Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-02-26

doctrine" three hundred years ago; an
the echo is reproduced at New Orlean,
IN the order from that precious saint, BIT
, tier, to close the Churches because th
ministry do not pray according to Butler
directions. Kisses and groans.
stole the land Of the Pequods Just as no,
it slips through our lines to dicker in Sc
cession cotton, and it will sanction it b
the same goodly doctrine.
1t never excmplifed the civic virtues
1t never consecrated the savage to God
Its usurped powers were never used t.
quell strife and sedtion. 1t has ever ha,
squint eye intellect great laughter,
looking with two optics to one selisl
point, and eunuch morality at once re
vengeful and exclusive. TGrcat applause
Instead Of making the Church the toni
it made it the theatre Of dissention, anC
carried that dissention into the State. 1t
literature was ever vain glorious. It ha'
gained much in style Of late but it hat
lost more in sincerity. 1t yet, as Of yorc
complacently assumes to be part of the
Godhead. Applause. It's harshness
made dissent upon dissent until, through
various isms, it has reached infdelity. 1t
| is not content with the order of Proyi.
dence. 1t must drive the chariot Of the
sun, and with what result the civil war
shows. A voice-"That's So" It's
peculiar civilization is the parent Of Alb
olition which found in the Puritan soil
the right spot for its bad seed. There
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il liberty, by lntermeddling with State in
stitutions and social systems, entirely
alien to itself under the Constitution
Holding to the higher law and obtaining
office under its banner, it spread distrust
and apprehension Of its excesses among
one-half of the States, and rash and un.
justifiable revolution was the consequence
1t rallied all its isms to one focus-Abo-
ltionsm-and became aggressive. 1t
has tried to initiate the classic sorceress
by giving a new youth and beauty to the
State by dismembering it. Applause.
1t has substituted pantheism or Platon-
ism for religion, and sunk in it that docil-
ity which is childlikc and christian.
At the New England dinner here Mr..
Beecher boasted that the Yankee was the
most prying, meddlesome creature in the
world-the pick-pocket of creation, the
horn radical of civilization, the head in
the body oi the Union, &c. Hisses. y
This is the old egotism. 1t is this claim
Of all the intelligence and conscience
which comes from Boston and is copied
in Brooklyn-which has been rung by the
Purtans for three nun trel years through
his own nasal organ in his own praise
Great cheering and laughter. Its sour.
ces is from Hindostan. 1t is even bad
exaggeration of the colonial Puritanism
1t comes from the coterie of transcenden
taIism around Boston, whose most clever
exponent is Emerson. 1t has its priests,
high and low; from the great Charming,
who ministered in holy things with many
enlarged graces of nature, to the little
Charming, who crGeps of Sundays into
the Senate Cham6cr at Washington to
preach Abolition and vilify Democracy
But this transcenientalism is stolen by
this universal pick-pocket from the We
das. Emerson. Parker, Phillips, Alcott
only copy the Drahmins. Their doctrines
are not strictly materiaism or pantheism
great laughter, but they absorb God
and nature in man, and make the soul
all in all One of their philosophers
holds himself personally responsible for
the obliquity of the earth's axis and of
course for all other obiquities, slavery
included. Emerson holds that he is God
God is every thing; ergo, he (Emerson)
is every thing. Great merriment. Do
you wonder. therefore. that he makes the
negro a part of himself and his equal?-
Increased laughter The Hindoo said:
erich is that universal self which thou
worshiped as the soul" Emerson says:
Nothing is if thou art not; thou are un
der, over all; thou dost hold and cover
all: thou art Atlas; thou art Jove." The
Sanscrit has the most perfect description
Of this ideologistic Yankee. 81 am gen
Grafton; am dissolution; am death ana
immortality; am entity and non-entity.
among mountains am Himaaya; among
floods the ocean; among elephants the ev-
crlastiug big elephant !" Great laugh
ter. The Brahmn of Boston attains to
such excellence, for he folows.the direc
tion Of Vedas-and contemplates heaven
by squirting like Butler laughter with
both eyes at the tip Of his nose. Con-
tinued increment, By such processes
of uification, they proved black and white
to be call one thing"
The speaker then deduced from this
the infidclity of Parker-the skepticism
which such a philosopher has introduced.
Having traced all these Puritan ctenents
which have fomented trouble, he followed
its course in political point of view
from 1877 till now. 1t ever sought to
centralze power and to encroach upon
others. When called upon to make sac
rifces, as in the wars OF this country, she
has been laggard and 10th to make them,
There are now 10000 deserters from the
Massachusetts, troops. The forgot in 1872
her State rights, when the Governor Of
Massachusetts, refused troops to Madison
against England She fostered secession
in the Hartford Convention, and disunion
when Texas was admitted. She discour-
aged the war with Mexico by pasqunaie
and pulpit. Her day of reckoning, how
ever, has come. She will not be thrust
out of the Union, but she will be humii-
ated in it. [Chcers, Already her proc
lamations, running counter 10 the popu-
lar sentiment, have produced paralysis
of the State. Applause.
Where, then, is their relief ? In war?
War has has been called a wholesale