, 1862-12-29
:Ut)itoqo Qu6n11t.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1862.
aRozr .EW ENGLAND.


.rhcrc1cfhe record is examined for what u
thcy 50: and what they did-for their a
forts their virtues, for their short u
~,n,iinflnd their great doings-he who b
aoes rake pride in the possession Of such q
11oofoTed in their VEINS and in the i
t.. SrheE Pc Of the principles that were.the | I
a 1,as7fheir action, is either incapable Of
y ! wing and understanding what is
g.. - heroic in the race, OF is knave
tSset i serve purpose, would deny !.
I: ~ world is lighted by the sun at
t.. nfy. It is, We say, too late to quarrel .
AZ aHhe character Of the Puritans, be-
cawere history dumb, there stand the
7 attates Of New England, everlasting
I nqnments for the perpetuation Of the
1; nhory Of the great qualities Of the men
'irHn built on Puritan basis. And in spite
nftha old story by which the pioneers Of
IL Mayfower have been assai1ed; in spite
dthat kind Of criticism, which, in sneering
long prayers, foEgets the godliness Of the
len who made them, and that, in estima~
ng characters, takes account Of the blem~
! hes only, and converts the peculiari~
; les Of an era into the special vices Of the
1dividuals who f1ounshed therein; in spite
despohc reaction against what New
,ngland has taught and lived, the fact
cmains, and is now confessed by all the
7orld-
That nowhere does Gods sun shine upon
ny political community containing an |
EQUAL number Of people among whom lib
>rty is so secure;
= Among whom law and justice are SO i'm
ardal1y administered;
Among whom property is so well guard |
ID;
i Among whom education is so universally
@ifused;
Among whom there is such care for the
rowth and development Of the religious
ointment;
Among whom there are so few poor;
Among whom there is such untiring,
comprehensive and healthy philanthropy;
Among whom there is such an amount
If wealth so equally distributed;
Among whom there is such promise Of
physical progress;
Among whom the ownership Of land IN
lee simple is SO universal;
Among whom labor is so much respect
I'D, and so well rewarded;
Among whom progress, in all that puri-
les and ennobles mankind, is so rapid;
-N Among whom women are so ho1ored,
,r SO yirtuous;
:, Among whom government bears SO easi-
Il ; and is so cheaply administered;
Among whom happiness in the State, in
he family, and in the individual is so
s|1rm1y founded On an indesHuctible basis.
j And Of the New England States,
Massachusetts whom slavemongers most
! 1ate, and whom the hirelings OF de-
7Spotism most abuse, is the foremost
IN devclopment-th highest type Of
i Christian community and a pure De
.nocracy which this world ever saw Mas
5;achusetts and New England are only the
f>artia1 fuition Of the seed that. the Pu-
itans planted. But we submit, that the
men out Of whose principles and policy
, huch States have grown are entitled to the
,ns] worlds gratitude and the worlds respect.
# T New England had great faults in the be-
t,1;tyinning that she has not fully outgrown;
sa;t,.knd in her progress she has picked up new
zones that mar the work the Pu1itans did.
! But new and old are subordinated to the
: 7irtues Of New England character, which
lave carried fer7ent love Of liberty and
i prompt obedience to law, well deyel-
= ,ped religious sentiment, and pious regard
:: Or education, healthy enterprise and high
/ commercial integrity, as seed-germs which
iS-1ill hereafter bear sweet flowers and
hen wholesome fruit, into every nook and
:orner Of the country in which we live In
ler care for the masses, she has sometimes
-enched upon the erights OF individuals In
yer zeal for the absolute right, she has been
fthat be possible, often too intolerant the
wrong. In her love Of what she believed
!!gas the pure and only faith, she was TOT
evere upon those who departed from tn,
tandard that she set up. In her haste II
ret rich, she has not always halted st th
boundary where trade ends and frau(
},cgins. In her consciousness Of well doin:
md high deserving she has not ever bee1
in example Of that modesty which adorn
merit most In an age Of superstition, sh
,urncd witches and hung Quakers; an
L a later day when not fully cmancipate
from the traditions apa rractises Of ba1
;,arous age, her SONS bought and sold me
ike cattle in the sha1nbles. The freedor
which is her heritage, is the active stint
l;:nt Of invention and inquiry that not III
frequently produce grotesque and ridic1
ous theories, and abnormal and mischie'
rus results. But until We can find OF
nan upon whose record, searched by ho
lie eyes, there is no point upon which d
ections can be hung, we must not hope
discover State to which no blame, du
Ing more than two centuries of a bus
];ctiye ard earnest life, can attach. Y
1akc New England for what she is II
eject the mythical New England abo
which men, full Of popped corn and pun
lin pie, dcclaim at Pilgrim Festivals; at
that other New England, which has bet
lie spectre that haunted Fourth Of Ju
>: evelers at Bowieknife cross roads, Whip
- 'tswamn and Niggersville, in the Kingdo
4.xnf South Carolina. We take her vi
Ter virtues and vices as they ha
,cen inherited from en old .civilizati
n developed by new. 7
,alance the good against the b
nd VIC are compelled to declare that in
( .hese things which go to establish and p