New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-01
GOOD BLOOD.

lineage who had but one complaint to make OF any OF
his ancestors-one Of them had married Malay.
Malays were well enough in themselves, but he did
not like the mixture. Sometimes whole genera
ton of this gentleman's family would come ana
pass away, and no trace of the Objectionable race
would show itself; but presently some cousin
would be born in whom " that COMPOUNDED Malay"
was sure to make his appearance. 1t was yexa-
tious, but inevitable. The difficulty was in the
blood and at stated periods would make itself
visible.
But as bad blood shows itself, so also does the
good We have no respect for long genealogy-
the nobility that comes of rank or power, though
the blood may have crept through scoundrels ever
" since the flood" But name on which no stain
has ever rested, an honest ancestry, perhaps not
often great but always virtuous, filling whatever
station its members may have been called to oc-
cupy with fidelity and honesty and distinguished
for these qualities, is lineage of which any man
who can look back upon and call it his, has right
to be proud Genealogy in this country does not
often 90 further back than the first half OF the
seventeenth century. All over the country are
the names of the first settlers whose descendants
have scattered themselves over continent. Or
these first settlers some, as in w-England, lett
their country for the sake of conscience, that
they might found in the wilderness Church with
out Bishop and a State without King. Their
love of freedom eliminated in the American Reyo-
luton. Elsewhere were settlers sent out from the
jails and work houses of the Old World. These
did not 20 to New England. Their children have
carried Slavery into new Territory, and they In
sist to-day that the Federal Union and Constitu-
ton was formed to protect mans property in his
fellow-man.
One of the Oldest towns in Massachusetts is
HingLain Wing in pleasant valley, at the head OF
tde-water. IEis quaint old place, and in it is
the eldest church now standing on this continent;
built within half century of the time when the
Pilgrims first pitched their tents at the foot OF the
hill on which it stands. In that little band was
the first OTIS the ancestor of that James who ap
peared before the Colonial Courts on behalf of his
fellow-subects against the Wrts of Assistance, and
who led the popular resistance to the imposition of
taxation without representation; of whom John
Adams said, he, more than any other man, was
the author of the American Revolution. Peter
Hobart the ancestor of the late Bishop Hobart of
this State, was the pastor Of this company of
Pilgrims; and of him it was said in the Colony, he
twas bold man, who would speak bis mind"
In this band also, and among those who followed
them year or two later, were the LincOlDs, the
ancestors, without doubt, of all of that name, now
scattered all over the United States. 1t was an
honored name in the old country; and it has never
earned anything but honor in its two centuries
sojourn in this One of Washingtons most trusted
Generals-he whom his Chief called to receive the
sword of Cornwallis-was of this stock. 1t has
given Governor and a Lieutenant. Governor to
Massachusetts, and many Offices of trust have
fallen to others of the name, there, and in other
places. 1t is good honest blood, and has flowed
for many generations through the veins of honest
men.
Abraham Lincoln undoubtedly came of this
parentage. His grandfather went westward from
Virginia, and there = vague tradition that the
great grandfather emigrated from Pennsylvania.
But it is only tradition. The probability Is that
he was emgrant from Massachusetts,. The sons
and brothers of this grandfather, whose name was
Abraham, indicate that they were of the Lincoln
family, who emigrated to bingham in 1887; and
the Southern and Western branch have preserved
the names so well known in the annals of the old
town whence they sprung. A new honor has fallen
upon that patronymic, and higher still is yet to
follow.
We hold it to be something more than mere
negative qualification that the man who we trust
is to be the successful candidate for the Presidency
comes of stock which, for two centuries, has
borne no blemish upon It's fair fame, but has been
marked By those sterling qualities of integrity,
sincerity, and cOnscienOusness which distinguished
the early settlers of New England.