The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-26

e sources Of the greatest annoyance TO those who
ICED 10 obey them. Some Of them, however, are
cans SO laughter provoking even now, and others,
convict IONS under them, prove state OF society
Puritanical New England, which the Five Points
be ashamed to own. These laws place not only
Unions but his actions, and even his franchise,
be control OF the church, under the penalty of
|nd yet the PuEAans are said To have brought
Nor were these laws intended merely as warn
The COURT" says Governor Winthrop in the
Ease ''did not intend their order mere scare
you write), for you viii lind il real and eliec-
lou transgress it,
fURITANICAL RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION.
gard to the prosecutions Of other sects by the Pu
something has been before written but the sub
now be examined more in detail, to show that
"Nonconformist martyrs brought no personal,
ought less religious, liberty. Mr. Chalmers says
he year 1850 to the Restoration, Massachusetts
NY employed in a business that Of all others,
have been most congenial TO tin preserving,
fcuton, uniformity In opinion and discipline
That in a paper, signed by the leading Puritans,
yea not 20 Ideal hardly or oppresslvely with
pa that hather said 70 Queen Mary, when apply
the charter of 1901, and In reply to tho
question, ~ doubt not there have been differ
ere, as Well as here, about church government"
" England they are generally those who are
Nonconformists, but they carry 1t with all due
unto others. We Judge some Of them to be bet
than ourselves" But these are but mere words,
n acts give the lie direct. In the words of Ross
Of Religions'), the Puritans of New England
ped all reformed churches, except themselves,
and unclean, /" and prosecuted them accordingly.
THE QUAKERs
mong the first TO suffer from Puritan persecution,
ng the last to be relieved from it. In 1867, /" 1t
red by the Court (of Plymouth) that If any shall
any Quaker, Rantor, or other notoriouse here
he shall take them to the place whence they
pr clear the government Of them,n under the pc
y a heavy fine. A similar law extends TO those
ertain Quakers. In October 1857 Humphrey Nor
convicted Of being quaker, and taken out Of
bny by the Marshal. In 1885, any person con
y being Quaker was ordered fined, whipped and
ned In the same year Quakers were disfran-
and number were banished. In 1859, Daniel
lex and his wife were convicted OF being Qua
ID ordered to be sold to "any Of the English ma
Virginia and Barbados. n-( Mass Records
books were ordered seized: persons were for
under severe penalties, from attending their
3. In 1869, also, William Robinson, Marmaduks
son and Mary Dyer, Quakers, were ordered
MARY Dyer's sentence beng altered TO standing
gailows with a rope about her neck I'LL the rest
ecuted-and the sentence was carried out; and
eral Court of Massachusetts issued defence of
saying that "the justice OF our proceedings may
persuade US to expect encouragement and com
IL
Scripture in support Of their conclusions. Con
following the example of Plymouth and Massa-
ordained, That If any person turn Quaker, no
banished, and not suffered to return, under pain
h. Quakers were forbidden Christian burial, aud
les Of dead Quaker were burned. Patience Scott,
years Of age, was sent TO prison, and her mother
for plying her. Women were whipped through
towns, while ministers, like the Rev. Mr.
by, justified the act in their sermons and Endicott
that it was " his delight, and he could rejoice i'll
g the Quakers to execution" Executions follow
dings and banishments. /" There says O'Leary,
maker woman's silent groans were raised to the
by Of loud shreke, when the Lords deputy
her profane breasts to be whipped
the Gospel scourge." Sewalls history is
( such instances. At last the Kin.
their proceedings stopped but the laws were
e-enacted, and in 1704 the Quskers wrote to the
ers in England begging them to advise their
b in New England to repeal these laws; request
vas complied with; but the advice was not regard
be New England Purtans.
THE EPIscoPALIANs
but little better treatment As early as 1916 the
nments began. The Rev. Dir. Blackstone was
TO give up his plantation and remove to Rhode
The brothers Brown were summoned before Endi-
ndcmned as ringleaders of faction, and sent back
and The Rev. Francis Bright, after year s resi-
was also forced to return. Churches were refused
opalians; they were not allowed to preach IN Purl-
pits; IT was declared that "the church oil Rome
bscopaans were DISTINGUISHED aud aimed at in
3 quoted in the phrase, 'other heretics." Tho
allan ministers, in an address TO King william,
and who could have believed II OF these apostles
ious liberty that they have been "inlured and
both in their civil and religious Governments;
prch, by their rage and fury, having been greatly
Id damnifed, and daily threatened to be pulled
nd destroyed; our minister hindered and OBJ
in the discharge OF his duty and Office, and we
under the burthen Of most excessive taxes"
10 direct interposition OF the King OF England
this fury, years after, and the 1.-THE law was not
until 1884
THE BAFTIsrs
kone the better; and as Brevel was banished be
believed in perfection, the Methodists would
md the Puritans equal enemies. The B,ptists, too,
other heretics," were banished, distranchised,
/, and all persons forbidden harboring them BoN-
! that sthe Anabaptists, fined and banished flock
Rhode Island which twas In those days looked upon
Train or sink Of New England Thomas Painter
kvicted OF being Baptist. Winthrop says, Ia his
| "Panter was very poor so, as no other but cdf-
punishment could be fastened upon him, he was
to be whipped" "The New England churches. !"
cal ttwould neither suffer Baptsts TO live quietly
communion nor separate themselves from IT,"
HI known case Of Roger Williams, once Puritan
however, must answer for all, aud he was, by an
he court in 1885, sent out OF the Dominion, never
n unless he retracted his errors wholly.
THE ROMAN CATHOLICS
Gated with extraordinary prosecutions A law, in
efore 1856 provides that ono priest shall abide in
minion; he shall DO banished, and suffer death on
nm Priests may be seized BY any one without a
h. ANY persons suspected" Of Popery might be
Ia, and hung IL they returned. As recently az
Zoo another law, the penalties OF which were IN
bent or death, was passed. No second rate punisii-
ksould do for Papists The emblem OF their rel-
II SO hated that Endcott tore II out Of the English
|he saemites put the Kings arms upon thcir bin.
\ avoid using the cross lFelts "saem) Sand there
British ems ign seen in salem until 1854 and the
N then was borrowed Opham's "Iife OF Nane !.
This while s.Popish Maryland" was the.homo Of
Bancroft saws There religious liberty obtained
Its only home in the world; ana N cQnmehl'
In the conduct Of the Puritans who went there,
not hesitate TO add, though their QUO
korally "thcy. had neither the gratitude tore
~ rights OF the government by which they Ind
|eceived and fostered, nor magnanimity to con.
Ia liberation TO which alone they were indebted
IN residence in the colony" The Puritans 70 the
THE PREsByTERrANs.
are popularity supposed to have been
|al with the Puritans in religion; but the Purians
better. and 50 did the Prcsbyterans. They wero
ntica In England. The Presbyterian ministers, in
insurance. addressed TO the Puritans, said .-' some
refuse 10 hear us preach at all You renounce all
communion with us a. members, aud not only so,
|u invite our people from W =! ,cn'ns .neai
|thcy cannot continue with us without
Thcv differed M Ear as church matters
Concerned, in their views upon the true
= az n church; upon ordination, and upon
cement. In New England, says Hetheriugton, the
X would not admit the Presbyterian "to M
yi,h thon. unless they were willing 10 abandon
|teranism and become Congregaiionalisis. hi
|says that the Puritans believed "that tAe Prcsby-
Nj The Prcsbytcrial governments are The fats pro-
lnd the beast spoken OF In the Revelations 81
hxt tor II
New England Purtans as Epigcoplcy. Btillie
lin all New England there Is no liberty of living