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Before the Demofratic. Union Association
of New York-
(Concluded)
Another fact pi history not general-
]v accepted is that the charter grant
ed by King James to the Pilgrims, was
for the express purpose of enlarging
the gospel by the conversion of the
Indians. The charter was intended to
start a rival mission to that of the
Jesuits among the red men. Of
course, commerce, fishiDg, and the
gospel were to go hand in hand. But
the sequel showed that instead of evan
gelizing the Indians, they soon began
to regard them as red devils; whose
extermination was a great duty, inas
much as a military necessity demand
ed their rich lands. (Cheers aud
laughter.) The salvation of the red
men was entirely forgotten, in their
disputations arypng themselves as to
their own creeds. Their charter was
violated. Turbulence and meddling
between the various settlements be
gau to prevail. The church ruled
with an iron sceptre. No one could
be a voter, if he were not a church
member. Although the agents of the
Puritan Bay State, when they depart
ed from England, prayed for the pros
perity of their “dear mother,” the
Church of England, they were ready to
persecute in the wilderness as well
those who adhered to that church as
those who dissented from themselves.
Under the rule of this puritan church,
every form of surveillance was prac
ticed. The late spy system in New
England churches as illustrated in the
case of the father and son at Boston,
last year, who were accused of disloy
alty before a hoard of deacons, be
cause they were Democrats, finds its
antitype in the- cruel persecution of
the Quakers and Baptists, and in the
Salem witchcraft. There was then a
general belief that Mo&oichusetts had a
devil. That belief prevails
side of Massachusetts. (Laughter.) The ; amonu p-.i-. - - , nd
miserable fanatics of 1691--2, who j few, did not inteiiu »V
hunted out little girls and poor old I had no faith in it.”. The soda
women and tried them for witchcraft ! tinction between “Mr.” and “Good
in meeting houses before godly hypo-i nian” still continued. Not until Wil-
thc \ r J "" ta . tor “ 1,1 t,,e 1 liams and
ots of to-oa} those minions of power I at Providence and Portsmouth, R. I.
no rNju about to accuse those who J established the first democracy iu
differ with them in polities. (Cheers.) j America, with the majority 'of flic
Cotton Mather said then: “The Ty- ; freemen to make laws, and upon the
Dogs of the pit are amongst us; and j basis that no mail should bo made
the firebrands of hell are used for criminal for “doctrines,” was there
they professed so differently! the more . religious. The smallest privilege of
odious still because they wero reprov- j citizenship was only obtained through
ed in their own day and generation by j grace and saintship, and hence, gener-
better and nobler men, like Williams, J al hypocrisy and demoralization were
who were their victims. Were there j the results,
not so much of suffering and malice at- j It is not within
tendant upon snch intolerance, we
might dismiss it all into that
Limbo broad and large and called
The Paradise of fool*.
All that relieves New EnglandTrom
the blackness of these reproaches, is
her splendid zeal and sacrifice for in
dependence in the subsequent centu
ry. Though it is by no means clear
that she would not have rebelled
against Jhe best government on earth,
or even a commonwealth of angels,
not according to her own notions, yet
tjie mother country gave her a cause,
and she vindicated it with spirit.
The boast that, the Pilgrims were
the fathers of Democratic liberty in
this country, is absolutely untrue, un
less their persecutions, which led to it,
may be considered the cause of such
liberty. Allow me to call in certain
facts to prove what I allege: New Ply
mouth, which remained separate from
Massachusetts Bay until 16SS, is point
ed to, as the exemplar in this great
work of human progress. The truth
is, that Plymouth‘received its privi
leges in a mercantile line, from the
London. Virginia, and afterwards from
the Plymouth company of adventurers.
They left England, because they had
not the stamina to remain and contend,
like the Haropdens, Sydneys and Mil-
tons, for their English privileges.
Bradford, Brewster and Carver may
have been Godly men; hut there were
men in the Mayflower who wished a
larger liberty than their leaders were
willing to accord. The famous “com
pact,” signed in the cabin of the ship,
llth November, 1620, was forced
from the superiors by the inferiors.
So says the historian. (Elliott, 104.)
I quote:
The men of birth and cducatiou
they were
■“‘■of racy. Tbev
Thompson and Phillips taught
he right soil for their bad seed;
the scope. of this
address to si tow liow these men of
God treated the Indians. Their doc
trine that lands unoccupied by agri
culture it was theirs to take, '■'•cucunm
domic ilium, * cedcl occupant),” was de
duced from the Jewish code, just as
they held and traded in slaves, by the
same code. What a civilization is
this to be commended to the accep
tance to-day, of twenty ‘millions of
people! The rules for our guidance
in national trouble can never conic
from such a source.
What has New Englanddone for the
country? Much cvmv way, as Gov-
Andrew boasts, but chiefly this, as I
think. She has sent to us, as to New
York, many liberal minded noble men.
She lias given us Douglas, (cheers,)
Seymour, (cheers,) McClellan. (Great
cheering,—“three cheers for General
McClellan.”) Liberal, great, but lib
eral and great because they have re
pudiated Puritan teaching. (Applause)
Moreover, she gave Samuel Adams for
Revolutionary counsel, and in later
days, Rufus Choat, to admonish us ot
tho dangers of sectionalism. In the
old war she gave Greene and Stark,
neither of them representing the Pu
ritan element. Greene was a Quaker
of Rhode Island, an 1 moved South.
