Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-30

while other men opposed it. They owned
the slave ships and made the tprofts, while
because it was an injury to slave raising, the
Southern men opposed it; each for his own
money interest.
What if Adams and others praised them -?
Men who speak for applause, if not for Uotes,
say many soft things that are not sustained
by true history. We know that the best OF
men have had the weakness to brag about
everything that was done by the early set
tiers of this country; cover up their defects,
and magnify everything else beyond meas
ure. But when men begin soberly to look
up the truthful records, painful as it may
be, many Of our pet fctions are swept away,
and the idols we so heartily have worshipped
will fall to pieces like Dagon in the temple
of truth.
| Look at few extracts from historian
that is even partial to the Pilgrims, George
Bancroft. He says:
John and Samuel Broone were exiled.
| One of them q member of the board of assis-
tants, [not a naked Quaker woman as days
has it. They met in common prayer
worship, for which they were seized like
criminals, and transported to England"
Bancroft, LIST. P. 349.
Again: " The magistrates insisted on the
presence of every man at public worship
the worst statute of England did but enforce
attendance upon the parish church Roger
Williams reprobated the law. To compel
men to unite with those of different creed
he regarded as an open violation of their
natural rights. To drag to public worship
the irreligious and unwilling seemed only
like compelling hypocrisy. To enforce the
Indifferent from one worship to another was
like shifting dead man into several changes
of apparel. No one, said Williams, should
be bound to worship against his own con-
sent. The magistrates were selected exclu-
sively from The members of the church, T. The
corner stone of our constitution The
same magistrate who punished Elliot, the
apostle to the Indian race, could not brook
the independence of Williams Bancroft,
Vol. LIST, p. 270. Elliot was kind to the
Indians and had also published treatise
full of Republican principles which was i'm
mediately suppressed. Now mine unknown
opponent says " The spark went to other
colonies" Yes, for the only spark of free
dom in the New England colonies were Elliot
and Williams. Elliot was put out, and
Williams was blown to the wilderness in a
perfect storm of persecution, where be es.ab-
ished the first free Republican government
on this continent. Bancroft says, 's For
fourteen weeks he was sorely tossed in
bitter season, not knowing what bed or
bread did mean. Often in a stormy night
I e had neither fire. nor food, nor company,
and no house but hollow tree" Vol. |, ..
37S. Says Haynes: " His Christianity made
him friendly with the Indians, and when he
learned from them that they we're about to
fall upon and massacre the Pilgrims, he
went, at the peril OF his own lie, to save his
prosecutors, by giving them timely noti;e.
They entreeted him to mediate with the In
their difficulty, they would not allow him
to remain in the colony but hurled him back
to the wilderness again Haynes United
States History. OF course they would pun
ish Elliot who was kind to the Indians when
they, instead of sending the gospel to the
Indians took the missio nary money rails ID in
England to concert them, and bought pow
der to Kill them. He says the 'sp,rk -
went from New England South. Bancroft
says it went from Virginia North. Listen:
g Thus early (l634) did Massachusetts echo
the voice of Virginia like the mountain
replying to the thunder; or like deep calling
unto deep" Bancroft lst, p. 365 He re-
fers to " civil freedom" Still the Pilgrims.
governed more by an aristocracy in for IN,
despotic as Turks in practice; tell not the
people of this enlightened age that they had
a single principle tina. is in our Constitution
He has not, he cannot point to one Why
does he write two columns and not mention
one principle of theirs that remains to-day I?
If there is one it might be described CD.
read in their statute book; =" II any man is
guilty of being Bipsist or O. .ker they
shall be banished, and if they return, be put
10 death. Ami if any one shall Civ, fo,d,
shelter or drink to such Baptist or Q usker,
they shall be amerced in a fine like any
criminal. These extracts are only few
drops of that stream which cooled off mn
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the Pilgrims. With tears have read the
poetry beginning with,
9 The breaking waves dash high
And the truths of history grated harshly on
my ear. at first, but their acts were 50 con-
trary to the New Testament was fore ed to
regard them as mistaken men. But they
were sincere. Yes, so were the Moors, AMI
hundreds Of them were burned at the stake
for their religion. bat should we for TIA. rea-
son follow the Moors, and be Mahcmedans :?
Again, he says " there is enough in one of
their sermons to last modern clergyman a
life time" That is it. That is just what
[ was trying to say. Nd clergyman Of to-
day would preach as much ascetism aud in
tolerance in a life time as they had in one
sermon. Is it any wonder that there was a
revolution in the New England churches, and
such an army went to the other extreme :?
That little band of Dutchmen led by William
the Silent in IT'S founded Republic where
eoul liberty, and equal rights obtained. kFor
this they labored and fought, were burned,
massacreed and hung. And this Dutch Re-
public was the model from which our Repub-
lie was shaped. Blu. space fails me-
And repeat, be does not show one insti-
tuition shaped " oy the Pilgrim Fathers