The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-02-25


formidable. character of the rebellion. She.
has shown none in her Morrill, tariffs aud her
schemes of emancipation. Is it smart to build
factories and destroy fhc very sources of the
cotton which runs them ? Is-it smart to over
i tax for her own benefit moro powerful Sec
ton as she has sthe Wost? IF she is not
driven from tho Union, she will be humiliated
I in it,. CCheers Bntit is neither wise
just to impeach whole people for the misdo-
ings and errors of part, even when that part
I is dominant Whils, therefore analyzei the
f elements of New England Society, and their,
( relations to our politics, I shall not confound
that which is good wirh that which is mischie-
! vous. Tn Colonial fisp es, the resentfui bigot-
! ~ of an Endie5ft was relieved BY the ainiab1e
! character of a v inthrop; as in later times
Daniel Webster Cebeers1 stands like granite
! rock repelliDg the wave of New England isms
Cheers. would not confound Rufus
I Choate, Chief Justice Shaw. Benjamin F.
! Thomas and Judge Curtis, and such illu.trious
men Icheers] with Theodore Parker, Wendell
Phillips, Gov. Andrew, Charles Sumner, and
the lesser spawn of fTranscendentalism. THiss-
| es The one class have ever cultivated the
graccs of civil order the other have been
and are the Marplots of the Republic. M
/ speak of that ruling element, which even
before it reached our shores, while it was in
exile in Holland, while it ruled in early DAYS
L H.
since been distributed all over our country
presents always the same selfish, pharasaical,
egotistie and iDtolerart type of character
We nnd it in our politics to day, as the Tu-
dors found it three hundred years ago, ever
n neddlng for harm and yet seeking its own
safety by concessions, but never eonceding-
anything for the welfare of others, unless
| thereby, it could help itself in larger meas
ures. Laughter aad cheers. Even in the
time OF Elizsbeth,f it compromised with its
/ prosecutors, byagreeing to the passaae of
bill by Parliament which, shielded the Presby-,
rerians, but provided a punishment for the
Sepqrdtists. Hopkins closes his history of
the Puritans of that time, by sayin !, with dis
eliminating Justice that is.we de- not claim for
] them that they had aell defined and correct
ideas Of civil liberty For example, the dis.
pensing power of the, sovereign utterly in
| niockery Of all legislation and practically a
/ canker at the root of civil liberty-secIiis to
! have been generally admitted by them" just
as now, when it suits their interest,andi object,
! they clamor for the proclamationso and confs-
cations, which dispense W tn the Constitution
| Applause n I1, i..ls saic,e yod s1s Ys-'l ~
| If. We are to, take their own account of
| themselves, as for instance, when garnished
| with the rhetoric OF Bancroft, one might infer
that they deserved the eulsgy of Macaulay,
| and that every pretty presbytcr was the vice.
serent' of the Most High. specially anointed
| to reproach mankind with its shortcomings.
! Daughter The truth is, that their history
as tsouasesres, has-beet,- CLOSED
with falschood Investigation is fast rubbing
off the lacquer, and the rotton framework of
their etccs and politics is beginning to appear
| If they are permitted to write tie annals of
! this present war, the truth will never. appear.
daughter BIT SO raomentous conflict as
this hes awakened better minds; and in the
history which rrosterity will read, the Puri
| tans will play the part of intermcddlng de-
structiyes, seif-willed and iptocrant, beyond
any characters yet known to history.
The grand keyn6ts of the Purtan is that
''slavery" was the cause of this war, and that
as men and Christians, we should extirpate it.
dc not intend now 20 relute this fallacy.-
| Our st seventy years refute it. Because sla
very was meddled with, and returned in vio-
| lence what was given in wrath and malice, it
does not follow that it, was the cause of the
violences. The doctrine of the French So
cialist Proudhon, that property is robbery, and
should be abolished, is sample of the same
| falacy.* What is known as Abolition is, in
| the moral sense, -the cause of tho strife.-
[Cheers. Abolition is the offspring of Puri-
tanism. Until Abolition arose, the Uuion was
never seriously menaced; the Constitution
never endangered. Puritanism introduced the
moral elements involved in slavery into poll
tics, and thereby threw, tho church into the
arena. Our Christianity. therefore, become .
wrangler about human institutions Churches
were divided and pulpits dcsecratcd. A GER
tain class in certain secti n were sinners,
and were damned forever. Speculative dis
cussion about higher law than the organic
political law, poisoned politics and begat as.
perties of sections. The first harrangue of
George I thompson, in this country, under the
auspices of the Fessendens of Maine and Gar
risons of massachusetts, was predcated on
the idea that slavery was sin against God
and that no Christian people should tolerate it.
| hold in my hand the letters and addresses by
George Thompson, during his mission here
In his first address, at Lowell, Octoberf5 s, 49,
"a, he laid down the ldogmas which are now
being worked out in disunipa and blood =. He
said: "The medium thought which he contem-
plated the various tribes that peopled earth
was one which blended all hucs Toward sin
in every form, no mereyashould be shown. A
,oar Of eTterminafien should be waged with
the works of the devil. x x Misguided
patriotism spread the alarm, 'the Union is in
danger. But whom should they obey? He
boldly answered God, who required that men
should cease to do evil He demanded that
the, Constitution should be changed. 'What
though the Union was in danger % said the
interloper; "there is every disposition among
Dritisn aoCHtionlsts 10 extend TO you their
sympathy, counsel and contributions " We are
now getting in overmeasurcs the sympathy,
counsel'and contributions of these lovely kins-
folk-the English Abolitionists.-CCheors and
laughter.
Following this, as the logical consequence
Of these higher-law notions, came another vol
ume, which / hold in my hand "The Consti-
tuition, a Pro Slavery Compact, or Extracts
from the Madison Papers, &C., selected by"
whom think you Wendell Phillips! His
ses In this volume, it was shown as quote:
''fhat compromise was made between free
dom and slavery in 1887, g anting to the
slavehalder distinct privileges aud protection
for his slave property in return for &C rtain
commercial confessions on his part toward the
North. They proved also, that the nation at
large were fully aware of this bargain at the
tine, and entered ipteit, willingly and with