2 PURITANISM E POLITICS. SPEECH HON. S. S. COX, OF OHIO, BErOEE THE DEMOCRATIC UNION ASSOCIATION, January 13, 1863. NEW-YORK: VAN EVRIE. HOftTON & CO 1863. PRICE, by EXPRESS, $2.00 PER HUNDRED; $15.00 PER THOUSAND. By MAID. SINGLE COPIES FIVE CTS., or FORTY OTS. PER DOiEN. 1 PURITANISM IN POLITICS. HON. S. S. COX, OF OHIO, BEFORE THE Democratic Union Association, Jan, 13th, 1363. The rooms of the Democratic Union Asso- ciation, at 932 Bioadway, were crowded, on the evening of the 13th of January, to their fuller capacity, go that all the aisles and entrances were filled, to listen to an address from Hon. S. S. Cox, of Ohio. The audience was of the most intelligent and enthusiastic character.— Amoig those piesent were Judge Barbour, Judge McCunn, Hon. E. P. Norton, Hon. Jas. Brocks, ar d Hon. Gideon J. Tucker. The hall of the Association has been newly arranged, painted trd decorated, and is well lighted, warm and comfortable. Over the speakers' plaifcim is a gasjet formiDgthe woid « Union.' It is the intention of the Association to hold weekly or eemi-montly meetinge, to be ad- dressed by the most prominent Democratic or at oi-8 of the country. The course promises to be most interesting and effective. Hen. Luke F. Cozzens, the President of the Association, introduced Mr. Cox, in a few ap- propriate words. Mr. Cex was received with great applause. When the applause had subsided, he spt ke as follows : 8 WW Gentlemen of the Young Men's Democbat- ic Association of New Yobk :— It this hearty enthusiasm were before an election I could more readily understand it. It eeems, how- ever, that you have begun the campaign of 1864. (Cheers.) Let us be patient and perse- vering ; and if the great central States will Btand by the West till then, as they did last fall, we may rescue the government from the hands of the spoi'ers, aud reiuvigorate the national life from that fountain of all power, the people. (Great cheers.) Gentlemen, a New England orator, Tristram Bulges?, once said, that " we were surrounded, protected and secured by our Constitution, from the pow- er and violence of the world, as some wealthy regions are, by their own barriers, sheltered from the ravages of the oceau. Bat a email, insidious, persevering reptile mav, unseen, hore through the loftiest and bro»dest mound. The water follows its path, silently aud imper- ceptibly at first, until at length a breach is made ; and the ocean rushing in, flocks and herds, and men, are swept away by the del- uge." Puritanism is the reptile, which has been boring into the mound, which is the Constitu- tion, (cheers) and this civil war comes in like the devouring sea ! Its rushing tide of devas- tation will not be stayed until the reptile is crushed and the mound rebuilt. This will nev- er be accomplished until an administration ob- tains control, which, in the language of Gov. Seymour, can grasp the dimensions and con- trol the sweep of this sanguinary flood. (Great cheers. > To obtain such an administration, the people will, unhappily, have to wait for some two years. Meanwhile, what new schemes of division may farther distract ue. My apprehension is, that before the people can thoroughly reform themselves or the conduct of their government, another and tenfold worse civil strife miy be raging ; not the South against the North ; not slave against free States, but the North against itself. I pray God in his mercy to avert such dangers. The hatred not of New England, but of its arrogant, selfieb, narrow and Puritan policy, now domi- nant in the Federal government, will, I fear, lZW he *{* y6d nntil bIood is shed in our 2„ e "topped it ; the maintenance by the Administration of the policy marked out in the ^ mer ,° f 1861 > which declared no war for ■^SSPfu ?r° autl 8lay ery crusade. This alone tha unl 6 ft Thi8 m > ht have Preserved tnat unity Bat I see no hopes of a return to W« &E*i£ T, he bigots^of New E™land }lrl«i. thei? " Chandlers in Michigan and their Greeleys m New York, and the anti-slavery £oneTwwE tUme8 - I ,° d6ed il i8 OOW ques^ TTn?«n wh . e K th ef. any pohcy can now restore the Union. Abolition has made the Union, for the present, impossible, (« That's so." An oi°^ d Pe °? le ma -T strike b "»»dly and madly, and the result may be the formation of new al- L^°n e J tt ra ° Dg ! h9 SUtea and fre »h conflicts among the people. /»*l 8 t o1 \f W < e if er , n J man » representing the Coital of the leading State of the north ™ 3t JZ mg t he " e Pa8 ' Pix y ear *> I have not been unobservant of the signs in that £h!»ff: * ■ persistently opposed all schemes of secession and division. I yet op. p0 H 6 D i 6 t m - ? Ut , 1 am f * r behiDd the impulse and sentiment of the West. The erection o' tbfi States, watered by the Mississippi ad its tributaries into an independent R-publi? ; Lw™n g T lt8 u 0Wn ree °u^es, mineral and agricultural, with a soil so fat that if you < : tickle it with a hoe, it wiil laugh with a harvest ;" [cheers] -a connection with whi.-h, would be seught by the South and the East, yet choosing for itself i -s cheapest and best outlet to the sea; banded together by river and homo- S??y ° f interest-is becoming something more than a dream. It is the talk o* every o n- er western man. All fall into it, with a facility which is shocking to the olden sense ofnation- amy. I 8 peak of these schemes onlv to dis «£ P f r , ? ,Tn aid t0 W8 ? a - Juwt as in 18 6i. in my 2^™« K g " 8e> *■ Warned of 8imildr southern schemes, bm m vain. All warning Ml n n sod- den hearts. In vain the lamented Douglas rr& l n*- # th , e noble Crittenden plead fSm ™ T Cmtenden «] New England fanat- icism made compromise impossible. Let us now be warned in time I As patriotic men, loving our whole country, we must understand the sources of this new discontent. The West protest no % as New York and Pennsylvania and New Jersey protested in the last elections,' that they desire to stand in the Union, projected by all the muniments of the Constitution Gov Seymour (great cheers; means much and well' Hf^l « T, that tbt!8e central a f d western BUtes will »t last assure us of our old union. [Oheers] They are willing to perform the v2 jag ^ d03e ^ the 8hi P wb o may They will keep all he shipping articles-break them who ££" hT tl? d n U0 ! J - iDtend t0 be ru ^ d . how ever, by the Constitution-breaking, law defv- u& , D rT°' 0VlD ^', Phanseeiem of New Eng- W« Ju l A V01c , e - let her slide"- cheers. ] No. oT8tfoit k h^ herin0 ? L f r good behavior and oast forth the seven devils of clerical meddling f^iw ^ mo 1 n opolizing aggrandizement from this S ^h R i> ale °- .ELaughter] From the so- acIinHMhf. 01 '* 1 ? ban Whioh w;11 be w«ed ♦ g « a r .L 9 , P e 4 8tllen t section, wiU issue ano- 0onHt"Juo» b . ett8r ° rd6r ° f tMng8 ' UDder the Tnrkllnf "/a""* D ° mocrati c young men of New of ii-m«L^ coun tenanc 9 any of these schemes of dismemborment, which we of the West wll X'u .