The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-09-07
Pen Portrait of the Purltans.


The ''saints on earth"-and they oil
live in Massachusetts-are thus photo
graphed by the Portsmouth On. II. States
and Union. If the picture is not too true
to life to suit, hang it up in the gallery of
your admiration
about every violent, wicked or illegal
act of our times originated in Massachu
setts. The majority in that State arc a
race of Bodlamites, unfit to live anywhere
except on some isolated island away from
oil contact with the rest of mankind, and
if they could be either transported to such
place, or all piled upon hugo raft, tow
cd out to mid-ocean and sunk, it would be
better for this country and the world. A
more impractible, crazy, factious, dictato-
rial, selEconceited, brainless set God nev.
er created. Every public act of their
lives proves it. They elevate any and ev-
cry sort of political aud moral standard
of conduct and government, jump upon it.
shout 'all aboard, and put off under full
head of steam, fixing and rattlng away,
as though they were the summuns boaWm
of all creation, and bid the rest of the
world clear the track, or get run over and
ground to powder. Everybody venturing
to oppose them, or even question their alb
solute right in all cases and respects what
soever, is cursed as barbarian, branded
as an outlaw or guillotined as culprit in
the discretion of their bloated sovereign.
ty. They were evidently never designed
to live with, or in proximity to the rest of
the human race, because their natures are
too turbulent and quarrelsome to permit
a respectable equilibrium of society
Their ancestors were both political and re-
ligious fanatics, always in ro with some
body, and never at perfect peace with
anybOdy, not even with themselves
These creatures of our day have inherit
ed all the instincts, all the passions and
coneeits of their fathers aud mothers of
the early Puritan history, and actually
succeed in keeping our whole country in
a state of demoniac confusion, either by
powers usurped, or by immoral examples
which stimulate the dread and hatred of
all the rest not totally subject to the de-
bauehment of their influence. Their
original politics was the purest toryism,
which, being overcome, appeared later in
: Federalism, enemies of the country in all
wars against foreign foe, aud dissemina-
tors of sedition everywhere. They burn
ed witches and Quakers, whipped Bap-
fists through the street because they did
not like that kind of religion, hunted aud
prosecuted everybody who ventured to cx-
ercise the rights of free thought and ex-
preston, got up one or two rebellions,
nullIied their own voluntary compact
: with other States. shot down United States
officers In the public streets for attempt
ing to execute the laws enacted by the
votes Of their own representatives, In Con-
gress, armed John Brown raiders aud
sent them bowling and numbering into
: other jurisdictions, voted to dissolve the
Union on the Texas question, permitted
the public burning of the Constitution Of
our country, and settled life estate upon
the traitor who perpetrated the deed,
preached treason and disunion continu.
ally down to 1860, and since that time in.
dulged spasm of patriotism which Is
the rankest and bloodiest treason ever con.
ceiyed and born in earth or hell. They
tried Know -Nothingism and Native Amer.
icanism, and burnt the Catholic Convent
at Charlestown to crafty their miserable
l spirit of intolerance and persecution
5 They constructed the negro hobby, jump
ed aboard, beloved for freedom and uni
; versal liberty, inaugurated a crusade
against the South: concocted and set in
motion causcless, bloody, internal. frat
2 ricidal war, broke up the Union, turned
! one-half of the country into an 'organizet
I hell with powers of expansion over the
other half, and now rejoice in the success
e of their diabolical schemes"