied with
Professionalism as it existed, determined to push
matters to extremes, and they began with the
cry of Liberty of conscience" in opposition
to the religious supremacy of the King; but
when they became victorious they insisted
upon all other men swallowing their opinions
| on pain of death, and violated their own prin-
| ciple as it had never been violated before.
They asserted the obligation Of the judicial law
| Of Moses in criminal cases, and deduced from
this the duty of putting to death Roman Catho-
lies as idolators, also adulterers, witches, de-
moniacs, Sabbath breakers and similar offend
ers. Such was their preference for the rigors
of the Old Testament over the mild and gentle
precepts of the New, that they baptised their
children not by the names of Christian saints,
but Of Hebrew patriarchs and warriors. The
Old Testament contained the history of race
selected by God to be witnesses of his unity
and ministers of his vengeance and the fierce
and gloomy spirits Of Puritanism found in it
| much that might be distorted to suit their
views. In defiance Of the reiterated declara-
| tons Of Luther and Calvin, they turned the
weekly festival of the Christian church into a
trying to perpetuate here centuries after it
| has been exploded in England They
sought for precedents to guide them in the books
of Judges and Kings, instead of the Gospels,
the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles Of St.
Paul. The prophet who hewed in pieces a
captive King, the rebel general who gave the
blood of a queen to the dogs, and the nation
who, in spite Of plighted faith and the laws of
Eastern hospitality, drove q nail into the
brain Of the fugitive ally who had just eaten at
her board and was sleeping under her tent,
were proposed as models to Christians suffering
under the tyranny of princes and prelates.
When they gained the ascendant they put both
to death. Charles l. and Archbishop Laud
! were brought to the scaffold by the Puritan
| Parliament, after Cromwell had entered the
House of Commons with his troops, and his
! Colonel, Pride cleared out all the members
who were opposed to the violence Of the new
sect, whence the publication was called
"Prides Purge" and the remnant Of the Par
| lament the Rump." No organs were per-
mitted in churches, no music, no stained glass.
] All holy days were abolished. Even the
| Quakers were prosecuted, as they were after
wards by the Puritans of New England. The
Parliament prohibited the use Of the Book of
Common Prayer not only in churches, but in
private, and those clergy who did not agree
with them were subjected to the outrages of the
| fanatical rabble.
To establish their intolerant principles they
deluged England, Ireland and Scotland with
blood, but it was only by the military genius Of
Cromwell that those unnatural principles were
rendered for time triumphant. In the first
battles Of the Parliamentary forces with the
Kings troops the Puritans were defeated; but
Cromwell alone, Of oil the able commanders
of the time, saw the reason, and applied the
remedy in the modelling and disciplining Of
his forces, and like Napoleon, he trained an
army which was invincible. But when he died
Puritanism was overthrown. His giant arm no
longer existed to support 1t, and 1t died M
tural death. Indeed, the nation ran into the
opposite extreme from sheer disgust with ia
naticism, and during the reign Of Charles H.,
who succeeded the Commonwealth the man
1 r,ara nf tho naonla hacamn more licentinns and