*? repr T i bttt never cease day nor night to warn the people of the new rocks and fresh breakers which threaten. He who is most faithful in pointing them out in time chough he may be reviled, gives the best proof of single hearted loyalty and will be approved by his conscience and his God. Denying all sympathy with any scheme which would in anv way mutilate the Republic, I boldly declare to you these new and growing dangers. Jeffer- son Dt-vis is aware of these things ; and counts largely upoa the weakness, incertitude and di- vision eo gendered by the fatal errors of this Administration. Already the Democratic organ ot Cincinnati and the Republican organ at Chi- cago are issuing their warnings in season. Ihe latter advises its friends in Congress, that the farmer who is selling his corn for ten cents per busnel, if he does not use it for firewood is not easily satisfied that there does not exist' somewhere, a way through which those who act tor him at Washington may aff.rd him re- lief. AU^ast, he will, if the relief ctnnot be instant, want to know why io should not be prospective. He is perfectly aware that while New England is getting the benefit*, the West is suffering tne burdens of this war. lu M->w Eagia-jd, the merchants and man- ufacturers have accumulated fortunes with Aladdin-like rapidity. There, wages are high and contracts abundant ; while the West with 'he Mississippi sealed, is charged extorionate rates in the transportation of its produce and m the price of its purchases. Its people are * robbed by tariff, and robbed on what they sell and wbat they buy. Mr. Beecher has boasted that tiod has given the Yankee that intelli- gence that knows how to turu to gold all it touches. [Laughter.] I. is his insatiate cu- pidity, miugled wrh his Puritanism, which is now miking men study the new Census; which makes New York wonder wny, wi'h a less pop- uhviou, New England has twelve Senators to her two I Ohio, too, ponders the fact that her population is greater, by 435,294, than five New England S-ates, yet they have ten Senators while she has two 1 The West is beginning to ask whether this political equality among the bates, made for a. wise reaso j, is to be used tor her oppression ; whether to that souice is attnbu able the partial legislation which fos- ters manufacture and burdens the consumer ■ which hampers the free interchange and enter- prize of this great emporium ; wmch shuteoff uie competition of the world and gives to New E jglaud fabrics the monopoly among ten mil- lions ot westera farmers. Wny are we to pay fifty per cent more for goods, and lose fifcy per- cent on whe it, and corn aud pork ? Fifty per cent ! I should say ninety per cent, adding the cost of gold.iu whi<:h the tariff is paid, to the custom duties, which the consumer at last pays, lo gra'it'y one favored class and sec ion, are the laws of economy suspended with the Constitu- tion ? (Laughter aud cheers.) Is free trade good, when ft takes off the duty and ;stops the revenue on madder and coloring matter but bad it it le*s in free cotton and v>oolen fabrics ? Is it right to tax Illinois whiskey until the man- ufacture is stopped, to gratify the members from Maine, and let the tariff remain on wood- screws, to enrich a Rhode Island comp*nv ? Oue i made in the West and tue other in New England ; but is that a reason why the one should be burdened by an internal tax to de- stroy, while the other bears an external tax to toster ? Do you wonder that, at public meet- ings West it is resolved that the Mississippi Valley shall no longer be tributarv to Yankee cupidity and folly, and that men madly crv out : "New England fanaticism and specula- tion have made Disunion ! New England stands 5 in the way of Re-Union ! Perish New England, that the Union may live !" (Great cheering, and a voice, « We've had enough of her.")— Ihere 13 a legend related of St. Lawrence. As ne lay on the gridiron, conscious that he was sufliciently done on one side, he requested the cook", if not too inconvenient, to tun him over and do him on the other. (Laughter.) I tear the West will never be canonized, if it requires such double sacrifices to reach the saintly calendar. (Laughter.) Bat these economic abuses can be righted by another Congress. The evils are temporary.— -t?! 7 *°uld be borne.but unhappily they seem- ed to be accjmpanied by an element harder to master— the Pubitanism of ew England.— (Hisses ) This is bred in the bone. It is the same now, that it was hundreds of jears ago. Like begets like. Generation succeeds gener- ation, wi h the same stamp of Puritan charac- ter; taking success for justice, egotism for greatness, curming for wisdom, cupidny for enterprize, sedition for liberty, and cant for piety. (Applause ) The West do not com- plain merely that their interests are sacrificed by New England capitalists, for their aggran- dizement; but they detest the idea ot Puritan poutice, ^at sins should be reformed by tlie mate, and that the Sta'e should unite its func- tions practically with the church, for the pro pagation of mcral and religious dogmas. For these objects the laws of economy and the dic- tates of public opinion which ever lock to the interest of sections and men are disiegarded — He who fails to observe these laws under- stands lifle of the science of government.— JNew England may be accounted smart in intel- lect, cuutiing in invention and energetic in in- dustry. She may boast of her hbrari s, schools, churches and press. She may understand cne science which subsidizes th<» lever, the pulley, the cj linder and wheel. She mav study, as 1 he worm does, how 'o draw a thread fine, and, like the spider, how to nuke the web. She may understand the mechanism of mater, and may boast of an Archimedes and a Jacquard in every factory ; but such smartness maybe un- able to comprehend 1 he machinery of a State. It may bring— nay, it has already brought— crash and confusion where better minds evolv- ed baa ty and harmony ! (Apolauoe ) Ic is not true that New England is emurt in the sense of wisdom. It is not smart to be informed on one side of a question. Ons-aided information is the hlankeot ignorance. A man who reads the Tribune exclusively, has but a crazy acti- vity of mind. (Laugtiler ) It is no evidence of smartness that New Ingland should array against her tha ideas of the rest of the Union. She showed no smartness in allowing this war to begin, .vhen she could have prevented i'.— She has shown none in her estimate of the for- midable character of the rebellion. She has shown none in her Morr 11 tariffs and her schemes of emancipation. Is it smart to build factories and destroy the very sources of the cotton which runs them ? Is it smart, to over- tax, for her own benefit, a more powerful sec- tion, as she has the West ? If ..he is not driven fiom the Union, she will be humiliated in it. (Cheers.) But it is neither wue nor just to impeach a wh.de people for the ciisdo- ings and error* of a part, even when that part is dominant. While, therefore, I analyze the elements of New England Society, and tneir re- lations to our politics, I shall not confound that which is good with that which is mischie- vous. In Colonial times, the resentful bigotry of an Endicott was relieved by the amiable character of a Winthrop ; as in later times Dan- iel Webster (cheers) stands like a granite rook repelling the wave of New Eogland isms.— (Cheers. ) I would not confound Rufus Choate, Chief Justice Shaw, Benjamin F. Thomas and Judge Curds, and such illustrious men (cheers) with Theodore Parker, WeadeU Phillips. Gov. Andrew, Charles Sumner, and the lesser spawn of Transcendentalism. (Hisses.) The one class have ever cultivated the graces of civil order ; the oher have been and are the Mar- plots of the Republic. I speak of that ruling element, which even before it reached our shores, while it was in exile in Holland, while it ruled in early days at Plymouth and at Boston, and which has since been distributed all over our country, presents always the same selfish, pharasaical, egotistic and intolerant ti pe of character. We find it in our politics to day, as the Tudors found it three hundred years ago, ever meddling for harm : and yet seeking its own safety by concessions! but never conceding anything for the welfare of other.-", unless, thereby, it could help itself in larger msasure. (Laughter and cheers.)