The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-02-04

Sir. they who wenld ,eScIude New Fn3.
land in any reconstFpcli6n.of OF tie Union. az
sumo that all New EngIshders are cyan.
KEGS" and Puriisns. pnd tba, the Purifah Or
dTamalical elenent or tue Of civilisstion.
baS always held nndisputed sway Well.
sir, Yankees, certainly, lhey are in cns sense
and so to Old England We are all Yankees,
North ard South; and to the South lust cow
or little while ago, We Of the middle and
western STATES also, are, or ere, Yankees,
too. But there is really a very large, and
most hbsrAlSs and cpysefsatiye mon Pnritan
element in The population q New Fnsland;
which, for many years, struggled for the
mastery, and sometimes he'd x. 1t divided
Aiaire. New, Hampshire. and Connecticut
and once controlled Rhode Island " lfollv. -.
1t held the sway during the Revolution, and
at the period when the Constitution yeas
bounded. and Tor souesyears a afterwafd. AZ r.
Calhoun said very Justly, in I847, Tint ito
the wisdom aud ilarged patriotism Of Sher !.
man aml Ellsworth on the slavery question
welwere btsd for this admirable 6ogl
terntnent; andt hat along with Patterson .Eol
New Jersey, ittheT names ought to abe en-
craven on.brass, aud live foreversrr And Mr.
Webs er, in l630!m-one otifhose grand his
toric word paintings; in which ne was $50,
great a master, SAID OF Massachusetts, and
South Oarohnag F''i land In bard they stood
around The Misunderstanding Of Washington,
amt iei' hs'oSp great srm lean on them Tor
I fsupport"T Indeed, sir. twas not till SOME
Ethiity years ago Mat the snstrow, presurnp-
Etuens, in'ermedliHg, and tanatical spirit lof
! the Old Puritan element began to ieappear III
"a ioTlu very5nuch more aggressive and DE
tslructiyefthan at}frst and thre atened TO ob
| tain absolute nIastefy in church and cboot.
and State. lttls earlier it had STRUGGLE
hard, bdt the conservatives proved too strong
| for u aud as long as the great statesman
lard jurists Of the WI ig and democratic par
| ties survived it made small progress, though
Jehn Quincy Adams gave to II the strength
l'ofhis great name. But after their death IL
tbroke in az flood, and swept away the last
ivestige Of the aueieht liberal, ard ioleratine
conservatism. Then every form ard develop
Inent Of fanatieism, sprang Up in rank ana
most l1xuiient grow h, ,Itill abolilionism tho
chief lungus ofall, oVerspreSd the whole
ioi New Ecngisnd first, and then the middle
Estates, and finally every State in the North.
Iwest. ia@ H7f 5s53FF s7e9' 2i|
\ Certainly ,.siEthe more liberal or non Pur
| itan element was nsrly, though not alto
gstier, from the old Puritan stock or large
4 lyf feTossedswifh it, Bdt even within the
First ten years after the landing Of the Ri.
lEeritns, amore enlarged and'toIeratlns civil
izarion was Introduced. Roger Williams,
Tnofof the May flower, though Puritan him
lselg snd throughls imbuaf with all its i g.
1cuiiafi'ies Of cant and creed and form O,
worship, seems yet to have had naturally q
more liberal spirit and, first perhgps Of al
men, Some three or more years before the
I ARK and the Dove touched the shores OF The
/ 1t. Mary's in Maryland, taught the sublime
I'd gctrine Of freedom Of opinion and practice
lin religion, Threatened first with ban1sh
lneit to England, so as to remove as iar as
possible tie injections OF his prihcples;" and
iaflerward actually banlshed beyond the iur
ti,diction Of Massachusetts, because, m the
language Of The sentence of the General
Court, she broached and divulged divers ne
eni strange doctrines against the authority
of magistrates over ths religious opinions o
men, thereby disturbing the peace OF The
colony, he became the founder Of Rhode Isl>
and, al d, indeed, Of a large part Of New
England society. And, whether from bis
teaching and example, and in the persons o.
his descendants and those OF his associates
or from other causes and another stock, there
has always been q large fusion Throughout
New England Of what may be called the
| Roger Wiliioaas element, as disinguished
from the extreme puritan or MaQAotper D,
| Plym,,Ah hoeh type of The New Englander;
and its influence, till late years, has always
haap ,avrarf1l it-Eta" 'tt b T.if'
The SPEAKER, The gsntleman's hour
has expired Ra,'1
1 Mr., vALLANDIGHAM. I ask for 4
short time longer.
| Mr.. POTTER. Ihope there will be nc
objection from this side Of the House.
| The SPEAKER, II there be no objec.
tons the gentleman will be allowed further
time. e
| There was no objection: and 1t was order.
cd accordingly.
| Mr.. VALLAKDIGHAM. Sir, I would
mot deny or diSparage the austere virtues O
the old PuriaDs Of England Or America =
! But do believe that. in the very nature o
things, no community could exist long III
peace, and no Government endure lone
alone, or become gest, where that element
hnreme controi.' And it Is my solemn
CONVICTION that there can be no possible OF
durable reunion of these States until it shall
have been again snbordinated to other and
mole liberal and more conservative elements
and, above all until its worst and most mis-
chieyous development, aboIitionism, has
been utterly extinguished. Sir, the peace
oil the Union and Of this continent demands
It But, fortunately, those very elements
exist abnnddntly in New England herself;
and Ia. her ] look with confidence 10 secure
to them the mastery within her limits. In
fact, sir the true voice of New England has
for some yeaas past been but rarely herd
here or elsewhere ID public affairs. Men
now control her politics ana are In high pla-
ces, State and Federal, who, twenty years
ago, could not have been chosen selectman
in old Massachuse ts. u But lst her re-
member at last her Rncient ronOwn; let her
turn from vain~gl loriuus adniifa alton of the
stone monuments Of her heroes and patriots
OF ormer age, TO generous eib tilatioH of the
noble and marty virtues which they we're
designed to commemorate. Let US hear less
from her Of the Pilgrim Fathers and the
Mayfo%er' of PlyInoth Rock, and more
OF Roger Williams and his compstriots, and
his liberation. Let bcr4banish now and Tor
ever her dreamers and her sophiSts and her
fanstics and call back again into her Slate
administrator and into The national coun
cis "her men Of might, her grand in sour
= some Of them t,lliive--and she will yet
escape the dangers which now threaten her
With isolation. T" eF"1 tsAtH3 ifHb 3aaf9
.stt an & s.. ~
Then, Sir, while am inexorably hostile
to Puritan domination in religion or morals
Inr literature or politics, 1 am not in avgr o.
the proposed exclusion 81 New England. !
would have The Union as it was; and first,
New England as she. VAS Bdt II New En-