Starke was a Democrat, and one of
his descendants, who, last year, was
the Democratic candidate for Gover
nor of New Hampshire is now bat-
tliug against Puritanism in that State.
In the late war, she gave us Gen Hull,
as in the Revolution, General Arnold,
and as now she gives us Gen. Butler.
(Groarisand hisses for Butler.)
New England.voted against Jeffer
son at first aud her pulpit reviled him
as it did Douglass, .fcjhe voted against 1 so much acorn South, and is now alien
of.abolition, and because abolition,
such as
found the right
therefore it flourished to the overthrow
of civil liberty, by the intermeddling
with State institutions aud social and
labor systems, entirely alien to New
England, under the Federal Constitu
tion. Holding to the higher law, and
at last obtaining office under its ban
ner, it spread distrust and apprehen
sion of its excesses among one half of
the States, and rebellion, rash and un
justifiable, was .the result. Men of
no mark—mere pigmies, compared to
Webster and Choate—-the Andrews
and Sumners of the day, inflated with
an airy sentimentalism, began their
jiropagandism, to make saints by stat
ute, and Paradise out of politics, and
rallied all the isms to the one baneful
and hated focus of Abolitionism, and
drove the half of the nation to* revolt
by its contumely and aggressions. (Ap
plause.) Visionaries, mistaking their jtiiitq
fancies for the Gospel of Kindness and
Peace, intent upon the restitution of
the blacks to a liberty they only give
them in fancy, destitute of all practi
cal concern for church aud State, they
liave striven, liko the classic sorceress,
to give a new youth and beauty to the
State, by dismembering it. (Applause)
They substitute their Plantonism tor
dissolution. fLaughter.] I am sunshine.
I am rain. I draw in ; uow let out. I an*
death and immortality. I am entity and
nonentity. [Laughter.] I am the begin
ning, the middle and eud. (Merriment.)
Among the faculties, I am the mind.”—
Just what Mr. Beecher holds, j Laugh
ter.]“Among the animals, 1 am reason ;
among the mountains. Hamilaya; amongst
the Hoods, I a>u the ocean; amongst ele
phants, 1 am the everlasting big elephant.
[Great laughter.] Of all science, 1 am the
knoledge of the ruling spirit, and of all
speaking, I ani the oration.” (A vdice ;
“ I bat’s Sumner.” Laughter.) “Amongst
rulers, 1 am the rod.” (A voice : “That
is Butler.” [Laughter] “Amongst Those
who seek for conquest, I am the policy.’
[“That is Abolition.,” Laughter ] “All
the qualities incident to-beings, such as
reason, truth, humility, meekness, equali
ty, courage, fame, shame, renown and in
famy, come from me !” A Brahmin, that
is, one who lives in or near Boston, can
altain unto these. All these qualities,
says the Hindoo, “hand on me, as jewels
philosophy
self-suthci«r
and jerns
on a string, fo
iter than l.”
• there is not any-
llow is ho to at-
Jackson at first, and her press slander
ed him, as it now slanders McClellan.
Her Josiali Qiiiucys denounced the ao-
“psition ol Louisiana, as in
herSmiiMv., "“.denounced the South.] the same pharasaical cant
Her Mathers of tV.e . , days , | sur)g j t s own praises through
Coddington, respectively, | thundered against the Quakers
v differed in doc-1 chee
scorching us, and that New England
should be harrassed! not by swarthy
Indians, but they are sooty devils.”
His saying would have more truth re
peated now fortlie present generation.
The same egotistic intolerance is ob
servable in their treatment of Roger
Williams in 1635. His persecutors
never came to New England with any
notions of freedom of conscience.—
Their system tolerated, no contradic
tion and allowed of no dissent. The
statutes of uniformity of England, they
re-enacted here by church and public
sentiment. This was the source of
those dissensions which were to rend
their own youthful Republic, ami
whose intolerant spirit lias produced (provided against
in our time that seffional alienation [ mean condition
which deluges the land in blood. The
New England Pilgrim drove Roger
Williams into the winter wilderness,
as he drove Mrs. Hutchinson and Cod
dington to the same exile, for differ
ences of opinion in religion. He en
acted laws forbidding trade with these
outlaws for conscience sake. Sav
ages were more kind than these big-
gots, for the Indians hospitably receiv
ed the victims of persecution. Dis
daining the pope as anti-Christ, and
hating the prelate, these harsh Pil-
any true political or real liberty in
New England. In Massachusetts, ac
cording to Judge Story, five-sixths of
the people were disfranchised, because
they were not members of the church.
The code of anti-democratic sumptu
ary law is the moat abominable ever
enacted, not merely for its harshness
of penalty, but for its caste discrimi
nation. It seem copied from tho Gen-
too code. Indeed, we know, as Dr.
