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i - ■ ■ - - (, * , \ ft pert ti c( K®«. » * t*i, Ohi», 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