New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-04-01
ADDRESS OF THE REV. HENRY
WARD BEECUER.

What shall be Done with New.England
The Academy Of Music in Brooklyn was filed at
an early hour last evening by crowds Of ladies and
gentlemen anxious TO know what was to become Of
New. England after it should be "left out in the
cod." At the appointed hour the lecturer, the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecber, entered the hail. accompanied
by Gen. John c. Fremont, who was at once recog-
nized with cheering. redoubled when Mr.. ii. Is.
Duryea, the Chairman OF tho Committee, introduced
Gen. Fremont 10 the audience. lie rose and bowed
silently; and the Chairman then introduced the Rev.
HEsRY WARD BEIcHrR, who said: There lice
cooped mp between the River st. Lawrence aud the
Atlantic Ocean a small gore Of land, few hundred
miles broad and long, Which sypea,o 10 have been
made up from what was left after the rest OF the
continent was made. Its ribs stand out past all
covering. IL has sand enough to scour all creation
There are not within Its territory many large and
navigable rivers; but there are many small streams
most nimble, that have kept themselves In good
since the food. The indigenous productions Of this
country were principally Indians, leo, and trees.
Its wild frnts were mostly chestnuts and whortle-
berries. About tho time Of Its discovery plague
had swept from Is the Indian inhabitants. An at
tempt was made 70 populate 1t by commercial com:
panies from the East bat the climate and the soil
proved too tough for Indians or for traders. But
tdis tongue OF land seemed made on purpose
to be wilderness 1t had peculiar attri.
butes for keeping people away. from 1t.
Lite Summer was short it's Winter long
bounded north by perpetual cold, east BY perpetual
fog, south by perpetual water, and only upon the
west was there land opening through which its
people could run away, II there should be people
there. 1t was apparently on purpose TO settle such
tell that every species Of plant has its own insect
and every animal lite own parasite. There seems TO
have been something created to live on tho shore Of
Now-England and that animal was called q Puri
tan. Laughter and applause Puritans are not
described in books Of natural history, 90 far a
have consulted them; but they have been largely
described in political speeches and political
newspapers; and II We believe them--and
If We may not believe political speeches
and newspapers what shall We believe .
the od p1 's,s and Of 'sH saS as; why s..s
cessively endowed with holy eombativeness. He
il always to DO seen, they tell u.s. when at leisure,
with bis eyes rolled up, aud q sanctimonious face
and whenever bis eyes nre turned down. 1t 10 to find
fault or money, a. the case may be- lie regards all
men wrong but himself, and bis business is 70 mako
men right. Therefore, be il regarded a. the moral
tinker of the universe and is forever mendpg rips
in conduct or putting patches upon morals. Like
sea-brd, always upon the wing, he 10 restless
This creature infests the whole western hems-
phers, and is regarded as the author of more
radicalisms and fansticisms, exeitements and
agitations, than all the rest of the population
put together. No other creature could live
IN New-England for be is tougher than the stones.
DRYER than tho sand obstinate than the season.
Indeed, we are told by naturalsts that within the
Last $50 years tho Winters there have grown sensibly
milder. Even the Winter could not stand the con-
tinual bullying of tho Puritan. Laughter and APP
plause.l So long a. the contest was between hun
aud nature, men were content. Within one hundred
wears there have been great many nusances intro
duced upon this continent; the Hessan fly, weevils
curcuos, weeds, and among them the Canada
thistle, the very Yankee of botany, vigorous, pro.
life, thriving, with million seeds, and every seed
sure and growing ten times faster when you cut it
up by the roots than when you let it alone.
But among all these annoysnces, none has
been 30 much deplored as the Yankee Puritan.
He is tho plague Of the continent He goes
everywhere, engages in everything, and Is always
and everywhere the same prying, teasing, imper.
tnent meddling, irritating creature that be was in
England, and seems likely to be everywhere TO the
end OF the world. No creature ever lived with such
rare qualities for making people angry with him.
Disputations In theology, an agitator in politics,
fault finding in moral aud social reforms, he Is for
ever prying up mems houses TO see If they do not
mead new foundations. lie is the inventor Of all the
Qimcracks and modern Inconvenience, and new
WAYS 10 grind, screw, twist, turn knit, sew dig and
TO plow for every month in the year; and has made
enough now machines in the last fifty years to reach
round the world. lie has made 20 many in
yentions, that he has exhausted the patience
of the South, and 1t has been determined to hunt
him back to his den," as Mr.. Cox Of Ohio
elegantly expressed it, and to shut him up there by
himself. would suggest that oil the Yankee inven'
ion. scattered over the land be collected together
and made into wall along by the Hudson River,
and no Yankee shall be allowed 10 be outsds Of this
wall Of bis own building. Thus left TO themselves,
i is to be hoped that thcy would preach TO each
other. and pray at each other, and reform each
others morals, until they shall lift themselves TO
.neh efuent nights that. Psradventurs, some windy