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


frat, and her palpit reviled him as it did
D ,uglas. The voted against Jack.ou at first,
and her press slandored him, Us it now Stand
!, Eers Mcclellan. Her Josiah Quincys donoun
, ced the acquisition of Louisiana, "a in la:tr
days Ter Summers have denounced the South
/; Her Matthews, of the colonial days, thunde; ed
against the Quakers aud Baptists, because
they differed in doctrine. just as lately, Butler
closed :he churches of New Orleans because
the ministry would not pray as BdtferAthe
, Saint-dietated. E"Thes old traitor" Kisses.
She denounceds in early times, the Indians as
tdevils, whose lands were forfeit, a. now she
denounces slavery, while her spectators slip
through our lines to dicker for slaves produced
secession c,;ton. (,,Tha.'s true.") She has
been the foe to the Democracy from the days
of the Revolution TO the present hour. Her
MarsaiIlcse is a hymn of apo.heosis TO john
Brown-a horse thief and a murderer. But
amidst all these conflicts, she has had in her
midst, a minority of liberal, steadfast and pat
riotic Democrats. I desire to be understood
as casting no reflection upon the heroic minor
ity, soon, I trust, to become a triumphant ma
jority. Already Connecticut and New Hamp-
shire give us the signs of resurrection, (Cheers)
The chief cities of Massachusetts, will throw
off its Abolition incubus, while Portland and
New Haven already glory in democratic Con-
gressmen. (Chee s.
To sum up the general aspect of this Puri-
tanism: 1t does not appear to afe %cxempli-
fed but rarely the duty of obedience to the
civil magistrate. 1t never .ccnsecrated n saw
age to God, in accordance TO its early char
ter. Its usurred powers were never used to
quell scdition and strengthen leace. 1t has al
" VS. had a squint- eyed intellect which reminds
me OLA voice ..Butler p great chcering)-
looking with two optics to one selfish point !;
and a eunuch morality ever exclusive and re-
vengful. (Great applause) Its solemn pre-
tence to peculiar godliness were the general
rule, while Liberty of Conscience and Democ-
racy in polity were the exception. Instead of
making the church the tomb Of dissentions,i it
made the church the theatre of strsfe, and
| carried into the State the same pretension and
hiyotry which it illustrated in the church. Its
| literature was of that vainglorious character,
which vet distinguishes the defendants of the
4 Puritars What it has gained in grace of
s:pls it has lost in:sinccrity. Marx its progress
from the Mathers of three hundred years ago
to the Cbeeyers, Beechers and Parkers of to-
day. Swollen with spiritual pride, it compla-
Gently assumed to read the designs of Proyi-
4 dcnec rs IL it was q part of. the Godhead -.
/ (Cheers.-Its harshness marked the Con fo-n.
ist into . Separatist, the Scparatist into an Ar.
abaptist, the Anabaptist into a Quaker, and
the Quaker into an lnfdel. From step to step
hin our day, it has rnn the round. from ortho-
II QDXY,U CKllu1uk Will OuG6IST
briInfui of vengeance against sins che has no
mind to-" and winds up in that perfect inf
I delity and scepticism which Parker preached
and Emerson sung. Exalting this life above
/ the next, it is not content with the order Of
i Providence. It must assume %control. of the
Gharists of the Sun, and direct all its shine and
shadow. Alas how fatal has, been its direc-
ton in national affairs, tEis-red chaesin our
4 system now teIlsi ["That's so,', and cheers.31
Il Ifl- - tha TV,1Jar1oaeF sc TRQ0
and 1890 was restricted in its results and evils.
Nov we see its workings on a grander scale,
involving9a Continent in its contintions lit
lis q power. So Is Satan. 1t is intellectual.
$50 are his ministers. 1t has pride, stubborn
/ egotisticaI-g SO have had ait sgourges of The
Iearth, from the Procopsul of Sicily to the
lProconsul at New Orleans Can any one ask:
fellow is it possible for such a civilization to
4 be the cause of so great q civil war !? u" / will
answer, because it is the parent of Abolition,
and because Abolition, such as Thompson
and Phillips taught, found the right soil for
their bad seed therefore it hourishcd to the
overthrow of civil liberty, by the inter ned-
ding with State institutions and social and
labor systems. entirely alien to New England,
under the Federal Constitution. Holding to
the higher law, and at last obtaining offce IN
der its banner, it spread distrust and appre-
heDsion OF its excuses among one-half Of the
States, and rebellion, rash and unjusti6able,
was the result. Men of no mark-mere pig
minis, compared to Webster and Choate-the
Andrews and Summers of the day, Inflated
with an airy sentimcntalism, began their pro-
paganaism, to mako saints by statute, and
Paradises out Of politics, and rallied all the isms
to the one baneful and hated focus of Adolf
tionism, and drove the half of the nation to
revolt by its c%ontumely and aggre-sions. Gap
plause Missionaries, installing their fancics
| for the Gospel of Kindness and Peace, intent
upou the restitution of the blacks to a liberty
they only gave them In fancy, destitute of all
practical concern for church and State, they
have striven, like the classic sorceTess, to give
a new youth and beauty to the State, By dis
Numbering IT. (Applause.) They substitute
thereby lose that docility and humility which
are the very essence of Christianity.
At the New England dinner, not long since,
| Mr.. Beecher took pride in these very charac-
~teristics. He gloried in tie Yankees because
"he was the most prying and meddlesome
G eature in Gods world, the born radical of
modern civilization, the pickpocket of creation
Daughter, } that to leave New England out of
the Union was to leave the head out of the
BODY (Hisses.) This is the old egotism. II
is the same superciiiousness which has produ
Iced 30 much scorn South, and is now aliens-
| ting the West. This claim of all the intelli-
gence comes from Boston and is echoed from
Brooklyn, is the offshoot Of the same ph.ras-
aical can't, which has sung its own praises
through its nasal organ for three hundred
years. (Great cheering and laughter. } 1t
has assumed peculiar offensiveness now and
here amidst the bloody strife, Of which is a
prominent contributor. +
I propose to examine the source of this ego
Eristic and arrogant philosophy. 1t is not from
the Gospel. 1t is not-eTen a bad exaggera-
ton of the old FuritanisIn, for that had many
harsh and rigid virtues It comes from that
cotsrie known around Boston as Transcenden-
%talists. It's frt organ was the devil. It's
worst is the Tribune. ~(Laughter,) Its most
clever exponent was Emerson. 1t has its
priests, high and low, including the great
Charming. who ministerial in holy things with