Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-01

New England and the North west.

New England and the North West.
We are not advised that direct negotiations
with northwestern men have been opened, but
In the north and at the south the necessity for
segregation of states from the old federal
Union is already felt and acknowledged The
south has only inaugurated a revolution which
will not end until the whole great imperial
valley of the Mississippi is forever freed from
the social and political influence of New
England Puritansm.-G Grenada (MiSs.) -4p-
peal.
There was time earlier in the rebellion
while Fernando Wood was agitating the cree
ton of New York into kind of free city, and
his friends were busy-with scolding about
abolition and secession when many in
dulged the hope of a Encouragement of states
from which New England should be excluded
There were always good haters enough of
New England character-not all of them very
courageous, but still brave enough to give
their sympathy to suggestions like that of the
Grenada Appeal. They would never open
"direct negotiations for bringing about such
result They would never ''inaugurate rcvo-
luton" even for the sake of gratifying their
settled dislike of New England ideas. The
experiment would be hedged about with dam
gers, and would entail unpleasant conse-
quences. United by the closest ties of blood
aud lineage, by identity of institutions and
systems of productive labor, and to a consid-
cradle extent by similarity of social observ-
ances, they would shut together like vice
upon every influence that should attempt to
force them permanently asunder. There isn't
thriving town or city in any of the great
states of the northwest, in which New Eng
land traditions, New England customs, New
England books, New England men and wo-
men, have not taken root-all of them cher
ishing the memory of the old mother with af-
fectionate generation.
Even if their material interests were of such
character as to render separation possible,
the old affection would rise up in re-
monstrance against such impiety. But their
mutual interests are also pledges of union.
The products of the east and west are compile
mental to each other, and neither would en-
joy the prosperity that has blessed them with
out the others help. The Grenada Appeal
brandshes the threat that until the northwest
ern states are willing to break the alliance
with New England, and withdraw their troops
from the southern states, the Mississippi will
still be as truly mare Clausum to them as
wien the rebels held Columbus, Island No.
10, and New Orleans-to which the northwest
is to-day replying with one of the grandest
army movements of the war. Clasping New
England with one hand, they will open way
out of ''the closed sea- with the other,-by
one effort preserving their natural alliances,
and subduing an unnatural rebellion against
both themselves and their allies
But in any event there'is something in New
England sentiment ttdat will flourish after the
cnnSpirators are rotten in their graves. Call
it "puritanism, "abolitionism," or any name
that is obnoxious to general prejudice or mis-
trust, itisy yet strongly anchored in truth that
it will ride through rougher storms than any
that have yet beaten vainly upon its sides. 1t
may be ridiculed that is traditional. 1t may be
hated: that is immemorial. Ideas that finally
prevail are often once crucifed; but they tri-
umph over the crucifixion Some fine morn
ing the stone is found rolled away from the
sepulchre, and he who was thought to be slain
is become exalted and gloriied.