Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-02-09

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struggle now going on. But the north
will be an utterly dead force in the
American nation. She will be rolled
up in corner like cocoon waiting its
transmigation. The whole North will
become provincial; it will be but n
fringe to nation whose heart will beat
in the South.
But New England was not raised up
by Divine Providence to play q mean
part in the worlds affairs.
Remember that New England bro't
to An arica those principles which ev-
cry State in the Union has more or less
thoroughly adopted.
New England first formed those in
stitutions which liberty requires for
benefcent activity; aud from her, both
before and since the revolution they
have been copied throughout the land
Having given to America its ideas and
its instructions, think the North is
bound to stand them.
Until 1900, the North had distinct
i've national influence, and gave shape
in due measure, to national policy, as
she had before to national institutions.
Then she began to recede before the
rising Of another power. For the last
fifty years. upon the national platform
have stood arrayed two champions in
mortal antagonism--New England and
tie near North, representing personal
freedom, civil liberty. universal educa-
tion, and n religious spirit which al
ways sympathizes with mer more than
with Governments.
The New England theory Of Gov
ernment has always been In its ele-
ment--frst, independent men, demo-
cratic Townships; next Republican
States, and, in the end. Federated
Union Of Republican States. All her
economies. her schools. her policy, her
industry, her wealth. her intelligence.
have been at agreement with her the
ory and policy Of Government. Yet.
New England, strong at home, COM
pact. educated, right-minded; has
gradually lost influence, and the whole
North with her.
The Southern League Of States have
been held together by the cohesive
power Of Common Wrong. Their In
dustry, their policy, their whole interi-
or. vital economy, have been at vari-
ance with the apparent principles oi
their own State Governments and with
the National Institutions under which
they exist. They have stood upon a
narrow basis, always shaking under
them, without general education, with.
out general wealth, without diversified
industry. And yet, since the year
1900, they have steadily prevailed
against Representative New England
and the North. The South, the truest
representation Of Absolutism under re-
publican forms, is mightier in our Ma
tionsl Councils and Policy to-day than
New England, the mother and repre-
sentative Of true republicanism and
| the whole free North.
! And now it has come to pass that
in the good providence of God, anoth'
er opportunity has been presented Il
the whole North to reassert her place
| and her influence, and TO ill the insti'
tutions Of our country with their orig
inal and proper blood. | do not desir,
| that she should arise and put on hel
beautiful garments. because she is my
mother, and your mother; not becaus,
her hills were the first which my child
hood saw, that has never since behelC
any half so dear; nor from any sordic
ambition, that she should be great il
this worlds greatness; nor from any
profane wish to abstract from the right
ful place and influence of any State
or any section of our whole country
But l think that God sent New Eng
laed to these shores as his own messen
ger OF mercy 10 days and ages, tha
have yet far TO come ere they are born
She has not yet told the Continent al
that is in her heart. She has sat dowr
like Bunyan's Pilgrim. and sleptin tn,
bower by the way. and where she slep
she has left her roll-God grant tha
she hath not lost il there while sh,
slumbered
BY all the love that bear to thu
cause Of God, 'and the glory OF hi
, Church by the yearnings which | hav,
for the welfare Of the human kind, by
all the prophetic expectations which
have of the destiny of this land, Cod
Almoner Of Liberty to the World,
desire to see Old Representative New
England, and the offiliated North
rouse up and do their first works.
Is it my excited car that hears Al
, airy phantasm whispering? or do
hear solemn voice crying out, car
isel Shinel thy light is come, and tn,
glory Of the Lord is arisen upon theel'
/ am quito aware that the subject o
, Slavery has been regarded, by many
as sectional; and the agitation of it Il
I the North needless and injurious Il
our peace and the country's welfare
Whatever may have been the evils
r the agitation has only como througl
. men, not from them. 1t is Of Cod
r is the underheaving of Providenes
) Mariners might as well blanc you 70
!. the swing and toss Of their craft whel
: tides troop in or march out Of you
harbor, as US, for heaving to that It'd
which God swells under us. Tides Il
: the ocean and in human affairs ar
S from celestial bodies and celestial be
5 ings. The conflict which is going o.
: springs from causes rs deep as tn
!. foundations Of our institutions.
e will go out to crisis, its settlement
E will be an era in the worlds history
D either of advance or decline.
Iwish to call your patient attention
I to the real nature Of this contest:
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