— Even in the time of Elizabeth, it compromised with its persecutors, by agreeing to the passage of a bill by Parliament which shielded the Presbyterians, but provided a punishment for the Separatists. Hopkins closes his history of the Puritans of that time, by saying, with dis- criminating justice, that " we do not claim for them that hey had well defined and correct ideas of civil liberty. For example, the dis- pensing power of the sovereign— utterly in mockry of all legislation and practically a canker at the root of civil liberty— seems to have been generally admitted by them." Jusfc as now, when it suits their interest and object they clamor for the proclamations and confis- cations, which dispense with the Constitution. (Applause.) It we are to take their own account of them- selves, as f.»r instance, when garnished with the rhetoric of Banccofr, one might infer that they deserved the eulogy of Macaulav, and that every petty presbyter was the vicegerent of the \Icsc Hgh, specially anointed to reproach mankind with its shortcomings. (Laughter.) The truth is, that the r history, as written by themselves, has been gl .ssed with lalseaood.— Investigation is fast rubbiog off the lacquer and the roiten framework of their ethics and* politics is beginning to appear. If the? are permuted to write the annals of this present war, the truth will never app ar. (Laughter ) But so momentous a conflict as this has awak- ened better minds ; and ia the history which posterity will read, the Puritans will play the part of intermeddling destructives, self-willed and intolerant, beyond any characters yet known to his'oiy. The grand keynote of the Puritan is, tha •' slavery" was the cause of this war, and thi as men and Christians, we should extirpate t. I do not intend now to rofu-e this fallacy. Our past seventy years refer e it. Because slavery was meddled wi h, and returned iu violence wha w,s given in wrath and nulice, it does not follow hat it was the cause of the violence. The doctrine of the French Socialist Proudhon' that proptiny is robbery, and should be abol- ished, is a sample of the same fallacy.* What is kiown as Abolition is, in the moral sense the cause of the stri'e. (Cheers ) Abolition ia * I am indebted for this felicitous ; llustrati speech of the distinguished member of Con" Kentucky, Hon. John W. Menaies. the offspring of Puritanism. Until Abolition arose, the Union was never seriously menaced; the Constitution was never endangered. Puri- tanism introduced the moral elements involved in slavery into politics, and thereby threw the church into the arena. Our Caristianity, therefore, becrme a wrangler about human in etitutions. Churches were divided and pulpi's desecrated. A certain class in a certain section were sinners and were damned forever. Spe- culative discussion about a higher law than the organic political law, poisoned politics and be- gat asperities of sections. The first harrangue of George Thompson, in this country, under the auspices of the Fessendens of Maine and Garrisons of Massachusetts, was predicated on the idea that slavery was a sin against God ; and that no Christian people should tolerate it. I hold in my hand the letters and addresses by Geoige Thompson, during his mission hero. In his first address, at Lowell, October 5, 1834, he laid down the dogmas which are now being worked out in disunion and blood. He said : " The medium through which he contemplated the various tribes that peopled earth was one which blended all hues Toward sin in every form, no mercy should be shown. A war of ex- termination should be waged with the woiks of the devil. . . Misguided patriotitm spread the alarm, ' the Union is in danger,' But whom should they obey ? He boldly answered God, who required that men should cease to do evl." He demanded that the Con-titution should be changed " What, though the Union was in daDger !" said this interloper ; " there is every disposition amoEg British Aboltionists to extend to you their svmpathy, their counsel and their co ntrtfmlions." We are now getting in overmeasure the sympathy, counsel and contributions of these lovely kinsfolk — the English Abolitionists. (Cheers and laughter ) Following this, as the logical consequence of these higher-law noti >ns, came auo r her vol- ume, which I hold in my hand : " The Consti- tution, a Pro Slavery Compact,or Extracts from the Madison Papers, &c , selected by," whom think you? Wendell Phillips! [Hisses] In this volume, it was shovn, as I quote : " That a compromise was made between freedom and slavery iu 1787.. granting to. the slaveholder dis- tinct privileges and protection for his slave' property, in return tor certain commercial con- cessions od his part toward the North. They proved al-o, that the na*ion at large were fully aware of this bargain at the time, and entered into it, »willingly and with open eyes." In thesame volume %re. collected from the speech- es of Webster aid Quiucs Adams, certain pas- sages, showing that slavery had its prote cmou in the Constitution, and therefore, the Consti- tution was a league with death and a covenant with hell. It wound up with the demand : "No Union with slaveholders." Perhaps Weud-11 Phillips may not be consid- end by some as a representative of the Ke publican party. But, he does truly represent this Administration, with i:s proclamation of liberty. Look at the votes in Congress on my motion on yesterday, to lay on the tabl« a reso- lution by Thaddeus S'evens [hissei-] to raise 150,000 martial negroes. [Hisses.] Why, one would judge from that that the wnile race in this countr},like the Yankee's calf, was "pretty nearly gin eout." [Great laugh'er ; a voice, "They wan' to, g« f the niggd they do ? T >e Enperor of France, in his Idees Napoleonieenes, (page 40) answers the question waen he says it is " al- most always seen that iu times of trouble, the oppressed cry out for liberty themselves, and having obtained it, they refuse to grant it to others. There existed in England, iu the sev- enteenth century, a rehgious and republican sect, which beiag persecuted, resolved to go be- yond the seas to an uninhabited world, there ro enjoy that sweet and holy liberty which the Old World refused to grant. Victims of intol- erance certaiuly, these independent men will, in the new country, be more just than their op- pressors ! But, inconsistency of the human heart ! the very first law passed b; the Puri- tans founding a new society in the State of Massachusetts, was one declaring the penalty of dea*h to those who thould dissent from these religious d ictrines." This is the testi- mony of all history, as I shall presently show. Before they left E igland, King James said of them, we doubt not with some truth, that they were pests iu the church and common we ilth. When the Majflowar aud the Speedwell were on the sea with their Ireight of Pilgrims, the same perversity among themselves occurred. Their own historian, Elliott, (p. 57,; says, " That these vessels contained the Pilgrim wheat sift- ed from the three kingdoms ; bu f ," he aaya, " that it needed sifting once or twice more." [Laughter.] One of their leaders said : "Our voyage hitner (from Hollaed to Dartmouth,) hath been as fall of crones as ourselves of crookedness" [Laughter.] Later, in 1621, he again said, what was no doubt true, "that they were yoked wi:h some ill conditioned people, who will never do good, but corrupt and abune others." Oliver, in his history, proves that the captain of the Mayflower was bribed by the Dutch, who had settlements in this viciuity, not to land the Pilgrims in or near the Hudson, where they intended to settle. [Laughter, aad a voice, " that's true."] If there are any pray- ing: Knickerbockers here — [cries of " plenty," and laughter] I hope that I may not be consid ered intrusive upon spiritual concerns, if I suggest that it u not too late, even