Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-08-20
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q HISTORIC STATE.-The Boston .Jo,,rroI
after INDUCING in some glowing anticipations
OF the future greatness of Kansas. in material
prosperity which it thinks will rival even the
rapid growth and greatness of Ohio. makes
the following very just and appropriate re-
marks:
but that VIII not constitute the best for
tune ana the proudest distinction of Kanzss.
She will be one of the few historic States If
this confederacy. What is it that has ,nadn
massachusetts distinct power in the Union
and not part of an aggregate? What is II
that has made South Carolina a rpIer of ~
lie sentiment entirely out of proportion to her
numerical and material strength What
throws halo OF respect even over the decav
OF the 'Old Dominion and in a measure
eoinPehsates her sons Tor a degeneracv in ey-
cry other respect? These are the old historic
states, early centers of public influence
founders, and guides of other commnnitiea
Iheir distinct lie has marked the potion,I
me- and, like the banyan tree. thew wonld
continue to live by the branches. even were
thelr trunks Wondering to ruin. Far differ.
emV is the position OF nearly all the new States.
Lhey nave been settled by spectators, and
by worthy men, with the sole view of bettar-
oIder than those incident to a removal from
old ties to the newness of border existence
has entered into the process of founding q
sovereign State All has been s,of the earth
earthy and rapid material growth, laxity of
morals and complete subservience to modern
democracy, nave generally been the early
cnaFactetistles OF the States originated within
the last halt century. They improve as thev
grow older, but with uniformity pointing to
the general influences prevailing throughout
the republic, rather than demonstrating the
presence OF an inherent principle of character
and power.
IL Is not so with Kanzas. She sprung into
existence 70 ylndicate great cause, menanced
oy the Federal government. Mr.. Webster
says 'hat our fathers fought seven years for
preamble; so the founders of Kanzas under
TOOK to build State as a veto upon an act of
Congress. They deliberately threw themselves
INTO lte-struggle of several years, in order
to retain the rights which the fathers handed
down but the sons had bargained away. They
nave succeeded; but as the Pilgrims sue
ceeded, and not as the Buckeyes and the Hoo
siers' Their families have been thinned by
the ouliet, and supplied with legends of cru
eity, endurance, and heroism, which will 90
ooWn as helr-looms to the remotest genera
tlon' Many is the quiet nook, the silver
slream' forever immortalized by its connec-
ton with the great struggle for freedom.
new shrines will be upon the soil, and new
| epochs In the calendar of Kanzas. By and
oy,the monuments will rise to perpetuate the
story to eager youth, and age will solace it.
self with fearful but joyous anniversaries.
these are the indices of an original, and not
deIivative character. ..@
Nor can we doubt that there is grand
utility IN this emergence of new historic
state. Who knows but that we were spread-
ing too fast in the way we were gong on
that the material was SO preponderating over
the moral in our growing population as to
endanger our institutions-and so Providence
ordained gathering up anew of the Puritan
&c elements on the plains of Kanzas, and
| again tempered them in fire and blood for
| the purposes of a new mission? At any rate
| the wlekedness of man has already been
turned to the furtheranee of good principles.
Missouri is benifcently reacted upon by Kan
zas. Nebraska, the Indian Territory, and
Texas are beginning to feel the new influence
by their side. Up and down the great rivers,
at the heart of the continent, the electric
| power of cultured freedom will be transmit
ted from hanzas as from central battery
Another Massachusetts, another New Eng
land, springs up in wider theatre and at a
moment as opportune as that which hera lded
the present States Nor will the mission of
the Western power, we are persuaded be less
enduring and extended than has been the
North Eastern