Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-01-29

JEFF. Davis Northern AIiies-L0Ose Ex-
pectorations of Pro-Slavery Malig-
nant.
Mr.. S. S. Cox, of Ohio, is one of the
great guns of the pro-slavery radicals who
in the name of Democracy, are seeking to
produce such divisions and chickering's in
the North as will enable the rebels to &C.
complish their purposes of disunion.
On the evening of Tuesday, last week,
he delivered aD address before the Young
| Mems Democratic Association in New
York city. His theme was Puritanism.-
He took up the ideas suggested in a
cold, official form in Governor Seymour's
late Message, and reproduced them in the
bold and direct language of the stump.
The World, now the leading organ of
the pro-slavery mslignants, who cloak
their sympathy with treason under the
name of Democratic sentiments,-gives
report of his address, some characteristic
morsels of which we subjoin together
with the appropriate headings with which
it was heralded in that sheet
Must zoe leaUe New England out Of the Union ?
The Disuniting, Disorganizing and Pestf
erous Spirit Of Puritanism-A Ne,o History
Of the Pilgrims,' de-, dc.
"Mr. Cox was received with great ap-
plause. He began by saying that We were
surrounded by the constitution as by
mound; that reptile had been boring
that mound, and the deluging ocean of
war had swept in to destroy. Puritanism
is that reptile. [Cheers.l It must be
crushed and the mound rebuilt.
Strife may come between the people of
| the North. | fear it, because the reptile
brood still hourishes. Governor Seymou
Seymour [great cheers means much and
| we'll when he says the Western and Cen
trail States, desire to stand in the Union
| protected by all the mlniments OF the
| Constitution. They will III tine restore
that Union-let New England do as she
| please. A voice, " Let her slide!" They
do not intend to desert the ship; but they
do not intend to be controlled by the Con-
stitution breaking, negro>lovine Pharasee-
ism of New England. Misses. Unless that
may unhappily be made without her x
Do you understand that public
meetings West are resolving no longer to
be tributary to New England cupidity,
and that men cry out so wildly, New
England fanaticism and peculation have
made disunion New England stands in
the way of reunion. Perish New England
to let tie Union liver Great cheering and
a voice, We've had enough of her
But these abuses may be remedied by a
new Congress. They would be borne, but
unhappily they are associated with an ele-
ment harder to master-Puritanism His.
ses. This is bred in the bone 1t is the
same now as it was hundreds of years
ago. Like begets like. Generation sue
ceeds generation with the same stamp of
Puritanic character, taking success tor
justice, egotism for greatness, cunning for
wisdom, cupidity for enterprise, sedltior
for liberty, and cant for piety. speak Of
that ruling element in New England call
ed puritanism which in Lancashire in Hol
land, at Plymouth, or at Boston, ever pre-
sents the same selfish. pharisacal, egotist
ic and Indifferent type of character. We
find it in our politics to-day as the Tudors
found it hundreds of years ego, ever med
ding, and only willing to concede when ii
can help itself. [Oheers x x y | cannot
see any especial difference between the
Republcanism that sustains Emancipation
proclamations and the real old genuine
Congo Aboltionism. [Oheers They
are two separate links OF the same sa1s-
age made out of the same dog. Great
and continued applause r.