yet, to give thanks for that pious fraud wbich led to this hap y riddance ! [Great laughter.] There is no doubt that, when exiled, as soon as they learned the language in Holland, they began to wrangle with the Dutch about their creed. This will account for the anxiety about their presence in the island of Manhattan. It is a mistake to suppose that the Pilgrims left Holland on account of religious persecution. The reason which they gave for leaving Ley- den was that the Dutch would not observe the Sabbath, and the fear lest their children should grow up to be dissipated Dutchmen. [Laugh ter.l But there were other reasons. They an- ticipa f ed poverty, and were grealty influenced, as is sometimes the case yet with their de- scendants, by worldly considerations. [Laugh- ter.] In the language of the time, their hopes of wealth mingled largely and freely with their hopes of heaven. [Laughter.] Adventure to- ward New England, by the northern company, was not inspired by the yield of gold and silver, though visions of " mines which lay hid in the earth," were not wanting. But their treasures lay in the sea, and their divining rod held- its hook and line. [Laughter.] They came here to serve God and catch fish. [Laughter.] — When the Pilgrims went to James for their charter, he asked : " What profits do you in- tend ?" On being told " fishing," he replied, ironically, " So God have my soul, 'tis an hon- est trade, 'twas the apostles own calling " [Laughter.] It is a pity to spoil the poetry of Mrs. Hemans about the Pilgrims, by painting them as fishermen, who expected to find silver in the mouth of the fish they took ; but eo it is. We can say of them, with truth, that they " sacrificed to their net, and burned incense to their drag, because by them their portion is fat and their meat plenteous." Their descen- dents have not forgotten unto this day, to urgt that the government of the Union should give them their fishing bounty. It is one among the privilege* enjoyed by New England for her godly and apostohc mode of life. [Laughter.] When they catch a cod out comes a tax from a western farmer ! But when we catch a catfish or a sucker, out West, we do not get any boun- ty. [Laugher] The Puruan historian Elliott remarks upon the second ship load of Pilgrims, called Wes- ton's nisn, that they were utterly demoralized ; so much eo, that one of their numbers, "from a lack of principle, while gathering clams, stuck in the mud and died there 1" (Laugh- ter.) The early annalists do not forget to re- cord the fact, that as early as 1626, Capt. Wol- lastin's company arrived ; and that one Morton seduced them into quaffing and drinking, danc- ing and frisking ; and that therefore they were no better than atheists. One of the moral tri- umphs of the Puritans consists in their having cut dowu the May pole of the-e revelers and caotured their jui keting captain. This tendency to m ike government a moral reform association appears all through their histcy. It is the especial curse of this nation at the'present time. This anti-slavery propa gandism springs from it. Bead the barbarous and silly codes of laws in Massachusetts and Connecticut, punishiug Qiakeis with death and fining persons twelve pence for smoking tobacco within two miles of a meeting house ; (laughter) or the penal laws against Dissen- ters vo ? iDg and against walking in the gardens on Sabbath ; or the horrid cruelties against witebcraft and the puerile enactments against making mines pies on a Sunday — (laughter) — which obtained in these colonies, where the foundations of Democratic liber y are said to have been established. Is not the 3ame spirit vet rife which mingles morals and politics, to the detriment of botn ? (Cheers.) The Maine liquor lav and the revenue tax law on liquors spring from the same source. Regardless of the rights of property in the one ca- devils." His sayiog would have more truth e, eated now, for the present gene- ration. The same go istic intolerance is observable in heir trea ai^ut of Roger Williams in 1 35. ,8 persecut rg lever came to New England Their system tolerated no contradiction and allowed of no dissent. The statutes of uniiormi- ty 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, and whose intolerant s pirit has produced in our time that sectional aliena tion which deluges the land in blood. The New England Pilgrim drove Roger Williams into the winter wilderness, as he drove Mrs. Hutchin- son and Coddington to the same exile, for dif- ferences of opinion in religion. He enacted laws forbidding trade with these outlaws for con- science sake. Savages were more kind than these bigots; for the Indians hospitably re- ceived the victims of persecution. Disdaining the pope as an> i-Christ, and hating the prelate, these harsh Pilgrims set up every little vanity of a preacher as their pope infallible, every vil- lage Paul Pry as an inquisitor, and every sister communicant as a spy for the detection ot heresy. It is an unpleasant task to recall the fierce disputes of these "gospel magistrates." The trial of Vane and Coddington^ and the trial of Wain wright and Mrs. Hutchinson are frui'ful in suggestions bearing on the present time. Eighty-two distinct heresies were passed upon at one time by the Synod at Boston. In these isms of that early day, you will find the type of all the isms of the present ; including tree loveism, which has its counterpart in the Fa- milists. The history of Puritanism is a cata- logue of muiders, mannings, extortions ai d outrage?, contrary to English common law, and against every notion of human justice and liberty. Ransack historv from rhe death of Abel to the present, and you will find no such cruehies as those practiced by the prejudiced, dyspeptic Puritans, not only upon the white ci- tizen aid the Indian, but upon the simple Acadian ppasant, whose distant homes they invaded and destroy ed That, iron-vi&aged man, in his high peaked hat and ruff, whether he played the part of magistrate and elder, or of Dugald Dilgetty, like Captain Miles Standish, impelled ei her by his "conscience or his ca- tarrh," ri es from the daik back ground ot colonial history, the most hateful image ever pictured by Time, the more detestable because many of his victims, as in the far- off Acadia, were the most patient, gentle and tolerant of men! No wonder a New Eugland poet, Hal- leck, writes : " Herod of Gallilee's babe butchering deed, Lives not on history's blushing page alone, Our skies, it seems, hive seen like victims bleed, And our own Ramahs < choed groan for gri an ; The fiends of France, whose cruelties decreed Those dexterous drownings in the Loire and Rhone, Were, at thfir worst, but copyist^, tecood-hand, Of our shrined, sainted sires — the Plymouh PilgTim band." (Cheers ) Had these Puritans remained in England, they mighthave become martyrs to their faith, and died glorying in religious persecution. But ruth demands that we should call them by their own names ; they were iu America the cruel zealots of bitter persecution, the more odious because they professed so differently ; the more odious still because they were re- proved in their own generation by better and nobler men, like Williams, who were their vic- tims. Were there not so much of suffering and malice attendant upon such intoleraece, we might dismiss it all into that . " Limbo broad and large, and called The Paradise of fools." All that relieves New England from the black- ness of these reproaches, is her splendid zeal and sacrifice for independence in the subse- quent century. Though it is by no means clear that she would not have rebelled against the best government on earth, or even a common- wealth of angels, not according to her own no- tions, yet