The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-10-24
WHAT OUR NEIGHBoRS THINK OF US.

OF our State II ON the n. I Observer. 1t Is from
the pen OF the editor over the signature Of 'Iren-
aus who visited Boston at the late meeting of
the American Board OF Commissioners:
And these New England people are brave
race, you may be sure. Cool, calculating, close
and all that they have been called, until Yankee
has become synonime with MANY for cheating
as Jesuit had for lying. But have lived among
them and tried them summer and winter. and
know them TO be as brave, manly, honest noble.
hearted a set OF men as the world has. Generous
too they are. What state gives more money tor
good objects than this old Bay State ? Ii there is
any other should like to go and see it. Those
people know the worth of money and they work
hard TO get it; but they also know how to use it.
They live well take the good things of this life
and surround themselves with real comforts and
conveniences, luxurious even, and then try TO
make all the world comto table as themselves
Y gu will find more and greater provision for RIGHT
down comfort in New England house where
they keep only one or two servants, than in manv
planters mansion with hundred Generosity
has been made TO mean setting good table and
asking ones friends to dinner. | fancy these
New Eng auders not slow at that, but there
is nobler generosity that they are more TO be
praised Tor, that means spreading liable of know
ledge and industry and enjoyment for the ignor-
ant and poor and wretched and asking all the
world to sit down to it. In proportion 10 its pop
ulaton, this very Massachusetts does more for
education, religion and civilization in the earth.
than any other commonwealth in the wide
world.
Itis very rich people too We have verv
limited idea OF the wealth of Massachusetts,
Within the last four years, she has invested eigb
ty millions OF dollars in railroads, factories and
the like, and all this is not flea. bite to what She
had invested before. Her sol; is sterile. her eli
mate severe, Der staples rocks and Ice but she
makes money, hand over band and is quite as han.
Ply as II the sun was nearer, and her face card.
en-. Five independent railroads from 40 MANY
different points OF compass terminate in Worces
ter, little inland town without nayigable
stream within score of miles. One of these
railroads runs f ON Worcester 10 Providence r
L., route that leads from no where TO the same
place, forty miles, and makes tortv stops At "a
many factories, on little stream that tumbles
along from wheel to Wheel turning spindIes and
rooms mat turn out manufactures enough TO make
thelr owners rich, to support tens of thousands of
Workmen, to make this railroad good stock and to
snow too the way that New England enterprise
ana ingenuity can make money out OF nothing
Her stones are turned to bread
lhen you must spend day in driving about
Boston, ride out to Charleston, Cambridge. Rox
bury, Brookline and other villages adjacent. and
see the lavishment of wealth and taste that meet
the eye on every side, it you would find the use
winch these Boston merchants and manufacture
ers make OF some OF their money! Thew know
how TO live. Stop at Cambridge Look at its
nails, risen and rising, its Libraries. its endow.
nents, and you get some notion OF muni6cent an.
preparation OF property. 1t is a good thing to
kno" what to DO with your money, when YOU
nave more than you want. man worth half
mllilon Killed himself in New England three
months ago, Tor no other earthly reason. than
thls-hls money came in so fast that he could no.
take care OF it. 1t worried the life ont NJ him
all bat little, and he put that out with pistol
mere are not many men in this world so troub
led think could have helped him out of his
misery.
And there is no question that Boston is our
A a, New York is wholly given to commerce.
mere Is "llterary atmosphere here that is
wholesome IN spite of east winds. Boston mer.
chants encourage literature, her professional men
are scholars, her books are well printed, on good
paper and bring good price, and her public
SCHOOLS are equal to academies elsewh