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Itfotir towDslnp, we nave uiree btiiooi jrlul;tVeacll"Iceivin5 alxjot fifty dol- liife iyear to support a 6cliool during t!it iiiue. i lie puunc scnooi la w nuoyvs a frel grade teacber (aud we propose to iorae reasons why this grade -is the mpypne common sense, would advise to i per inwitlC Iso this gives jjthe chit- dit'D just fire weeks tuitioni jof ft he fifty ! to il Uic year 'tw third grade tench -i er is allowed twenty dollars per 'month i inihwen byempl6ying'niTui; 4 they get ; Inly wo and a half mouths in the year. We will not stop to discuss that plan frlifclj puts out the school to the lowest I tiMvf aud civesTt to him at ten dollars rcr month" if ha will .board himself or Intake It night about among ( the scholars (4, veritable case) 3; m tfsultjof tlis;deficiency leads to ? I- s; man? of the subsequent detects : lor ex- faiiiptt, the thortHCSs of the term. Oho or ittooofflinittecs'lhave joceasionally tried I tie eipennicnc oi . uaviug no school one i'jejir iina a longer 9ue every .other , year, kt this is but robbing" Ieter to pay i PaulJ With tlirce months now, or even pie, and then vacation for two' years, i wlat meutsl advancement can- be eipect iell Must as tlio nunil i crets fairlv under tay, tie school closes.-flnd he returns to ftlip ovr and the ''blue back'! to the dus- ly lijilf. And this lead to another dc- .Ut "at offcool.'1 Each pupil, if he has ff M all, has one'diUerent veompftubn, and ppap 'ays jest so hits a luetic it 'ill do' "can't be always new boks." Often the greatest .edifUcalty a teacher has 'is the urooer clas- ''siSKon ".if: his school - nndi the chief Uroabje U tho lack pf books S uitable. ill - u!a far Cr4tef defect is the want of jwrt teachers; How ttinlwoshow? that 1 !t'gratt(B;jteachei should' be. em ?W -Trof, Joseph Henry says, "The cnaracter nr a friiini mu !tviir f ,nt.U -it -s' - ill i.v J la iu j most cases jormea the age'of .seven years." Phelps 1 ;vaWy fj asserted that ades of r.hilil PPH 1 (J'l vth mil ittim nAn j pniti flOofk for Mia LA-y :r ith their percepti ve an d observ iug OBdevJliheir. in tellecjual Iff M acics tiormaut. tlifiW KP.ii.b1liii IK: . iT'l ""ssuapen. and the wv fonmla- ,, i , - , 01 fTlfltnti MA .:. 'lit. 1 ' r . . i ,. I -tvtuio uiiMcifeu xi not uiier- tl,0 e4ry d fciic& arpl to a tJten6fie'iinwnat iuhW ifjn ned daily press, iormJar lec- l'HlVra other pf.? ot lustrnction accorded,to the res,. iof cities,' it UcomesV'ev4 more 1 i'!e.r ar6 the nrincin.if nnnrppa nf t.li ctud and moral lifeMif the com- iPTf 1 4 aey ia vd tcrdo with; the ch ild in 1 j . rT''-,"CMi, oecause iwe-niosi ,ubie, period iof his existence, and 'Wfm ever. HuJAj T,mi ' ! liir-rnachlllW int1i;.rana.nr1 n Igl'f m the beginning.- 'The child is - - . f" s i'v ll tvl - uiau i; wnac uie man is 10 m I" all the elements of char- IffilP' tfiecjonjei What tlie child attffP. i j' f"?'-! ytx ticicriuuiru t uv, mo itf .' y "vpnuig ana me framing ne fhanc wlc acre js no accident, uo edwith the question ; it -. - . ' - ' y - L "i,a.'li anil effect.