Homes has said, that there is yet in
New England the Brahmin and Sooter
caste. There is an old law that men
might be whipped forty lashes, but
gentlemen never except in flagrant
cases. The excesses of apparel were
rigorously.* Men of
an condition wore not allowed to
j dress in gold aod silver lace, or but
tons, or points at their knees, or to
walk in great boots, [laughter,] or
women ot the same rank to wear silks,
hoods or scarfs. In Havard College,
penalties were muted out upon the
same Gentoo rode of caste This was
democracy in Masiiachusetts. In this
Commonwealth the directors of a com
pany usurped the power of rulers and
of magistrates. The elders of the
church upheld them. John Cotton
wrote with pious horror that “democ-
grims set up every little vanity ot a j racy was not ordained as fit for the
preacher as their pope infallible, every
village Paul Pry as an inquisitor, and
every sister communicant as a spy for
the detection of heresy.
It is an unpleasant task to recall the
fierce disputes of these “gospel mag
istrates.” The trial of Vane and
Coddington, and the trial of IVain-
wright and Mr. Hutchinson are fruit
ful in suggestions bearing on the pres
enttime. Eighty-two distinct '
government either of church or com
monwealth; as for monarchy and aris
tocracy they are both of them clearly
approved and directed by the Scrip
tures.” The freemen rose against
both church and rulers, and after a p] a „ se .) Its solemn pretences to pe
long contest, the freemen succeeded; culiar Godliness were the general ru
ritanism, for that had many harsh a ml
rigid virtues. It comes from that co
terie known around Boston as Tran-
sceudentalists. Its first organ was the
devil. Its worst is the Tribune.
(Laughter.) Its most’clever exponent
was Emerson. It has its priests, high
and low, includingthe great Charming,
who ministered in holy’ things .with
many enlarged graces of heart, to the
little Charming, who foists himself in
to the Senate room at Washington of
Sundays, to preach that Abolition hate
and retail such slander against tho
Baptists, because they (littered m doc-| cheering ... ,
trine, just as iatelv, Butler closed the | ed peculiar offensi
churches of New Orleans because the
ministry would uo^fprnv as Butler—
the Saint—dictated. (“The oi l trai
tor.” Hisses.) She denounced in ear
ly times, the Indians as devils,, whose
lands were forfeit, as now she de
nounces slavery, while her speculators
slip through our Hues to dicker for
slave produced secession cotton.
(“That’s true.”) She has been the foe
to the democracy from the days of the
Revolution to the present hour. Her
Marsaillese is a hymn of apotheosis to
John Brown—a horse thief and a mur
derer. But amidst all these conflicts,
she has had in her midst, a minor
ity of liberal, steadfast and patriotic
democrats. I desire to lie understood
as casting no reflections upon this he
roic minority, soon, 1 trust, to become
a triumphant majority. Already Con
necticut and New Hampshire gives us
the signs of resurrection. (Cheers)
The chief cities of Massachusetts will
throw ofFits Abolition incubus, while
Portland and New Haven already glo
ry in Democratic Congressmen.—
(Cheers.)
To sum up the general aspect or this
Puritanism: It does not appear to
have exemplified but rarely the duty
of obedience to the civil magistrate.
It never consecrated a savage to God,
in accordance with its early charter.
Its usurped powers were never used
to quell a sedition and to strengthen
peace. It has always laid a squint-
eyed intellect which reminds me of
(A voice, “Butler!” great cheering)—
looking with two optics to one selfish .
point; and a eunuch moral i tv ever ex- philosophy cannot be called Pantheism
elusive and revengeful. (Great ap . I for that absorbs natureaud man in God.
tain all these ? The Hindoo again tells
ns: “He should sit, with his mind fixed
on one object alone”—the negro, l sup-
pose; [great laughter]—"in the exercise
of his devotion for the purification of his
soul, keeping liis]head, his neck, his body,
steady without motion, his eyes fixed on
the point of liis nose,” cross eyed, you see,
(laughter.) “looking at no other place
around.” Thus, and not otherwise, it
the tip of its own nose.—
t not that these di
in Book VI of tho
lectures of Krecshna, one would imagine
they were written by Cotton Mather about
himself, or a Boston philosopher in and
about tho Huh of the Universe. (Laugh
ter ) It was bv following these directions
of the Vedas that John Fisher Murray,
an Irish wit, was enabled to prove that
black was white; and by a process of
unification which will commend itself to
Boston Transcendentalism: “Black,”
says lie, “is one thing and white another
r. You don’t contbravayno that? —
everything is either ono thing or the
superoilliousness which has produced j other thing. ’ 1 defy the Apostle Paul to
’ ’ ’’ 1 get over that diliinma. Well, if anything
be one thing, well and good ; but if it he
another thiug, then it’s plain it isn’t both
things, (laughter,) and so can’t be two
things ; nobody can deny that. But what
can’t bo two tilings, must be one thing;
ergo, whether it’s one thing or another
thing, it’s ali one. [Great laughter.J But
black is one lliing and’ white Is another
tiling; ergo, black ami white is all one-
(Laughter) Quad rruf demonsthrandom,
here amidst the bloody strife of which j i,un 11 ,,i: o ro • * good as a w bite man.—
it i-’a prominent contributor. ((Laughter.) Flip. ordinary perception of
1 propose to examine the source of n ] a,1 ; ln '\ • vou, d !,c shocked at such a cm-
, ; elusion. l)Ut a Puritan TranacenUoninluit
this egotistic and arrogant philosopher. a ., cepts it fis , pa j, ofl!;esou i iinhy> which
It is not fiom tiic Gospel. It is not ho derives from looking with solemn intro-
even a bad exageration of the old Pu- ; spcction into his own deep soul. That is
j what imparts to Transcendentalism such a
■ sublime egotisn). All that is great in in
! vention, in letters, in reason, in war, must
Gospel of Christ, and thereby lose that j «ees heaven at the t
docility and humility which is the | (Lighter.) Were.
