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fair fields and plantations of Maryland and Virginia shall repay not only the followers of yourself and John Brown, but the baggage smashing cut throats of the scullion, Billy Wilson, also. It is to me, I assure you, sir, disheartening to reflect that you — once my pride and boast, and a son of the most estimable of parents — should be found in a camp composed in the main of the very seam of social vice, and actuated by motives that would put to the blush the most mercenary soldier of Oliver Cromwell. I know not sir, what your instincts may be, but I would rather herd with swine. But I think I hear you respond, "The old Constitution must be maintained inviolate." I wish, sir, that this had been does in the part. So I wish that the Treaty of Limerick had been observed. But as that treaty was violated, so was the American Constitution Tell me, sir, did you ever know a Republican member of Congress or State Legislature who property regarded his oath to uphold the Federal Consti
The Puritans at work. --In our columns to day will be found the announcement by the American Tract Society of a publication of Oliver Cromwell's Bible, a compilation in use by the Purism army, with the preface of the Society to the present edition. We have often observed that this contest is a revival of the old war between given to change." Quotations of a similar character might be indefinitely multiplied from both the Old and New Testaments. In fact, if the Scripture-quoting Oliver Cromwell had lived in the days of that scriptural writer from whom he was most fond of borrowing warlike passages, that glorious Hebrew King and warrior, David, the sard's anointed" than Charles, and much more of a tyrant. So that the American Tract Society will perceive that the Cavaliers might have got up a Bible as well as Cromwell, and that the result would have illustrated the appropriateness of their quotations. But what beautiful consistency in men, the chief glory of whose ancestors i
TheSoldiers' Pocket Bible,issuedfor the use of the ArmyofOliver Cromwell. [Published by the American Tract Society, 150 Nassau street, New York] [original Title page.] The soldier Printed at London, by G. B. and R. W., for G. C. 1643. Preface to this Edition. Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the English Commonwealth from 1653 to his death in 1655, began his milit career in 1642. In 1643 appeared this little manual for his soldiers. Though not prepared by Cromwell, it was published with his approbation, and was in general use among his soldiers. Cromwell's Cromwell's success was due in no small degree to the strict morals and rigid discipline of his army, and to the inspiring power of religion. He declared: "Truly I think he that prays best fights best. I know nhey never were beaten, but whenever they were engaged against the enemy they beat continually." Cromwell's Ironsides, as they are usually called, fed their faith upon God's word, went into battle with
nd duty. Even the false faith of Mahomet imparts to Turkish soldiers a des-Peration of valor which they could have acquired from no other scurce, and the fanaticism of the Roundheads gave them a degree of military vigor and persistency to which most of their successes in the field may be attributed. We find the descendants of these people endeavoring to revive and invigorate that source of the strength of their forefathers, and aclually republishing for the use of their own volunteers Oliver Cromwell's selections from the Holy Scriptures. Surely, at such a time, we should not diminish the efficiency of the religious element in our own army even if we look at it only as a means of giving increasing vigor and energy to our arms. It is a penny wise and pound foolish policy so to reduce the clerical salaries as to com the most valuable of the married clergy to brave the army. There will be scores of men compelled to resign, under this reduction, whom it would be economy to reta
Yankee courage. We have never been of the number of those who doubted the courage of the Yankees as a people. We have often been compelled to express our dissent from the general opinion on this subject, and to hold that it is not only wrong in itself, but impolitic thus to underrate an enemy. Among the many faults of the Puritan breed, want of courage was never ascribed to them by anybody. Oliver Cromwell and his Roundheads were as pestilent citizens and as good soldiers as England ever produced. Their offshoots in America were of the same character — fanatical, cruel, intolerant, devilish, but hardy and courageous. When such men are to be fought, it is as unpast to our own soldiers as to themselves to stigmatize them as cowards. That agreeable diffusion only tends to diminish the vigilance and energy of our soldiers, and robs them of the glory which their victories deserve. That the Yankees are not as military a race as the people of the South, is evident enough, and th