- it Ts a nm question com B' -rWTo RrktAm u.r riw? to condnct audi control the RcliooL demands morh wiwlr fiM-iV ; than to ralo a. Stated teachers dof, hlfili intellectaaL moral, and nrpfesslonal at- taiDments, onljr are" equal ,to tfo eraer- gencj. To build scliou) . LoWes.' : snpr1 y with tbjr presence and inspiration- of a teacher wortliFpf the higlr;vWation ofiu- structing the iMwpleTrn lis the testi- mony of the best thin keVsj and ablest writers upon cducatiou in air parts of the world. It is the testimony of esierieuce everywhere." --.X If you wUh to have an enduring edi 4 fice, lay the fonndation el!;The child just beginning to read orailthers needs the thoroughly educated teacher. Like teacher, like pupil. V ' ' i j I And thi implies that the ischdol coin tnittee 6hoald be;of ;the right liey should be nven pfnednationby all unculti tion to select you a plowa jnau j wha knows- nothing of plowing! "Should yda; then, liayo-weir to select your teachers who r- ........ ........ .. a' -iv.iiib ir "iiivf lutlllj Another obstacle to the success of com mon scuoojs lere is the scanty or renLir- rcyular attendance of teholar. There is j a public . school now in session where' there ought to bent least, probably, fifty pupils in daily attendance, nnd jfet some uaj'S not a half dozen are present.- A large per centt of our children either do not attend at all, or go when it siiiU their parents to spare them, ' i. e. fwet days, and so.fortb.:!' 1 '. r:"-1 n a?.r'J,' But time fails to speak of jmany ..other defectssuch as want of system in manage- ment, lack of proper buiidiug,js apparatus, co-operation of parents, public spirit, aud others, and we would simply! add that it is very easy to fiud fault, but not so etisy U suggest sufficient remedies. j This we will eudeavor to di partially, atlcast, in a third and -last article. For the Watcliman. THOSE "BLUE LAWS" AGAIN. It js.my purpose in this coramn- uication, to examine some jot the posi tions and arirurnents of a writer in the M atchman, on thQ oth aiuf Ioth;ot May last, oVer tlie thesignature of " W" and "Veritas;" especially those more per sonal to myself. ' Before -proceeding, however, I must express ! resret that I have not had the leisure to djo soon er, and that even. now, I aim so situa ted that! cannot give to ihe subject the consideration its importance de mands. : -! v.;.-. ; .-. ,V entas says r is beggrogttye ques tion when lie says "well Informed men every where, no w regard th BIie Laws of Connecticut asrneyer having had an existence, as a cotlc and asks the question; "who ever said they did ?n I answer, the Rev. Samuel Peters ; and I do so 'on the aiilhorityrdf the Hon. J. . II a in mond Trn m bu I, Secretary off Stteiof Connecticut a man ot tne strictest integrity picuar- . .1 Anvh w;K - .1 the mbjr of tiaBlue',aSsi-li;a in written a book , on thesubjectrcn titled"Tfie True blue La.ws of rCor5 necticut,iand New Haven, and the False Blue jLaws. invented ,lby the ReySamuel Peters fT Tf 1 : In the Churchman (August 11th hntl .September; 1st),' the j following stateme;i t, Mhhev(y partial fx qnen ted by Veritas, occurs, viz;; .' 4 t . 'file f Petersl does not pretend to .quoteVtlieni,; acknowledccs they were laws ot usage and custom, rather than' of a book of statutes. i In other words, that' they came to him rather as traditions than ...i.i: ! l! ... i a recorded testimony." i ; . To which Mr. Trumbull replies in a recent jPubiicaiion, enticed if KevI Samuel Peters and his Apologists and h IsfDePjpd crs,' ii fol lows J ffizY , "This isUin true. Each period, in - : . i l i a: tact, points a? separate. f ajiu uisnnei, untruth!