Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1862-04-08

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One Of the Causes Of Difference to be Taken
INTO Account III Restoring the Union,
Foreign writers, in discussing the agitaed
condition Of tins country, while IN no friendly
spirit maintaining that 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 haycn Of an enduring peace. a recent
article IL the NORTH Brtt,ch Reriec-to which
we have before incidentally alluded while at
tempting to prove that a'continuance OF the OLD
Union is impossible, makes some suggestions
that are important enough to demand attention.
The argument is based upon the dissimllarlty IN
the habits. tastes, education, manners, and IN
stitutious of the North aud South, and the want
of ,hgt homogeneousne Of race needed in Welding
and molding people into compact, strong
permanent government and While the water
exaggerates these diysgeuces between the North
ana South, and makes them insupcrable obsta-
cles to any lasting peace between the two SEQ.
tioa- under one form ot goycmment,--a conclo-
sion to which we caanot assent-thero Is yet
enough Of truth and i5rco in che suggestion to
merit careful attention.
ltisquiteidc to deny that there are differences
IN the blood, in The education, in the iustltu-
tons Of the North ard South, that have brought
about the war, and mast be dealt with, and pvt
in the way Of removal, before the two sections
can live in peace together. Some f this differ
enee is difference Of cducation, customs iast-
tutions, and habits OF thought, and is as old
az the first settlement Of the colonies. The men
who settled New Log.and, and through thcu
descendants the great Northwest, came to this
country rom motives different from those which
Influenced the men who settled the slave States
of the Atlantic coast Aud they were repre-
sentativos OF a different raeo OF men I"'y
were chiefly in search OF land where they
might undisturbed enjoy civil and religious
freedom They were men who joined to a reli-
gious faith and pioue zeal a prudence and eau
ien, and courage, a persistence IN labor, be-
lel in honest toll, that deserved aud achieved
success. They were the right kind Of men to
form u free State men who had escaped from
despotism at home, and who were not likely to
reproduce that form Of government IN the New
Werld They were fGritaus, and this Puritan
blood, these New England brains, have ever bat
tied since for truth AMI liberty. And they have
laid broad and deep the foundations OF their
State governments at home, and the governments
of,.he States their children have peoplcd in the
gardens OF the Great West. Where they 60
they take with them the church-no exclusive
worship, but with open DOORS free gospel iet-
tered by no State ensctmonts, cramped by no
formularies oil worship, teaching everywhere
take with them also the free school, where the
children OF the poorest, as well as the weathiest,
of dark skin as well as white, can together jour
ney along the highways Of learning. And they
are continually surrounded by admirable exam
pies Of the benehcent working Of iree inStitu-
tons in she just subordination to law, on the
part both of the citizen and the law.maker and
seeing they believe in the perfect adoption OF t
free government to the wants and necessities o
an intelligent and educated race OF men.
But in what are now the Slave States OF The
Old Thirteep a different class OF men had mad,
their home. Virginia, Maryland and the Caro-
linas were mainly settled by adventures, no
men who sought this country ~ an asylum from
the persecution of the Church, or the tyranny
OF the State, bet who came rather to repair
shattered fortunes, or to open new world t,
civilization and progress. Many OF them wer'
the sous who were kept out of an inheritance
at home by the right Of an elder BROTHER. anC
who sought the shores of the New World n,
our sons aud brothers seek the broad acres OF tn,
West, OF the gold fields of California a0d Ore
gon, to make for themselSesa fortune and name
They came to this couStry not to save prn
ciples, not soekmg civil aad religious freedom
not asking for land where they might worship
tod according % the dictates of their own con
sciences, aud where they might establish u per
lacty free and just Government vi laws aud moi
OF mer but they came az merchants, as farm
srs, as ioriuue-seekrrs; aud they brought with
sacm the ideas, the prejudice, the caste, the
distinctions that characterized the classes Il
which they belonged across The water. They