Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-08-06

atlVeneSS winch, KnOW1nSs ITO reSllng
point, has actually become the leading
characteristic by which the people of this
land are known, the world over. Wehold
that, principally owing to the diffusion of
the spirit of New Englandism, where that
spirit is correct in its dictates-as it is
moi. in all its dictation-our country pro-
crosses 50 much more rapidly than any
other. And, further, that if wars are to
come-which, heaven forfend-from the
natural spread of our people, and their
equally natural habit Of becoming the
governing race, wherever they go in num-
bers, wemay thank the prevailing spirit
Of New. Englandism, more than aught
else, for such contingencies. ~. I'D
True, as Governor Clifford says, to
spray, pray, pray" and also to g work,
work, work, arc emphatically New Eng
land characteristics applied, however, in
too many instances, only to get, get get,
fairly if convenient, but at all events, to
get, get, GET. Why, the Governor him.
self, in justifying the outrageous frauds
aperpetrated on the aborigines by the Pill
grim fathers and their near descendants,
in the way Of buying thousands of their
broad acres for a jack knife ION the plea
that bargain is bargain, although one
party to the trade may have shamefully
cheated the other praises in New Eng
land much more God-defying conduct.
than any which has of late years marked
the history of our country's progress in
the extension of it's territorial limits.
Then, especially after his open avowal of
this fraudulent character of New Eng
lands g trades" with the savages, quot
ing the views of John Quincy Adams, on
the integrity with which New England
kept her engagements with them, will not
serve to wipe out from the minds of well
read men, remembrance of the facts mark
ing hey feats of land stealing. Alr. Ad-
ans, by the by, in treating of New Eng
land and New Englanders, was at all
times as unreliable as any other descend
ant of the Pilgrims schooled to believe
that New England could do no wrong,
and that the world is ignorant enough to
take for gospel truth, all the fulsome stuff
with which her sons are 50 prone to plas-
ter her past, present, and future. aa e
H.. Where are the tribes who inhabited
New England, and the other portions of
the continent settled first by New Eng
landers in large numbers? First robbed
Of their lands under rratnnee Of fnir har-
gains for jack-knivcs and strings of beads,
and then erfermindted! We write exter-
minated, because the remnants remaining
are only sufficient to serve as mementoes
that such races did live. Remnants who
continue. to wander over the face of the
earth, as did their forefathers, without
! property Or any other interest in society.
Wards Of the State to this day--if but by
way of showing that New England, in
her exceeding great solicitude for the
moral, intellectual and industrial i'm
provement of the human race, practically
knows the interests of no other race save
her own.,d' o.. a1-',.i -a,f1l ...c'g,
While such is notoriously the condition
OF the remaining aborigines Of philan-
thropic New England, those of Georgia
and Alabama are land holders, farmers
and thriving business men, enjoying many
advantages Of civilization to an extent to
warrant the belief that they are to be
saved to the world We refer to the
Cherokees, Greeks and Chickassws, whose
condition is so very far superior to that
OF the Indians one meets every, where
rowing in bands Of half dozen souls over
New York and New England, peddling
mocasins and maple sugar. BY the Span
iards, too, after their wars Of conquest,
far nobler, more Christian, enlightened and
liberal policy than that of New England
was pursued towards them. Their lands
were moi wrested from them. They were
collected in villages, instructed in the
knowledge of Christianity, and made SO
happy and prosperous, as that they have
nearly every where increased in numbers
In view Of these facts, known to all who
read of1New England and other regions
Of America, in books not written to be.
smear Ysnkeedom with undeserved praise,