Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1856-11-10

The Contest Of Races.-The great politician
contest that has just concluded has been, In
the main, one between the Celtic and Puritan
races. At the South, Celtic blood or, rather,
anti Puritan blood predoninates vastly. So,
also, in New Jersey. and in the Democratic
portions of New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana,
Illinois and Iowa. The immense Democratic
strength in Pennsylvania is in region OF the
State where the people are as different In thelr
characters from those in the Yankee northern
tier of counties, Settled by persons of Pu-
ritan DESCENT as men can be who speak the
same language So also in the river counties
and islands Of New York, and in Southern
| Illinois, Indiana and Iowa, all of which voted
against the prevailing sentiment OF the north
| ern portions Of those States and in keeping
! with that of the stocks from which they are
descended-the people of the South, the Dutch
| French, Scotch, Irish, &c. Mr.. Fillmore
vote at the South was made up in con>ile
BILE part from persons Of Puritan blood, and
| at the North from persons Of Southern blood
who hate foreigners, and from those whose
| PuIitanism is so intense as to make them over
look the slavery question in order lin the elec-
tion) to strike at one suspected Of secret or
latent sympathy with the Catholic Church.
| The transfer Of the contest Of the races to this
continent, though not unexpected by philo
sophie aud learned men,,was hardly looked
| for to exhibit itself So soon. 1t has ragged on
I the other side of the Atlantic for many centu
| rio For all hat has haaD Al
hatred and jealousy between the French and
the English. Ever since the lowlands of Scot
land were occupied by English settlers, the
contest has ragged between them and the high
land Celts up to single century ago, when
an infusion of lowland influences in the High
lands Gained the troubled waters So, too,
in Ireland, where practical civil war has ex-
listed between the North and the South ever
since Cromwelrs followers precipitated them
selves upon the Londonderry country.
The Puritan is ever seeking changes in sys-
TENS of government morals, principles, &c.,
rs often changes that are likely to be delete
rious, as. 'herwise. The Celtic race, though
ters, cling to ancient, tried and approved sys-
TENS with, We think, commendable and wise
tenacity. Thus the isms make no progress
| whatever among them their descendants
The Puritan race on this continent have for
| twenty five years past been prey to new
tangled notions in religion, morals, ethics, &C.,
until one finds nearly all in one neighborhood
in New England crazy upon Spiritualisn in
another vicinity as deranged on Millersm, in
still another on Socialism, and in yet another
| on Womsn's Rightsism, &c all being alike
crazed on the prevailing ism of the age-Abo-
| litiouism.
Nowhere out of regions peopled by persons
Of Puritan descent have these various new
tangled creeds fourished They have obtain
ed 20 more foothold out Of them in this CONT
nent than new religions have obtained among
the Cells Of the Old World. The truth is, the
human races are governed by laws almost as
fixed and as clearly defined as the laws of
creation governing inanimate nature. As
uDaccOuntsble commissions out Of the regular
order Of things occur in that (inanimate nature)
at times, so the races of people shoot out of
the regular order Of their history and character
now and then. Time, however, soon brings
them back under the government of the fixed
| principles incident to each of them (the races)
| especially The Puritan is naturally a vision
| airy and theOrist in all things, as well as an
| asthetic The Cell is the reverse of oil that
| Though more ftful and turbulent az an ind-
| vidual, be is slow in troubling himself
| about abstract matters. He labors intensely
to make money for the sake of enjoying it,
/ while most persons Of Puritan blood labor to
make it, in order to hoard it. The Celt
will give it freely to defend the principles and
| creed Of his fathers, while the Puritan will
| part with 1T without tangible gaid pro geo
only to advance some new theory that racks
his own brain for the time being. His hap
Piness is voted misery by the Celt That is,
he delights in gloominess of thought and worry
Of mind. Whereas the Celt enjoys all the
| good things of the world as he passes throughit
| But upon the slavery question the races are
now, for the fra. time, fairly aroused and in
palpable collision. Whenever in juxtaposi.
ton in the Old Void a similar contest has
waged between them. The problem to be
solved is, can they exist for any length of time
in as near co-equality Of numbers and power
under one govern ment, as under ours? While
| We were weak in our foreign relations, and
were comparatively feeble and poor people
| at home, the inherent elements of discord be-
tween the two antagonistic races Of our popula-
tion..we repressed by circumstances Those
times having passed, these elements are be-
ginning to vindicate the eternity of their exis-
tence and their power over the future Of our
condition, as in the marked difference in tho
proclvities of the rival races as manifested in
the recent Presidential election.
More ofthe Same Sort Coming!-Ihe Fash
ions Of the Day, &c.-A Paris correspondent
writes US on the Goth Of October as follows:
Editor Of the Star The Champ Elysees
| were crowded Yeslarday- and tha Gmraror