the mother country gave her cause, and she vindicated it with spirit. The boast that the Pilgrims were the fathers of Democratic liberty in this country, is ab- solutely untrue, unless 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 Plymouth which remained separate from Massachusttts Bay until 1688, is pointed to, as the exemplar in this great work or human progress. The truth is, that Plymouth received its privileges in a mer- cantile line, from the London, Virginia, and after wards from the Plymouth Company of ad- venturers. They left England, because 'hey had not the stamina to rtmain and contend, like the Hampdens, Sydneys and Miltone, for their English privileges. Bradford, Brewster and Carver may have been godly men ; but there were men in the Mayflower who wished a larger liberty than their leaders were wilhng to accord. The famous "Compact," signed in the cabin of the ship, ll/.h November, 1620, was forced from the superiors by their inferiors. So says the historian. (Elliott, 104.) I quote : " The men of birth and education among the Pilgrims, and they were few, did not intend a Democracy. They had no faith in it." The social distinction between "Mr." and "Good- man" still continued. Not until Williams.and Codding'on, respectively, at Providence and Portsmouth, R. 1 , 6stabliohed the first Demo- cracy in America, with the majority of the freemen to make laws, and upon tne ba-ris that no man should be made ciiminal for " doc- trines," was there aay true political or real liberty in New England In Massachusetts, according to Jud^ge Story, five sixths of the people were disfranchised, because they were not members ot the church. The codi of anti- Democratic sumptuary laws is the moat abo- minable ever enacted, not merely for its harsh- ness of penalty, but f i r its caste discrimina- tion. It seemslcopied from the Gentoo code. In- deed, 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 very flagrant cases. The exceses of ap- parel were provided- against rigorously. Men of mem condition were not allowed to dress in gold and silver lace, or buttons, or points at their knees, or to walk in great boots, [Ianghter,] or women of the same rank to wear silks, hoods or scarfs. In Harvard College pen- alties were meted out up'-tn the same Gentoo code of caste. This was Democracy iu Massa- chusetts. In this Commonwealth the directors of a company usurped the power of rulers and magistrates. The elders of the church upheld them. John Cotton wrole with pious horror that " Democracy was not ordained as fit for the government either of church or Common- wealth ; as for monarchy and aristocracy they are both of them clearly approved and directed by the Sctiptures." The "freemen rose against both church and rulers, and after a long oon- test, the freemen succeeded ; but they, too, hroke the charter. No one was allowed to be a freeman, but a church member, and the State relapsed into a bigoted church oligarchy. — Then began a new contest for supremacy. 10 The church, of course, took the side of the ol- igarchy, the Puritan leaders still struggling against the growth of civil liberty. Tnerepub lican cast into which the govern meat was final- ly moulded, was* forced upon it, by the free- men, in spite of the elders and magistrates The very genius of their religion disfranchised the people, and, strange as it. may seem, the people disfranchised by the church, owed then their final emancipation into Deaiocractic lib erty to the compulsory interposition of Charles II. In the seventeenth ceutury Puritanit-m muzzled the press and sealed the l'ps of its vie tims and euemies, just as in the nineteenth the same inveterate foe of Democracy has done the same thiDg. The wrong headed fanaticism which refused to consider the Democratic Gos- pel of Love, c'ung to the old Testament with its lex talinnis for its codes. Familists and Bap- tists', Quakers and deludel people who gath- ered sticks for fire on a Sunday, were all pun- ished by the harsh Jewish code. All other crimesnot punished bj the law already enact- ed, were to be attended to, according to the old Bible, as the fanatic interpreted it, the <: high- er law" of their own private judgment beiog the interpreter. This is the boasted Pilgrim Democracy ! Do we wonder that crimes of the most dis- gusting and heinous character abounded here ? In 1689, the e'ders in Synod bewailed the great and visible decay of godlinesp. Apo^tacies and degeneracies, profaneness, debauchery, curs- ing, swearirg, lying, gaming, Sabbath break iDg, idleness, drunkenness and uncleanness constitute the frightful picture of the rule of Puritanism before a half century of rule in Mas- sachusetts. By striving to make the church political they did not make the State religious. The smallest privilege of citizenship was only obtained through grace and aaintship, and hence, general hypocrisy and demoralization were the results. It is not within the scope of this address to show how these men of God treated the Indi- ans. Their doctrine, that lands unoccupied by agriculture it was theirs to take, " vacuum domicilium, ceditoccupciidi" was deduced from the Jewish code, just as they held and traded in slaves, by the same code. What a civiliza- tion is this to be commended to the acceptance to-day, of twenty millions of people 1 " The rules for our guidance in national trouble can never come from such a source. What has New England done for the country? Much every way, a-i Governor Andrew boasts, but chiefly this, as I think. She has sent to us, as to New York, many liberal-minded, noble men. She has given us Douglas, [cheers,] Sey- mour, [cheers,] McClellsn. [Great cheering— " three cheers for Gen. McClellan."] Liberal, great, but liberal and great because they have repudiated Puritan teaching. [Applause.] Moreover, she gave Samuel Adams tor Revolu- tionary counsel, and, in later days, Rufus Choate, to admonish us of the dangers of sec- tionalism. In the old war she gave Greeue and Stark, neither of them representing the Puritan » lenient. Greene was a Quaker of Rhode It-land, and moved South. Stark was a Democra', and one of his dependents, who, last year, was the Democratic candidate for Governor df New Hampshire, is now battling against Puritanism in that S ate. In the late war, she give us Gen. Hull, as in the Revolu- tion, Gen. Arnold, and as now she gives us Gen. Butler. [Groans and hisses for Butler ] NewEuglaud voted against Jefferson at first, and her pulpit reviled him as it did Douglas. j She voted against Jackson at first, and her I press slandered him, as it nowalanders McClel- ■ Ian. Her Josiah Quincys denounced the ac- I quisition of Louisiana, as in later days her i Sumners have denounced the South. Her Ma- thers, of the colonial days, thundered against the Quakers and Baptists, because they differ- ed in doctrine, just as lately, Butler closed the i churches of New Orleans because the ministry I would not pray as Butler — the Saint — dictated. [" The old traitor " Hisses.] She denounced, in early times, the Indians as devils, whose I lands were forfeit, as now she denounces slav- ery, while her speculators slip through our I lines to dicker for slave produced secession cot- tos, ["That's true."] She has been the foe to the Democracy 'from the days of the Revolu- tion to the present hour. Her Marsaillese is a hymn of apotheosis to John Brown — a horse thief and a murderer. But amidst all these conflicts, she has had in her midst, a minority of liberal, steadfast and patriotic Democrats. I desire to be understood as casting no reflec- tion upon this heroic minority, soon, I trust, to become a triumphant majority. Already Connecticut and New Hampshire give us the signs of