Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-06-02
thanked God that there was not q
printing press in the colony.

thanked God that there was not
printing press in the colony.
Yet life in Virginia was not dull
drinking and feasting, fox hunting ant
horse racing and card playing; tn,
stately "minuette" for seniors, ant
the zig" for the young and the i'm
pulsive, chased time with flying feet
Convenient tobacco was the currency
Yet, with all this, "the bigotry ant
incapacity of the Cavaliers rested lik,
nightmare on the colony" This II
the agreement of the coolest and mosl
philosophic of English Historians
Lackey, Vol. 2. quoted by the author
THE PURITAN.
The Puritan moved to the New
World for room and liberty, but he
was an Englishman too, in taste, ideas
and habits. He was builder of ships
and went much abroad. His township
system secured the concentrat ton Of
money and wealth, and he made edu
cation universal. But with him the
Church was the State, and he clung,
too, to aristocratic ideas. True, there
was no death penalty for not attending
church, yet church members only were
permitted to vote and hold Office. The
Puritan burned witches, and drove
even woman into the wilderness for hel
disbelief Of his tenets. He kept the
stocks and the pillory in the center OF
the town for use, and used them often.
But he did more than this, he built ur
literature and in vented things. Later
on, his schools and his literature and
his invention collided with his narrow
theology, and the result was, all forms,
every form, and no form of belief.
THE oovENANTER.
The Covenanter came over last with
his Democratic church, going west.
The good lands on the sea border had
been occupied, and he was permitted
to settle at the base of the Alleghanies,
to go into the wilderness, follow the
frontier, and try both his fortune and
his ideas.
He brought with him the race and
the breath of the Scotch mountains-
the sovereignty of the people Thai
was his supreme contribution. He had
been prosecutor himself. Even biz
great apostle, Calvin, as a civil magis
trate had sent a victim to the stake
but, in turn, he and his race had been
chained, and burned yet had worked
out broader faith and higher institu
tions. The head man of his new set
tlement, like the Puritan, was the
Preacher, but no "blue laws" or Caya
lier scaffolds, were permitted. Yet hi.
religion was only shade less gloomy
than the Puritans. He insisted, how
ever, on knowledge. on being led by
intelligence; the minister must bs
learned to lead his flock. The flrsl
four Colleges in Tennessee were found
ed by the Covenanters. So, when the
struggle came on between the mothe,
country and the colonies, "the first
voice publicly raised for dissol wing
connection with Great Britain, was
from the Scotch Irish Presbyterians. ,
Our author states this fact on the au
thority of Bancroft. When the shock
OF battle rose to its height, the Cove
nanters appear to have been more thar
the one half of the fighting population
but, Judge Temple holding the balan
ces with judicial eyenness, puts down
the fact that Massachusetts,, the earl,
home OF the Puritan, furnished the
largest number of soldiers to the Con
tinental army of any of the colonies
in proportion to her population. She
sent more troops to this service thar
the six southern colonies combined
On the other hand, he turns up muct
overlooked fact, namely, that the In
dian wars, fought by Sewer and others
persistently carried on by the Cove
nanter settlers from 1776 to 1887, wer,
campaigns of the Revolutionary war
as much as those fought under the ey,
of Washington himself. Therefore
the Covenantor should be credited will
having given to the Union by his BLOOD
and persistence, the great States O
Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Ten
nessee, Indiana, and Illinois, and ais,
with making the Mississippi River tn,
boundary line, in the face of Spanish
intrigues, not allowing the boundar,
to be fixed on the head waters of tn,
Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers al
proposed and insisted on-two facts O
magnificent meaning. In view of thes,
and other considerations, the author
places the work of the Covena nter, al
the chief formative force in creatinl
our free institutions.
The author throughout, is in Low,
with his subject, and parts from i
with sigh. He insists that the Cove
nanter be handed down to posterity in
marble and bronze, as we'll as in letters
shown as he wss-posed entering tn,
wilderness Of the New World, "witl
Bible, axe, and rifle in one hand, tn,
blazing torch Of intelligence in the
other, and face all aglow with the in
spirations Of Faith and Hope"
SAMUEL NJ. ARNELL
Boston Brilliancy.