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PUR1TANs THEIR own PARALLEL

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The history of England and the Purltans al
fordsa illustration Of Radicallsm triumphant
which is applicable tu our country at the pres
ent time, and the party by which lG is governed.
In Lngard, Vol XI, chap. ], will be found the
following remarkable passage Abiding to
the contest which ended in placing Cromwell
upon the throne, he says
"Dnring the war, the dread of retaliation
had taught the two parties TO temper with
moderation the license of victory. Little
blood had been shed except in the field of bat
tie. 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. 1t was in vain that Ham,
ilton pleaded the order Of the Scottish Parlia-
ment, under which he had acted that Cap,l
demanded to be brought before his peers, or a
jury of his cOuntrymen, according to those
fundamental laws which the Parliament had
promised to maintain; that all invoked the
national faith in favor of that quarter which
they had obtained at the time OF their sur
render.
"ThrnughOut the kingdom, the lower classes
loudly complained st the burthen of taxation
10 several parts they suffered under the pres
sure of famine. In Lancashire and West
moreland numbers persisted through want, and
it was certified by the magistrate Of Cumber-
land that thirty thousand families in that c0un
ty s.had neither seed nor bread corn, nor the
means nf procuring either" But that which
chiefly created alarm was the progress made
among the military by the Jewellers" men of
consistent principles aud uncOmpromising con-
duct, under the gnidance0f Col. John Li4burne,
an officer distinguished BY his talents his elo-
quence and his courage. Lilburne, with his
friends, had long cherished suspicion that
Comwel, IretOn and Harrison sought only
their private ACKNOWLEDGEMENT under the mantle
Of patriotism, and the reeentchanges had COIL
verted this suspicion into conviction. They
observed that the same men ruled without
controlin the general council of officers, and
that, if their determination was afterwards |
adopted by the House, it was only that it
might go forth to the public under the pre-
tended sanction of the representatives of the |
nation; that the council Of State had been
vested with powers more absolute and OPP
pressive 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 RENE
dies which would be afforded by the ordinary
courts Of law
This was the manner in which the fore
fathers OF New England PuFitans acted after
power had been placed in their hands by the I
revolution whichled to the execution of Charles !
l., and the exile OF his sou. They declared, I
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,
and instituted a tyranny SO intolerable that in
eleven years the monarchy was reestablished,
and the Puritans were driven from the eoun
try. The Puritan Radicals of our country are
following in thu track OF their bigoted and in
tolerant ancestors They are demanding more
victims, depressing the people with taxation,
bringing famine upon the land by unMise and
tyrannical laws, and "depriving their victims
Of remedies which would be afforded by the
ordinary courts of law" Will the end of
American Patriotism be similar to- that in
England? Who can tell 2-Piiiadelphia Age.