Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-02-26

about these Pilgrims, but we can say bu
the truth: "They sacrificed to their ne
aud burned incense to their drag, becaus
by them their portion is fat" Their dc
sccndants still cling TO their fishing boun
ties. We in the West pay them this trib
ute for their godly life We, when w,
catcha catfish, don't get any bounty
Great laughter
Mr. Cox referred to several succeeding
ship loads Of Pilgrims, and among thu
rest to Captain Wollastan's company
who were seduced by one Morton into
drinking and dancing, which was held
then to be atheistic. One OF the moral
triumphs of the Puritans then was the
destruction of Morton's May pole and the
capture Of the jucketting captain. This
same tendency to make government O
moral reform society is observable in the
laws Furnishing Quakers, against smo-
king tobacco, against making mince. pies
and walking in the garden on Sunday
Laughter The Maine Liquor Laws
and tax laws against whiskey to stop ita
use, came from the same Puritan tenden-
cy to mix politics and morals, to the det-
riment of both. Tho same thing is OBJ
servablc in the opinion of Boston law
yer, now the counsel Of the War Depart
ment, Mr.. Whiting, who upholls "the
! right of the Government to interfere with
slavery, Mormonism, or any other insti-
tuition, condition or social status into
which the subjects Of the United States
can enter" Under this doctrine proc
lama;ions against slavery are issued L.
Rather than yield this censorship over
the morals of the nation, New England
welcomed war. That's so !" 1t is
not the first time she has convulsel the
nation for her dogmass. She did it in
l79S. Mr.. Cox quoted DR.. Lord to H.
ustrate the tendency of puritanism to re-
duce God to subservency to its precon-
ceivcd ideas, which he regarded as the
cause Of our disorders. The moral bal
ance was deranged between Church and
State upon this slavery question.
In illustration of these truths Mr.. Cox
said: Every Sabbath you have SER
mon from DR.. Cheever 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 slavehol-
ders, and that God, by his foolish logic,
must be proslavery being. The same
sort of doctrine was announced hy Mas
sachusctts in 1876 when Randolph came
to New England from the parent Govern
ment to find out the cause Of the Indian
wars. They solemnly announced that they
were punishment from God, because the
men wore periwigs made of women's
hair and the women wore burdens in their
hair, also for profaneness in the people
in not frequenting the meetings, and 9th
ers going away before the blessing is pro-
nounced Laughter. The original de-
| Iects Of the Pnritan's 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; they called it then "dear moth.
er Church." How they inaugurated the
spy system in their midst, how they hun
ted out little gi,ls and old women for
witches, how Baptists, Antibaptists,
Familists, Quakers, all were prosecuted
and punished; how the Indians were
transformed into sooty devils, to confs-
cate their lands; how Roger Williams,
Mrs. Hutchinson, Coddington and others
were treated and exiled; how every petty
presbyter was made pope, every village
Paul Pry an inquisitor, and every com
municant a spy for the detection of the
eighty,two heresies denounced by the
Boston Synod Kisses; all these were
brought forward as illustrative Of this
amiable character. Murders, manning
and cruelties worse than those of the pit
were inflicted by these men, not alone up
on each other, but upon the Indian and
the peaceful people of Acadia. Halleck,
a New England poet, in vain ran sacked
history for worse crimes than those com
mitted by the saints in peaked hat and
ruff Hcrod was bad. Worse were
The fends of France whose crucItes dccreed
Whose dextrous drowuings in the Loire and
Rhone.
But these
"Were at their worst copyists, second hand
OF our Shrincd. sainted sircs-the Plymouth PHI
grim band.'
Mr.. Cox paid New England compli,
ment for her revolutionary resistance; but
non constat, but she would have resisted
government of angels. He considered
the boast that the Pilgrims were the au-
thors of the Democratic liberty here as
Utterly groundless, proving it from histo-
ry. The compact of the May Flower was
forced from the Pilgrim leaders. Elliot,
the historian, says they did not mean a
Democracy. No man could be voter
unless a member of the Church, and Judge
Story says this disfranchised five.sixths
of the people. The penal laws were
framed from Gentoo code. They punish
ed according to caste. Such was the rule
too in Harvard College. New England
vet has her Brahmin and her Soote caste.
The laws even regulated the apparel of
men and women, on the Gentoo caste
principle. Years Of contest for the rights
Of the people against the magistrates and
Church leaders eventnated at last in the
final emancipation Of the people by the
act of the king of England, Charles ii
Under the oligarchic rule Of the Church
fearful decentralization resulted. In try
ing to make the Church political they did
not make tne Stete religious. Is this
the civilization to be commended to us