Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-01-21
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Were at their worst but sopyIrts, se.on1 hand.
o. eur ;srnsa' 'ansed 'lr''-th' Plymouth, Pilgrim
\, Mr.. Cox paid New England a compllmen,
for her revolutionary resistance; but non coyistat
but che would have resisted a government Of
angels. He considered the boast that the
Pilgrims were the authors Of Democratic iIber
ty here as utterly groundless, proving il from
history. The compact Of the Msyfower was
forced from the Pilgrim leaders. Elliott, the
historian, says they did not mean Democracy
NO man could be voter unless member of the
church, and Judge Story says this disfranchised
fve-sixths Of the people. The penal laws a ere
framed from Gentoo code. They punished so
oording to caste. Such was The rule too la
Harvard College. New England yet has her
brahmin and her Sootee caste. The laws eyen
regulated the apparel Of men and women, on
the Gentoo caste principle. Years OF contes,s
Tor the rights Of the people against the magis-
trates and church leaders eventuated at last In
the hnal emancipation Of the people by the act
OF the King Of England, Charles H.! Under
the oligarchic rule of the church fearful de-
moralization resulted. In trying to make the
church political they did not make the State
religious. Is this the civilization to be com
mended TO us now In our trials7 II comes with
no grace to the West at least. What has che
done for the West2 Governor Andrew boasts
greatly: let US see! II has sent us such men
as Douglas, Seymour, and Mcclellan (Grtat
cheering; "Three cheers for McClellan").- -
AS to New York, men Of liberal mind-bus
liberal because they have repudiated Puritan
teachings. (Cheers.) Il gave Samuel Adams
Tor the Revolution; Choate for counsel againet
secslonalism; 6reen and Stark in war; but
neither Of Puritan princples. 1t gave us Al.
mold In the reyolutioni General Hull for the late
war, and General Butler "a voice, "Old trail
torn for this war. (fIsses.) Il voted against
Jefferson and Jackson at irst-agalnst the nc.
quisitiOn of Louisiana. II thundered against
those who "differed in doctrine" three hundred
years ago; and its echo ia reproduced at New
Orleans, in the order from that precious saint,
Butler, TO close the churches because the min's
ny do not pray according TO Butler's directions.
Hisses and groans) Ii stole the lands of the
requods, just 40 now it llpsthrough our lnea to
dieker in secession cotton, and It will
sanction 1t by the same goodly doctrine,
II never exemplifed the civic virtues. 1t
never coDsecrated the savage to God. lts
usurped powers were never used to auell strife
and sediton, II has ever had a equint eye in
telleot great laughter), looking with two
optics to one selfish point, and eunuch NOR.
allty at once revengeful and exclusive (Great
applause) Instead Of making the church the
tomb IL made IL the theater Of diasension, and
carried that dissension into the state. liza lit
erature was even vain glorious. 1t has gained
much in style Of late, but ii has Lost more In
sinoerity. II yet, as of yore, complacently as
sumes to be q part Of the Godhead. (Ap-
plause lts harshness made dissent upon dis.
sent until, through various isms, it has reached
lnhdelitY. it is not content with the order os
Providence. It must drive the chariot of the
sun, and with what result the civil war shows.
"a voice, "That's 60. Its peculiar civilza.
ton Ia the parent of abolition which found IN
the Puritan soil the right spot for it's bad seed,
Therefore it fourished to the overthrow ofcivil
liberty, by intermeddling with State institu
tions, and social systems, entirelySalien toitsef
under the Constitution. Holding to the higher
law and obtaining Office Under it's banner III
spread distrust and apprehension of lie excesses
among one.half OF the States, and rash and
unjustifiable revolution was the consequence.
1t rallied all its isms to ono focus- abolition
ism-and became aggressive 1t has tried 10
Initiate the classic sorceress by giving new
youth and beauty to the state BY dismemberinp
It, t(Applause.) II has substituted a pAntheism
or platonism for religion. and sunk In Is that
docility which is childlike and Christian At
the New England dinner here Mr.. Beecher
boasted that the Yankee was the most pryine.
meddlesome creature In the world-the pick.
pocket of creation, the born radical OF eiyiIiza-
tion, the head In tho body OF the Union, etc
(Hissee.) This is the old egotism. Il ia this
claim of all the intelligence and conscience
which comes from Boston and is copied in
Brooklyn-Whioh has been sung by the Puritan
for three hundred years through his own nasal
organ In bis own praise. (Great cheering and
laughter.) Its source Is from Hindostan. Ii Is
even q bad exaggeration Of the colonial Paritan-
ism. IL comes from the coterie of transcen-
dentalism around Boston, whose most clever
exponent Is Emerson. IL has its priests, high
and low; from the great Claiming, who minis.
tered In holy things with many enlarged graces
of nature, to the little Channing, who creeps Of
Sundays into the Senate chamber at Washing
ton, to preach abolition and vilify Democracy.
But this transcendentalism is stolen by this
universal pickpocket from the Vedas. Emer.
son, Parker, Phillips, Alcott, only copy the
Brshmins. Their doctrines are not strictly
materialsm or psntheism (great laughter) ; but
they absorb God and nature In man, and make
the soul oil in ell. Ono Of their philosophers
holds himself personally responsible for the
obliquisy Of the earth's axis; and of course for
all other oblquites, slavery included 'Emer
con holds that he is God God 10 everything;
ergo, he (Emerson) is everything. (Great
merriment.) Do you wonder, therefore, that
he makes the negro part of himself and his
|equal2 Increased laughter) The Hindoo
said: erich Ia the universal self which thou
worshipest as the soul" Emerson sayH
"Nothing Is il thou art not; thou art under,
over all; thou dost hold and cover all; thou art
Atlas; thou art Jove." The Sanecris has the
most perfect description Of this ideologisto
Yankee. II am generation; am dissolutions
am death and Immortality; ! am entity and
nonentity. Among mountains am Himalay;
among foods the ocean; among elephants the
everlasting big elephant, (tireat iaughter.l
The Brahmin of Boston attains to such excel.
lence, for he follows the direction OF the Vedae
and contemplates heaven by squinting like
Butler (laughter), with both eyes, ,-at the tip Of
his own nose. lContinued merriment.) BY
such processes Of uifoation, they prove black
and white to be fall one thing" The speaker
then deduced from this-the ldelity of Parker
The skepticism which such q philosophy has
introduced. Having traced all these Paritan
elements which have fomented trouble, he fol.
lowed its course in q political point Of view
from 1857 till now IL ever sought, to central
ize power and to 'encroach upon others. When
called upon to make sacrifices, as In the wars
Of this country, she has been laggard and 10th
to make them. There are now sixteen thons
and deserten from the Massachusetts, troops
She forgot I'M 1912 her hatred of State rights
when the Governor of Massachusetts refused
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