; rections are written
very essence ot Christianity.
Ac the New England dinner, not!
long since, Mr. Beecher took pride in j
these very characteristics. He glo- 1
ried in the Yankee because “lie was j
the most meddlesome, creature in !
God’s world, the born radical of mod
ern civilization, the pickpocket of ere- j
ation (laughter,) that to leave New |
England out ofthe Union was to leave !
the head out of the body.” (Hisses ) 1
This is the old egotism. It is the same i Bu
those poltroon* and viHiafts to the execra
tion of posterity. AH commanding offi.
cars are hereby enjoined to furnish the
names of officers and men, who distinguish
themselves in pitched battles and skirm
ishes. Those so distinguishing themsel res
will be recommended for promotinif, and
their names published iu the principal pa
pers of their respective States.
The Infantry have to bear the brunt of
every battle, and to endnre special hard
ships in every campaign. The post 0 f
danger and suffering is the post of honor.
If our liberty be gver won, it will be due
mainly to the indomitable pluck and stur-
dy endurance of our heroic infantry.
The Confederate artillery has behaved
and the South in most nobly, and tho wonder is, that with
interpretation into ; inferior guns and ammunition, it has been
uting the West. This claim of all the
intelligence and conscience of the land
which comes from Boston and is ech-|
of the Puritan egotism and
self-sufficiency, which has fomented trou
ble in distant domestic affairs. I have
already detained yon so long that [cries of
•‘go on! go on 5” from all parts of the
house.^4 will conclude with seme practical
reflections on the consequences of her con
duct.
When the Constitution was made, there
were two kinds of interpretation which fol
lowed it; that ot New England, which
tended to centralize power, and that of
Virginia, which decentralized power.—
The one encroached on State rights ; the
other restrained the encroachment. Under
the constitution. New England, with her
personal librety hills and higher law,
alarmed the South
return, pushed her _
actual and violent secession. New Eng- j able to cope successfully with the splendid
laud got her advantages in the Constitn- i armament of the enemy. ’ It has been a
tion, tor yielding its protection to slavery, mistake, however, to contend with the
They were commercial and profitable. She Yankee artillery. .Reserve year firg, as
has vet her tariffs and bounties. She lias a t Fredericksburg, for the masses of infan-
C ver made the most oftt of the Federal try, and do not withdraw your guns just
Union. When she, was called on to make when tliej* arc becoming effective It is
sacrifices, as in the wars of this country, glorious to lose guqs fighting them to the
she was loth to make them. There are last. It is disgraceful to save them by re-
even now IG,0:t0 deserters from the Mas- tiring early from the fight
sachusetta regiments. She forgot her : The cavalry constitute the eyes and
hatred of State Rights in the late war ears of the army. The safety of the en-
witli Great Britain. Her Hartford Con- tire command depends upon their viti-
vention was called to endorse tho policy lance and the faithfulness of their reports,
of Governor Strong, of Massachusetts, that The officers and men who permit them-
no forcible draft, conscriptions or impress- selves to be surprised deserve to die, and
ments should bo made by the General the Commanding General will spare no ef-
Government upon the States. That Gov- forts to secure them their deserts. Almost
ernor refused, to accede to the President’s equally criminal are the scouts who,
requisition for troops, to be used by tho through fright, bring in wild and sensa-
Prosident in a war against England, which tional reports. They will be court-mar-
he could not approve. This smacks some- tialcd for cowardice.
what of the late conduct of Governor An- Many opportunities will be afforded to
drew, when he sought to impose conditions the cavalry to harrass the enemy, cut off
as to troops in the present conflict. It his supplies, drive in his pickets. &c.—
can be proved that the famous Hartford Those who have never been in battle
Convention was a secession body. Its will thus be enabled to enjoy the novel
Address urged that “some new torm ol sensation of listening to the sound of hos-
Confederacy should be substituted among tile shot and shell, and those who have
those States which shall intend to main- listened a great way off will bo allowed
ta.in a Federal relation to each otherto come some miles nearer, and compare
and concluded with tho usual Puritanical' the sensation caused by the distant can-
appeal to “a higher authority than any nonade with that produced by the rattle
earthly government cat) claim.” Later, of musketry
in the Mexican War, wo know how
prompt the Puritans wero to seek a refuge
from national duty iu the doctrine of Peace
Und Disunion; we know how Charles
Sumner had found the “true grandeur
of nations” to couoist in arbitration and
ter days] oed from Brooklyn, is tho offshoot of;
which has
its nasal
n tor three hundred years. (Great
liter.) It has assuui-
ensivC.x*_ i
•D. H. HILL, Maj. Gen.
