The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-12-31
New Engiana.

ovKR GAVE 4 sAmEr's soox sroRs
New EnUlana.
Ton Benton has spent whole month in
New England. 1t would have been well for
him II that month had been .spent there .
quarter Of century ago instead Of now, for
like many man before him, he finds himself
greatly disappointed, and bis views Of things
are reversed. For instance, he thought the
New Englanders cold, inhospisabls people;
he thought their factory operatives were q
class Of oppressed and ignorant people, SUBJ
stantially slaves, similar in condition with
the operatives in the English Mills, as he is
taught to regard them; and that the home OF
the Yankees was nest OF fanatics and sedi-
tion-breedcrs. The converse Of all which 10
true. The New England people do not make
IN ossentasion Of hospitality, but il is not,
as ia some other quarters, .eifth passion
with them, and no where is there more
free and unaffected cordislity than be-
meath New England roof. They are firm
and innexible in their devotion to the senti-
ment Of human liberty, which .ha. always
distinguished them; but it is ne great mis-
take to call that unyielding adherence to
sincere and noble sentiment fanaticism, MS
it is to presume that the people Of New Eng
land are lacking in loyalty to that coun-
try which their arms and their unconquera-
BILE spirit did more than the power and spirit
OF any other section to render independents
to TINT Union which their wisdom and their
patriotism certainly did no less than any
other section to establish and cement. As
to the coalition Of their operatives, we will
let Mr.. Benton speak alone. He made .
speech Mt the New England dinner, on the
END Of December, at New York, in which
he thus alluded to them
81 have gone through Their factories from
top to bottom. | have been astonished 1t
the perfection Of their machinery. The
rooms are ample aud well ventilated in sum
mer and we'll warmed in winter. The oper-
atives, too, were comely, male and female;
and this, too, struck me ms passed through.
made 1t my business to converse with them,
and with the young women. found them
TO be attractive and comely, modest without
being bashful, confident without assurance,
and quite intelligent. | went also through
the boarding houses and there all nv ideas
were reversed, for had before supposed
that the operatives in New England as in
Old England, were living in email, narrow,
confined and uncomfortable buildings, with
poor food. But, on the contrary, | found
thcm-l say it without disrsrsgemebt to
anybody--sitnated as well as members Of
Congress are 1t Washington City,. ZAP
Plause. They were in large, stately and
elegant buildings, in long rows, and entered
in the same manner in which you enter the
parler at Washington, by ringing bell at
the entrance In the parlor there was furni
tare equal TO that which canbe found in Con-
gress boarding houses
He has satisfied himself tina, New England
holds the same relation to the rest Of this
nation, that this nation holds TO the efiete
nations Of Central and South America. -
This is high praise, bat it is his, not ours,
and they are the words Of frank, blunt man,
who speaks contrary to his prejudices And
IN the same connection, of their hospitality
he says:
81, who have been through her sterile
n 80" ".ss i'unu every~hefe, Tor have ex-
hosp;tal;,v ana comfnr, .;,h wn, vJ"Iee VI
fore unacquain,ed.v
But he 10 going back again to New Eng
land, to spend vet more time. aud he con.
clades thus with reference to the LOYALTY o,
the New England people 20 the Goyernmen,
Of the Union.
sswhen return to the Great West | shall
be able 10 bear my testimony everywhere that
70 All the extended domain OF this wide
ths ns,n 49, ~. ~ p. - =. sasse rue neaf's o.
loyal 70 the Union of these st.,.s - A.
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