- " Peters rrfpT'; iretenin to quote the 'Blue Laws' and mar s them as quotations, He gives them, not as 'laws of usaVe and custom,' but as specimens of the laws tnade by tlie independent Dominion (p. 03); 4c sisserts t hat a vast I tudeof slucli laws1 wcrVnsade their lncoriMiratum with bay bo Hartford colonics, by the charter, of 1662, (p. V.;:i tlieso laws, u.; were made by 'tlie law-givers of New Haven.'ofi tlieir Fowrf f invention, to support Uicnin ineir arouary aim I. I. t ,.nt1..tn tt him' l-f A t rtntle?Q ihem rf p.l82. with the mdre l.a 'ii-i."tnr1 ttndor tho charter 1 and and when discussing the laws of Con- uuoks nuu, apparatus, t ana, e, to f provide or wiucn . acumi : iruruan . legislation funds, aloie, wilfuot ecomlisy what is grew, is -an mi warrantable ajssunip needed. Every school must ho blessed tion of the reviewer. Even if it; were ans. John Stuart Mttlreniarks.TIie:-. fV1' vated caunot.be indirts ofLCultiva- a language, contained i if utct&A cessoJaud could have AVould ytut fiirujer, sendftotown bopk,tqispro.ving and invalidating the j NealV AbrulffQentif heli of oar;cnmitt8i net lou-tiie jriudple!; sumcieni ;prooi, upon im powu, i mistakes. pomeottlie more ancient tlmt the nuin Vliowill teach thl School ' confess to the fility pfi jany farther ;ones(vulaws relating to 1 Pashion, ibr the least money is the nuinj, for the, atlemptnn tpat .direction. Vcratis tDresSy.'&crosleio ittI 'others piace:Let it.be added, M StIiWi !requlreclfasticil -Quali6- mcj' me uiieu .seemingly iorcea lO'Cin PI03' cheap teachers through the, scarcity of iunds.;pM I , l-W H ,X . i' t 1 ! i t, : necticuVin general, he refers (p298.j to the specimens of the Blue; Laws insertedf (p63) .That. h t meant ouly 'to give specimens of the material but well founded it could not help Peters case. Whether he lied about IfspecH mens of materials or lied about ac-j tual legislation makes' little difier- ence morally." , -H ' Veritas cannot afford to discredit his owii witness, Dr. Peters. Hfc pie-f feres to invalidate tKolestiuiony of Mr. Trumbull - and intimates that (f ruh bull will find 'it difficnlt(i6" prpyi wis I &r.ff, r&. ;y,-i t u-i"r " I more, I ask, should Mr. Irumbull do t Hilt! loa .Irti-jV. nts j assu qiuj TrUmbnll : he may; have overlooked the quotation by Progress "f ia the ilcAmanHApril l10tli),f hfiess than thirteen of "the 'old Puritan laws by way of sample to, show "the spirit of t)iose,;wliof;jf and enforced" them ; or he may! have been listless as to the popinjay cffin sions, published, time agai ri,j this subject ; but, be all this'as itniay;"! cannot but express my gratification, tliat 'Veritas regards, this ,point a set- tlctl, and agrees with me7thatr'rthe 'Blue Laws' never had anY existence, asracode.V The fomier? line of file fence is untenable, and he 'declines it - 1 3 a- and retires with the exclamation, J'P is1)eggmg the question.? ;Wh does this, niay be seen as I proceed. ,-Vcritas maintaius thatthe admis- sion of the Philadelphia Presbyterian, that some of the old laws Tof Connec- ticut were "bluish that is, attempted torsregu late social custom and parts of man's conduct, in wjitcli law can do very littte good, and whidi law docs not now attempt," is too mild; ami says "the real question- is, did these lawaTever really exist substantially, itranyform en- forced, at any time, in New England?" Now, even if the Presbyterian had not defined what it meant by ' bluish," therc could be no mistaking the fact that bluish is not blue, but for the impression left by Veritas. Bluish is no more blue than the cpunterfeit is the reality ; than the like; is the same; than Satan clothed as an angel of i light, is an angel of light. The thirty- nine Articles ortlcnufchof England, altered.lnterpolated aiid caricatured in their text. asrPetcrs has done in thatt the: laws of New England, i AiVi;.iVj lini would Veritas consider them aenuind xr... ir. : .:u i,J;;oi iiU lllcli lurim? Willi vugiuai nniffht be tcajuiaavitue-same, as to . ... . . . ... .i - toe"and ybm; and . innovator i i . - - t mptious of his reviewer, j in the I In reference to his iHistorv a cAman: and f'-i ansWrinirVthe-1 'Abridfirmenk.