The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-02-25


ma and Afjoon. called Bhagvat-G eeta, original
" writtcn in the Sanscrit, and TRANSACTIONS of
which under the auspices of WarrenaH hastings,
are to be found in somo of the libraries. The
philosophy cannot DO called Pantheisn, for
tnat absorhs nature end man in God. 1t is
notvMatsfialism for that absorbs man and God
in nature : butft is the absofptfon of God and
aud-that man the Brahmin or
the Puritan 1t believes in nothing but tho
soul. dhe soul Of man is God and nature.
No matter, no color, nothing but the soul in
man ;1heai8a4Hf Is alEE0no of these disei-
ples&AicoeAholds that the world would be
whatittshoalaibe, ii he were Only aszIhely as
heashoald be. 9hisis the nearest approach
OF this sect 10 humility He being all in all
-heaid;d e himself personally responsible for
the obli4uity offhe searth's axis. Laughter. Eo
YOU b aer5 therefore, that he holds himself re-
sponeibferfor s'as cry IN Carolina2 Another, En-
sr;6ns holds that he Gmerson) is God that
Godsis everything therefore he (Emersou)
is everything. (Merriment Do you wonder,
therefore, that since he makes the negro a
part1ef himself that he holds him to be his
equal4E Increased laughter Or that he be-
lieves that everything is-as he isl Do you
wohaer II sthee impcrtnrable impotence and
sclfsuf6ciency of the Puritan thus indoctFina
tedf- The Hihdoos said saRicbfi lis that Uni
versaa Self, whom thou worshippest as the
SodlysE : The same sentiment is found in the
yersesofsEmersan .EpNothing is, nr,thous art
nos thou art under, over all; thou dost hold
and1cover all. Thou art Atlas thou art Jovc y
Doey5u won der that, under this philosophy,
theS oather men and mind were moderated Z
Thai the gratencss and strength of Massaehur
setfs and the North were ovcrrated ? It was
under these moenshiny deiusionsi that Cover
ror AhdreW fofosaw the roads swarm with the
myriads,t who never trooped to the war, (laughr
tery1and that Greeley beheld9t the nine hum
dredAthousand rush to Father IAbrahsm,z who
are yet TO rush. Ian bters al Turn again to
the Hin5oo, and hear Wharf.-The Puritan saith
in the Sanscfis. Q Iread from the Geeta but
you VIII think 1t is the sauniversal Yankee"
speaking3of himself :sI am the sacrifice, the
worship, the fire, the vietim,y the father and
mother of this world, the grandsire, (laughter)-
the pfeseryer. al the holy one, only worthy
to be known. am hope of the good,ithe,
corforter, theicfeator, the ~sithess, the ASYLUM
/ M generation and dissolution.E {Laughter0
/ am sunshine. I am rain. Inows d
now let out. ] am death and limnortality.1sI
am entity and nonentfty!! GLaughter1 1nam
the Beginning, the middle and the end. ENIer-i
rinentj Among the faculties am the minds"l
Juet what Mr.. Beecher holdsJf ELauehter.E
aAmong the animals : AN reason among
the moGntaing, Hamilaya amongst the q oods,
I am the ocean amongst elephants, I am the
everlasting big elephant. CGreat laughter.
OF al seiencc, am the knowledge of the ruiz
ing spirit, and Of all speaking, 1 am the ora
ton IA voice asThsts Sumner. laugh
ttsrI aAmenest rulers, I am the rod" "a
yoice:srThat is Butler. " Laughter 1"AmonGst
those who seek for conquest I am the policy"
CsThat is Abolition" Laughthr) .All the
Incident to beings, such as reason,
.truthN humility, m~eekness, equality, courage,
fame, sshame, renown and infamy, come from
me A Brahmin, that is, one who lives in or
near Boston, can attain unto these. All these
qualities, says the Hindoo, chang on me, as
jewels and jeus On a string, for there is. not
anything greater than r. How is he to attain
All these Z The Hindoo again tells us: oHeI
should sit, with his mind fixed on one object
alone The negro, suppose ; [great laughter
3"in the exercise of his devotion for the pu
ri6cation of his soul, keeping his head, his
neck, his body, steady without motion, his
eyes fixed on the point of hia nose, cross eyed,
youfSee. Llaughter,l '.ioo ing at no other place
around" Thus, and not otherwise, it sees
heaven at the tip of its own nose. FLaughter.1
Were it-not that these directions are written in
Book vi ofthe lectures ofKrceshna, one would
imagine they were written by Cotton Mather
~ AAAoS vi q 0OctOu philosopher II II
about the Hub of the Universe. daughter.
1t was by following these directions of the
Vedas that John Fisher Murray, an Irish wit,
was enable to prove that black was white /:
and by a process of unifcation which will com
mend itself to Boston Transeen6entalism -
aBlack," says he, e'is one thing and white
another thing You don conthravayne that ?
But everything is either one thing or the 9th.
or thing I defy the Apostle Paul to get over
that dilinma WolI ifohvfbi1- IL - 4b.,.
vel. andsgood but if it be another thing,
Then its plan it ism both things. laughter
and so can't be two things; nobody can deny
that. But what can be two things, must be
one thing ergo, whether it's one thing or
smother thing, its all one. fGreat laughter.
but black is one thing and white is another
thing ergo, black and white is all aonc."
sELaughter.l Quod -erdt dcmoRsArandum,
that q negro is as good as a white man. Laugh
teri The ordinary perception cf mankind
would be shocked at such a conclusion, but a
Puritan Transcendentalist accepts it as a part
of the soul unity, which he derives from look
ing with solemn intrespection into his own
4desPssoaH This is what imparts to Transcen
1denfalism such a sublime egotism. ALI that
ti5tsreat in invention, in letters, in reason, in
war, must emanate from its ."oyer SOUL 1t
peeps into all things and some other sede ON
-nfBus rebas ct qui6usddm dEis.H Dir. Beecher,
sin describing the universal meddlesomeness
-efofhe Yankee, has but1he voice of Brahma,
which Emerson echoed, when he wrote :
"There is mo great and nor small
- To the soul that makefh all.
And whore it cometh, all things are,
And II comteh--eyerywhe:e."
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81 Thee Eveaing Post wonders how a Union
hereafter is possible, with New England out!
be- IL asks. ga head brains