The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-10-28
For tho National En.
LETTER FROM MAINE.

LETTER FROM MAINE.
The last letter from Maine how rainful n
word this may be, ONLY those who can fully
appreciate this beautiful, hospitable. noble.
hearted State, can say.
Maine stands as living disproyal Of the 70
ceived opinion, that Northern ATTITUDES chill
the blood, or check the flow of warm and social
feeling There is fulness. frankness and
freedom, combined with simplicity, about the
social and domestic life of this State. which re-
minds me of the hospitality and generosity of
Kentucky more than anything else and vet has
added to it that stability and intelligent firmness
peculiar to the atmosphere Of New England
Perhaps it is because Maine, like Kentucky is
yet but half settled State, and has still n kind
of pioneer backwoods atmosphere about IL
All impulses which come from the great heart
of nature, from the woods, the mountains or
the ocean, are always pure and generous-and
those influences in Maine are vet stronger than
the facttions secondhand and man-made in
huences of artificial life.
Truly, whether We consider the natural
beauty of Maine, or the intellectual clearness
and development of her common people. or the
unsophisticated simplicity of life and manners
there, or the late glorious example which she
has set in the eyes of all the nations of the
earth, one must say she is well worthy of her
somewhat aspiring motto-the North Star |!
and the significant word Dirigolo.
DRIGo. That word is getting to have in
this day fullness of meaning that, perhaps,
was not contemplated when it was assumed
into her escutcheon-for Maine is indeed the
North Star, and the guiding hand in a move
ment that is to regenerdte all nations-and
from all nations, the cry for her guidance be-
gins to be heard.
1t is said that the very mention Of the State
OF Maine, in temperance gatherings in Eng
land, now raises tumults Of applause and that
Neal DOW has been sent for even IA far as
Berlin, to carry the light of this new gospel of
reace on earth and good will to men,
The last election in Maine taken altogether,
is the most magnificent triumph of principle,
pure principle that the world ever saw Thou
sands and tens of thousands of money had been
sent by liquor dealers in other States to bride
yoters-lt had been triumphantly asserted, that
votes in Maine could be had for tpO dollars q
hedd-but when they came to try the thing
practically upon her sturdy old farmers and
fishermen, they then got quite a new idea OF
what Maine man was. The old aquatic farm
ers, who inherit all the noble traits both of sea
and land, shook their hands most emphatical-
ly from holding bribes and the mountain farm
ers showed that in the course of their agricul-
ural life and experiments they had learned
ed, among other things the striking difference
between wheat and chat. No.po! brib.ng was
plainly "nO 60" in Maine the money was only
taken by a few poor harmless loafers, of the
kind who roOst on rail fences on sunny day,
or lean up against barns when for obvious rea-
sons they are in no condition to roost and who
are specially interested in the question of the
rights of woman to saw wood b.
The Election an Maine is an Era in the his
tory of elections, because there for once, men
of principle forsook all party lines and meas
ures to vote for PRINCIPLE alone. Wings voted
for Democrats, Democrats for Wings with sole
reference to their relation to the temperance
cause and thus great and memorable victory
was gained. Party is the great Anti Christ OF
a Republican Government and the discipline
of party has hitherto been so stringent that il
really has been impossible to determine the
sentiment of a Christian man by his vote ex
cept so far as it might signify the opinion o
the party with which they were connected
Maine, in agreement with her motto, D,rigO,
has set the example of two very great and i'm
Obc To- bIIdb tlllS tTdlllc ma
be suppressed by law and the other is, tina
men OF principle can vote out of their party
and the second suggestion is quite equal il
value with the first. For if men can vote on
Of their party for one great question of right
they can for another and the time is not dis
tant, we trust, when the noble State of Main,
will apply the same liberty to other subjects
| While | have been writing this. an invisible
spirit has been walking in our forests, and 10
the change The serrated ranks of spruce
are lighted with brilliant forms of trees, FAM
colored, yellow, scarlet, all shining out between
the unchanged steel blue of the old eyergreens
IL one want the perfection of American fores
scenery, he must have for the rainbow illum
nation of autumn, background of sombr
black green like ours. Fancy the gracefl
indentations, the thousand lake-ike beautiful
bays of this charming shore, now rejecting i
their mirror this hourly frightening pageant
fancy the ships gliding in and out from Jedd'
China, California, England and you can fan
cy the regret and longing of heart with whic
leave coast SO beautiful Fancy that yo
see dwellings speaking alike of simplicity an,
of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS families where ntelli
gence, heartness, warm hospitality, and tru
Christian principle, all conspire to make you
| WISH % pichouicj uhu youI uepdrluTc TeRTct
and you can fancy more intimate reason O
the sorrow with which write myself no long
er resident Of that State. But as leave It
cannot but express the wish that every fami
ly and every individual may remember tn,
glory which their State has now and the char
acter which it has now to sustain in the eyer
Of the whole civilized world
The women of Maine have had no small in
iuence in deciding the triumph of the cause
which sheds such lustre on their State All
women, as natural thing are friends and ad
vocates of the cause of temperance, a cause in.
volving 80 much to sons, brothers, and hus-
bands, and the Maine women have acted most
decidedly and nobly in its support.
To the "Norh Starr now the eyes of all
the world are turning, and we must look to it
to guide us in everything that is right and
noble. May that star be seen rs plainly lead.
ing the generous cause of freedom that cause
whose full success shall wipe from the Ameri-
can escutchcon its only national stain
n. +. b. s.
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