Discount and Premium.—The Balti
more Sun thus defines discount and pre
mium :
At these times, when the fluctuations in
emanate from its “over soul.” It peeps
into all things and some others ; ••de omni
bus rebus cl quibusdam aliis.” Mr. Beech
er, pu describing the universal meddle
someness ofthe Yankee, has but the voice
of Brahma, which Emerson echoed, when
he wrote.
“There is no great and no small.
To the soul that maketli all.
And where ii oometh, all things are,
Aud it cometh-j-everywhere.”
The Evening Post wonders how a
Union hereafter is possible, with New
Wash- I England out ! “Can there be,” it asks,”
I "a head without brains, ora body without
. i ,• • ru -i , ,- ! heart ! Where there is a school, there is
But what is this 1 ranscendentalisMi ? Now EngIaild . a w as , New Eng .
\\ hence is it. It is stolen from Hid- j j an( j. a l ec tu r e room, New England !—
uoostan by Mr. Bcacher s pickpocket j Q nn these be left out, and a soul remain V 9
of creation. (Laughter.) It is the em- j Some day, this dream of Puritan comjja-
Dumocracy as the powers at
ington seem most to relish.
anation of Oriental speculation. This
I will prove. The smart Yankee has
only plagiarised what the Vedas con
tain, what the Brahmins believe. All
the poetic prose prosaic poetry of Em
erson; all tl^ vague generalties of AI-
cott: all the infidelity of Parker; all
the Sentimentalism of Phillips, come
from the Dialogues of Krecshna and j
Arjoon, called Bhagvat-Greeta, origi- |
nally written in the Sanscrit, arid j
translations of which, under the auspi- ;
cos of Warren Hastings, are to be j
found in some of the libraries. This !
coney may break, and the fact, hard and
gran.lto, aK her hills, remain that she is left
out, and that ii»o, Ly the action of many
ol her own sons in the Northwest, whose
transplanting has improve’d the stock and
enlarged the cnltui e. [Cheers] Already
the painted dream of Universal Emanci
pation, the offspriuging of this heathen
philosophy, which has been “pressed”
upon the ruling powers at Washington,4s
dissolving before the hard facts of Bloody
war. Abolition is hut the oft’springing of
these blurred visions stolen from tho isms
ot the East. As Dr. Lord has recently
said : “Its gaudy sophistry took its
national popular effect ; it assumed to be
arrogant, insulting and encroaching,
was envious of God’s appointment—the
family, the State, the church ; and it
of the United Slates when ha beat for
recruits. By pasquinade and pulpit, tho
war was discouraged - and enlistments
checked. But now, when the present
war is to i,o carried on against the Soufli ;
when Puritanism is to be gratified by the
death of slavery : when the nation is
roekod .by- the ihroC' “f civil, aud not
foreign war. the saute, old vindictive in
tolerance is aroifsed which ma le the early
Puritans so infamous. There is aroused
the same desire to confiscate which chan
ged the red men into sooty devils, that the
popular error in reference to tho discount
on the paper dollar. We frequently hear
parties say that a paper dollar depreciates
to au equal with the rise of gold, that is,
if the premium be 55 cents they hold that
the paper dollar is worth only 45 cents.—
i This error arises from confounding pre
mium with discount. Ei/ty per cent,
taken from an article is much greater than
' the addition of that amount. If we add
fifty per cent, to ten we make it fifteen, or
1 one-tliird more ; if we deduct fifty per
cent, it reduces it to five or one half.—
Saints might enter in and possess the lands J Tll0se who contend that a paper dollar is
ofthe Poquods, and tho same arrogant . wortb on , y forty-five cents, when gold is at
assumption of intellect js quickened which i;ft five J per c J ent . prem i um , ca ° eas ily
will never cease till it assassinates the ! dis ^ over t ^ oir error by asking themselves
epub ic. . ... wliat would be the worth of a paper dollar
New England may thrive for awhile on whea , d is worth oue handre V per cent.,
lie war contracts, which keeps her people or wh ® n H takss two dolla H rs to bny
busied a#d money p ent.fal. bo long as ; Qne - u Thfl ^ of the '
this seeming prosperity .okej> up, her cry doH > is plaill( would be jcst c % n F ts .
for slavery extermination will
But a day-of reckoning is near at hand.— i
Her insane propagandise, from press aud
pulpit, is working out its fruits. • The
people in the last election have expressed
their detestation of her. doctrines. Even
tiie people of New England, from Maine
to Conncticut, will begin to reconsider
their position. The popular verdict is
not yet fully heeded at Washington. The
infatuation of Congress continues. Bat
the governments and its administrators
have felt the shock, and a dead lock,
political and military, is the result. Mon
tesquieu lias well described our condition :
According to the theory of those who con
tend that premium and discount mean the
same thing, the paper dollar would be
worth nothing at all. A paper dollar,
when gold is worth fifty per cent, premi
um, is worth .sixty-six and two third cents
instead of fifty, and when gold is at sixty
it is worth sixty two and a half cents in
stead of forty. The value of the paper
dollar can be easily ascertained by multi
plying 1U0 by the premium on gold, and
dividing the premium by 100 with the
premium added, as shown in the following
formula, when the premium, for example,
. . . , ... is fixed at fifty per cent., thus: 100x50
“1 here is in every nation a general public i . ; 000x { 5 0 equals thirty three and
spmtupon which power itself is founded. I tUe discou ^ t on the paper dol-
VV hen that power shocks that public spirit, ; j r r
tho shock is communicated to itself, and ' ‘ ’
it necessarily comes to a stand still.”—
Confiscations and Proclamations have
produced this terrible paralysis of the
ttato. (Applause.)
