Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-02-12

year, and should commence immediately
after the time in this way THAT every
one who lived in the North should 60
South, and remain until Congress meets /;
and every one located South should come
North and remain until Congress meets,
and they would 60 back with a better feel
ings; and if some of the violent men of
the South who have the spirit of disunion
in their minds were TO see the fair Young
women | saw, they would be brim full of
union before they left.
Fellow citizens, it is now three centuries
and a half since this New World was dis
covered. But don't be alarmed lam not
going into a tedious history of the two
Americas from the time of the landing of
Columbus down to the present. That
part called South America-and | include
in it, on occasions of this sort, Mexico
was discovered a hundred years before
North America, The land was full of
attractions-was a land of sunshine, Of
flowers, of perfumes of mines of gold and
silver, of diamonds, and Of a people adj
vanced in civilization. A hundred years
later, North America was discovered. 1t
had none of the attractions belonging to
the other-neilher its mines of gold and
silver and diamonds, nor its sunny climate
and %perfunIed atmosphere, nor its advanced
civilization, like that of the empires of
Mexico and Peru. Yet what has been
the difference between the progress of the
two Americas. This America Of ours,
settled by those who are the compatriots
of the Pilgrims, has reached Il degree of
civilization, refinement, prosperity, happi-
ness, and civil and religious liberty, which
leaves the other America UNNECESSARILY
behind. And what can be said Of North
America in connection with South America
in these respects, can be said of New
England in connection with the rest of
North America. The Merrimac, the
Kennebeck, the Androsooggin and the
Penobscot were far behind the Potomac
and the James rivers in their attractions;
but what has been the result The result
has been that this New England, which
was as far behind the other parts of North
America as North America was behind
South America, is now ahead. In all the
useful and ornamental arts, in what con-
tributes to the advancement and perfection
Of the human being, she has gone ahead,
and gone into other parts of the Union,
rendering education, educated young men
to instruct her youths, pious and learned
parsons to fill their puIpits. eminent men
in every walk in life, and artisans, though
mentioned last they are among the most
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England has done it. And |, who have
been through her sterile fields, have found
everywhere, for | have examined into
everything, an abundance of hospitality
and comfort with which | was before I'M
acquainted. | have gone through their
factories from top to bottom, have been
astonished at he, perfection of their ma
chinery, and sometimes have asked, Did
you get that invention from Old England 2
for | knew | was putting on their metlle,
and they would instantly answer, No;
we did that ourselves Not only was |
surprised by the perfection OF the machi-
merry, but also the cleanliness which per-
vaded every department. The rooms are
ample and well ventilated in summer and
well warmed in winter. The operatives,
too, were comely, male and female aud
this, too, struck Inc as | passed through.
| made it 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 my ideas were reversed, for
| had before supposed that the operatives
in New England as in Old England, were
living in small, narrow, confined and UNI
comfortable buildings, with poor food.
But, on the contrary, | found them say
1t without disparagement to anybody
situated as well as members of Congress
are at Washington City. They were in
large, stately and elegant buildings, in
long rows, and entered in the same man.
ner in which you enter the parlor in
Washington, by ringing a bell at the en-
trance. In the parlor there was furniture
equal to that which can be found in Con-
gress boarding-houses. | carried my GU
riosity SO far as to ask the mistress to take
me into the cooking department, that |
might see the cooking going on. She
said had taken her unawares, and ! told
her that was just what had desired, as |
wanted TO see them in their everyday
course of living. She opened the door
and let me into the kitchen which was
and neat. This was the condition
of the operatives. And to all this they
added leisure for the cultivation of the
mind. | dwell upon all these facts with
much pleasure.
And now | have to say that, not satisfied
with a visit of thirty days, travelling every
day and speaking every night, | am TO
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