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The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], An Unsentimental Physician. (search)
Societies, orations, songs, and dinner-tables, there rises a perpetual anthem of "The Pilgrims landing at Plymouth, fugitives escaping from persecution!" The real reason of the Pilgrimage of the Puritans was their love of gain and power.--In America, as in England, under Cromwell, they were the most tedious of tyrants and persecutors. Having secured their charter, they established a spiritual despotism in America, such as was never surpassed in the annals of High Commissioners or Star Chambers. In the volume before us are examples innumerable of the manner in which they arrested, tried, condemned, fined, imprisoned, fettered, branded, lashed, maimed, cursed, banished, hung, and left naked and unburied their brethren, in a common Christianity. They re-enacted what Bancroft calls "the worst statute in the English code, that which did but enforce attendance upon the parish church," and with military and civil power dragged men whom they had voted hereties to hear those whom they h