Herald of the times, and Rhode Islander. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1846-1849, 1848-03-23
The North and the SOUth.

Theodore Parker has preached an eloquent
in Boston, upon the life and death of John Quin-
cy Adams. A full report of it appears in the
Boston Chronotype. We copy the following
portion, containing great deal Of truth rela-
tive to the political relation of the North and
South
The business Of the North is to get empire
over nature, TO obtain power over the material
world (; and so every thing lends to that Young
men Of talents become merchants. They aim
to make fortune. They care nothing about
political power, but the power of the pocket.
10 get empire over nature, We must have ed
ucatlon mot in few hands, but in all hands
Otherwise there is no intelligent labor and it
Is intelligent and not brute labor, which gives
power over nature. Men must be religious.
And SO to secure intelligent labor, education
must be universal, suffrage universal, property
widely distributed.
In the north see what examples of that, see
what increase Of wealth and skill, significant of
power.-See our colleges, our factories, our
schools, and our churches see the movements
of commerce, Of manufactures, Of education
See the movements for the promotion of relig-
ion. All is democratic and is becoming more
so. In the south they seek empire not over
nature but over man. Talent tends not to trade
but to politics. Young men of ability 90 into
the army, to the navy, to the public Offices, or
give themselves to politics. They learn TO
manage men. A young man of the north ac-
,quires fortune. A young man cC the south
political influence and favor. See the result of
that. The north manages the trade the com
merce, the manufactures of the land. 1t man
ages also its spiritual affairs It's morals, its ed
ucatlon, its religion its literature and science
The south manages lis political affairs. SO
all the Presidents but three have been southern
men, and most Of the public officers. Each of
the three northern presidents has failed to be re-
elected, but has retired from public life with Il
large fortune. The south has had seven presi-
dents and four of them left office poor men.
There is no accident in this, none at all. You
behold in II the working of a law which is as
universal as the law Of grayltation.
The little State of Rhode Island could pro-
duce organizing mind enough to organize the
Potomac or the Mssissippl-yes, even the
cataract Of Niagara into a cotton mil, but the
State of South Carolina can manage both the
north and the south, and make the whole ma
ton turn It's wheels. SO the south gives laws
because her chief men turn their hands to pol
itcs. 1t is so in peace, but in time of trouble
convulsion, revolution, like the old one, then
you see men of tall heads come up from the
shops and farms of the north, from the office,
the bank and the shoemaker's shop. They
arc born discoverers and organizers, the aris-
tocIacy of God They come mp from every
where and sit in the councils of the nation, and
control the state. The North made the Revolu-
Io l, apl
the south breaks it just when itplcascs. Great
sensation.) No northern politician ever had
much influence at the south. None has ever
been twice elected for President. Wcthink it
a great thing even to get northern man for
Speaker in the House of Representatives.
Il The South is an aristocracy which the de-
mocracy Of the North would not tolerate one
year, if it were in the North Now it has the
nor,hcrn democracy completely under its sthumb,
democrats and wings both. If the South says,
Go, they hasten. If it says, Come, they say,
Here we are. Iii says, Do this, they obey
in moment. Does the South say, Annex, il
is done. Does it say, Fight, northern men
put on the collar, they lie lies, and declare it is
moral treason even for the humblest, the most
insignificant clergyman, to preach against the
war.-Thesc things are so. (Great sensation.
Mr.. Adams, said was northern man, will
northern aims, methods, ideas and habits, anc
therefore how could such man. whose bus
ness was, as of the rest of the New England
ers, to gain empire over nature and not Over
men, contend with men whose business lay al
the other way. That is the explanation Of a
great many northern defeats of past times
And doubt not it will explain great many
northern defeats that are yet To come