resurrection. [Cheers.] The chief cities of Massachusetts will throw off its Aboli- tion incubus, white Portland and New Haven already glory in democratic Congressmen. [Cheers.] To sum up the general aspect of this Puri- tanism : It does not appear to have exempli fied 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 sedition and to strengthen peace. It has al- ways had a squint-eyed intellect which reminds u e of— (A voice, " Bu'ler !" great cheering) — looking with two optics to one selfish point ; and a eunuch morality ever exclusive and re- vengeful. (Great applause.) Its solemn pre- tences to peculiar godliness were the general rule, wljile Liberty of Conscience and Democ- racy in polity were the exception. Instead of mskicg the church the tomb of dissentions, it made the church the theatre of strife, and carried into tho State the same pretension and bigotry hich it illustrated in the church. Its literature was of that vainglorious character, which yet distinguishes the descendants of the Puritans. vVhat it has gained in grace of style it has lost in sincerity. Mark its progress frbm the Mathers of three hundred years ago to the C leevers, Beechers and Patkers of to-day. — Swollen with spiritual pride, it complacently assumed to read the designs of Providence as if it was a part of the Godhead 1 (Cheers.) — Its harshness made the Conformist into a Se- paratist, the Separa*ist into an Anabaptist, the Anabaptist into a Quaker, and the Qu»ker into an Infidel From step to step in our day, it has run the round from orthodoxy, beginning with Mucklewrath Chtever, brimful of ven- geance against sins " he has no mind to," and winds up in that perfect infidelity and scepti- cism which Parker preached and Emerson sung. Exalting this life above the next, it is not con- tent with the order of Providence. It must as- sume control of the Chariot of the Sun, and di- rect all its shine and shadow. Alas 1 how fatal has been its direction in national affairs, this red chaos in our system now tells 1 (" That's so," and cheers.) The Puritanism of the Wil- derness of 1630 and 1690 was restricted in its results and evils. Now we see its workings on a grander scale, involving a C mtinent in its contentions. It is a power. So is Satan. It is intellectual. So are his ministers. It has pride, stubborn and egotisticil. So have had all scourges of ihe earch, from the Proconsul of Sicily to the Proconsul at New Orleans. Can anyone ask : " How is it possible tor such a civilization to he the cause of so great a civil war?" I will answer, because it is the pa- rent of AbolitioD, and because Abolition, such as Thompson and Phillips taugh r , found the right soil for their bad seed ; therefore it flour- ished to the overthrow of civil liberty, by the interrneddHng with S f ate institutions and so- j cial and labor systems, entirely alien to New i England, under the Federal Constitution. — Holding to the higher law, and at last obtain- i ing office under its banner, it spread distrust and apprehension of its excesses among one- half of the States, and rebellion, rash and un I justifiable, was the result. Men of no mark — mere pigmies, compared to Webster and Choate I — the Andrews' and Sumners of the day, inflat- 1 ed with an airy sentim'mtaham, began their i propagandism, to make saints by statute, and Paradises out of politics, and rallied all the isms to the one baneful and hated focus of Aboli | tionism, and drove the half of the nation to revolt by its contumely and aggressions (A.p- j plause.) Visionaries, mistaking their fancies j for the Gospel of. Kindness and Peace, intent upon the* restitution of the blacks to a liberty they onlv give them in fancy, destitute of all practical coccern for church and State, they have striven, like the classic sorceress, to give a new youth and beauty to the State, by dis- membering it. (Applause.) They substitute- their Piatonism lor the Gospel of Christ, and thereby lose that docility and humility which are the very essence of Christianity. At the New E igland dinner, not loDg since, Mr. Beecher took nride in these very charac- teristics. He gloried in the Yankee because " he was the most prying and meddlesome creature in God's world, the born radical of modern civilization, the pickpocket of creation (laughter,) that to leave N«w England out of the Union was to leave the head out of the body." (Hisses.) This is the old egotism. Tt is tbe same superciliousness which has produ- ced so much scorn So'ith, and is now alienating the West. This claim of all the intelligence and conscience of the land which comes from Boston and is echoed from Brooklyn, is the offshoot of the same pharasaical cant, which has sung its own praises through its nasal organ for three hundred yeare. (Great cheer ing and laughter.) It has assumed peculiar offensiveness now and here amidst the bloody strife, of which i' is a prominent contributor. I propose to examine the source of this ego- tistic and arrogaut philosophy It is not from the Gospel. It is not even a bad exaggeration of the old Puritanism, for that had many harsh and rigid vir'ue*. It comes from that ccterie known around Boston as Transcendentalism. Its first orsran was the devil. Its worst is the Tribune. (Laughter.) I r s most clever expon- ent was Emerson It has its priests, high and low, including the great Channing, who minis tered in hcly things with many enlarged grac >s of heart, to the little Channing, who foists himself into the Senate room at Washington of Sundays, to preach that &bolitiou hate and retail such slanaer against the Democracy as the powers at Washington seem most to relish. But what is this Transcendentalism? Whence, is it ? It is stolen from Hindoostan by Mr. Beecher's pickpocket of creation. (Laugher.) It is the emanation of Oriental speculation. — This I will prove. The smart Yankee has only plagiarised what the Vedas contain, what the Brahmins believe. All the poetic prose and prosaic poetry of Emerson ; all the vague gen- eralises of Alcott ; all the infidelity of Parker ; all the sen r im»n'alism of Phillips, come trom the Dialogues of Kve*rshna and Arjoon, oalled Bhagvat-Gee'a, orgiually written in he San- scrit, and translations of which, under the auspices of Warren Hastings, are to be found in some of the libraries. This philosophy can- not be called Pantheism, for that aotorbs na- ture and man in God. It is not Materialism, for tba* absorbs man and Gid iu na ure ; but it is the absorption of G >d and nature iu man, and that man the Brahmin or the Puritan ! — It believes in nothing but the 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 as holy aa he should be. This is the nearest approach of this sect to humility. He being all in all — he holds himself personally responsible for the obliquity of the earth's axis. (Laughter.) Do you wonder, therefore, that he holds himself responsible for slavery in Caroli- na? Ano'her, Emerson, holds that he (E ner- son) is G id ; that God is everything ; therefore he (Emersou) is everything. (Merriment.) Do you wonder, therefore, that since he makes the negro a part of himself, that he holds him to be his equal ? (Increased laughter ) Or that he believes that everything is — as he is ? Do you wonder at the imperturbable impudence and self-sufficiency of the Puritan thus indoc- trinated ? The Hindoos said : " Rich is that Universal Self, whom thou worshippest as the Soul " The same sentiment is found in the verse of Emerson : " Nothing is, if thou art not ; thou art under, over aU ; thou dost hold and cover all Thou art Arias ; thou art Jove !" Do you wonder that, under this philosophy, The Sou'h rn men and miod were underrated? That the greatness and strength of Massachu- setts and the North