Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1865-01-06

The burden Of our heart.
Abide with MS dear Lord, remain. t
Our Life, our Truth, our Way,
So shall our loss bsturned TO gain
Night dawn 10 endless day. ~ fG
From the Independsni- ~
PLYMOUTH ROCK AND JAMESTOWN.
BY REV THEo. L. cUTLER
The stupendous conflict now waging is clos
ing-up of the two hundred years of antagonisD
between jamestown and Plymouth Rock The
seeds Of that strife which has stained the soil Of
Gettysburg and Chattanooga we're sOwnin 1920
In that year a company Of people, who would
not have filed the cabin of Brooklyn ferry
boat, landed ON the rock of Plymouth. In that
same year, a SLAYER landed her cargo If nineteen
bondmen at jamestown, in Virginia. These
two vessels contained the germs Of the contend
ing systems of civilization. Two radically hos
tile principles came out of those cabin-dOors, 10
compete for the possession and sway of this vast
country.
The Plymouth pilgrims, before they left the
Mayhower, formed themselves into CHRISTIAN
DEMOCRACY, @knit together in strict and sacred
bond, by virtue Of which they bound themselves
to take care of the good of each other, and of the
lohoIs." Hele was the seed-corn of a republic.
Those Puritans had purpose-itwas TO estab-
ganic life, which expanded settlement after set
dement, added farm to farm, school to school,
village TO village-which went on with ak and
plough In its hands, and the law of God in its
heart until a mighty Christian democracy stood
Up ia the light Of heaven, with cunning in its
ten fingers and the strength of Hercules in its
right arm" That organic life of Plymouth
Rock lives to-day; nay, it was never more Wig
Orous than now Miles Standish lives to day
=. a. -.lo II. EfJos
works to-day in the "Christian Commission -
The Puritan idea is to-day the corps of the Re-
public. II binds, like an- invisible nerve, The
union of the states. IL pioneers, with free labor,
the Christian civilization ofthe West 1t plants
the common school on every hillside, and ed
acstes Judges aud presidents the benches of
the common people. lG rings its Sabbath pells
on every hilltop, and trains missionaries for
every cline; its free labor gives them bread and
bibles
"Itheeds no skeptie's ppny hand tfe,-t
While its school the church spre stands,
Nor fears the bigot's blinded rule svel5f.
While near the church spire stands the school"
In short, it is the world's best Christian de-
mocracy yet realized; the Constitution Of 1889
is its chart, and the Word of God, as in the out
set, has been taken as its compass. On the side
of this Christian democracy Gods providence is
working on its side are divine justice, human
progress, the ecoDomic laws of society, the eDer-
gies of free labor. and the instructive sympathies
of the world s true men, like Garibaldi, Kossuth,
aud John Bright The "stars in their courses"
fight for Plymouth Rock. - t'a
Look now at JdnestoloB in its birth, and at
jamestown in the mOnstFous oligarcby of rebel
slave holders 70 which il has expanded. James,
town was settled by men whom Capt. John
Smith (of Poeahontas memory pronounced ut
ter @vagabonds;;" and of those who came in af-
ter them the proportion Of superior, God-fearing
men was small But # the whole South had
been eolonized by leaders as pure as Oglethorpe
and by people as virtuous as the South Carolina
Hugueuots, it would have been impossible for
them to have reared a permanent, prosperous, 1
religious state q basis of falsehood and ipjus-
tice jamestown bottomed civil government on
a lie! 1t went counter TO God and the best in
stincts of Humanity from the start. Instead of a
Christian democracy, it built up feudal aris-
tocracy, in which one insolent section of society
OIoned the ignorant remainder. The outcome
of Jamestown has been an uncontrolled despO-
tism welded by a compact oligarchy. Fed by
the enforced toii of 1000 900 Of slaves, it ruled
another 100000 Of abject, degraded whites, the
tools of its unholy ambition and now the mate
rial of its insurgent armies. A more dangerous
organism of society the world never saw. Hap
PLY, the seeds of death we're born In the mon
cradle in that slaVe-sbips hole.
Plymouth Rock pitched its tents on the cold
hillsof New England and beside the shores of
the Great Lakes It has attracted the emigra-
ton of the Old World, and to-day is 20,000,000
strong. jamestown chose for its inheritance
the magnificent S0uth-a garden-spot such as
Alexander never dreamed of such as Napoleon
never conquered in his MONDAY Of might. But
from that superb region slavery has repelled
nearly every emigrant footstep; the rich acres
ofthat region slavery s wretched agriculture has
deprecated to an average value of eiqh dollars
while Ohio and Illinois command an average
price of twenty-five. Plymouth Rock has
stretched out its long arm and taken possession
of the golden treasurechests of the Pacific cslope.
To-day, bankrupt jamestown is glad to barter
handful of its uncurrent currency for a solitary
gold dollari Plymouth Rock closes not one
college, and calls not home one foreign mission
airy, while she is subduing the most gigantic
rebellion of the age. She manufactures her own
guns, clothes her own million of soldiers builds
her own inyincible fleets. jamestown smuggles
her petty navy o,d of foreign port, and all her
implements made by skilled labor into her own
single blOckaded harbor. Slaverys indolent
contempt of free labor has left the South the
single breathing hole" Of Wilmington: and
Farragut's iron hand can strangle that at one
gripe.
1t was always with lazy, short-witted
jamestown; too insolent to labor, she never
learned the use of a tool, and hung upon keen
witted, hard-toiling Plymouth Rock for every
product of skilled labor. A frank Carolinian
made the bitter confession; "In infancy we are
swaddled in Northern muslin, and humored
with Northern toys; IN youth We are instructed
out of Northern school books; in the decline of
life we remedy our eyesight with Northern
spectacles, and support our infirmities with
Northern canes. When we die our inanimate.
bodies shrouded in Northern cambria, are borne
10 the grave in Northern carriage entombed
with Northern spade and memorized with
Northern slab. He might have added that
Plymouth Rock would yet plant over the grave
Of this ungodly rebellion one of its own purest
marbles, and inscribed thereon, Died by the uis-
itatioR Of God and the blo1oS Of Christian deBeoc-
rgcy., The heavens fought against them; the
stars IL their courses fought against Sisera.
Now here are but few of the radical differ
enees between Plymouth Rock, led by Abra-
ham Lincoln and Jamestown, narshaled for its I
fOrlorn fight by Davis and his ofigarchy On |
one side, Justice; on the other, oppression. On |
one slde Tree labor; on the other, the slovenly !
slave. On one side, the majesty of free govern |
ment on the other, secession aud anarcby. On
the one side christian democracy; on fhe 9th |
er, an insOlent oligarchy and an ignorant popu- |
lace. On one side, might and right; on the 9TH
er, wrong and ruin. On one side, enlightened
progress and missionary evangelization; on the |
other side the lazy luxury of the plantation and
the bafbarism of the bowie knife. On the one
side, Christian charity, that feeds and clothes
enemy while in prison: on the other side. The
vindictive horrors ofthe Libby" of Belle Isle,
and Of Fort Pillow.
Whoesn doubt the final result? Who fears
that jamestown can vanquish Plymouth Rock?
Even in the still atmosphere of peace, James
town was a rotten tree. that stood alone simply /
because no arm shook it, but woe to the worm
eaten rottenness when the gales of popular lib
erty and the lightnings Of divine wrath are
launched against it in the ~terror of their glory"