Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1862-12-19
A War Of Races.

The Richmond correspondent of the
London Times was induced lately, by
his rebel friends, to repeat some OF that
arrant nonsense about this war being a
war between two races" with which De-
Bow and the snobs of South Carolina
have been fattering the savc-drivers and
slave-breeders of tho southern states for
some years past.
The Nashville Union pithily exposes
this ludicrous pretension, which is founded
in ignorance of notorious facts, and which
the would-be aristocrats imposed upon
the ill-informed Englishmen they have
got amongst them
Every intelligent man knows that tor
years before the rebellion broke out many
of the ablcst and most influential fire-cat-
inc politicians were from New England.
The editor Of the famous frc-eating or
son, the Union and american of this
city, Major Eastman, was Vermonter
by birth and education. and yet that pa
per did more than all other papers in
this state to corrupt the minds OF the
people with incendiary and rebellion doc
trines. Who were the rebel editors OF
Nashville in go and '6l? A mongrel pack
of Yankees, foreigners, and God knows
what besides. drittcd into the dirty pool
of Nashville politics, by the mysterious
anger of Providence. The leading edl-
tor of the Charleston Mercury is Gordon,
Scotch Yankee, who hates the Union
because he hates democratic government.
At this time many of the rebel leaders
are odvcnturers rs from all quarters of the
world. Benjamin is a jew, General
Beauregard's parents are from Canada,
General Smith is New Yorker, and so
is John Slidcll, and hundreds OF the rebel
Golonels, Majors and Captains, are drunk
en- Yankee school teachers. We might
fill page readily with instances, but will
content ourselves by saying that the
/" two races " story is an exploded hHa:
bur. The fact is that the people OF cur
thirty-four states form one great family
There are 125 600 kentuckians living III
the Northwest, and there are hundreds ol
thousands OF northern men who are
amoas the most thrifty and successful
planters and professional men IN the
South"
We may add the rebel General Penn
bcrton, Of Philadelphia, to the Ca'on'
list; as also that cruel wretch General
Lealbetter of Maine, whose atrocities up
on the Union men of East Tennessee
have been rccountel by i'arson Brornlow
and other sufferers.
Bat nothing is more grouudless thar
this assertion Of difference in races
Originally the states were mainly settled
BY the same classes of people. The dit
ferences in condition were very slight
If Huguenot's settled parts OF South Car.
DINA. their defendants are to be found
also in New York. Georgia was settled
by General Otethorpc with colonlsiS
taken from the middle class Of English.
men, from which, too, were derived the
colonsts Of New England. Virginia, tc
be sure, was colonizcd, to some extent, by
criminals; but she is an exception tc
the rulc--an exception which proves
nothing in favor OF difference OF races
The new states of the South and West
were pcoplel by cmigrants from the older
states, the northern and eastern states
contributing however the greater number
Thus much as to the original condition
Of the people of the states. But it we
look to the course of emigration since
we find that, to use the words of tho
Nashville journalist, the people of every
thirty-four states form-literally- y-ont
great family. There is not southern
state which does not contain hundreds o
families of northern birth and the grea
I Northwest has supplied homes in its turT
/ for hundreds of thousands OF southern
+ birth men and women. The statistlca
tables of the last census bearing upol
! this point are not yet issued bat th'
returns of the census of 1880 tell a sui
+ fcient plain story. According to thes'
there were, in 1880, in the five western
states, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa an'
Michigan, 4s5,lS persons of souther
birth while in the states south OF Maso'
and Dlxon's liner there were ll9,Sll
PC sons born in the free states.
1t is notorious that great part OF In
diana was settled by kcntuckians, Eirginl
ans, North Carolinians and TennesseeanS
That state contained in 1880, l13'6l'
residents of southern birth; Illinois ha'
1870, ,4O3, and OHIO 15l,5S3. On tn
other hand Virginia, inhospitablc as he
aristocrats have been to free states lmml
giants, had in the same year 2S,9s4 res
idents of northern birth North Carolina
2,163 South Carolina, 2,344 Georgia
I ,245 Florida, LOO; Alabama. 4 ,93l
louisiana, 14,559, Mississippi 4,5l2
Texas, 9,939 .rkansas, S,642; Tennes
see, G, SOB Kentucky, 3o,939.
This is the manner in which free trade
and close communion Of interests ha'
mixed up our population twelve yeal
, ago, while our railroad systems We're still
over the West and south and Northwes
scarcely begun, while yet Minnesota wa
territory and Kansas belonged to tn
Indans.-Ereniay Post.
, Tur Cosr OF OUR NAyY.-Thc cxpend