Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1872-02-21
NEW SERIES--V0L. I3, NO. 8.


II is not possible for Puritan to
live without hating something or
somebody. Purilanism and hatred
arc synonymous terms. No sooner
had the Purilans secured footing on
tho bleak and rocky coast Of Massa.
chusotts, than they Illuminated the
most furious and vindicligo paper
edicts against the Roman Catholics,
Notwithstanding there were none of
that terrible creed within hundred
miles Of them,- a very great ways in
those days. Hoidaysand saints days
were prohibited ; so was tho great
festival Of all true Christians, Christ.
mas day, but the cute ones, knowing
the yearning Of the human heart for
fixed days Of recreation and pleasure,
and tho gnawings of their pie tistic
maws, conceived the plan Of conse.
Grating an illegitimate shadow Of
Christmas, and therefore they estab.
lished an annual carnival for gIuttons,
and called it Thanksgiving day. God,
forgive them Sacred TO sectarians,
for that one day they gormandized on
fat turkey, plump pullets, clam stews.
sweet cider and pumpkin pies. Church
cdiiccs were of course to be no more
forever; but meetin' houses, shaped
like hen coops, were put up in thoir
places, in which the faithful grunted
and groaned and slobbcred to tbeir
hearts content, over sermons embody.
ing nothing but political hatred and
reprobating anything like religion
love and fellowship. Church organs
were forbidden and the bass viol aud
violin were mathematical, while
nasaltwanged psalmody was the only
music, sacred or secular, tolerated by
the sanciiicd saints OF tho Puritan
Utopia.
We advise our Baptist friends Ia
be on the lookout for these Puritan
ecclesiaslic constitutionalists. They
will recolcct that when their ances
tors dissented from the bigotry Of the
pure May Flower blood, they were
driven to the wilderness, at the mercy
OF the heretofore iuotfensivc Indians
rendered mercilcss by the inhumar
treatment of the rascally Purilans
Quakers, though the most quiet, in
dustrious and unobirusive of all Tho
sccts, mildly tincturcd with Puritan
ism, were then burned at the stake
A religious amendment may again en-
danger some of them, for these fanat
les have lett old scores to settle with
their descendants. A ianaticsm that
could in primativo days declare an
old woman, who could not consecu.
tively subscribe 20 all their follics, a
witch, and hang her outright, car
find plenty of dcviilry to do now il
the namc of tho Lord, if they only
have the Constitution to endorse
them. Our Episcopaian friends, whose
ancestors found their way into the
colony, and there found themselves
fined, whipped, imprisoned aud ban
shcd, for no other reason than thai
they loved TO read The prayer boob
and worship God according to The
rites of their fathers, who were gen
tlenon. should takc caro- that som,
seemingly unimportant phrase in th'
great charter of civil and religious
liberty docs not again subject them L
the same triding inconvenicnccs
While we are convinced thnt th'
free and unrostrained worship Of God
10 accordance with the dictates o
every ones conscience, would be ma
lerially interrupted shonld those Pu
ri,an fanatics get things their owl
way, wo do not hesitate in sayin!
that the grand object OF those who ar
at present engaged in the attempt [,
cngrart God into the Constitution ar
actuatcd by a spirit of Jealousy an
hate towardsa large aud respectabl
religious denomination, the Romai
Catholics, which, according to late
day Pnritanism, is the sum Of adj vi
lainics and cannot bc brought int
tnc Puritan limos simply because til
, Catholic church is not II worldly com
: modify. 1t socks no interference i
) New England morals. Why shoal
New England interfere with itY Th
! right of every religious sect TO th
free mud unrcstraincd enjoyment OF il
+ worship, is n sacred guarantee OF th
American Constitution, and IL is
right which cannot be violated will
out wounding the very heart o
t American liberty To attempt t
abridge this right, in any way, is uo
, American. 1t is tho worst kind q
: forcignism. Ills 0rangcsm let loos'
! and raging like a foul devil on Amer
can soil.
: Tho order of United American Nc
, chanics--U. A. Nissan order com
posed Of pardoncd preachers default
ing bank officers, illitcs9tc school mas
lcrs, and shrewd merchants, mechan
les perhaps 10 some sense, but Lol il
any sense that we know offs one o
the adluncts of this Cincinnati elan
bake These U y. NJ are whct
ting the knives for the ,hroats Of tb'
CalhoIics, 20 bc in readiness as sooi
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