Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1865-01-26
PURITANs VS.. CAVALIERS.

1T has been the fashion, OF late years, tor
the Democratic orators and presses to de-
preciate and vilify New England and New
England people There has hardly Been a
paper published in that interest, or a speech
made by the Democracy, that did not as
sault the defendants of the Puritans These
attacks are mere rehashes of the diatribes
of TooMBs and RHETT and YANCEY made at a
time when it was fashionable for the Slave
lords to air their plantation manners " in
the halls of Congress The idea has even
been broached by these toadies to Southern
influence, of separation from the New Eng
land States, by the Middle States, for the
purpose Of joining our lot with the Slave
holders.
The Patriot and Union, (the Democratic
State organ) we recollect, in the midst of
an article squirting towards Reputation
of New England, spoke sneeringly- of the
" Maw70uer landing her pestilent cresU upon
Plymouth Rock" Which impudent sentence,
might have been appropriate to the columns
Of the Richmond Inquirer, but was sadly
out of place in newspaper printed in the
North, and circulating in part at least,
amongst the defendants of those 'pestilent
fellows who were unfortunate enough to be
passengers on board the Mayfower.
We noticed lately in Democratic news
paper, the old charge made that the Puri,
tans sold their slaves to the South Now,
whilst there is not particle of evidence in
the United States to prove this charge, it is
perhaps not amiss to quote from prominent
copperhead leader on the subject Judge
WOODWARD says, that the New England
States were the first to abolish the slave
trade and slavery, and that Pennsylvania
soon followed in their footsteps in the
Judges able address against the horrors OF
slavery, he gives Massachusetts the first
honors He says, "that State not only a
bolished slavery, but passed lar pr0hibit
ing the buying or selling Of SIaces' This is
pretty good proof of the consistency of the
Puritan fathers. and we honor their descen
dants for the efforts they have made in the
cause of freedom, education and science
In the Revolutionary war Massachusetts
sent $4,000 soldiers to the field, while Soutl
Carolina, of nearly equal population sent
SIR thousand, and it required more than this
force to keep down the tories Of that State
rbn f,riou thon ba+a1 Massachusetts, I
the traitors of to-day pour out their intensi
fled wrath on the good State. In the eyes
of the copperheads, the New England peo
pie are all base born, and in their tastes
low and groyelng, while the Southern folks
are the chivalry, and all honor and intelli
gence. 1t is a historical fact, not gainsay
ed by any intelligent candid man, that il
the early settlement of the country, the
Puritans came to the rock-bound shores ot
New England to enjoy religious freedom
bringing their wives and daughters will
them, while the adventurers who settled
the Southern States came without families
Some were exported thither for crimes, un
der these circumstances wives were scarce
in the early settlement of the South, anC
the mother country, very considerably
shipped large number of young women tt
these new colonies and exchanged them fol
tobacco Each young women had parish
certificate of health and good character
70 all this we hage no objection but the
descendants of Puritan mothers justly think
they have as honorable national parent
age, as chivalry, and bloods of the South
whose mothers were a tobacco trade
If any reader has allowed himself to be
lieve the somewhat popular delusion, thai
the shareholders of the South are the descen
dants of the ChiFalry, we refer them to the
extracts from the lecture of Hon. CHARLES
SUMNER, published on our outside He dis
poses most effectually of the false and high
flown pretensons of the women-whipping
Chiyalry, by showing that their progenitors
where the scuIa apd refuse of England
exported to the colonies to rid the mother
country of their presence. "Pestilent
criminals, dissolute adyenturers, and young