- Neal r in ln tion of- Veritas! fr thisjiis not ("I liave noMylUAiliy.'eomini would be happy tniiecd, it lie escap-tMC4 wp.m.v wwvfc t f V'V:. .. vrirr. lim, i T matter dine brand Pt sacrilege. 1 Veritas Jim ?- ' t '--. 1 V rrif n ike3 fair dealiug andifair discussion,' Jinci intlUiges in .piainuucsrsiiwuvj!!: 1 i t ? . ..l .iii' A 1...'..a proper manuer oi conducting com ro vnrvsv. . with conrtesv and fairness. . i - t-r. r . iiUl wnat is ins siaieuieni, ui i v-m - tionjarfd mVis-mpde oCaUack ? r&A&mti all thefr Realities; HeMis- &wi!ith Hrilis - iaiii;.Kfi,rl -MrMiM dp. fnrmpd nclied it mav be. seems to suit this swift, witness against the Puritans "In ahyform," no mat ter hnr' n nPRtlonalile: A t any. time." no odds how -remote, answers hi keen desire. ...Oue, speciraeu of blightetl fruit condemns the tree i one swallow niakes a suraraerlHvUh him! "In pth er cases the accused are held toi be in nocentfUrttil prqyeo t guilty ;Jnithis case,-they are ueia guilty uuui; prov- en inno6ent.Inthericases, they arc convicted'accordingto the general ililes of evidence) " but un this, they must suffer according to the exceptions to'those rules. J5ut we proceed. J JTThe Tjrtjr "fi ve laws,- as qiiofed by pcters npt simply the' substa'pee of thcrarvvjietber blue or. upt, mifst and can be found in the original copies pn filcj or as q'note(Vby-trntiifur,liistori-aus.or they- must ,bo considered v as spurious andTalsc. "Letus- test the case by the following specimen from Peters, viz: ?-' '! t: "No woman shall kiss her chl.d on the Sabbath or fasting-day. , saiisbury; -it;' c, septeiiber v f . 1 . '11'' i i - . t I sC300statel. m it,: 4 Ti' No bhe'shjili read Common Praver. keep ChrisimasioriSdiiit's days," make ron hd accord ih to; a cap. These laws are hot to 'be fouud in i'eai 8 Aunugmenipuonsiieu in lon- don 1 71 9 ki t v bnUN bnfi.ro Pora published Ijis bookvritten also in ess nau ac- quoted , from ad desired. nd this Prefnn cation lirllCiyil PreleraiynU are re pealed, by tlie New Charter, and yet t wa og;p Now. note the fact. trr67n1them." that the' laws re- latin to fahicnisrxlrcss, ecclesiastica 1 though absolute, 6r repeal&t, sixty two yeaibeforfr Peters vrote and quoted his laws; and the further ''Tact, also, that none of those above quoted, from Peters, except Ac?, tdlyf: altered and miitilated, respecting apparel, are to be found ii Neal's' Abridgment, and we , have aj clear case of forgery by Peters, so far, at: least, as this illustra- tion Is "concerned. . " ' 4$ut turtner 4 na yc ueiore me a copy uf the; Code of 1650, containing the Civil com pact, j (between the. towns of Windsor, liartford, and Wethersfield in 16389 wth .Extracts from the Laws and judicial Proceedings of New Haveij Colony, commonly called "Blue Law," and-bound withal iua blue cocerinh ;lpxt X do not find the laws, above attributed to Peters, in this Blue-b6oU j If they existed they should be found jthere, because in the Advertisement jit is said that those there .printid; Were' "taktn from the original record-, remaining in the office of tW j Secretary of State." Peters could orjshould' have had ac- cess to