The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-01-14
The Puritan spirit of New Eng
land AEain-lienry Ward Bee
cher*s Roast

combat thepositon we took in reference
tothe Puritan spirit of New Eagland.
Il did net attempt to disprOve d,e fact
that the people Of the West are taxed
hundreds of millions a year, in the shape
of protective tariffs, to support New
England manufactures, which are no
thing to us. 1t did not deny that we
IN Cincinnati sell none ofour marufac-
lures to New England, but, on the con-
trary, New England is competitor in
our market. 1t seeks, however, to
defend the historical antecedents OF
New England, which have always been
considered by all sane men as utterly
indefensiblc. In the War Of 1872 she
refused to allow her troops to leave the
borders of their States to come to the
rescue of the West when the sayagcs
we're massacreing Western women and
children, Her clergy denounced the
war in vile terms, and declared it was
unbecoming and immoral to rejoice o.
ver American victories. She plotted
in the Hartford Convention TO secede
from the Union and form an alliance
p . .-u =
with Great Britain, She opposed the
acquisition of Louisiana and the mouth
of the Mississippi, that great measure
Of Mr., Jefferson. She opposed it be-
cause she wanted the West to be depen-
dent upon her for an outlet, to the O.
cean. How she would have used that
dependence we see now, when her rail-
roads charge the West about three pri-
ces for their freights. ssuo.iigaGG
The Gazette speaks other furnishing
most of the soldiers in the War of the
Revolution. Its true that she figured
extensively on the pension rolls of the
Revolutionary soldiers, but when did
she not figure, when money, was to
come out Of the Treasury! The war
commenced in New England and con-
tinued there for a year. Her people
turned out as miuuto-men andpne-year
volunteers, but when the war was
transferred, in 1866, to New York, a
large number Of them went homo
When their year was up they abandon
ed General Washington in the darkest
hour of the Revolution. They left
him almost without an army, and he
bitterly complained of it in his letters.
The New Jersey and Pennsylvania
troops remained, and saved the cams
paign of Princeton. 1t was by count
ing her troops who served few months
only, against the old Continental line
of other States, such as Virginia, Mary
land, New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
who enlisted for the whole war, that
she makes such ashow of troops. The
martial spirit Of the country has never
been in New England. This is notori-
GUS. 1t was not so in the Revolution,
in the warof 1912, in the Mexican Or
in the present war. Who are the mills
tary heroes of the country? WASH
ington, Jackson, Taylor, Scott Iar-
.tison, Worth, Woodland Brown. How
manly of them are New England men?
The New England military heroes are
Arnold, Greene, Sullivan and Stark
Neither Of them represent The. domi-
nant Puritan New England spirit,
Stark and Sullivan We're Of ,Northfof-
ireland scock; Greene was Ia Quaker
Ia denomination the Puritans persel
cutcd44Lwho, on the close Of the Revol
luton, left New England and went. to
the, South, Arnold the Gazette and
Beecher are welcome toiasa Puritan. r
We presume the Gazette will not
want to count in Hull, the Massachu-
setts General, who surrendered Detroit
in, 1872, and opened the whole West>
em country to the incursions of the
sauages, and who was dismissed from
the army for cowardice. The war Of
1912 Was declared and waged by the
other section Of the country, ITO pre-
vent'New England seafnen from being
impressed and Kidnapped into the Britl
ish service, and to prevent New Eng
land ships from being copfscated on
the high seas by theBritish. ~ Shepre-
ferred to, have her men and her. ships
taken rather than go to ware She did
not think so muchof her seamen asehe
does now of fugitive negroes ,alo.
o. Every eleetoralyotein New England
was given, at his frsteleetion, against
President Thomas, Jefferson, }, the, au-
thor of the Declaration Of ,Indepond1--
ence.q1He was dehouneedby herclergy
and her press AS an infdel; aaslaye-
driver, who traded in human flesh. i
was beliefed that if he succeeded he
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