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The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
ld succumb to the authority of the despised North; and the North will forget all schemes of gain, and throw its ledgers into the fire, to indulge its fanatical hatred of slavery, to "crush out" the slave holder. The Puritans have certainly proved themselves a turbulent and disorganizing race wherever they have gone; but they have proved themselves capable of making great sacrifices in the dogged pursuit of their fanatical ideas. Their self-exile from England, and voluntary exodus from Holland, to plant themselves on the barren and bleak soil of Massachusetts, were not steps taken in the interest of gain. They turned their backs upon society and its enjoyments-- they bid farewell to comfort and luxury — to follow, across dangerous waters to inhospitable shores, a very foolish and fanatical idea — They think now that the same idea is involved in their quarrel with the South; and we have no reason to doubt but that they will pursue it to the bitter end, with the same frenzied tena