those Piinal records, befbre pretendirrg to lauote laws, and write truthful. his; ory. He was not obliged "to draw upon his recollection for his i . .. materials, containing while Neal s volumes, tihuiistakable materials, lay at his hand. Recollection is not inventive; knd isantapt to supply what othek-nearer the time, aud prompted bjy the record, fail to pro-: duce. ,?inS can be Tounit in "Peter's imt7cr to that U.Ncal, antf ';tho Blue Code of 1650 I But similarity is not identity. But I, ' i m ham ir ic tn mi en inn 11 v i rpn i jiiiii -,r?r-'"w,i- " " ?"T "7" 1 viai i y iu tiicii aiM'iivnuiMi ily in their appl not that Veritas speaks of JMr. Hin man, as exjircssihg iurprise that "the collection of Peters should have been I ? correct ;'f and of Dr. Chapin.as hav- iifr had'clianter and verse." to euide - -o , a - fni uoiess; pe origina, cone, uy ' . f'l il 1 I I 1 which riinman measurea reter, ana cii ximman measurea rer, aim the sacretl writings containing Chap. ? anaaW m wn anu. corres- .--.'. !. . . . - L 1 ! - ! ud with Peters, not only as to sub- stance; lorm aoatimc, nut as to gen- uinencss and identity. Veritas savs 'it ii only lately, that men nave t had the boldness and temerity to deny the genuineness o the Bluellitws." He makes f this statement, doubtless, on the authority oiv SiueljJlllcCormick the great feraudson of Dr. Peters' who has re cently republished t an' edition o Peters w6rc:j'J.'fHammond Trumj Dull savs off this 1 work that " "regard ed siraplyjasa reprint the book is absolutely worthless. j There are fpageonjvvhich some unwarran table liberty has not been takeu with t lie author t xt. Take i ngte instance," ic. i i But I need not give tlic rnstaiicc, it V Joo long. 1 will only say it consists in the omission pf some .Mtestjmony;, and three lines which fbllowj! it.'l from the reprint. As to; the nory of the charge that Peters had !not' written true history Trumbull Says "it was known by a ' ' 1 i 'in'; a i' u ; t , i . . . . h'hi'! jMiNornie-shall travel, cook- Victuals,, very different; namertfo Irfltofmso make beds,f sweep house, cut hair. or"0ifnr" ih nPM. t.Vk'.i; I A'is ! f - ? '; ' ,SCV " wal laws' werfe. enactctf walk in tlgarden1 or Isewhere'ex- : Sj18 ceot reverenSv to ariVI from moptmir can?reTiew'0f the book, toivwhiclLt ! foe new 'lalsehood1 comes trJw Jv vut V-: ij;m5e.TO Xl most, iflnot quite, proved that tie lied .iUader.atpenaUvof shjU rith gold, filvcr or bone lace, above pfn ofJlSH), the writer bbaerves, that VTiTrrTr-V li,. r f -L - j - J T . r-. wi two shillings bv tl e vartT shall' hW Mint iUi5 fiA uf V iQ fnft lmgs 4 oriUandarmprlsoumenti njocc nies,uance, piay cards, or play apologists:; as vilifying andrtlefam-j 1 MMili?p iug,ithout hy proof WfiaYever'tiit'i tliMrun,, ft-unipe .anws .harp-,, dead , p . ; -t j .i h.vorv rifnlA til-ill Imvj ne hnir aiiM I , ' r vvv' wy I . , Xyin History, to; distinguish i it from all others." 4 i i -it.-n.v But; Veritas Speaks of 1 "Puritan eulogize his character, and seem will! ing to consign to -eternal infam the whole race of aPuritans,; pravidei he can save the very doubtful : character of this, hi main witness; He" 'quotes enuuciationsof the Puritans, by. thc wholesale, thus saying that-"nothing but 'murders plunders and 'persei culpns marked ' tlieifBtepsf sand' aTr though they too are dead, they must It ttedanv!ein infam7 while Peters fills a nicne in me ierapie,pt,iame. ut jha,t I do not speak witljout , , any proof whatever,". ou this point let, others, even