New England philanthropy. The pretensions of the New England people to superior philanthropy and benevolence are contradicied by their whole history, from the time of Oliver Cromwell to the present hour. If there is any quality of the heart that they are more deficient in than any other, it is precisely that to which they make the loudest claims. This tendency is characteristic of human nature in general, and of Poritan nature in perticular. The great hobby of Exeter Hall and of Boston is sympathy with suffering humanity, whilst, in both countries the professional philanthropists are the hardest-hearted and the most thoroughly selfish, and, in general, sensual and licentious men, in the whole population. We have sometimes thought that, in this fallen world, everything and everybody wear a musk; that men of virtue and sincerity, of truthfulness and honor, of generality and humanity, are unrecognized and unappreciated, whilst mere pretenders to those qualities are held in
t there is nothing so very crazy in the suggestion of those editors. Having trampled down every vestige of freedom in the Northern Government, it would be no wonderful thing if he should declare an election for the Presidency in such times of public peril as unnecessary, and that the safety of the country required the prolongation of his term. The only obstacle in the way of exchanging a Republican President for a Republican Dictator is that Lincoln is such an ass that his own party are scarcely willing to trust him for the remaining two years of his Presidency. If he were an Oliver Cromwell the United States would have had a Protector twelve months ago, and by this time would be on the way to permanent Imperialism. But Abraham Lincoln, Dictator! oh, no!--There is no danger of that. Seward is the real Dictator, and when there comes to be one in name as well as in fact, it will be Seward, or some other men of like calibre, not the lank, ungainly, empty-headed clown of Illinois.
The Daily Dispatch: May 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Northwestern Virginia--movements of Gen. Imboden. (search)
We have no admiration for the character of the cavalier of 1649, any more than for that or his opponent, the Puritan. We turn with disgust from the violent and licentious cavalier, and we abhor the scorb, motor and fanatic Puritan, of whom Oliver Cromwell was the type. Inspecting of Cromwell and his character, Guizot says, "that he possessed the faculty of lying at need, with an and unhesitating hardihood, which struck even his enemies with surprise and embarrassment." This characteristic sCromwell and his character, Guizot says, "that he possessed the faculty of lying at need, with an and unhesitating hardihood, which struck even his enemies with surprise and embarrassment." This characteristic seems to have been transmitted to the descendants of the Pilgrims who settled in Massachusetts Bay, to enjoy the liberty of persecution. If the "caviller" is to carry us back to days carrier than the American Revolution, I prefer to be transported in imagination to the field-of Eunnymeds, where the barous extorted Magna Charts from the unwilling John. But I discard all reference to the caviller of old, because a division of society into two orders, an idea inconsistent with Confederate institu
ople who have a right by prescription to the Kingdom of Heaven. We mean, of course, the saints of the earth, to whom all the earth belongs — who act under a divine commission and a higher law, and cannot, therefore, be expected to obey any impulse so merely human as those of justice and humanity — who have already trampled their own Constitution in the dust, and are responsible only to the law of their own lusts. The great expositor of their creed, and its most genuine representative, Oliver Cromwell, set the first example in Ireland, whither he conducted an expedition in 1648, and it was cruel and bloody enough to satisfy even Yankee thirst of blood. His dispatch from Drogheda, which he had just carried by storm, announces that "in the heat of the action I forbade my soldiers to spare any that were in arms in the town, and I think that night they put to the sword about two thousand men." History tells us that these two thousand men were murdered in cold blood after they had ceased
The Life of Oliver Cromwell. Among the other Christmas books for sale in this city is the life of that holy martyr and beatified saint, Oliver Cromwell. A most devout and edifying book for the reading of Christian children! We are surprised Oliver Cromwell. A most devout and edifying book for the reading of Christian children! We are surprised that this choice volume is not accompanied by the Life of Abraham Lincoln and the Life of the late lamented John Brown, whose soul is now marching on in the track of Cromwell. Three kindred spirits, Old Noll pre-eminent of the three in those qualitCromwell. Three kindred spirits, Old Noll pre-eminent of the three in those qualities which distinguish them from the rest of the human race, they ought to be united in the memory of their admirers, as they are likely to be in that shining immutability which awaits such characters in another state. In all soberness, have the Yankees taken Richmond, that the life of that hideous Puritan, Oliver Cromwell, is to be thrust into our faces at this season of the year? In the name of all that is pure and merry in these holidays, keep the sour visage of the Puritan fled out of