The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-06-03

North and South viewed in Connection
with the Present Crisis.
Those who suppose that the people of the
North and the people Of the South would be
homogeneous but for the existence of Slavery
among the latter, are much mistaken. Certain
antagonistic clements Of character strongly
distinguished them in their very origin in Eng
land, more than two hundred years ago; and
the distinction then existing between them has
never since been obliterated From the first
settlement of the old Colonies in America, the
difference, aside from the difference occasoned
by the institution of Slavery, between the feel
ings, views and general character of the people
colonzng the North ond South, has ever been
marked and obvious to all who have undertaken
to analyze the constituent elements of our Re-
public. Virginia and Maryland, the seats of
the two great controlling Colonies of the South,
were settled by what were called the Cavaliers,
or adheronts of the British monarchy, and OPP,
ponents to the republican principles which Gull
minated on the accession Of Cromwell to power
in England. And New England, the scat of
the equally controlling Colonies of the North,
was almost exclusively settled by the Puritans,
or the republicans, or the descendants of the
republicans who,wrested the sceptre of monar-
chy from the hands of the naughty cavaliers, at
the great battles Of Ma seby and Marston Moor.
The Cavalier party of that day, like that of
their descendants in this Country, at the present
time, arrogatcd to themselves all the honor,
chvalry, intelligence and high breeding in Eng
land, and did their utmost to belittle and stig-
Matte their Puritan or republican opponents,
by calling them Round Heads, Shop Keepers,
pumpkins and Mudslls, if the term was then
invented-in short, everything which could be
used as terms of ridicule and reproach All
this is seen in the English literature of that
day, and also of a later day; for even the gifted
Walter Scott, whose sympathies were always on
the side of legitimacy, hasnot hesitated to draw
pictures Of those times in some of his ictions,
which were calculated to revive and sanction
those terms of reproach. The Puritan party,
in the meantime, caring nothing for the AFRO
CANT superiority of their opponents, and no
than the whistling of the wind, moved on in
the stern and steady exhibition of their princi-
Piles, till they saw them triumph in the Old
W orld, and become safely planted in the New.
Such were the relations in which these two
different classes of men stood towards each other
when they emigrated to America and founded
their respective colonies at the North and South
And the same relations which then existed be-
tween them in England, have, to remarkable
extent, been preserved by each since their colo
nization in this country, even to the present
day. The one is still arlstocratic, arrogant,
domineering, making little or no pretence to
moral principle, and looking down with ill con-
cealed contempt on the other And that other
assuming no more than they can make good
ever Republican in feeling true to principle,
wholly unmoved by either menace or contempt,
and indomitably resolute when aroused to action
in behalf of established rights, and for the per-
fornance of patriotic duties.
The agitation of the Slavery question, with
out doubt, has, in the growing sensitiveness of
the South, arising from their consciousness of the
fas;-gathering dangers of their institution to
themselves, latterly much embittered them
against the North and greatly widcned the
breach between the two sections. But the
breach itself was always there. The two par
tes always deeply disliked each other The
North, though less demons'ratiye on the sub
iect, Rever liked the more aristoemtic feelings
and lo,4ser moral standards of the South And
she South. ia turn, always hated the North for