though they may themselves be dead, speak! ' 'J- y '''"' More thau forty years, ago,. (April 25th 1838) ProC James li. Kingsleyj, delivered a historical discourse be- fore the citizeusof .Nevf,. HayenL from which I extract as follows viz: ':. ; :- J . ''The work which more than i anf other, has given currency i to variou misrepresentations respecting the NeV Haven colony, is,, that commonly known as -'Peter's History of Connec ticut.' The author, Dr. Samuel Petersl at the commencement "of the revblu4 ionary war, was an j Episcopal niJsf sionary, at neuron, in Uouuecucut. As he was very active in- asserting he royal-claims, he became ohnoxf ious to the patriots of the day. H0 was threatened by a mob; though it is believed, no personal violence was lone him. About 1774 he went to England highly exasperated against he cotintrv, and especially lis native state, Connecticut. He employed himself, while the war continued,1 in'reyilibg the " colo nists i..aud.in, 1781. published in London, without , his .name, what he ealled 'A general History of Connecticut. xlW hens this ,work) first appeared.' s its extra vagances auq falsehoods were so apparent and gross that any attempt to contraaict or ex nose them was considered unueces sary antl superfluous, .-j Dr. Trumbull (not J. Hammond)' once told me,. in reply, to tne -.question, - wny in nis History of Connecticut, he had made no allusiou to the work of Dr! Peters,! that he considered a reference to it as - wholly unnecessary;' since, ant one, ou very "slight examination! would see that it was refuted, iu scj mahv of its statements, by indubita ble public documents, that it could gain no credit. He said, that he had . ! .l TV T" . been well acquaintea witn ur. r-eiers iu early life, that they were cotempo- rary in v;oiiege, anu luuan occasiuu al intercourse between them had. been maintained ' till Dr. Peters weit to Enshind. in 1774. He hdded that of" all men, with wh(,ni,ht had ever been acquainted, Dr. Peters, he thought from his 'first knowledge ot tuni; tlie least'to be depended upon as to any ;-..;..! . It- 'L. . i mm rm . 1 matter ot tact ; especially, "in story- telliug. ' - . r , -, But agaiu : The -Mediodist Quarter lil Review for January, 1878, contains, the following, viz : "The only authority for the 'blue: laws' is this Mr. Peters. We do not propose to spend many words upon him. He was a man who was utter-: lv inranable of tellinsr the troth on1 anv subiect. " His so-called ''Ilistory was the malicious libel 'of a Tory ref ugee in England, at a time ef war, wlio was receiving: a pension fromHhe ministry, aud was hoping to gain fur ther favor by villifyiug his native State. When it was published, it was said At once in Iondon. that it bore so many marks of party spleen and i'dl nrfdulitv!'that it was altogether unworthy ef the public attentien.' It is filleM with stories which would nottbe out pf place in the- f ravels e the4 Baron " Munchausen. ' We have space only, to refer, simply, as speci mens, to Peters' description of ao ar my of caterpillars who 'came in one , .. . . r ,-' l t...At. niirht and coverea tne earin on ooiu sides of the Connecticut river, to an extent of three, miles in .length aud two in depth ; .to his story about the .'Windham frogs,' who filled a road f.irtv rods wide and tour nines in length: to his description .of the 'Ip; dian paw-waw' at Stratford, where devils were seen to seize several per sons, and 'to mount with them into r ! . : . t i rf. . I. air ;', to his statement that Ilev. George- Wrhitefield, iu 1740, tnat ine at- tnmncd to 'brins.down' ; the walls o ihe fort at Say brook by prayer, while he walked seven times aronna tnem, in imitation of Joshua at J criclip, t ) 11V ' - - " - - - ... , aaeteaeriofthj!Puriians.V x usca ' n6t need apology but they sadly need ' f -V- .