Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-01-21

his history, says, IL had no correct ideas Of civ
liberty II admitted the dispensing power O
the king, just as now IL clamofs for the dispene
ing power Of the President. You cannot rel
on the vanished account the Pilgrims give O
themselves. IL ls false. If they write the bis
tory Of this war, the truth will never appear
daughter Their key. note is that slavery is II
cause and mustbe extirpated. The truth is, slav
cry was meddled with and returned IN .violeno
what was given In wrath and malice. Bat |
does not thence follow that slavery was th
cause OF the violence. Tho doctrine Of tn,
French socialist that property is robbery, ant
therefore should be abolished, is a sample o
the same fallacy. Abolition is, In the mora
sense, the cause of the war. (Cheera) Il h
the offspring Of Puritanism. The history o
PnFitsnlsm shows that IL always sought to In
troduce the moral elements involved In SLAYER,
into politics, and thereby threw the church intt
the arena, made II q wrangler about human In
stitutions, divided churches, and begat section
al asperities. Mr.. Cox then read from vol
ume Of George Thompson's lectures in 1884
and '35, showing by quotations how Abolition
began. Even then this English interlouer
taunted us with the cry about the "Unon being
10 danger" He urged war of determination
then In the name of God, and promised the aid
and contributions Of English abolitionists
Mr.. Cox read further from a volume called
"The Constitution Pro Slavery Compact, by
Wendell Phillips" (hisses) to show that he
held that in 1857 there was criminal compro.
mise between slavery and freedom, and that
tho Union should be dissolved with elsyehoId.
ers. Perhaps Wendell Phillips might not be
considered BY some as representative Of the
Republican party. But he does truly repre-.
sent this administration, with its proclamation
OF liberty. Look at the votes in Congress On
motion of the Speaker to lay on the table a
resolution Of Thaddeus Stevens (hisses) 10
raise l5O,OOO negroes. (Hisses.) Why, one
would judge from that that the white race In
this country, like the Yankees calf, was "pret.
ty nearly gin eout." (Great laughter; a voice,
"They want to get the niggers cheap, 90 that
they won have che trouble to oolonize them .'')
! cannot see any especial difference between
the republicanism that sustaina emancipation
proclamations and the real old genuine Como
abolitionism. (Cheers.) They are two sep.
arate links of the same sausage made out
of the same dog. Great and continued ap
plause.)
These extracts were the germ of that aboli-
tion power new overshadoWiDg us. The ipfla.
ence invoked by these men was the religious
sentiment in crusade against slavery. IL
might seem anomalous that New England,
which pfided itself upon its self-goyernmeut
should m eddie with the distant concerns of other
people. But such 10 the contradiction of this
puritan character, that whenever 1t enjoyed q
blessing 1t did not want il extended In illus.
tration of this let me recur to colonial daye. -
The Paritans could never live in peace in Eng.
land; they would ever propagate their creeds
extensively. King James said of them that
they were pests In church and commonwealth.
When the MayAower and SpeedWelI were on
the sea, with the pilgrim wheat thrice gifted
from the three Kingdoms, their historian says IL
wanted sitting once or twice more. One Of
their leaders said "their voyage was ss full Of
crosses as themselves of crookedness." lLauph.
ter In Holland, aa soon es they learned the
language they began TO wrangle. No wonder
the Dutch bribed the captain of the MayAower
not to land them near the Hudson but further
north. 1t is not too late for New York vet 10
give thanks for that pious fraud! In coming
here their hopes of wealth mingled largely
with their hopes Of heaven, They told King
James, when they sought charter, that they
expected their profits from fish. He told them
ironically it was the Apostles . own calling, It
is pity to spoil the poetry of Mrs. Hemans
about these Pilgrims, but we can say but the
truth: "They sacrificed to their net and burned
incense to their drag, because by them their
portion is fat" Their descendants still cling
to their fishing bounties. We In the West nav
them this tribute for their godly life! We,
when we catch catfish, don't get any bounty.
Great laughter. Mr.. Cox referred to several
succeeding shiploads of Pilgrims, and among
the rest to Captain Wollaston's company. who
we're seduced by one Morton into drinking and
dancing, which was held then to be atheistic.-
One OF the moral triumphs of the Puritana
then was the destruction OF Morton's May-pole
and the capture Of the junketting captain.4 =
This same tendency to make governments
moral reform society is observable in the laws
furnishing Quakers against smoking tobacco,
against making mince pies, and walking in
garden on Sunday. Laughter. The Maine
liquor laws and sax laws against whisky to stop
It's use, come from the same Puritan tendency
TO mix politics aud morals, to the detriment Of
both. The same thing is observable in the
opinion of Boston lawyer, now the counsel of
the War Department. Mr.. Whiting, who up-
holds the Fright of the Government to In
terfere with slavery, Mormonism, or any
other institution, condition, or eociel status
into which the subjects Of the United States
can enter" Under this doctrine proclama
tions against slavery are issued. Rather than
yield this censorship over the morals of the ma.
tion New England welcomed war ("Thats
so!O 1t 10 not the first time she has convulsed
the nation for her dogmas. She did 1t in 1898.
Mr.. Cox quoted DR.. Lord to illustrate tho ten
depcy Of Puritanism to reduce God to q subser-
viency to its preconceived ideas, which he
regarded as the cause Of our disorders. The
moral balance was deranged between church
and state upon this slavery question. In Illus
tration Of these truths Mr.. Cox said EVERY
Sabbath you have O sermon from DR.. Cheeyer
demonstrating that our failures In battle are
owing to the displeasure of God, because of the
sin of slavery. He forgets that when We are
beaten We are beaten by shareholders, and that
God, by his foolish logic, must be pro .slayery
being. The same eort Of doctrine was anriyhn-
ced by Massachusetts In 1876, when Rapdolph
came to New England from the parent govern.
ment to find out the cause OF the Indian vars.
They solemnly announced that they were a
punishment from God, because the men wore
periwigs made Of women's hair, and the women
wore borders In their hair, also for profaueness
in the people In not frequenting the meetings,
and others going away before the blessing is
pronounced! (Laughter.) The original defects
of the Puritan pattern are copied by the present
stock. Mr.. Cox quoted from history to show
how, under the plea of military necessity, the
saints robbed the Indians of their lands He
proved that the Puritans prosecuted all who
differed from them, even those Of the Church
Of England, although when they left England
they called it then "dear mother churoh.o-
How they inaugurated the spy system In their
midst; how they hunted out little girls ana Old
women for witches; how Baptiets. Anaha ntiata