The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1862-04-07
One Of the Causes Of Difference to be Taken
into Account in Restoring the Union,

@"'o AaHS''A"o ~ hHcotoi4NS tHe CulCu,
Foreign writer's, in discussing the agitatcd
condition Of this country, while in no friendly
spirit maintaining that a reconstruction OF the
Union is not possible or desirable, occasionally
stumble upon facts and arguments that may
Furnish instruction for the Statesmen of this
country in plotting the Ship of State out Of the
rough sea, in which it is now tossing, into the
peaceful haven Of an enduring peace. recent
article in the North British Renie,Oto which
we have before incidentally alluded while at
tempting to prove shat II continuance Of the old
Union is impossible, makes some suggestions
that are important enough to demand attention.
The argument is based upon the dissimilarity ia
the habits, tastes, education, manners, and in
sttutios of the North and South, and the want
Of that homogeneousuess of race needed in welding
and molding Il people into a compact, strong,
permanent governments and while the writer
exaggerates these divergences between the North
and South, and makes them insuperable obsta-
ces to any lasting peace between the two Sec
tons under ono form Of government conclu-
sion to which we cannot 'assent-there Is yet
enough of truth and force in the suggestion to
merit u careful attention.
1t isqute idle to deny that there are differences
in the blood, in the education, in the institu-
tions of the North and South that have brought
about the war, and must be dealt with, and put
in the way OF removal, before the two sections
can live in peace together. Some of this differ
ence is difference of education, customs, inst-
tutions, and habits of thought, and is as old
as the first settlement of the colonies. The men
who settled New England, and through their
descendants the great Northwest, came to this
country from motives different from those which
influenced the men VINO settled the slave States
of the Atlantic coast. And they were repre-
sentatives of different race Of men They
were chiefly in search of land where they
might undisturbed enjoy civil and religious
freedom. They were men who joined to reli-
gious faith and pious zeal a prudence, and eau
ton, and courage persistence in labor, be-
llel in honest toll, that deserved and achieved
success. They were the right kind of men to
form q free State, men who had escaped from
despotism at home, and who were not likely to
reproduce that form of government in the New
World. They were Puritans, and this Puritan
blood, these Now England brains, have ever bat
tied since for truth and liberty. And they have
laid broad and deep the foundations of their
State governments at home, and the governments
of the States their children have peopled in the
gardens of the Grea, West Where they 60
they take with them the cburch-no exclusive
worship, but with open doors, free gospel fet-
tered by no State enactmcnts, cramped by no
tormularies OF worship, teaching everywhere
that man is no chattel, but living soul. They
cake with them also the free school, where the
children Of the poorest, as we'll as the wealhicat,
of dark skin rs we'll as white, can together jour
ney along the highways of learning And they
are continually surrounded by admirable exam.
pies Of the benefcent working of free institu-
tions in the just subordination to law, on the
part both of the citizen and the law maker and
seeing they believe in the perfect adaption Of
free government to tho wants and necessities of
an intelligent and educated race of men.
But in what are now the Slave States of the
Old Thirteen different class of men had mado
their home. Virginia, Maryland and toe Caro-
linas were mainly settled by adventurous not
men who sought this country as an asylum from