were overrated ? It was under these moonshiny delusions that Gover- nor Andrew foresaw the roads swarm with the myriads, who never trooped to the war, (laugh- ter,) and that Greeley betuld the nine hund- red thousand rush to Father Abraham, who are yet to rush. (Laughter.) Turn again to the Hindoo, and hear what the Puritan eaith in the Sanscrit. I read from the Geeta ; but you will think it is the " universal Yankee," speaking of himself : " I am the sacrifice, the worship, the fire, the victim, the fa' her and mother of this world, the grandsire, (laughter) the preserver. lam the holy one, only worthy to be known. I am the hope of the good, the comforter, the creator, the witness, the asylum. I am generation and dissolution. (Laughter.] I am sunshine. I am rain. I now draw in ; I now let out. I amdeah and immortality. I am entity and nonentity. [Laughter.] I am the beginning, the middle and the end TMer- riment. ] Among the faculties, I am the mind." Just what Mr. Belcher holds. [Laughter.] — " A.mong the animals, I am reason ; among the mountains, Hamilaya; amongst the floods, lam the ocean ; amongst elnphints, I am the everlasting big elephant. [Great laughter.] Of all science, I am the knowledge of the rul- ing spirit, and of all speaking, I am the ora- tion." [A. voice : "That's Sumner." Laugh- ter.] " Amongst, ruler-", I am the rod." [A voice: "That is Butler." Laughter] "Among tt those who seek for c mquest, I am the policy." [" That is Abolition." Laughter.] " All the qualities incident to beings, such as reason, 12 truth, humility, meekness, equality, courage, fame, shame, renown and infamy, come from me !" A Brahmin, that if, one who lives in or near Boston, can attain unto these. All these qualities', says the Hindoo, "ha' g on me, a« jewels and jems on „ string, for there is not anything greater than I," How is he to attain all these ? The Hindoo again tells ue : " He should tit, with his mind fixed ou one object alone" — rhe negro, I snppote; [great laughter] —"in the exeicise of his devotion for the pu rification of his soul, keeping his head, his neck, his body, s eady wishout mo'ion, hit- eyes fixed on the point of bis nose," cross eyed, you see, [laughter,] " looking at noo r her place around." Thus, and not otherwise, it sees heaven at the tip of its own nose. [Laughter.] Were it not that these directions ere written it Book VI of the lectures ot Kree.-hna, one would imagine they were written by Cot ou Ma'hei about himself, or a Boston philosopher in and about the Hub of the Universe. [Laughter] It was by lollowing ihese directions of 'he Vedas that John Fisher Murray, an Irish wit, was enabled to prove that blaoui, New England ' Can these be left ou*, and a soul remain?" Some day, thin droi.m of Puritan complacency may break, ami the fac f , hard and granite &•* her h'lls, remain,- that she ie left ou', and that, too, by the acion of many of her own eonsiu the North-West, whose transplanting has improved the stock and enlarged the cul'ure [Che>rs.] Already the paintt d dream of Universal Emancipation, the off-pring of this heathen philosophy, which has bteu "pres- sed" upon the ruling powers at Washington, is dissolving before the hard facts of bloody war. Abolition is but the oifspring of these blurred visions stolen from the isms of the East. As Dr. Lord has recently said : " Its gaudy sophistry took its natural popular effect; it assumed to be arrogant, insuring and en- croaching. It was envious of God's appoint- ments — the family, the State, the church ; and it scrupled not to assail their blood cemented foundations." la the pres*, lecture, pulpit, and finally in Congress and the Executive De- partments, it has pursued its way and envelop- ed this nat on in garments of blocd. It will only awake, I fear, from its g ry dream of im- possible conquest, when it is left alone in its oasene-j", weeoing over 'he victims of its own delusions. "Tnis philosophy has a deeper and worse aim than that of uprooting the State. Already it has sown the seed of dissolution in tue church, and scepticism in all creeds. Par- ker, following the Hindoo and Emerson, found what he called the " ou.-ness of God to be the ia-nees of mar, and so God works with us." Or in other phrase, since God is mau and na- ture mail, " many a savage," says Parser, " his hands smeared over wit h humaa sacrifice, shall come from the Eaat and West, and Bit down in the kingdom of God, with Moses and Zoroaster, #itn Socrates and Jesus." Thus we are taught in shockitg blasphemy that the worsr. method of life will answer as well as the best. And again, he enjoined bis disciples "to obey God, as ihe spiri'uahty ofspiii', which is ima.aLent in all thiDgs ; in the blush of the rose aud ia the one of the dog ; ia the breath of the breeze and in he howi ot the maniac. Believe that the Divine incarnation is in all mankind ; therefore, imitate it, and if we sin, ask "no for- giveness." Nor need we winder that, from tbe same source, the (htetoeflsor for Mankind, the Saviob, is sneered at as " the Attorney by whica we are to approach >he Icfinite." Or, tb.Lt'. w'heti Mich systems, have iheT devotees in religion, Aboht.on has i'a devotees in political e'bnic? Or that a spirit of hos de encroach- ment sboufd mark the career of this cabal of ego is tc zei.do s. and that St» f e li es are ob- Utera ed and constitutional fai h dissolved as ti ;mei ts m iher crazed imaginations? Alas! ihis war is ta tching the people, too lae, that the Federal Union is not to be carried on by the dogmas of Brahma, or the sophisms of Emercon, or the infidelity of Parker ? We are taogh', too late, that a system of public mor- ality prevalent in one section, is not tbe guide ut du y under the Cons' itu ion ; that the inex- orable laws of economv, of climate, soil, pro- duction, supply aud deuian , are not to be overruled by the poetry of Whitier about ihe oppressed black, or the vagaries of Sumner about the barbarism of slavery. I have thus traced the his. oi y and . hilosophy ot the Puritanic egotism and self-mftieiency, which has fomented trouble in distant do- no«tic affairs. I have already detained you so long- that [cries of " go on 1 go on I" from all parts of i he house,] I will conclude with some pracical reflections on the consequences ot her c induct. When the Constitution was made, there were two kind.- of interpret^' ion which followed it : that of New Eogland, which tended to central- ize power, and that of Virginia, which decen- tralized power. The one encroached on State r'gb's ; the other restrained the encroachment. Under the contention, New England, with her personal liberty bills and higher law, alarmed ihe Sou'h ; and the South, in return, pushed her iute-rpreiatii u into actual and violent se- 13 cession. N w England got her advantages in the Consti n f r = for yielding its protection to slavery Taey we; commercial and profl able. She has yet h-r tarn*- and bounties, She has ever made the most out it the FedeA Uuiou. When sbe ""a-* clled on to make sacrifices, as in the wars of this country, she was loth to make them. There are even now 16,000 deser- ters from the Massachusetts regiments. She forgot h"-r haired of State Rights in the late war with Great Britain. Her Hartford Con- vention was cilled to endorse the pol'cy of Go- vernor S rong, of Massachusetts, that no forci- ble draft, conscriptions or impressments should be made by the General Government upon the States. That Governor refused to accede to the President's requis tion for troops, to be used by the Pre sident in a war against Eng- land, which he jould not approve. This smacks somewhat of the late conduce ot Governor Au- drew, wh«n he sought to impose cor dr ions a* to troops in the