New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-07-18

pressed upon this 'tgrand Southern
school, the importance Of developing the
political ethics of which he is distin,
guished exponent.
de was followed by General Preston, o,
South Carolina, who repeated the doc
trlnes OF the sect Of which he was upon
the occasion the representative. As the
sentiment of this address was unjust alike
to the North and South, it deserved, as il
mas received, comment at the hands of al
who wish the wounds of the war closed
forever. We state the principal PROPOSE
tons in the grafton:
1. The colonists who came to Virginia
represented the principles and usages Of
English constitutional liberty.
2. The colonists who settled North Vir.
ginia, or New England. ''hated this man,
ner.of liberty
10 revive such a theory conveys very
plain proof that Mr.. Preston has paid
small regard to the progress Of the coun-
try. The time was when these sectional
disputes were Of interest. With the rapid
growth of the Union the power has passed
from the hands Of the Atlantic States OF
the South and of the North. The intro.
duction OF an immense immigration from
Ireland and Germany has Brought in new
elements and ideas, so that the two
schools OF Boston and Charleston are no
longer OF as much authority as formerly.
The accession Of the alien element Of
which We have spoken has had an obvious
effect on the construction Of our govern.
m ens. II perhaps displays less sense OF
the restrictions of an earlier day, and has
bee ONE more broad and national in its
jurisdiction. The government of the
United States is far too Democratic for
the Democracy.
II Carolina was denied her negro
vo:e. she would shrink into little
more than territorial representation, and
would become the equal of Dakota,
Montana and Idaho. Virginia divided
reIapses into subordinate class of States;
and Ohio, inhabited and governed by
herman and Irish, now discusses ques.
lions OF undilutted liquor and currency,
rather than those ancestral doctrines so
lear to the State which once owned the
territory on which Ohio was founded. It
S vain task to make an issue Of Cavalier
md Puritan among people who do |
1ot care a drink OF lager about either. |
Neither did much as q class in the late |
var. The Cavalier lost his horse and the !
puritan hired substitute. The war was
ought on both sides by that mass Of con.
'lomerates who are descended from all
lations, and Of all trades and pursuits, AID
Tho fought on the issues of pay OF prin-
iple. as suited them. The war involved
he question whether the government was
ne out Of many-stases or people. The
eople won il.
M.. Preston is then striving 70 revive
he question between the Guelphs and
hibbelines. The Stuarts and the House
Hanover. The Califonians, and the
len of Oregon: Illinois, with her twenty
: more votes, and Pennsylvania, with
ven more, can not be rallied upon such
antediluvian issue. We are compelled
} observe that Mr.. Preston is no histo.
an in representing that those English
zen who located in one part Of the colo
lal dominions of the King Of England
ffered in civil rights from any other
llonists. |,
The men called Puritans were SO
med in England a century before these
aglish colonies were settled. They /,
IRE first Protestants and were pre-. G
ribed by the Catholic government.
ley then insisted that many abuses /
lich they had condemned in the /
tholics were still kept up in the Estab- Q
he'd Church. History seems to vim S
cate them; for the King Of England Il
IS subsequently, decapitated for claim
power by Divine authority. These Il
n wished ga church without bishop t.
d State without . King" They were G.
mpelled to cross the ocean TO find the
It, and their descendants have man 81
ed to secure the second condition of ST
edom. These Puritans were of the O
ddle classes Of England; Of the same b
SIS with Cromwell and his cousin, John | n
Mpden, OF 1reton, and Ludlow and b.
OF others who made about all p
the British constitution that English. CT
n now value. Yeomen and mechanics, az
, corresponded in integrity and
social condition with the Methodists, ii
ose name was likewise bestowed W
ridicule, and who came out of that same 10
ylican Chu, Oh because they did not be. m
70 it conformed 10 the reformation of ca
nish abuses. 70 say that these Puritans ~
not comprehend the principles of at
slish constitutional liberty" would pl
'ly that the men of the same religion, es
, subsequently overthrow the Divine in
It's Of the Stewards and drove their at
representative from England, did not
lprehend those principles. To say that
class of men and this phase of re.
BUS opinion which they represented was ia
onscious of English constitutional GU
rty, would be to disavow the Invitation Nj
he people of England to William. the to
testant King, to come over and rescue SEE
government from the rescripts of ms
Vatican. These men united Emo pa