Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1863-02-11

ruling element in New Englrnd called
PuritsniSin, which in Lancashire, in llol-
LAND, at Plymouth or of Boston ever pre-.
sents the same selfish, phaTisaical, egotis
tic, and intulerant type Of character. We
find it in our politics to-day as the Tutors
found il hundreds of years ago, ever med.
ding, and only willing to concede when
il cannot help itself. Cheers Even in
the time Of Elizabeth, it compromised
with its prosecutors to save the Presbyie-
rian, but provided a punishment for the
SeparatisS, llopkins,in his history says,
it has no correct ideas Of civil liberty. II
admitted the dispensing power Of the
king, Just as now it clamOrs for the dis.
pensing power Of the President. You
cannot rely on the vanished account the
Pilgrims give Of themselves. 1t is false
If they write the history Of this war, the
! truth will never appear. (Laughter.l
Their key.hai is that slavery 10 It's cause
and must be extir pated. The truth Is,
slavery was meddled with, and returned
in violence what vas given in wrath and
malice. But it does not thence follow
that slavery was the cause OF The violence.
The doctrine OF The French socialists that
property is a robbery and therefore should
be abolished, is sanp'e of the same fall
lacy. Abolition is, in the moral sense, the
cause of the war. (Cheers.) II is the Off
spring of Puritanism. The history of Pu>
ritanism shows that il always sought 10
} introduce the moral elements involved in
slavery into politics and thereby threw
the church into the arena, made 1t q
wrangler about hdman institutions, diVi
ded churches, and begat sectional asper-
= ties. Mr. Cox then read from a volume
, Of Geo. Thompson's lectures in 1884 and
: So, showing oy quotations how abolition
began. Even then this English interlo'
per tsunted US with the cry about the
Union being in danger" He urged 8
e war of determination then in the name oil
. God, and promised the ald and conlribu>
, tons Of English Aboiitlonists. Mr.. Cox
: read further from a volume called "Ihe
= Constitution a Pro,Slavery compact, by
3 Wendell Phillips (hls-esl to snow that
! he held that in 1888 there was a criminal
{ com promise between slavery aud iieedom
) and that the Union shoHld be dissolved
0 with slay aho!ders Perhaps Wendell
Phillips might not be considered by some
= as a representative of the Republican
2 party. But he docs truly represent the
3 Administration, with its proclamation oi
{ liberty. Look at the votes IN C0ngless On
b motion OF the Speaker 10 lay on the Ia
bic resolution by Thaddeus Sic, ems (his-
, SEES to raise l59,O0J negroes. Kisses y
s Why, one would judge from that that The
, white race in this country, Ike the Yam
KEGS cali. was pretty nearly gun out.
. Great laughter q voice, They want tC
. get the niEgeIs cheap, 80 that they won
y have the lroutle 10 coionize them.
e cannot sce any especial difference be-
, tween lie Rtpublicanism that Sustain.
emancipation. prociamauons and the rea
e old genuine CauCo A A5oiitionism. CueeIs
They are two separate links 10 The same
{ sausage made out Of the same dog. lGreat
. aud continued applause.
The next acts we're the germ OF that
Abolition power now overslsdOwing Us. -
The inh1enco in,oked by these men was
| The religious seati,Uenl IN a crusade a.
=, gsinst slavery. Ii m'g.t seem anomalous
that New England, which Prideu ltse.i
l upon its local seli-g veIn -aeal, should
meade with the distant coucerus ut 9th
er people. But such l. the. contradiction
! oithis Puritan cnuIacter. that when vel
s. il enjoyec n blessing II did not want 1t eH'
tended. In illustration Of this let me re
/ cur TO colonial DAYS. The Paritans c1ulC
+ never live in peace IN England they
would ever propagate their ere1os oIien
j siyely. King James said OF them iha
{ they were pests in church ana common
; wealth. When The MayHower and Speed
a well we've on the sea, with the Pilgrim
1 whoat thrice sifled from the three king
. dgms. their historian says II wanted siir
= Ing once or twice more. One OF then
4 leaders said ''their voyage was as iuli o
u crosses rs themselves OF crookConess.'
Laughter. In Holland as soon as the!
a learned the language they began to wrsn
10 Gle. No w0Eder the Dutch bnbed AZ
J. captain Of the May1oWeT not 70 land then
s rear the Hudson bat further North. j
y j. not too late for New York vet 10 E.v'
p thanks for that pious fraud. IN comm.
: there their hopes Of wealth mingled
C largely with their hopes Of heaven. Ihel
= told King James, when they sought for
= charter. that they expected their profit
T, from fish. lie told them ironically i "a
= the Apostles own calling. IL pity q
e spoil the poetry OF Ms. Hemans ab0u
! these Pilgrims, but We can say bat ia
G truth: They sacrificed 10 the net anl
: burned incense TO their drag, because b!
q them their portion is fat" Their dssoen
# dants still cling 10 their fishing bouhties
e We in the West pay them this tribute 70
r, their Codly lifel We, when We catch
Il catfish, don't get any bounty. Grea
e laughter. Mr.. Cox referred 70 seye!a
e succeeding ship loads Of Pilgrims, an
among the rest 10 Capt. Wallasion's CON
d pany who was seducea by one Morton IN
= 10 drinking and dancing, which was be-!
: then 10 be atheistc. One Of the mora
; triumphs Of the Puritans then was the de
a struction Of Morton's Maypole and u
: capture OF the junketing captain Ihi
o same tendency 10 make Government
If moral reform society is observable IN th
# laws Furnishing Quakers against snokin
, tobacco, against making m.nce pies, an
4 walking IL a garden on Sunday
Laughter. The Maine liquor laws and IA
" laws against whiskey 10 stop lis use, con
N from the same Puritan tendency 10 mix po
Is iiics and morals TO the detriment Of both