Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1864-05-04
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We see an effort on foot to degrade
the pure negro blood of the Southern
slave by mixing it with that of the Puri.
tan. God forbid that this should ever
happen. | want the Puritan stock TO re-
main unregenerated and confined to the
New England States, to devil each other
as they have always managed to devil the
rest of the world. They raised a row in
England, couldn't live in Holland, came
to America ''for freedom to worship God
and had scarcely landed before they were
cheating Indians and hanging Quakers,
n banishing Baptists, and go il will ev-
er be. If the Mayhower and her sisters
had gone to the bottom of the sea, the
world would have been rid of the worst
element Of meanness, fsnaticism, and dis.
cord which has ever existed
MEssRs. EDIToRs;-The above extract is
going the roundso Of our press credited to a
'Chivalric," correspondent of the Rich
mond Enquirer. Now, though a descen-
dant of the Puritan Stock,"I feel no
disposition to excuse any of their religious
intolerance-an intolerance that has per
vaded all religious sects, to a greater or
less extent, since the world began. But
/ do feel the spirit moving me TO offset
the indictment above with a fac of the
sets OF the ~"chivalry" of the present day,
of the South. promising that whereas the
people of New England have 50 far pro-
crossed as to look with horror upon some
Of the deeds of their forefathers Of $50
yesrs ago. The South has 30 rapidly pro-
crossed in its career towards bsrbarism,
Ihst even the spirit of Cotton Mather
would stand sghsst at the contrast.
1t was not the Puritan of the 18th, but
the chivalry ofthe 18th century that hung,
imprisoned and scourged people for be-
lieving that 'of one blood God created sill
the nations of the earth" Il was not the
New Englanders that inflicted, with re-
morseless hand, unheard of cruelties up-
on those guilty of i~nstructing the poor
and needy to read the Bible. 1t was not
the descendants of the Puritans who i'm
prisoned the missionaries among the In
dams of Georgia, some thirty years ago.
It wss not the descendants Of the early
settlers of New England that cheated"
the Indians of Georgia and Florida, and
drove them from their country at the
point Of the bsyonet. 1t was not the de-
scendants of the Puritsns that hung the
ministers of the II. E. Church, in Mis-
souri,, at the commencement of the pres
ent rebellion. That specimen of higher
and slsve-holding civilization could only
be properly performed by the "chivalTy-"
IT'S not the people of New England who
rob the laborer of his hire" scourge his
wife, and sell his children. Neither is it
they who sell a man slave away from bis
wife, and place a part of the proceeds in
the missionary box for the benefit of the
Aeathen far away. Such deeds of trans
cendant humanity belong only to the
F'chivalry 20
You will perceive that this train of COM
parison may be pursued al infnitEmy with
no particular credit 10 the "chivalry;'
my object is accomplished when ! have
set the mind of the reader at work. Ev-
cry one at all converssnt with the char
acteristics of the people North and South,
can fill out the chapter. Yours, &c.
A. W. P.