Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-02-20
Threats against NTraitOrS,,-COnse-
aueuces of Puritan PersecutiOu

~ohAPtIeC.g cNpN CIT AZ " Il uiAtllAAN NGoPOlloui
The stigma "trlitor" has about as appropriate
application to those for whom it was intended as
the term witches" had for the good and virtuous
women in New England who in the palmy days
OF Puritan rule, Ie.l victims t. the fInatc.sm OF
Mr.. Hales ancestors. Not content with driving
the Southern States out OF the Union. the next
object OF the flnatical crusaders is to force all
men OF liberal iGe-ls out Of the Northern ST ties
to subject them to persecution, even to de ,th if
they do not ostrIcise themselves from Their ma.
tive land.
Such have ever been the principles and the pol
icy OF the New England Pufitlns. They say
they left Cd England because they were perse-
cuted there. But the truth OF hist ~ shows that
they always prosecuted when they had the power,
and that this was the chief reason why "even
handed justice commended the poisoned chalice
to their lips However that my be. Ger
tain it is they were the first cOoniSts who set an
example of persecution in this country. They
had hardly landed on the American shores when
they began to put their principles into practice.
They Prosecuted all other sects, and even Their
own brethren The result was a Secession to
Rhode Island and Connecticut, where the perse-
cute1 founded new sediments, to the great loss
and detrment of the old colony ; for population
is the wealth OF States, and what ever dim:nishes
il in new community is a public calamity. 1t
was thus the MoOrs in Spain--the most valuable
citizens OF that country, who preserved the arts,
the sciences and literature after the fall of the
Romln empire, who developed the resources OF
the peninsula, and gave Il wonderful impetus 10
its commercial enterprise-were per;ecuted and
exterminated for their religious opinions by the
inquisition under Ferdinand, Charles v, Philip
ii. and Philip H., the last OF whom totally ban
ishe1 the SlrAcens from SPAIN depOpulation
which inflicted wound upon the nation from
which II has droor,n1 Oh tlrpp
centuries. At that time it stood at the head OF
European Powers. Where is it now ? More thu
one hundred and fifty thousand OF the prosecute I
MoOrs took refuge in France. where they were re
ceived with greet humanity by the enlightened
and liberal monarch, Henry w , and where they
rePIid the hospitality with interest by Introducing
their arts and m ihufactures while to Spun
the result was destruction to its MANUFACTURING
interest, and finally bloody civil wars to break
down the tyranny OF an absolute monarchy aud
the inquis ton.
There is second historical parallel equally in
structive. After France tor series OF years had
mlssacres, including that of 81. Bartholomew 5
day. Henry ", in the year 1898, issued the GEE
brated ejict OF Nantes, which granted to the HUI
guenots, or French PrOteStants, the privilege of
citizenship, the right oil Worshiping God according
to their own faith, and certain lands to support
their churches and garrisons. For this liberation
Henry assassinated. But the HuSuenots cen
tinued to flourish and the country to prosper un-
der the liberal policy which he established, till
Cardinal Richeiieu controlled the royal councils
and vigorously pursued his maxim, that there
could be no peace in France until the Huguenots
were entirely suppre sed." st length, in the
year 1855, Louis NV revoked the eiiet OF
Nantes and ordered the Reformed churches to
return to the faith of Rome
The temples Of the Huguenots were demolished,
and the wOrshipers masslcred. Fifty thousand
escaped to the Protestant countries OF Europe,
and few to the British colonies OF America.
They carried with them their arts and wealth and
enterprise, by which rival nations were soon en-
ab.ed to excel the French in Their own IN lnuiac-
lures; and the desp0tiSm established over the hui
man mind by the French monarchy it became
necessary to overthrow, by the terross of 4 san
culinary revolution, which may one day be neces
sarv in the Northern States OF America, should
Puritanism be successful in establishing its DOM
nation.
