New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-13

Monday, the 22d inst, is the 236th anniversary
of the Landing Of the Pilgrim Fathers of Ne8'E n-
gland from the deck Of the weather. beaten May
flower upon The Rock Of PiymOuth-an Incl lent
which doubtless ssemed too ins significant aud COM
moDp ace for notice in any court journal or courty
annals of the time, but in which subsequent nistOrl
sns have perceive ed the germ of a new era for Hd-
manly. The fact that the first slave-shp conveyed
her cargo Of African chaS'e's toto Virginia, where
they found an eager market and satisfactory prices,
in the same year and almost az the same moment
with the debarkatOn of the Pilgrims at Plymouth,
gives add ioDal interest to the associations which
cluster around the remembrance Of FoIefathers'
Day. Virginia and New. England may thus be said
to have started in the race together, though under
crcum. tances most unfavorab,e 10 the latter. VIr
ena had already been thirteen years settled-t had
been carefully and wisely located on the mos; in7:-
ing portion of our whole Atlantic coast-its soil,
Gin ate, timber, waters, minerals, We're Immensely
superior to those of New EDgland; i; was Petted
and favored colony, founded by Royal favorie and
named after a powerf full sovereign; while New-En-
gland was found ed by poor and irendess handful,
c,ntemned as schismstic and sedltious, and seeking
primarily in the New World liberty to worship God
in undisturbed accordance with the dictates OF their
own cOnsciences. They did not choose the sterile
| rocks of Massachusetts for their new home; they
were carried thiher by the treachery OF pIot,
| bribed to keep them away from the more inviting
lands further south; yet from that humble germ has
| spIurg power which this broad land recognizes,
and which is destined to be felt and respected
throughout the earth.
| The greatness Of New-Engand is essentially
| moral ard intellectual. Though she Initiated the
| American Revolution, and in good part conducted
it TO its trump hant issue she has had bat subor-
| dnate part in directing the government founded
thereon. Through the greater part Of It's existence,
her sons have only been admitted TO share IN It's
councils on the condition of hostility TO her cherish
ed ideas and convictions. Yet ask Nirglnian to-
| dsy why the South has less wealth and thrift than
| the North, and he will probably answer that the
policy of the Government has favored the latter at
| the expense of the former; though the Federal
Government has for at least thee-fUurths of its ex
istence, been inspired and controlled by Virginia
and resisted by New-Epgland. Could greater
tribute be paid to the genius of New.Engand than
this complaint Of Der triumphan. antagonists
| But VII Presidents of the United States ara
rarely take n from New Eng gland, and these some
times because Of their apostacy from her principles,
the Presidents Of half the colleges and other semi
naries throughout the land are chosen from among
btr sops; the education Of the rising generation of
| American fr.emen may be deemed practically in
their hands; they are at work as clergymen,
lawyers, ply sicians, editors merchants ship-cap-
tsins, &c, from the Ottawa to the Rio Grande
from w.Brunsw!ck to Oregon. They construct
| al roads in Russia and steam-mills in Nebraska;
and. while inferior TO no other race ia ply steal
energy and manual industry, they are in demand
wherever combination Of intelligence With fidelity
mental capacity wi h mora principle, is needed.
The late Election rendered emphatic testimony to
the moral power of the Ne~-EneAnd s,hool-hou
al q meeting house, these twin ouisrowths and ex-
emplifcatiors of the old New England spirit. Not
only every New.EDgland State, but every COM
uurit, in which the New England blood Predomi-
a'e6, Was carried overwhelmingly for candidates for
Pr, .ideut and Vice President, both of alien blood
and (, reign breeding, simply because they embodied
BID represented Der cardinal principe
to Ii, tx eIsion Of the area Il Hom,n Bondage.