The Oregon union. (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1863, 1863-02-28

land, at Plymouth or at Boston, ever pres
sents the same selfish, pharisaical, egotistie
and iEtolerant type of character. We
find it in our politics to-day as the Tudors
found it hundreds of years ago, ever med
ding, and only willing to concede when it
cannot help itself. [Cheers,1 Their key
note is that slavery is. the cause of this
war, and must be extirpated. The truth
is, that slavery was meddled with and re-
turned in violence what was given in
wrath and malice But it does not thence
follow that slavery was the cause of the
violence. The doctrine of the French So
cialist that property is a robbery and
therefore should be abolished, is a sample
of the same fallacy. Abolition is, in the
moral sense, the cause of this war
[Cheers. 1t is the offspring Of Puritan.
ism. The history of Puritanism shows
that it always sought tointroduce the NOR
al elements involved in slavery into poll
tics, and thereby threw the Church into
the arena Of politics, made it wrangler
about human institutions, divided churches
and begat sectional asperities Perhaps
Wendell Phillips might not be considered
by some a representative of the Repub-
lican party. But he does truly represent
the Administration, with its proclamation
of liberty. Look at the votes in Congress
on motion Of the speaker to lay on the
table resolution by Thaddeus Stevens
Thisses Ito raise 10000 negroes. Hiss
es. ] Why, one would judge from that
that the white race in this country, like
the Yankees calf, was "pretty nearly gin
eout." Great laughter voice "They
want to get the niggers cheap, SO that they
won't have the trouble to colonize them. ~
[ cannot sec any special difference between
the Republicanism that sustains emanci-
patton proclamations and the real old
genuine Congo Aboiitionism. Cheers. ]
They are two separate links Of the same
sausage made out of the same dog. Great
and continued applause. a
These extracts were the germ Of that
Abolition power now oVershadoWing US.
The influence invoked by these men was
thereligious sentiment in crusade against
slavery. This same tendency to make
Government moral reform society is
observable in the laws furnishing Quakers,
against smoking tobacco, against making
mince pies and walking in a garden on
Sunday. Laughter. The Maine liquor
laws and tax laws against whisky to stop
its use, came from the same Puritan ten
dency to mix politics and morals, to the
detriment of both. The same thing is
observable in the opinion of Boston law
yer, now the counsel Of the War Depart
ment, Mr.. Whiting, who upholds the
''right of Government to interfere with
slavery, Mormonism, or any other institu
ton, condition, or social status into which
the subjects of the United States can en~
ter" Under this doctrine proelamations
against slavery are issued. Rather than
yield this censorship over the morals of
the nation, new England welcomed war.
['That's SO !''l It Is not the first time
she has convulsed the nation for her dog
mas. She did it in I798 Mr.. Cox qao-
ted DR.. Lord to illustrate the tendency of
Puritanism to reduce God to a subservi-
ency to its preconceived ideas, which he
said we're the cause of our disorders
The moral balance was deranged between
Church and State upon the slavery guess
ton. In Illustration of these truths, AIr.
Cox said: 'sEvery Sabbath you have a
sermon from DIR. Cheeyer, demonstrating
that our failures in battle are owing to
the pleasures 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 slavery being. The same sort of doc
trine was announced by Massachusetts in
1876, when Randolph came to New Eng
land from the parent Government to find
out the cause Of the Indian wars. They
solemniy announced that they were pun
shment from God, because the men wore
periwigs made of women's hair, and the
women wore borders in their hair-also
for profaneness in the people not frequent
ing the meetings, and others going away
before the blessing is pronounced! Laugh
ter. 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 their ''dear
mother Church" How they inaugurated
the spy system in their midst; how they
Hunleu ouG lltLle girls anu olu Woheu ioI
witches how Baptists Anabaptists, Fami-
lists, Quakers, all were prosecuted and
punished; ); how the Indians were trans
formed into sooty devils, to confscate their
lands; how Roger Williams, Mrs. Hutch
inson, Coddington and others were treat
ed and exiled; how every petty presbyter
was made Pope, every village Paul Pry
an inquisitor, and every female communi,
cant a spy for the detection of the eighty
two heresies denounced by the Boston
Synod; [hisses,] all these were brought
forward as illustrative of this amiable
character Murders, maimings and cru
elites worse than those of the pit were in
ficted by these men, not alone upon each
other, but upon the Indian and the peace
full people Of Arcadia. Halleck, a New
England poet, in vain ransacked history
for worse crimes than those committed by
the saints in peaked hat and ruff. Herod
was bad. Worse were