Another pre- nant example of the effects Cper-
secution is to be fou nd in the modern history Of
our own anglo Saxon race. After the >tuarts
were overthrow in England, the IRISH Catholics
held out for them in Ireland. and in the fortified
city OF Limerick made their last stand The En-
glish failed to tIke it, and as the French had
delayed to come to Their aid, the Irish garrison
SURRENDERED 10y tire ity, one or the conditions
beng that the CtholicS OF Ireland should be
guaranteed in their civil and religious Liberties,
and another that those of tie military who oId
not choose to serve in the English army might
emigrlte to France. Hlrdly was the ink dry on
the parchment, and the defenders OF the country
removed, when penal laws We're enacted against
Irish Catholics at which humanity at this day
may well blush. What was the con sc IuenceE
At that time the British were behind the age in
manufactures, while the Irish excelel in them
and, emigrating. carried their arts into every
Catholic country OF Europe, to the serious dam
age OF British interests. But further, the mil
itlry element, which had emigratel to France at
the time OF the trettT, enlisted in the service
OF that country, and known as the Irish Brigade
Other Irish emgrants afterwards ioinel their stan
dard, m king in all 4JO,000 fighting men. by
whose aid France was saved from British con-
quest, and the English arms defeated on mlny a
bloody field. Tier battle cry Remember
Limerick and British faith It was after the
battle of FOntel o., which was won for France by
the valor of the Irish Brigade that King George
III exclaimed, Cursed be the laws which depriv e
me OF such subjects" 1t is the lnlquity OF Brit
ISL laws in Ireland which has driven so many OF
the population to America to pc pie its states
and develope its resources, to the great impoy-
tiiSuulChs VI ANC
History is ever rePe, ting itself England has
paid Il severe penalty for her violation OF the
treaty OF Limerick Ferdinand and the Spanish
Catholics broke faith with the Moors, the
principle held in that day, that ono faith is to be
kept with heretics" The MussulmIns surrender
ed Granada by treaty which nilly insured
Their religious freedom. But they were denounced
as rebels because they would not obey tine
laws in becoming Citholics, and were prosecuted
and put the sword till their final expulsion, sew
enty years after the treitY. In like mlnner faith
was broken with the Husuenots, who We're driven
from France eighty seven years after their charter
OF freedom granted by Henry OF Navarro Thus
a solemn leigGe and covenant was established
three-quarters OF a century a 20 between the Nor
them and the Southern States OF North America
guaranteeing equal rights to all. In about thirty
yeirs after the prosecuting Puritans, who had pre-
yiously driven out the best of Their own citizeas
to enrich other communities, resolved to bre *
faith, and commenced a crusade against the South
ern States and their Institutions, which. with
some intervals of ntermissiOn, they have waeed
ever since, in Congress, in Their State Lesisla
lures, in public meetings, on the rosIrum, on the
bench, in the press, in the pulpit, in the Sunday
school, by tracts and pamphlets, by caricatures
by lying novels and more living statistics, by ennis
sares melting seFvle Instructions, ending with
John Brown 5 invasion OF Virginia. Having ut last
gained possession of the Federal power, the army
the navy and the public purse, they ayow thea
determination TO carry out their design OF extermi-
mating negro servitude and making the black
equal TO the white nan, or of extermnatng the
Shareholders and all who sustain them in the
Southern States. Without this institution il j.
impossible for either the whites or the ne roes oil
the South to exist. The slave owner alarmed
for lis sliety, tells the Puritan. you take away
my life if you take that by which / live, and
hence we must part company" Thus have the
ntoerant sect capped the climax of their national
crimes by forcing out OF the country seven StAtei
whose staples have been the great sources OF our
national weIltil, giving the United Safe. the bal.
ance OF trade against Europe, and ailOrding en-
, ployment TO the half starved population OF tie
bar Ell soil and uns Genial climate OF New England
Seven or eight Stites more VIII probably follow
the other seven, from the same cause-thus tax
ing away the largest, the most Iegtl.e and by tai
the most valuable portion OF the soil. Nor is
this all. Their gisping greed and tyranny are
likely to drive to the South the skill, the enter
/ prise and the capital OF the North and thu:
doubly impoversh the unhappy people let be