Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-01-21


slaveholders, and that God, by his foolish log
ic, must be a pro-slavery being. The same
sort Of doctrine was announced by Massachu
sets in 1876, when Randolph came to New
England from the parent Government TO fnC
out the cause Of the Indian wars. They sol
Iemnly announced that they were a punish
ment from God, because the men wore peri
wigs made Of women's hair, and the womer
wore borders in their hair, also for profane
ness in the people in not frequenting the
meetings, and others going away before the
blessing is pronounced Laughter. The
original defects Of the Puritan pattern are
copied by the present stock Mr. Cox quoted
from history to show how, under the Piles
of military necessity, the saints robbed the
Indians Of their lands. He proved that the
Puritans prosecuted all who differed from
them, even those of the Church of England
although when they left England they called
il then dear mother Church" How they
inaugurated the spy system in their midst
how they hunted out little girls and old wo.
men for witches; how Bsptists, Anti-baptsts,
Familists, Quakers, all were persecuted and
punished; how the Indians were transformed
into soOty devils, TO con6scate their lands
how Roger Williams Mrs Hutchison, Cod
dington and others we're treated and exiled !;
how every petty presbyter was made pope,
every village Paul Pry Rn inquisitor, and every
female communicant spy for the detection
Of the eghty-two heresies denounced by the
Boston Synod Kisses all these were brought
forward as illustrative Of this amiable charac-
ter Murders, maimings and cruelties worse
than those of the pit were inflicted by these
men, not alone upon each other, but upon
the Indian and the peaceful people of Acadia
Halleck, New England poet in vain ran
sacked history for worse crimes than those
committed by the saints in peaked hat and
ruff. Herod was bad. Worse we're
The 6ends Of France wi ose crueldes decreed
Those de1terous drownings il the Loire and Rhone
But these;
Were At their wors, but copyists second hand,
OF our shrined, sainted sires-the Plymouth. Pill.
grim band"
Mr.. Cox paid New England compliment
TOR her revolutionary resistance but non.
coRStdt, but she would have resisted govern
lnent of angels He considered the boast
that the Pilgrims were the authors of Demo.
cratic Liberty here as utterly groundless, prov
ing it from history The compact of the May
Flower was forced from the Pilgrim leaders
Elliott the historian, says they did not mean
a democracy. No man could be a voter un.
less member Of the Church, and Judge Story
says this dsfranchised 6ve-sixths of the peo-
pie. The penal laws were framed from Gen
too-code. They punished according to caste.
Such was the rule too in Harvard College.
New England yet has her Brahmin and her
Soote-caste, The laws even regulated the
apparel OF men and women, on the Gentoo-
caste principle Years Of contests for the
rights of the people against the magistrates
and Church leaders eyentuated at last in the
inal emancipation ofthe people by the act of
.he King Of England, Charles II Under the
oligarchie rnle OF the Church fearful demora.
ization resulted. In trying to make the
Church political they did not make the State
religious, Is this the civilization to be COM
nended to us now in our trials It comes
with no grace to the West at least What has
she done for the West2 Governor Andrews
boasts greatly let us see It has sent us
such men as Douglas, Seymour and McClel-
Ian Great cheering, three cheers for Nc
Clellan AS to New York, men Of liberal
mind-but liberal because they have repudia-
Ted Puritan teaching. [Cheers.] 1t gave
Samuel Adams tor the Revolution Choate
for counsel against sectionalism Greene and
Stark in war but neither Of Puritan princi-
Piles, 1t gave us Arnold in the Revolution,
General Hall for the late war, and General
Butler a voice, "old traitor p for this war
Kisses. 1t voted against Jefferson and
Jackson at first-hgainst the acquisition of
Louisiana. 1t thundered against those who
differed in doctrine three hundred years
lgei and its echo is reproduced at New Or
leans, in the order from that precious saint
Butler, to close the Churches because the
ministry do not pray according to Buffers di-
rections. Kisses and groans 1t stole the
lands OF the Peqnods ust as now it slips
through our lines to dieker in Secession cot
ton, and it will sanction it by the same goodly
doctrine
1t never exemplGed the civic virtues. 1t
never consecrated the savage TO God. Its
usurped powers were never used to quell strife
and sedition II has ever had squint eye
intellect [great laughter looking with two
optics to one selfish point, and a eunuch NOR
ality at once revengetul and exclusive. GGreat
applause Instead Of making the Church
the tomb 1t made it the theater of dssenson,
and carried that dissenslon into the State. Its
literature was ever vain.glorious. 1t has gain
ed much ~ style Of late, but il has lost more
in sincerity IL yet as of yore, complacently
assumes to he a part OF the Godhead Ap-
plause Its harshness made dissent upon
dissent until, through various isms, it has
reached inGdelily 1t is not content with the
order Of Proydedce 1t must drive the chariot
Of the snh, md with what result the civil war
shows A voice "Thats so. Its peculiar
civilization IS the parent of Abolition which
found in the Puritan soil the right spot for its
bad seed Therefore it aourished to the over
throw Of civil liberty, by intermeddling with
State institutions and social systems, entirely
alien to itself under the Constitution. Hold
ing to the higher law and obtaining Office un.
der It's banner il spread distrust and ANNA