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

in other phrase, since God is man and nature
mar, "many a savage" says Parker, 'his hand
smeared over with human sacrifice. shall come
from the East and West, and at down in the
kingdom Of God, with Moses and Zeronster,
with Socrates and Jesus" Thus we are taught
in shocking biasphemy that the worst method
of life will answer as well as the best. And
again, he e~njoined his disciples "to obey God,
as the spirituality of spirit, which is imminent
in all things; in the blush of the rose and in
the bite of the dog; in the breath orthe breeze
andih the howl of the maniac. Believe that
the Divine incarnation is in all mankind;
therefore, initiate it, and if we sin, ask no for
givencss." Nor need We wonder that, from
the same source, the Intercessor for Mankind,
the SAVIOR, is sneered at as "the Attorney by
which we arc to approach the Infinite" Or,
that when such systems have their dcvotees
in religion, Abolition has tsdevotecs in practi.
cal ethics? Or that a spirit of hostile encroach-
ment should n ark the career of this cabal OF ego
tistic %zealo's, and that State linos are obliterated
and constitutional faith dissolved as Pigments in
their crazed imaginations? Alas. this war is
teaching the people, too late, that the Federal
Union is not to be carried on by the dogmas
of Bramah, or the sophisms of Emerson, or
thc infdclity of Parker? We are taught, too
late, that a system of public morality prevalent
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the Constitution; that the inexorable laws of
economy, of climate, soil, production, supply
and demand, arc not to be overruled by the
poetry of Whittier about the oppressed black,
or the vagaries of Sumner about the barbarism
of slavery.
1 have thus traced the history and philoso-
ply of the Puritanie egotism and self-sufici-.
ency, which has fomented trouble in distant
domestic affairs. L have already detained you
so long that Ferries of 'go Oup' from all parts
of the house, I will conclude with some prace
teal reflections on the Consequences of her
conduct Eh+ ~ = e7ElE S~t=iffd1H o5a2
+ When the Constitution was made, there
were two kinds of Interpretation which follow
ed it: that Of New England, awhish tended to
centralize power, and that of Virginia, which
decentralized power. The one eperoached on
State rights; the other restrained the encroaeh-
ment. Under the contention, New England,
with her personal liberty bills and higher law,
alarmed the South; and the South, in return,
pushed her Interpretation into actual and vio-
lent secession. New England got her advan-
Etages in the Constitution, for yielding its pro-
lection to slavery. They were commercial
and profitable: She his yet her tariffs and
She has ever made the most out OF
the Federal Union. When she was called on
to make sacrifices, as insthe wars of this coun
try, she was 10th to make thcm.4 There are
uOH 1O,OOV 0CScIlCEo tAS u1dSo3CAuoCbS
regiments. She forgot her hatred of State
Rights in the late war with Great Britain
Her Hartford Convention was called to en-
dorse the policy of Governor Strong, of Mas
sachusetts, that no forcible draft, eonscriptions
or impressments should be made by the Gene
raj Government upon the States. That Gov
ernor refused to aecede to the Presidents re-
QUESTION for troops, to be used by the Presi-
dent in a war against England, which he
could not approve. This. smaks somewhat vf
the late conduct of Governor Andrew, when
he sought to impose conditions as to troops in
the present conflict. 1t can be proved that
the famous Hartford Convention was a seces-
sion body. Its address urged that "some new
form of Confederaey should be substituted
among those States which shall intend to
maintain a Federal relation to each 6ther;"
and concluded with the usual Puritanic appeal
to ga higher authority than any earthly gov
eminent can claim" Later, in the Mexican
War, We knew how prompt tie Puritans were
to seek a refuge from national duty in the doc
trine of Peace and Disun;on; we know how
Charles Sumner had found theifstrue guardeur
of nations" to consist in arbitration and peace
under every possible condition of things; and
how the press and the poets of New England
laughed at the sergeant of the United States
when he beat for recruits. By pasquinade and
pulpit, tho war was discouraged and enlist
ments checked. But now, when the present
war is to be carried on against the South; when
Puritanism is to be gratifed by the death of
slavery /: when the nation is rocked by the
throes of civil, and not foreign war, tire
same old vindictive in tolcranca is aroused
which made the early Puritan so Infamous.
There is aroused the same desire to confs
cate which changed the red men into sooty
devils, that the Saints might enter in
and possess the lands of the Pequods, and
the same arrogant assumption of intellect is
quickened which will never cease till it.sas-
sassinates the Republic. ls Ets l 40
New England may thrive for awhile on the
war contracts, which keep her people busted
and money plentiful. Sc long as this seeming
prosperity is kept up, Ter cry for slavery ex-
termination will be loud. But a day of reck-
oning is near at hand. Her insane propagan-
dism from the press and pulpit. is working out
its fruits. The people in the last elections
have expressed their detestation of her doc
trincs. zEven-the people of New England,
from Maine to Connecticut, will begin to re-
consider their position. The popular verdict
it not yet fully Needed at v a%shington. The
infatuation of Congress continues. But the
government and its administrator have felt
the shock, and "a dead lock, political and mill
|tary, is the result. Nontesquieu has well
described cur condition.: "There is in
every nation a general public spirit upon
which power itself is founded. When that
power shocks that public spirit, the shock is
communicated to itself, and it necessarily
comes to a stand STILL" Confscations and
Proclamations have produced this terrible par
alysis of the State Applause
When the people arouse from this terrible
condition, ard fully realize what it is and who
are its authors, the anathema against the per-
1fdious PARTICLES of the North will hardly be
less than that which followed the violence of
the southern traitors against the majority of
the nation. (Ckecrs.) Let tn. G%recleys and
Phillipses look we!lto their necks in that hour
of ritribution. (Applause.)
In conclusion, Democrats of New York, you
have traced with me the footprints in history
of this inyeterate foe to our Democracy, the
Puritanism of New England. You have seen
its bitter waters gushing in the wilderness