The weekly mountain Democrat. [volume] (Placerville, El Dorado County, Calif.) 1861-1862, 1862-03-08
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There eaa 20 donbt,tha nc cas ex-
perieutfng q revival of the old fi1es oil
Puritanism. T.. Gov. Andrews, of4asssa-
eltusestss has issued thanksgiving proc
Iamation, which sounds for all the world
aaifit- had been, dictated through me-
dunn, FROM the spirit Of Praise God Bare
b0hee. One Col Browne Gov. Andrews
staff. says that the, Massachusetts, troops
ars, actuated by "a strong devotional feel
ing. "sand that " the old spirit OF Puritan
ism, which was but half buried, is gradu-
ally Fising from its grave and pervading
alieanks of the community in the Bay
State" There is, no doubt, considerable
truth-iu This. Your Puritan always works
for the glory of God, no matter whether
it4iG stealing lands from the Indians, ira
S. :,s1sas Swapping ard psddiin9, Bringing
negroes from Africa add selling them
SOUTH, OF lighting to set them free BY fire
RsEErra. Hsthe e tiIibustersp had
- landed on the coast Of Massachusetts,,
ytieY would HeVer .haFe tried &siaveat any
hypocritical dodge to soothc their con-
sciences, if they had wanted the lands Of
the Indians. But the Puritans must re-
sort-tS some piOus theory; hence they re-
solved, first, that 1.-The earth belonged TO
the Saints;" second, 'that they were the
Saints" and third, that the Indians
lands, therefore. belonged to them! This
tendency to find a religious sanction for
everything, has marked the Puritan char.
I acter from the days of Oliver Cromwell
to the present time. And it cannot be
denied that, mingled as it unavodably is
with fanaticism, capable of being worked
up to almost. any pitch, it is strong ele-
ment of character.
Prom this spirit also springs that I'M
cOnquerable disposition of the Puritan
character, to make every body think as
they do. They are all natural miss.ona-
ries. Wherever they go they teach,
preach, or lecture, and they are untiring
in their exertionsEN A few Of them in a
State will make more noise and exercise
more influence than all the rest of the
people put together. a Teuton never
desires TO convert any body; all he asks
is-..to be let alone, and his Dutchship is
happy. His neighbor may be a Turk, n
Jew, or Mormon, but if he disturbs no
one, it is all right. Net so with your
PuritaR- He is u continual agltator. If
every body does not think as he does, he
wiirgiye the country no peace until they
do.s About thirty years ago, for instance,
New York St6teswAs very quiet, peace
able, orderly Dutch State. About this
time we had large influx Of. New. Eng
landcrs, of the Puritan Stripe, 0or New
Englanders are not all Puritans), and
turning editors, preachers and lawyers,
they have fairly converted our naturally
conservative State over to the anti-slayery
heresy. These men now control our
State, and, to a great extent, the nation,
and all by the hue and cry they raised
about the horrors Of " slavery" just as
they did in all Cotton Mather's time about
witchcraft." Now the spirit maHifcstS
itself in demanding that every body must
think that slavery" is Just what these
Puritanical philosophers tell US j. is All
must bow down, from Maine to Texas,
and worship the great god Of Phillips and
Observation-Disclosures. 1t would, per.
..a hapS, have been q happy thing for our
country if the Puritans had landed in the
South Instead al the North. Then they
would never have got rid of " slavery,
or their negroes, and, Of course, true tC
their instincts, they would have proved
Asa1maia.ainod that slavery" was for
"tSsglory Of God" and the good of the
human race.
The conscl Apcc is, that with a GAlst
philosophy al their back, the Puritan.
have finally worked up crusade which
threatens to possess many of the features
of those fanatical aud ungovernable whrl
winds of war, which, in the sixteenth
century, swept desoIation over Europe
and Asia. Mankind is but repeating it
self; and while this generation, with thu
vanity of idiots, is pulled up with the
belief that it is living in the blaze of light
and knowledge, it is nevertheless the vic
tim Of the blindest and most senseless de
fusion that has ever disgraded the annals
of history.
Gov. Andrews Col. Brown may con
graduate himself upon the revival Of Pu
ritanism run mad, but If he will read its
exploits in the past, he win Have little
cause for satisfaction. 1t triumphed un.
der Cromwell only TO run into excuses
that King Charles would never have
thought of committing, and it was fol-
years consigned to ignominy and disgrace,
II came to New England as the pioneer Of
"the liberty Of conscience" and yet II
soon showed its inherent character by
hanging Quakcrs, banishing Roger Will
liams, and even whipping Baptists in the
streets of Boston! 1t is not now content
to allow the different States those differ
ent forms of social life and institutions
which each may think best for its own
interests, but it desires to conquer, sub.
iugate all to its own ideas of the fitness OF
things. Massachusetts, cannot rest till
South Carolina shall adopt her ideas OF
the negro question. II she can't preach,
or lecture, or write her into it, she stands
ready to fight her into it. Nothing salts
fies her Summers or her Wilson's but a
war against !" slavery" and this is now
being stimulated by all the indictments
which her clergy or her orators can COM
mand. If the spirit of Puritanism is re-
i, yiVing, one thing is certain: it is an ele-
ment Of character that is not lasting. 1t
has governed once or twice for short Pc
RODS, but its fires of fanaticism are too
transient The Teutonic.Saxon spirit,
cool, confident, and uhexcitabie, is the
governing power of our ruce and, in the
end eftaTTshe frenzy of Puritan; zeal and
intolerance has consumed itself by its own
excuses, it will assert its natural suprem-
acy:-Nese York Paper.
THEg Hfsts Of all virtues is innocence;
The seylds lis ,mOdesty and neither de-
parts eIlhout being quickly followed by
tie 6tiIel.s s-
WH1N = maa wants money Or assist
an6A Tic world. as a rule, is very obliging