-V m a - s . . v""M; f? "wwty.ani avoiding bublio scandal v& slh6d tha test ef bemg judged-hyithe yy JUir.V't'fc,uX?K?i ' WlhiVl''fit-flej;'i' IMS, V - i 1 vuJ i "'-3 s ti it :v-fc..-,1 iu ! -tiie custom of wbitrphirrorburatj Wogtan4;:t?H tbje .persecution of j th,e Established oii one. of tellogatioDdaysVbirdJy- cliiirch.l'.That even there, they were y&'dbsdefojiis-lto denied' tlie right Of 'expatriation,-and o?S?l V.?o?4ndl8nl 'n;i620cdhi 'flKir'' Ii-!- "v v . i the -Church that if mights almost G a charter qC lglpus JoJerion amJiali ie ic , defiance of? laws forbiadipgeirMiTOti of ,lrhcs,,.i?yTin1stcjV igration, except Dys royal nsent.h3"oTruf' fuuPeoPiv r wa ine haC like the children oMsrael . . h-v i bfaved the Wilderness and the heath- en nations, that Jhey might escape persecution, , and worship , God, ac cording to the dictates of their.-own nsciences. anl" that evei i in this they Were annoyed and disturbed. rf Is it; then j any wonder that they feared r - heir persecutors, and determined that they would not submit to the danger of further pursuit and persecution? Is it a wonder or reproach nay. is it not a crowning glory, in the eyes, of le Christian . nations of the whole earth, that being without law, and its forms, they should .decree that they wtould be governed "by , the word of Godf ; But how did our great ancestors act and enact elsewhere? Virginia was nptiinaeriruritan ruie. xne episco . i 1 t i mi ' Tt'i- pal church was there established. by law. And yet it was enacted that "all the? inhabitants, having no law ful excuse, shall every Sunday resort to the parish or chapel, and there abide orderly, during common prayer, preaching and divine service, upon the penalty of being fintd fifty poundi of tobacco,1 by the County Court." ' j Jedidiali MorseD.D., in his TTni versul Geography, 179G,, says, "The first settlers of this country ..were emigrants from England, of the Eng-? lish churchpjust atra point of time wjien it was flushetl with complete victory, over the religions of all other denominations. . The Quakers were flying from persecution, in England, f Several acts of the . Virginia Assem blv of 1659.1662 and 1663 made it penal in ther parents to7refuse to have their children baptized; prohibited tfte nn lawful assembling of vuakersj maae it penai ior any xnabier oi a. 'ycssel ,tp bring a ''Cuakcrlnlb the Stale, aud ordered those already Ijere and - 8ucli as should come hereafter to be Imprisoned until they should abjure the country, provided a milder pmshnipent for their ' first and second return, but acam ior tne tuirov How Was it in Catholic Maryland ? That State was -not under Puritan domination. It 1 is the boast bf her historians, that there was free religious to eratioh in that, State; but an act .was passed there, 111,1649, and con firmed -in r 1676, among, the per petual laws of the province,-. "that those reproaching kuy with a Jsprobri-' ous names of ..religious distinction, shbnld forfeit ten shillings to the per sons injured; and that any one speak-' in& reproachfully against the blessed Vtrqin. pr the apostles, "shpuld forfeit fiye pounds. .. . ,As 1 IP samiuary f jun&, , me jjatci uo gien, and the