The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-11-19

EngIHnd1, asilateas tile m1ddle OF fh e
eighteenth century JsandI the 6aeettishi
secedefs denounced the rbpeaf of the
penaliIaws against iwitcheraftias a'naT
Dtional sin, in l743, and reprinted their
protest as late as If6@. siEhe last eXe-a
cutions Of witchesin England were in
1716 and 1722savo sEsa 10 a2azsaI ad1 q
: fn 1862 three witches were haifgnd
at Hartford, Connecticut. baButaa few
instances, however, occur in America, q
till 316S8,g #hefia awomanwas RNeented
IN Boston, and Richard 10 BaEteTUTaDte
an aeeottnt thereof declaring chat any
one refusing to believe in FIvitedGcTaft,C
was an obstinateslSa ad'dueeesndhsil6 1882,
the epilepsy prevailed aiin MassgGhnz
'sefts, breaking outin Salem; ahdsaas
the physicians could heithepE&xplain
or cure the disease, .tsWa5daseribed to
witeRefaft9! Uolaiaenoingatl SaIeing it
spread through Ee#o England; and
for months esceifest ofd blood, bterrefsi
and madness, prevafled,o9Nounga wo7l
men were tie fffstahdano stnumeroRs,
victims. nFwentyieightJ persons were
capilally convicted, of'Mhom min eteeii'
were hung, eandq one pressed death
for refusing to plead. .aaOne hundred
and fifty PERSONS ~ ~ereiiiH prisonn ON
charges, and two hundreddotllers pre-
sented for Indictment At this period
Of tie deIusiony the wife 6fiGoVelnor
Phfpps,, the Il nearest orelatites- of ;DIa
Mather, and d citizen Of Boston, .mepe
accused ,of w,iteheraft!! naEhe aecusers
Were T 2asTtea 2arsrestaH f6f d6faiatioft sat the
Suit suit of the Boston citizen, eandwonel
thousand pounds claimed as damages
fhee spIefl was broReiit; and at the next
assiz1eI Ei1eeI fifty ptisotierrs were tried; ionlE
three we were con1vieted, and theseWere
in1hnje lately pardo 10y the sGoEern=
of. ,o31L5 Z -o1 9HoY gsTsu nliIifu
In june 1858, am assembly of dit
Vines so1emiffly 'declaredyF MTirat the
apparitions ofLpefboas' afaieting 9TH
ers, was was no proof of4heirfbeing witch+
ess ess;'' and and aai spectral FHe9fdelibeiRqgwas
not regarded as sufficient to- convict,
by sjuTrfes2.i dBde'a large portionnof the
people still believed that she nlecent
miialady7 was as : caused, iii Iaet,i oby witch
Craft, ;" and Or: Mather wrote a 'treat-
ise in support of the same opinion.--
Sir William Phipps2, however, ordered
all persons to be released ON, charges
Of witherfaifttt, lind, pafd9ned alb who
had par articipatgd,# as accuse4,s orii wit
-nesses, III the late Prosecutions, The
House of Assembly appointed gen
eral fast and DsoIetnnn ssuppl
"that God would PARTON all the errors
fof his servants and people iuisa late
Tragedy raised among usiby Satan and
his Instruments THUS iendedi the
witchcraft delusion. 1aHaiIq Egiu9m
In 1886 the first Episcopal Society
| was formed in; Massachusetts land the
first Episcopal chapel was erected in
1885,. The first Quaker Meeting house
| waais; built in B3ostoa; In Ito. . Mass
was first performed in Boston, iby a
Roman Catholic priest in 179S and
the church built for the FrenchuRfo-
lltestants, who fed from Catholic perse-
icutfon, was the same ishurch that tre-
ceived the Roman f Catholics who fled
from the Jacobins of France ;1a5. ..5 !
~ Cotton Mathef, the son of Increase
Mather, wrote 392 works. of all sorts.
Over his stHdy!door was inscribed,
1"Be short" Grahame,n the historian,
says that, hat according to Quincy, the
9fathers, although strong minded and
freally pfous, were sometimes 9co1-
rupted by andeep vein of passionate
vanity and abstlrdity!nsbi r29d ot1e.
91Ih 1856, Cotton Mather said thatthe
Rhode Island Colony wasas colluNies
fCa sink) OF. 9Antim onians, y Famalists
I tAnabaptists,, i Aiti-sabbatarians; OAR,
menians, Socinians, Quakers, Ranters
and, everything but Roman Catholics
and true Christ sttiiaps5zb zb0ozd 81 ! terra, ma.
hus, gems "a good land and wicked
lpeople. The town, of Providence was
Inhabited by. the ,schismatics. who fol
lowed Roger, Williams and Anne
/ Hutchinson in exile !, and in 1865 there
/ was. neither a, magistrate nor minis
ifter in the town, A All civil and eccIesi
astical functionaries- who refused to
q, !
serve for nothing without pay were
called hirelings. ~, It. IN ,'''Y
..tM Maryland was "a the first Of the
American j i N States, in which religious
j tqleratiion was ESTABLISHED BY law.
] Lord Baltimore proc that relig
j gious liberation should be the funda;
mental principle, IF the tCo1onial SO
cial union; and the, As!sS}s@esmllb1y, il
4 I649, mostly j Roman q manIli,fC{ Catholics, de
4 clared and ordained III that t. no Pefsol
/ protesting gg,tto to, beliisYe in Jesus Chris
should be matelestedr mate d on ACCOUNT Of. hi
! faith, OF denied 4, the, the free exercise 9
his mode 'of offw worship sP5Ip ., At {, this Il sam
time the, PHriittfanls Hl1ritfalnls were prosecuting
their Protestapgtt pgtt5b}FEset5hhleeql brethren in New Eng
land and az dll!fal the lEPiisc0Pa!iiaps, ri y; i Of VII
ginia, iperseeHntiippgg the IlfP fPqritans Will
Catholic Maryland 9YYll'alnl4dd was q saicfqarf al6q
a for the refugees Of ali determination
Of 0f Christians, the place where. Protes
taRts sought u IlYe914pg refuge from the Pro
4 testanttsf gA4AlpFYd And ,Pf aPffterward these Pro
testant ef refugees. sought the abrogatiol
, of the Catholic worship and religion
: / liberation in Maryland, and effected j
| by legal enactment in 1654t sE"
t In 1866 and passed the. frs
laW in the Prey IR2lE5o2Ein1ces for the natural
i zationvof aliens, alinlI Il was p, statute q
Queen EizaPeth, the e. first f Yho YY5hbf.inI intro
: Educed the practice of ttrraPp8siportiTn, i,
fslonss t9.oYTginiaq, Chief iisf Il yustie
n lPopham being an alnl5A Ame6Gipan pe68YaI proprie
1rb btars suggested it and dyesiglniaqtt}ed Nel
4Io A I,