Clarksville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1865-1867, 1867-04-05
The Puritans their own Parallel.
From the Philadelphia Age.

from the Philadelphia Age.
The history of England and the Puritans
affords an illustration OF Radicaism when
triumphant, which is applicable to our coun-
try at the present time, and the party by
which II is governed In Liugard, Vol. XII,
chap. ], will be found the following remark
able passage Abiding to the contest which
eaded in placing Cromwell upon the throne,
"During tho war, the dread Of retaliation
had taught the two pafties 10 temper with
moderation she license of victory. Little
blood had been shed except in the field OF
battle. But now that check was removed
The fanatics, not satisfied with the death OF
the king, demanded, with the Bible in their
hands, additional victims. II was in vain
that Hamilton pleaded the order OF the
Scottish Parliament, under which he had
acted, that CapeI demanded to be brought
before his peers, or jury of his couutrymen
according to those fundamental laws which
the Parliament had promised to maintain -
that alt invoked the national faith in favor OF
that quarter which they had obtained at the
time of their surrender
Throughout the kingdom, the lower
classes loudly complained of the burthen oI
taxation; 10 several parts they suffered un-
der the pressure of famine. In Lancashire
and Westmoreand numbers pershed through
want, and 1t vas certified by the magistrate
Of Cumberland that thirty thousand families
in that county "hid neither seed nor bread
corn, nor the means Of procuring either."--
But that which chiefly created alarm wa.
the progress made among the military by the
" Jewellers" men of consistent principles and
uncompromising conduct under the guidance
of Col. j. Lilburne, an officer distinguished
by his talents, his eloquence and his courage
Lilburne, with his friends, had long cherish
ed suspicion that Cromwell, lreton and
Harrison sought only their private aggran-
disement under the mantle Of patriotism
and the recent changes had converted this
suspicion into conviction. They observed
that the same men ruled without control In
the general council of officers, and that, II
their determination was afterwards adopted by
the House, ii was only that II might go forth
to the public under the pretended sanction
of the representatives Of the nation; that
the council Of the Sate had been vested
with powers more absolute and oppressive
than had ever been exercised by the late
king and that the high court of justice had
been established by the party for the pur-
pose Of depriving their victims of those rem
edies which would be afforded by the ordi.
nary courts
This was the manner in which the FORE
fathers Of New hngland Puritans acted after
power had been placed in their hands by the
revolution which led to execution of Charles
l., and the exile of his son. They declared,
when commencing and prosecuting the war
that it was to give Englishmen their rights
under the fundamental law of the realm
But when the war ended they disregarded
the law, aud instituted a tyranny 20 intoler-
able that in eleven years the monarchy was
re-established, aud the Puritans were driven
from the country. The Puritsn Radicals
OF our country are following in the track o.
their 6igoted and intolerant ancestors. They
are demanding more victims, depressing the
people with taxation bringing famine upon
the land by uuwise and ,yrannical laws AND
"depriving their victims Of remedies which
would be afforded by the ordinary courts O.
law Will the end of American Puritan
ism be similar to that in England? Who car
tell7