When the people arouse from this terri- j
ble condition, and fully realize what it is
visto.v, I
Virginia, >
12th, 1SG3.)
but they too broke the charter. No
one was allowed to be a freeman but
a church member, and the State re-
_ _ here- j lapsed into a bigoted church oligarchy,
sios were passed upon at one time by Then began a new contest lor suprem-
the Synod at Boston. In these isms acv. The church of course, took the
of that early day, you will find the type
of all the isms of tiie rresent; inclu
ding free lcveism, which has its coun
terpart in the familists. The history
of Puritanism is a catalogue of mur
ders, maiming*, extortions and out
rages, contrary to English common
law, and against every notion of hu- j their religion disfranchised the people,
man justice and liberty. Ransack j and strange as it may seem the people
disfranchised bv the church, owed
side of the oligarclrv, the Furitan
leaders still struggling against the
growth of civil liberty. The repub
lican cast ilito which the government
was finally moulded, was forced upon
it by the freemen, in spite of theelders
and magistrates. The very genius of
history from the deatlt of Abel to the
present day and you will find no such
eruelt ies ns those practiced by the
prejudiced dyspeptic Puritans, not on
ly upon the white citizen and the In
dian, but upon, the simple Acadian
peasant, whose distant homes they
invaded and destroyed. That irou-vis-
saged man, in his high peaked hat and
ruff, whether he played the part of
magistrate and elder or of Dugald Dal-
gettv like Captain Miles Standish, im
pelled either by his “conscience or his
catarrh,” rises from the dark ground
of colonial history, the most hateful
image ever pictured by Time, the
more detestable, because many of bis
victims, «is in the far-off Acadia, were
the most patient, gentle aud tolerant
of men! No wonder a New England
poet, Halleck, writes:
“Herod of Gallileo’s l>a)>e butchering deed,
Lives not oil history's blushinp page alone.
Our skies, it seems, have seen like victims bleed,
And our own Kamahs echoed groan for proan;
The fiends of France whose cruelties decreed
Those dextrous drownings in the Loire and
Rhone,
Were at their » w ' t . hnt copyists, second hand.
Of our shrined saint ;d sires—the Plymouth Pil-
’ grim band. 1 '
(Cheers.)
Had these puritans remained in
England, they might have become
martyrs to their faith, aud died glory
ing in religious persecution. But
truth demands that we should call
them by their own names; they were
in America the cruel zealots of-bitter
persecution, the more odious because
then lheir final emancipation into
democratic liberty to the compulsory
interposition of Charles II.
In the seventeenth century Puri
tanism muzzled the press and sealed
the lips of its victims and enemies, just
jus in the nineteenth the same invete
rate foe of democracy lias done the
same thing. The xviong headed fa
naticism which refused to consider the
Democratic Gospel of Love clung to
the old Testament with its lex tahonis
for its codes. Familists and Baptists,
Quakers and deluded p«»ople who gath
ered sticks for fire on a Sunday, were
all punished by the harsh Jewish code.
All other crimes not punished by the
law already enacted, were to be at
tended to according to the- old Bible,
as the fanatic interpreted it, the high
er law of their own private judgment
being the interpreter. Th is is the
boasted Pilgrim Democracj'!
Do we wonder that crimes of the
most disgusting and heinou a character
abound here? In 1GS9, thn elders in
Synod bewailed the great and visible
decay of Godliness. -Apo&tacies and
degeneracies, profaneness, debauchery,
cursing, swearing, lying, gtuning, Sab
bath breaking, idleness, drunkenness
and uncleanness constitute the frightful
picture of the rule of puritanism Before
a half century of rule in Massachu
setts. By striving to make the church
political they did nob maky the State
liberty of conscience and d
injiolitv were the exception.
whi
racy g lig uju
stead ot making the church the
of dissentions, it marie the church the
theatre of strife, and carried into the
State the same pretension and bigotry
wnich it illustrated in the church. Its
literature was of that vainglorious
character, which yet distinguishes the
descendants of the Puritans. What
it has gained in grace of style it has
lost in sincerity. Mark its progress
from the Mathers ol three hundred
years ago to the Checvefs, Beechers
and Parkers of to-day. Swollen tvith
spiritual pride, it complacently as
sumed to read the designs of Provi
dence as it wjs a part of the Godhead 1
(Cheers.) Its harshness made the con
formist into a Separatist, the Sepa
ratist into an Anabaptist, the Anabap
tist into a Quaker, and the Quaker
into an infidel. From step to step in
onr day, it has run the round from or
thodoxy, beginning with Mucklowrath
Cheever, brimful of vengeance against
sins “he has no mind to,” and winds
up in that perfect infidelity and scep
ticism which Parker preached and
Emerson sung. Exalting this life
above the next, it is not content with
the order of Providence. It must as
sume control of the Chariot of the
Sun, and direct all its shine and shad
ow. Alas! how fatal has been its di
rection in national affairs, this red cha
os in our system well tolls. (“That's
,xo,” and clieeis.)
