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

Iurltan1c character, taking success 10
justice, egotism for greatness, cunning
for wisdom, cupidity for enterprise, scdi
. tion for liberty, cant for piety. Puritan
, ism would reform mems morals by stat
, ne, and make Paridise by politics. j
! would practically unite Church and Statt
to propagate its moral and religious dog
mas. New England may DO cunning il
invention and energetic in industry; sht
may boast Of her libraries, schools, chur
ches press; she may subsidize the lever
pulley, cylinder and wheel ; she ma,
study, as the worm does, how to draw
thread fine. and like the spider, how t,
make the web; she may boast OF a ac
guard in every factory; but with it all sh
does not understand the mechanism o
the State. Her ideologists have produ
ced confusion where others produced har
mony. (Applause.) 1t is not smart t'
be informed on one side Of question:
1t is not smart to array the Union agans
herself 1t is not smart to build facto
ries aud destroy the source Of cottot
which runs them. Her schemes Of eman
cipatiou-her Morrill, tarilf's-her propa.
gandism Of higher law-arc not smart il
any sense Of wisdom.
| do not impcach whole people for
the errors of part. In colonial times
an Endicott was relieved by Winthrop
as in later times Webster stands like a
gigantic rock repelling the waves of Pu.
ritanism. (Applause.) | would not con.
found the Parkers and Phillipses, and
the lesser spawn of transcendentalism
with the Choates and Curtises, who have
cultivated the graces Of civil order.
speak of that ruling element in New
4 England called Puritanism, which ir
Lancashire, in Holland, at Plymouth, ol
at Boston, ever presents the same selfish
pharis aical, egotstic and intolcrant type
Of character. We find it in onr politics
to day as the Tudors found it hundred,
of years ago, ever meddling and only viii
ling to concele when it can't help itself
(CheerS.) Even in the time of Elzabett
it compromised with prosecutors to save
the Pres byteran, but provided punish
ment for the Separatists. Hopkins, in
his history, said it had no correct idea:
of civil liberty 1t admitted the dispen
sing power of the King, just as now it
clamors for the dispensing power of the
/ President. Nnn can only rely on the var
nished account the Pilgrims give oil them,
selves. II they write the history of this
war the truth will never appear. (Laugh
ter.) Their keynote is that slavery is
the cause and must he exterpated. The
truth is, slavery was meddled with anG
returned 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
cia'ist that property is a robbery, and
therefore, should be abolished, is n sam.
pie of the same fallacy. Abolition is, in
a moral sense, the cause of the war
| (Cheers) 1t is the offspring of Puritan
ism The history OF Puritanism shows
! that it always sought to introduce the
moral elements involved in slavery into
politics, and thereby threw the Church
into the arena, and made it a wrangler
about human institutions, DIVIDED Chur-
ches and bcgat sectional aspcrities.
Mr.. Cox then read from volume of
George Thomson's lectures in 1884 and
'35. showing by quotations how Aboli-
tion began. Even then this English in
terloper taunted us with the cry Of the
Union being in danger" He urged a
war Of determination then in the name of
God, and promised the aid and contrbu-
tions of English Aboltionists. Mr.. Cox
read further from volume called "Thc
Constitution a Pro- slavery Compact, !"
by Wendell Phillips, (Hisses) to show
that he held that in 1877 there was Il
criminal compromise between slavery and
freedom, and that the Union should be
dissolved with Shareholders. Perhaps
Wendell Phillips might not be consider
ed by some as representative OF the Re-
publican party. But he does truly rep
resent this Administration, with its proc
lamation of liberty. Look at the votes
in Congress on motion of the Speaker
to lay on the table resolution by Thad-
deus Stevens (hisses) to raise 100000
negroes. (Hsses.) Why, one would
Judge from that that the white race in
this country, like the Yankees calf, was
"pretty nearly gin cout." (Great laugh
| Ter, voice, L ucy NuHl W ScJ lhe ne
groes cheap, so they won't have the trou.
BILE to colonize them | can not see
any especial difference between the Re-
publicanism that suslains emancipation
proclamations and the real old genuine
Congo Abolironism. iCheers.) They
are two separate links of the same sau.
saga made ant of the same dog. (Grcat
and continued applau,e.)
These extracts were the germ Of the
Abolition power now overshadowing us.
The influence invoked by these men was
the religious sentiment in crusade
against slavery 1t might seem anoma-
lous that New England, which prided il =
self upon its local selfgovernment, sho'd
NEEDLE with the distant concerns of other
people. But such is the contradiction Of
this Puritan character, that whenever it
enjoyed blessing it did not want it eX-
tended. In illustration Of this let me re-
turn to colonial days, The Puritans
could never live in peace in Eng land (;
they would ever propagate their creeeS Of
fensvely King James said of them that
they were pests in Church and Common
wealth. When the Mayilower and Speed
well were on the sea, with the Pilgrim
wheat thrice sifted from the three King
doms, their historian says it wanted siit-
ing once or twice more. One of their
leaders said "their voyage was as full Of
,ro.eo, a, hcr,pal, Of nFnol nl nnss ~