observances hadbotK before and since the days of the ear lier Puritans, were inot of a higlier standard Ithan those ; pertaining to re ligion. During the reign of Edward IV, a staWerarpassed "which for baleHthe fine gentlemen of those times, under the degree of a lord, to wear pikes upon -their, shoe? or ..boots, of more than two inclyWi .Jepgth!." (Btackstone Volil. p,;90). Aud ui de - thejngne of the Henrys, 'it was enacted," that no oneshould wear shoes broader at the toes: than six incheV.71 .UndcrEdward, James and Charles, and ns late as the commencement of M 1 1 .r, . - nn iv 'nivuiaMinhin- ... i. ; t: ' - W processipnipg wlucli cu 8urvivei , 0It Bk-nacmtprayeTl ,cli. 5,sec. 20.), ila.swncr Jarcepar' bQunds-IJAt.aripu3 . tarts ,of tho i uuuuuauts, two pr xurcc .oi tne vil lage 'boys 7ecPl4olina? a certain partTdf ihcirsbnf waS4tniBg 1 against a stbiie wall i tree! as nostor any pthepi hard object, wicli) happoi- meraprr1 'fcanrotTwChambe'Cyclape dia VII, 390, byr JafamoniiTttrin- bull. But, finally letnsearDpctor Leenard Bacpn, in his Historical Dis- cpnrsbsi p:p?96;' mmoQ'to srtmptuary awTaw tthev are iritrihK?nilv awl :feentran ad mi t" ' Iha1. q ine ver ascertai heilTVSm history: lMtu suchiawshacfedy must 'needs be1 triore'aosnrd or' l-idica- TohSjnf in Sparta "or in'Koraej T aktafoss tofja nderstatidi And 'still -ttiorer rys teri6d3 iMit hov tfiVNeHaTeti Colony, tn whichnlosUch tdiever ehnsted? should be. madeif fcpcrgbat to bear away Into thdwilderiiess'tho sirts, in" this' particular' of bet' Afore eastern confederatps.'liaws wcTeTttado in some of thecoloniesprohibitidg the use of tobacco; bat the nsc of .tqbarco, id a propefcplace, leas noli unlawful in ihe New Haven jurisdiction Ja vvs jy,cre made elsewhere to. reftpu theVTfS rics and follies , of fashion, in regard to female ; ittire ; - r6i44 Zaal no here atienipiedJ r h -mAtl iUmsi i Tlie" Puri tans had ; ! tJre coilragtl of their cpnVrictfons.-ltTd be.clyfiicei'',' was Xvitli ':(hem'4wLtlin.lr irainci ences were.giudetlf by their views npf .Ue,Scrttr?fc Hljte; erreil is admitted;, but thai ihey-erretl more 'than tbefc coternporarics or " ilian those wliom they looked tor; guidance, among those who had gone netorc, in t not, their Ckdeithcy LsaM MWitchcasafter- death." ' This !eluiendid not oVrgi- Protestant IrCatlipl jcvprld in Europe; aitd at Uio time of the Vatro- citiccitlsby Veritas; witclicran; naa not oecn maueiuesuoiect oiSKen- ticai consiuerauon; anu in ip -T. c vcars in! , which, iScotland .sacrificed Ibeca- tombs to the - delusion, , there 4 were three victims in New EnglahdDark crimes, that fceem etT w i thou t a mot i ve, where the priseper, was proved, a; mur deress." i ;( Bancroft, Lp, 46p.) i Dr. Thomas Dielr, informus iir his work on the t)iffibston nowIedgei(l. iftii,Ht f ?1 s ' - hitchcratt , was universally m be lieved io roj1tjl,,thcii;tcenth. ccpturj, antlmamtainejd its- grtmud. with tolerahle firmness,Ctill Ihe iiid dle.pf Iheaseventeenthcent in4smc,. countries; qu the continent, till the nyddle pf the eljghjiecntti. cen turVTlmextent'p . de'rS; :tr ix1 tclic-Ttf.i Tar greater t lmn most Trwrsons" wlio'jiave n j studied! the hisfory P- dempiioTpgy . can fcrm any idea! 1?rom the jperiod In which natc with' themn-fieither; Irasitnor is confihVf,o1tem5"licfor4 If in- were pursued under that name. T find one , record . ox a , trial pr witchcraft, 1 I : 1 u .i Hit 1 f " if :1i! k W 1 ! Ml : ii)' 4M l-i ti II .V :f - u f-8 if J- It it. M t :4! t " j i: I-- I'll a - J -