The Puritanism ofthe Wilderness of
1630 and 1690 was restricted in its re
sults and evils. Now wo see its work
ing on a grander scale, involving a
continent in its contentions. It is- a
power. So is Satan. It is intellectual.
So are his ministers. It has pride,
stubborn and egotistical. So have had
all scourges of the earth, from the
Proconsul of .Sicily to the Proconsul
at New Orleans. Can any one ask:
“How is it possible for such a civiliza
tion to bo the cause of so great a war?”
I will answer, because it is the parent.
It i3 not materialism, for that absorbs
j man and God iti nature; but it is the ! scrupled not to assail their Mood cemented
• * " ~ ’ ’ ’ foundations.” In the press, lecture, pulpit,
| and finally irr Congress and the Executive
tomb i ritan! It believes in nothing but -»1 D "P artmcnU ’ h lu,s P anued its wa - v ‘ and
Gen. Ntnarl’a Cauaplimcnt* I* C'apl. ttlosbr
IIeadq’rs Cavalry Division,
Army of Northern V
March
General Orders, No.—
and who are its author*, the anathema Capt. John S. Mosby has for a long
against tlie perfidious parricides of the j time attracted the attention of his Gen-
““ i North will hardly he less than which fol- crals by I113 boldness, skill and success,
lowed the voice ofthe Southern traitors j so signally displayed in his numerous
against the majority of the nation.— j forays upon the invaders of his native
[Cheers.] Let the Greeleys and Phillipses State.
uf)0 _ | absorption of God and nature in man,
2„_ ! and that man the Brahmin or the Pu-
soul.
The soul of man is God and nature.
No matter, no color, nothing but the
soul in man; he is all, it is all. One
of these disciples—Alcott—holds that
the world would be what it should be,
if he were only ns holy as lie should
be. This is the nearest approach of
this sect to humility. He being all in
all—he holds himself personally re
sponsible for the obliquity of the
earth’s axis. (Laughter.) Do you won
der, therefore that he holds himself
responsible for slavery iu Carolina?
Another, Emerson, holds that he (Em
erson) is God; that God is everything.
(Merri ment.) Do you wonder, there
fore, that since he makes the negro a
part of himself that he holds him to be
liis equal? (Increased laughter.) Or
that he believes that everything is—as
he is? Do you wonder at the un’pur-
turbable impudence and self-sufficien
cy ofthebPuritah thus indoctrinated?
The Hindoos said: “Rich is that Uni
versal’ (Self, whom thou worshippest
as the Soul.” The same sentiment is
found in the verse of Emerson: ‘Noth
ing is, if thou art not; thou'art under,
over all; thou dost hold and cover all.
Thou art Atlas; thou art Jove!”
Do you wonder that, under this philos
ophy, tho South iu men and mind were,
underated ? That the greatness and
strength of. Massachusetts and the North
were overrated. It was under these
muonsliiny delusions that Governor An
drew foresaw the roads swarm with the
myriads, who never trooped to the war,
[laughter,| and that Greely beheld the
nine, hundred thousand rush* to Father
Abraham, who arc yet to rush, (Laugh
ter.) Turn again to the Hindoo, and hear
wh.\t the Puritan saith in the Sanscrit.—
I read from the Geeta ; but j’ou wiil think
it is the “universal Yankee.” speaking of
himself: “I am the sacrifice, the wor
ship, the fire, the victim, the father and
mother of this world, the grandsire, [laugh
ter] the preserver. I am the holy one,
only worthy to be known. I am the hope
of the good, the comforter, the creator, the
witness, the asylnm. I am generation and
enveloped this nation in garments of blood.
It will only awake, 1 fear, from its gory
dream of impossible conquest, when it is
left alone in its baseness, weeping over tho
victims of its own delusions. “This philo
sophy has a deeper and worse aim than
that of uprooting the State. Already it
lias sown the seed of dissolution in the
church, and scepticism in all creeds.—
Parker, following the Hindoo and Emer
son, found what lie called the “out-ness of
God to be the in-ness of mau, and so God
works with us.” Or in other phrase,
sinceGod is man and nature man, “many
a savage,” says Parker, ‘‘[iis hands smear
ed over with human sacrifice, shall come
from the East and V» r est, and sit down in
the kingdom of God, with Moses and
Zoroaster, with Socrates and Jesus.”—
Thus we are taught in shocking blasphemy
that the worst method of life will answer
as well as the best.
And again, be enjoined bis disciples “to
obey God, as the spirituality of spirit,
which is imminent in all "things , in the
blush ofthe rose and in the bite of the dog;
in the breath of the breeze and iu the howl
of the maniac. Believe that the Divine
incarnation is in all mankind ; therefore,
imitate it and if we sin, ask no forgivness.”
