, 1862-03-21
CHE Gtituue,
NEW ENGLAND IN THE WAR.

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FRIDAY, MARCH at, 1859.
NEW ENGLAND IN THE wAR.
Wherever, since the war began, the reb-
Is have metthe loyal troops Of the North
west On anything like equal terms, they |
have been summarily logged. They have
learned wholesome respect for the Hoos-
iers, Suckers, Buckeyes, Badgers and Hawk
eyes whom they have been accustomed to
despiee. "Yes;' is their language at Camp
Douglas, tive admit that you Western men
will fight. You have taught us what We
=" ought to to have known before, You are
q like US in great many particulars, and
"we can respect you. But Yam
s'kees; we want to meet them!' "Why,
sir," sajd one Of these SONS Of Southern
gentleman, NOW g,1awing bef-bones
under Colonel Mulligans orders, zone
"regiment Of AGssissippians will whip
~ any. ten thousand Yankees that you
~ can start. Set thousand Of our choice
troops down in Boston, and they could
~march to New York, and there is not
courage enough in New England to stop
" them" This man was sincere in all be
said. He had learned the text from the
Southern newspapers, and the Yankees,
whom he had met in the South, had fur
nished him with comment which cl1nched
his belief He echoed what is the popular
conviction of his State-a thing no more
to be questioned than Col. Thug right to
fog his nigge1s to death if he chooses to do
50.
This depreciation Of Yankee manliness
had lis origin, no doubt, in the utter inahi1i-
II Of the South to comprehend the higher
civiizatioa with which New England is
blessed Men from the Eastern States have
ordinarily been rlghteousiy averse to per-
eonal broils, TO the duel and to the mis-
cellaneous shootings, stabbing and way-side
assassinatiops, which, in the South, as we'll
as among the Caribs, have been thought
to be the evidences Of courage and high
beeding by those who indulge therein
They have learned, and that is tile secret
OF all true civilization, that respect for law
which is the only guaranty for personal
safety-tle only shield which has been set
up between the weak, who cannot resist,
and The strong, who are willing to oppress-
They have been taught to curb their pro-
pcnsitics to violence There is no servile
class among them whose abject sub
mission to wrong has taught the whites
10 play tyrant and despot. But the
same course of education which has pointed
out the rights Of others, has clearly defined
each mans rights for himself, hence the
courage OF New England, dormant i'll the
long peace that we have enjoyed, but not
destroyed by the unexampled material
prosperity that peace brought in its train.
needed but the friction ofrecent events for its
Development as VIC see it. And surely nc
New England man has reason to be
ashamed Of the record that her sons have
made. On every field where they were
challenged by 4 contest with the foe, they
have yindicated their birthright Of va1or
They go to the battle as at home they &C
to their tasks in the workshop OF the har
rest field, with a profound conviction o
its necessity, and If not with tht
dash and fiery zeal Of the men Of ths
West, with the steaainess Of veteran
and the endurance Of martyrs. n.
troops could hive done better thai
the regiments from Massachusetts, Neg
Hampshire, Rhode Island and Connection
did at Bull Run alassachuscits, at Ball
Bluff, where heE blood was poured out q
a Ibation to ignorance, incupacity, O
treason, won honors by the gaIantr
Of her mep, which impartial hi=so
r. must always celebrate, in word
Of glowing panegyric. That victoriou
column under the lead Of Burnside
made up mainly Of New England troop:
Before them, the rebels at Roanoke, tAuug
strongly; cntrenched and in numbers sufl
cicnt to have kept thirty thousand men .
bay, fed efter Il contest just long enoug
to prove the ineontrstable pluck I
the Yankees, and the emptiness Of til
thrcats in which their braggart enem1t
have INDUCED and now at Newber,
opposed by obstacles that would have al
pallcd faint-hesrted men, they have woa
victory the honor and value Of which til
rebels viii not dispute. Long befo,
this war closes, even in the placs
in the South where ignorance
most profound and prejudice Il
most unyielding, I'll doubt Of Il
courage Of the descendants Of the mi
who fought at Bunker Hill, and who c
nched every revolutionary field with the
generous blood: will be removed by i
splendor Of the deeds which the sons
New England Will DO As New Engla,
to-day occupies in the scale Of ciyiIizau'
the highest place; as her children are rich'
better educated, possessed Of more cultu1
more security in person and propert
hence more genuine Democracy and Chr
tisnity, than any other equal number
human beings chosen n1isce11aneously fro
the subjects Of any other Government
State, SO in this war the profound conv
tions and heroic endurance that have ma
her people What they arc, will work {
their logical result; and we Of the We
who are exuling over the exploits VIII
our men have performed, must sec to
that New England does not carry of (
highest honors Of the struggle.
<sFOUR MILLIONS 4 DAY.,
The word comes from Washington Il
tie expenses Of this Government arc n
four millions Of dollars a dayi The C
mates, says The telegraph, are made by
Chase, the Secretary Of the Treasu
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