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

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| ing to caste. Such was the rule too, In
Harvard College New England yet has
her Brahmin and her Sootee caste. The
laws even regulated the apparel of men
and women, on the Gentoo caste principle.
Years of contests for the rights Of the
people against the magistrates and church
leaders eventuated at last in the final eman-
cipation Of the people by the act OF the
King of England, Charles II. Under the
oligarchic rule Of the church fearful de>
moralzation resulted. In trying to make
the church political they did not make
the State religious. Is this the civiliza-
tion to be commended to us now in our
trials 1t comes with no grace to the
| West, at least What has she done for
the West? Governor Andrew boasts
greatly; let us see It has sent US such
men as Douglas, Seymour and Mcclellan.
[Great cheering, "Three cheers for Nc
| Clellan."] As to New York, men of lib
eral mind-but liberal because they have
repudiated Puritan teaching. [Cheers.
1t gave Samuel Adams for the revolution
-Choate for counsel against sectionalism
Breene and Stark in war, but neither Of
Puritan principles. It gave us Arnold in
the revolution, General Hull for the late
war, and General Butler Ia voice, "Old
traitorp'] for this war. Kisses. It
voted against Jefferson and jackson at
against the acquisition Of Louisiana.
It thundered against those Who differed
in doctrine" three hundred years ago; and
its echo is reproduced at New Orleans, in
the order from that precious saint, Butler,
to close the churches because the ministry
do not pray according to Buffers dIrec>
tions. Kisses and goans. 1t stole the
land of the Pequods, just as now it slips
through our lines to dicker in Secession
cotton, and it will sanction it through the
same goodly doctrine. Instead of making
the church the tomb it made it the theater
of disscnsion into the Stater It's litera-
ture was ever vain glorious. It has gained
much in style of late, but it has lost more.
in sincerity. It yet, as of yore, compla-
Gently assumes to be part Of the God.
head. [Applause.] Its hdrshness made
dissent upon dissent, until, through vari-
Gus isms, it has reached infdelity. 1t is
not content with the order of Providence.
It must drive the charlotte f the sun, and
with what result the civil war shows A
voice, CHATS so.''] Its peculiar civiliza
ton is the parent Of Abolition which
found in the Puritan soil the right spot
for its bad seed Therefore it fourished
to the overthrow of civil liberty, by inter
meddling with State institutions and social
systems, entirely alien to itself under the
Constitution. Holding to the higher law
and obtaining Office under Its banner, it
spread distrust and apprehension of its
excuses among one half of the States,
and rash and unjustifable revolution was
the consequence. 1t rallied all its isms to
one s-abolitionism became ag>
eressive It has tried to initiate the clas
sic sorceress by giving a new youth and
beauty to the state by dismembering it
[Applause,] It has substituted panthe~
ism or platonism- for religion, and sunk in
it that dociEty which is childlike and
Christian. At the New England dinner
here Beecher boasted that the Yankee was
the most prying, meddlesome creature in
the world-the pickpocket of creation
the born radical of civilization-the head
in the body of the Union, etc. EHisses. ]
This is the old egotism. It is this claim
of all the intelligence and conscience
which comes from Boston and is copied in
Brooklyn-which has been sung by the
Puritan for three hundred years through
his own nasal organ in his own praise
Great cheering and laughter.l Its source
is from Hindostan. 1t is even bad ex-
aggeration of the Colonial Puritanism
1t comes from the coterie Of transcenden-
talism around Boston, whose most clever
exponent is Emerson. 1t has its priests,
high and low; from the great Claiming,
who ministered in holy things with many
enlarged graces Of nature, to the little
Charming, who creeps Of Sundays into the
Senate Chamber at Washington, to preach
abolition and vilify Democracy. But this
transcendentalism is stolen by this uni
versal pickpocket from the Vedas Finer
son, Parker, Phillips, Alcott, only copy
the Brahmins. Their doctrines are not
strictly materialism or pantheism Tgreat
laughter but they absorb God and nature
in man, and make the soul all in all. One
of their philosophers holds himself per-
sonally responsible for the obliquity of the
earth's axis; and of course for all other
obliquities, slavery included Emerson
holds that he is God. God is everything;
ergo, he (Emerson) is everything. TGreat
merrlment.l DO you wonder, therefore,
that he makes the negro a part Of himself
and his equal? Increased laughter. i
The Hindoo said, erich is that universal
self which thou worshipest as the soul" :"
Emerson says, tsNothing is if thou art not;
thou art under, over all thou dost hold
and cover all thou art Atlas; thou art
Jove." The Sanscrit has the most pers
feet description of this idealogistic Yam
kee Il am generation [ am dissolu-
ticn; [ am death and Immortality; I am
entity and nonentity. Among mountains
| am Himalay; among floods the ocean ];
among elephants the everlasting big ele-
phant p [Great laughter The Brah-
min of Boston attains to such excellence
for he follows the direction of the Vedas
and contemplates heaven by squirting like
Butler Elaughterl, with both eyes at the
tip of his own nose. [Continued merri-
ment BY such processes Of unifcation