Nor need u;e wonder that’, from the same
source, the^Intercessor for Mankind, tho
Savor, is sneered at as “the Attorney by
which we are to approach the Infinite.”—
Or, that when such systems have their
devotees in religion, Abolition has its
devotees in political ethics? Or that a
spirit of hostile encroachment should mark
the carreer ol t!|is cabal of egotistic zealots,
and that State lines are’•obliterated and
constitutional faith dissolved as figments
in their crazed imaginations ? Alas ! this
war is teaching the people, too late, that
the Federal Union is not to bo carried on
by the dogmas of Brahama, or the sophisms
of Emerson, or the infidelity of Parker ?
\\ e arc taught, too late, that a system of
public morality prevalent in one section, is
not the guide of duty under the Constitu
tion ; that the iuexorablelaws of economy,
of climate, soil, Jiroduction, supply and
demand, are not to be ovewuled by the
poetry of Whittier about the oppressed
black, or the vagaries of Sumner about the
barbarism of slavery.
I have thus traced the history *nd
look well to their necks in that hour of
retribution. (Applause.)
Address of Gen. S. S. Hill.
Headquarters, Goldsboro’, N. C., )
February 25th, 1S63. )
The undersigned has been placed in
charge of the troops in North Carolina.
In assuming command, ho would address
a few words of exhortalion to liis forces :
Soldiers! Yonr brutal and indignant
enemy is putting’ forth efforts unexampled
in the history of the world. Having fail
od to subjugate you, he is maddened with
the thirst for vengeance, and is pushing
None know his daring enterprise and
dashing heroism, better than those foul
invaders, though strangers themselves to
such noble traits.
i His late brilliant exploit—the capture
| of Brig. Gen. Stoughton, U. S. A., two
J Captains, thirty other prisoners, together
: with their arms, equipments and fifty-
i eight horses—justifies this recognition ii>
! General Orders.
This feat, unparalleled in the war, was
performed in the midst of the enemy’s
i troops, at Fairfax Court Honse, without
loss or injury.
The gallant band of Capt. Mosby share
the glory, as they did the danger, of this
are worthy of such a
J. E. R Stuart,
Major General Commanding.
i—♦—i
Widows arc the very mischief, says a
forward his foreign mercenaries to plunder enterprise, and
your property and lay waste your homes, j leader. -
But liis marauding hosts have been so of-
ton beaten and baffled, that they are now
discouraged and demoralized. Should
you be able to check them everywhere for
the nest sixty days, the three hundred
thousand whose time expires in May, will i rival of Sam Weller, ’i here’s nothing
not rc-cnlist, and the war wili^nd before I like’em. If they make up their minds to
July. Should thn scoundrels however | marry, it’s done. I knew one that was
gain a.substantial success at any one point, terrible afraid of thunder and lightning,
the war will be prolonged during the en- ; aqd every time a storm come on she would
tire administration of Lincoln. It becomes j run into Mr. Smith’s house (Smith was a
a solemn duty then, to labor and to fight ; widower,) and clasp her little hands, and
during the next two months as we have Ay around like a hen with her head cut
never done before. We must make the °ff rill the man was half distracted for
,war unpopular with the mercenaiy van- , fear she would be killed ; and the conse-
dals of the North, by harrassing and-an- quence was,, she was Mrs. John Smith
noying them. We must cut down to six before-three thunder storms rattled over
feet by two, the dimensions of tho farms her head. How many they had after that,
which these plunderers propose to appro- ! I don’t exzacklj know myself.
priate. You will have to endure more ’ —
hardships, and to fight more desperate bat- [ Famine thc So „, A ._ The New York H er»ld has
tics than you womd have done, were your an article under this heading,- in which it sat*
ranks properly filled. Our cities, towns that if to ihe other misfortunes of the South that
and villages, are full of*young and able unappeased hunger be super-added, there c»n
bodied skulkers, wearing ,be seinUuuce of j
men, who have dodged from tllC battle- the s-aboard cities.and thus cut them off from the
field under the provisions of thc exemption I outside world It says the South does not lack
bill. The scorn of tho fair sex, and the I men, arms or munitions of war, but that itdo««
contempt of all honorable men. have not ! need food for tta armiea.
been able to drive these cowardly iniscrc-
anfs into the ranks. So long as they can J 1R0M VICKSBURG,
fatten upon the miseries of the country, j Vicksburg, March 25th.—Two of the
and shelter their worthless carcasses from , enemy’s boats attempted to pass dowu tne
isterday morning. Our Batteries
- r upon them with effect. One was
sunk opposite onr Batteries; the other,
badly riddled, now lies opposite the L* n *
Batteries. It is expected ehe will ho
sunk. She was set on fire but appeared
to have extinguished it.
Yankee bullets, they are insensible to river
shame. But a Jay of retribution aw^ts opene
these abortions of humanity. Their own
descendants will execrate their memory,
when the finger of scorn i^ pointed, and
the taunt is uttered, “he is the son, or
great grand-son,.of an exempt or axtor-
tioner.”
Do your full duty, soldiers, and leave
most every shot took
i spten