The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1866-02-17

! WOED To ''EX USo. If Nr Tx | 40.
Who appears to be writing about the "Puri-
tanS,'' or Pilgrim Fathers or something o.
tia: sort, in the Ottawa Republican, taxes
any particular pleasure in such a copious
elilux Of words, we know OF no reason why
We should object to his INDUCING his infrrnity
al iaf!ittm ct nauscum, if Brother Perkins
caa stand it E: but we mus: object to bis doing
It under color OF minimizing q controversy
with tine F.Ec TRADER. We made bu. two
points abou. the Puritans lst, that they
attempted to abolish Christmas; aud %,
that. Judging them by the local laws they
enacted for the government of the Massa-
chasctts Bay Colony, ,h-y ha! no claim to
be ca!el the founders OF civil and religious
freedom in this countr-. In proof OF these
statements, we copied from the Bay State
Colonial Laws, referring 10 chapter, page,
&c, section, ia which the observance OF
Christmas is prohibited or abolished in
ter.ns aud we copied another clause from
,he same detachable !e, III which not emily
all civil rights and privilege are denied to
persons not belonging % their own peculiar
(very p ,cuiiar) religious sect, bu: the most
dire and barbarous puni54meuts are de-
n0unced against them. We understand Eek
Uno" to admit that these quotations settle
The points We have made. The Pertains, he
says, were certainly opposed to the obsery-
ance of Christmas and Saints days, and he
admits that they opposed liberation :" and
we submit that there can be no more civil
than religions liberty in q community where
civil rights are with 5eld on account Of rcl-
gi1as opinion. "Ex Uno' having made
these admissions, we have nothing more TO
say. As to sGch extraneou5 matter rs our
mistaken chronology in landing the Pilgrims
on Plymouth Rock after the Restoration in
1860: and as to how much love or hate
existed between the Puritan and the Dutch
Parsons, and as 10 the sweet amity that
cO'one, in this country, we are willing that
Eek Uno" shall have his own way and own
say about it wholly, and we shall disput,
none OF his authOrities-not even that of
Diedr!ch kIicherbocker, who, we believe,
has some interesting chapters on the subject.
The closing part Of his Last lecture, where
Tx UnoH talks about the ..bowing'. that
trust be done to the spirit of Pari,anism
by the South, strikes us as an imitation { n
the way monkey sometimes initiates an
elephant.) Of the Toombs style of cracking
his whip in Congress br!ore the rebellion.
President Johnson says Toon5s represented
one extreme, which the Government has
crushed; but ''moving around the circle of
the Urion,' we find counterpart, or
duplicate. of that extreme; winch is equally
fatal 10 the peace of the Nation, and it too
must get out OF the way The Govern.
nent mu,t be preserved" We have Il flint
premOnition that the time is 1T hand when
this bowling, and scraping, and ''bobbing" to
New England tanaticism, bigotry, intolerance
and greed will grow less very rapidly and
beautifully scarce.
If you don't like Puritanisn, and can't
possibly stand it, yoa see the door, sir.
Mexico is open yet "Abhorrence or no
adherence, this bowling must be done occa
sionally-" &c.
This sort Of buster and bullying At the