Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-01-06
DEMOCRAT & NEWS.
PURITANISM.
Small Capital Better than Mono.

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From the Springfield t1a.) Rssis.sr.l
There is going the rounds of the Re.
publican press series Of assaults on the
Democratic party, because tho Chicago
Times, . few days ago, made mention Of
some facts connected with the early bic.
tory-pot OF the Pilgrims immediate,
but Of their descendants proximats and
existent.
In the Abolition criticisms we find no
denial of anything printed BY the
Times on the subject. The immense
knock-dowu argument that thsse news
papers depend on 10 the fact that the
editor Of the Times is . Vsrmonter by
birth, and that, therefore, he should
hide his head with shame for saying
that about the Yankees which no one
comes forward to contradict. The en-
tire assault on the editor Of the Z;mes
resolves itself into this that . born
New Highlander has no right to tell the
truth about the very people he knows
the most about, and that pride Of birth
place ought to commit him to defence
Of the past errors Of his native land, and
to the advocacy Of its aggressions for al
time to come.
The subject is Of small moment, bnt
connected with an incident that will
strike many with surprise. Chicago has
to-day resident population Of not less
than one hundred and fifty thousand.
The figures show that her trade 10 lar
ger than that Of any inland city. It IL
tho largest grain market in the world.
This is conceded At home and abroad.
It is tho largest pork and cattle market
in Amerioa. This is shown by tho fig
ures. In city like that the accredited
"Board Of Trade" is \ body Of import
ance. Yet W are told BY tho Repui Ii.
can newspapers that the Hoard Of Trade
Of that great commercial city held .
meeting and adopted resolution to not
print their proceedings in that paper
any longer, and the reason given by
them is that . majority Of this Board
are Of New England nativity, aud will
not brook insults to their native land
and Themselves. What, every one will
ask, have the Board Of Trade to do with
history purely personal? II they have,
then let them d,sprove single word
uttered by tho zimes.
AZ this subject seems to be considered
by the Republicans as good card, We
will give the statement Of tho Times,
which invoked the displsasure Of the
Board Of New Euglanders
1.-THE descendants in q direct line
from the people who burnt women at
the stake, and banged Quakers for opin-:
iou's rake, and whipped men for kissing
their wives on Sunday, and who, at .
later day, gained riches from the profits
Of the African slave trade; and who At
a still later day invented the Hartford
convention, and cent up blue lights 1t
New London, and who, At yet later
day, mobbed converts and refused char
.ers to colleges which declined to be-
come propagandsts Of Puritanism, and
who resolved that the Union should be
dissolved rather than that Texas she uld
be admitted into it, and invited negroes
to the polls while excluding white men
on account of their poverty or birth
place"
This was all there was OF it. II the
Chicago Yankees had protested a. indi-
vidusls, nobody would notice them.
They would have right to do it, and
nobody would care. But when they
como forward in their public capacity,
~ Board Of Trade, and iocalize them
selves-not as the representatives Of
the commercial centre OF the West, but
as the representatives Of New England
prejudices and spitcful superciliousncss
and arrogance, it will be asked il they
ought not to be contented with our DO
ing sold out to New England completely
10 politics and in purse, without going
further, and denying US the poor privi-
lege Of giving . true synopsis Of history,
which we all have been told by that
wisest OF men, Abraham, Eve cannot
escape"