present conflict, tc cm be proved that the famous Hartford Convention was a secession body. Is Address urged that " some new form of Confederacy should be sub- stituted among those States which shall in- tend to maintain a Federal relation to each other ;" aud concluded with the usual Puritan- ic appeal to " a higher authori'y than any earthly government can claim." Liter, in the Mexican War, we know how prompt the Puri : tans wer« to seek a refuge from national duty in tue doctrine o f Peace and Disunion ; we know how Charles Sumoer had found the " true guardeur of naious" to consist in arbi- tration and peace under every possible coo<3i tioa of things ; and bow the press and the po- ets of Ne*r England laughed at the ser- geant of th3 United States when he beat for recruits. By pasquinade and pulpit, the war was d:scourage*d and enlistments cneck-sd. But now, when the present war is to be car tied ou against th South ; when Puritanism is to be gratified ny the dea h of slavery ; when the na tioa is rock- d by the throes of civil, and not foreign war, the same old vindictive intolerance is aroused which made the earlj Puritans so infamous. Tnere is aroused the same desire to confi ;at e wnich changed the ri d men into sooty devils, that, tha Saints might enter in and possess the 1 nds of the Pequods, and the Barae arrogant assumption of intellect is quick- ened which will never cease till it assassinates the Republic New England may thrive for awhile on *he war can acts, wnich keep her people busied andmone olentiful. So long as this seeming prosperity ^s keot up, her cry for slav«rv ex termination will r>e loud. Bat a day of reckon- ing is near at hand Her insane prop are bereaved and thoje who are wounded. Ask a quarter of a million ot northern, not to count southern men, who have perished in the field or hospi- tal. Alas ! fbey cannot answer. Their rude graves iu the distant South auswer. Fortunes totter ; industry is palsied ; bankruptcy threat- ens, for speculation rio s around your money- ed centres. The tax gatherer, the em'»alming doctor, the nurse and the army scavengers play their parts ra-trtis great drama, and behind it ail stands the gibbering fiend of Abolition, determined 10 make the war, begun m honor and patriotism, end in hate and disunion l It has already determined no*; to allow the Da- mocraoy to save the Union or to attempt it, till thev have made sure of its eternal destruc- tion. [Cheers.] But by the God of our fath- ers l though the Union be shatters ; though ita bleeding fragments may r-eek temporary alliances East anT West, the Democracy will, if it take a lus'rum to do i", fight under the old constellated Oauner, maki Ogite order o f march an order of oa'tl^ from now uu'il 1864, for the restoration of the Union as it was, by the su- premacy of the Constitution as it is 1 [Tre- mendous cheering, during which the audience rose to rhei tVe\ Three cheers were given for the speaker and three for Ohio.] L^t me mid- d 1 -, and western, and Border States s-aud firm. (Applause.) I hnuk you for your cheers for Onto, Sne will respond again and again, till 1864 shall rei'ore to power the D rn icratic party, whrch al me ctn give the people ;hia Thep'eopleiu the List elections h ive ex . res ,*ed I great saltation. (Cheers.) Already I am glad their de:estatiou of her doctrines Even the to hear that a hundred asscc a - i >ns like this people o* New England, from Maiae to Connec j —which was the nucleus of au orgtDization by ticut, will begin to reconsider their position. ! wriichyou eaved New York las f fall—art spring- The popular verdict is not yet fully heeded at . ' iog up' to jour aid. [Oheere.] Lot us move Washing on. Tue infatuation of Couuress on in. the work The dissonant din of these continues. But the government andi r sadmin- ' Idi ologiB'8 of New Englaod will bedrownedin istra ( ors have feh the shock, aud a deadlock, [the popular voice ; the fra'ricidal hate they political and military, is the result. Montea-! have ei>goudered will be assucged, aud into quieu has well described our condition : "Tnere the lacerated bosom of this naion will be is in every nation a general public spirit upon j poured the hallowed aud healing spirit of mu- which power itself ia founded. When that j tual confidence aud conciliation. Tuus will the power shocks that public spirit, the shock Lb 1 nation reform itself! (Tremendous aad coa- communictted to itself, and it necessarily tinned applause.) comes to a standstill." Confiscations and Pro- Mr, Oix closed by saying, that such confi- elamatiouB have produced this terrible paraly- deuce aud conciliation could never come from ■sis of the Sa*e. [Applause.] the spirit of Puri'a lism ; but thanks to New When the people arouse Irom this terrible i Eogluud— aye, to New England — a be'ter and 14 more Christian spirit had been emshrined in the poetry of Oliver Wendell Holmes, a sou of Massachusetts, whose beau'irul lyric upon Car olina he had been requested to repeat to the audieiice by a New York Democrat now in Washington, Frederick F. Ozzens, himself au author known to the whole country. Mr. Cox. then recited the following : She has gone — she has left us in passion and pride — Our stoimy-brov>ed sister, so long at our side ! She has torn her own star from our firmament's glow, , And turned on her brother the face of a foe 1 O, Caroline, Caroli.e, child of the sun, We can nevei forget that our hearts have been one ; Our foreheads both spriukled in Liberty's name, From the fountain of blood witn the fiuger of flame ! You were always too ready to Sre at a t >uch ; Vut we .-aid " She is hasty — ^he does not mean much." AVe have scowled when you uttered some turbulent threat ; But Friendship stil whispered — " Fo.-give and forget." Has our love all died out ? Have it- ul'ars grown cold ? His the cuis tJiiit at last which the f.thers foretold? Then Mature must '.ea h ■•• taet>treng 1: of the ciaia Iha1 her' i e'u'.ent children would .-eve: m w.ia. They may fi^ht tlU the buzzards are gorged with their spoil, 'Till the harvest grows black is it rots in the soil, 'Till the wolves and the catamounts troop from their cives, And the spark tracks the pirate, the lord of the waves. In vain is the strife ! When its fury is past, Their f /rtunes must flow in one channel at last ; (cheers ;) As the torrents that rush from the mountains of snow Roll miDgled in peace torough the vallf-y below. Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky ; Man breiks not the medal when God cuts the die ! Though darkened w th sulphur, though cloven with steel, Tie blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal. Caroline, Caroline, child of the sun, There are battles with fate that can never be won ! The star flowering banner must never be furled, For its blossoms of light are the ho^e of tae world ! (Applause.) Go, then, our rash sister ! afar and aloof, R n wild iu the sunshine away from our roof , Bat when your h^art .-.ches aDd your feet have grown sore, Remember the pathway that "leads to our door I (Applause-. » prto-forlt Hfeklg Ciratasiati THE WHITTllAlFs PAPER. The Proprietors of The Caucasian are happy to announce that, "the press being once more, free/' they can now send their paper by mail. The Caucasian is issue'd^y the publishers of The Day-Book, the place of which paper it will take for the present. Through the long and dreary " reign of terror" it has been regularly issued, though at great loss. During that period its proprietors have received a multitude of inquiries for it which they could not supply. That time, however, being now passed, they will be glad to furnish all with the paper who desire it. 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