Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1863-04-10

ne remains noble, ne - the n0Dlo0t me
on earth. The Southerners always accus
the Yankee Of oowardice. think th
Yankee has the most courage, physica
and moral, Of any man on the continent
Men are courageous, who are obliged h
be. Courage is habit. If society 10 hal
civilized, and law is weak, men must ex
ercise courage in defending themselves
where men are not obliged to defend
. themselves, courage, is dormant. Gen.
:. Scott said the New Englan6ers were thA
tr hardest to get into fight. Both North
a a and South will learn something from thia
war. Men who have met the Southern.
ers in battle will not deny that there arc
courageous men there nor will Southern
men who have met the Massachusetts rcgi.
: ments upon the field ever hereafter speak
of the cowardice of the Yankee. New
England has made education its idol
t The result is universal mind activity.
r There is not room enough in New Eng
t land for the race, There is not room
C in the nest for the bird, but it must fly
out. They spread all over the land
! bankers, brokers, railway managers, ship
/. captains, merchants, generals, judges,
ministers, schoolmasters, wherever work
is wanted. there the Yankee goes. They
send to New England for men of brains
for the same reason that they send to the
mountains for timber-because they grow
there. Yet none the less do they glover
at him and resent his intrusion. But the
Yankee keeps on, calm and persevering.
stalking brains against prejudice, and VIM
ming at every throw; and even when
they want to denounee him, they have 70
send for an apostate Yankee to do it for
them. Great applause.) New England
furnishes the literature of the continent.
The hatred for New England is for her
principles. The name of New England
is synonymous with liberty. She is the
true founder upon this continent Of popu.
lar government. She gave to Americs
popular institutions. She declares now,
as she has ever done, that the doctrine of
the Union is the doctrine of the rights of
man. foremost among which are the rights
liberty. 1t has been said that New Eng
land has been untrue to the compromises
of the Constitution. No; not single
one of them. The South has overturned
every compromise and every fair expecta-
tion with which our fathers came together
to frame the Constitution of our liberties.
New England stands to-day upon the very
ground where Madison, Pinckney, and
Jefferson stood when the Constitution was
framed. There is not single word in
the Constitution which gives to Slavery
any part in that instrument. Does not
the Constitution recognize Slavery? As
fact, yes as doctrine no. (Applause)
Because ship steers round rock, is the
rock in the ship? Because the Constitu-
tion steered round Slavery, was Slavery
rock in the Constitution ? But a COM
promise was proposed like that in the case
Of young man with a wen upon his neck.
1t was proposed first to put plaster over
it, in the hope that the vigor of the sys-
TEN would absorb it. So it was proposed
as we had Slavery in some Of the States,
to plaster it over, and let the liberty Of
the country absorb it. But it did not
The wen grew and grew upon the neck.
tipping the head over, until it is now fair
ly proposed to cut the head off to give tho
wen room to grow. Great applause.)-
From the earliest period, New England
theology has been associated with the well
fare of the common people. New Eng.
land ministers have been champions of
the liberties of the country. "a voice.
Theodore Parker.") Yes, Theodore
Parker certainly stood for liberty, what
ever he has done for religion. And such
men as DR.. Adams and Blagdsn made
such men as Theodore Parker, who retus-
ed to accept an orthodoxy that baptized
Slavery, and went to the opposite extreme
and found in scm-infdelity more prin-
ciples of human rights and human liber.
ty than many an orthodox could find in
the Bible itself (Applause.) This is no
new thing in New England. The minis
ters there have ever been the quasi mag
is.rates, and their sympathy for liberty
has excrted an Influence throughout the
land. 1t has been said that there will
b, no peace in this country until New
England is silenced. Then there will not
be any peace in this country. He who
sews up the mouth of New England must
be stronger than Hercules. The attempt
to hold back the inspiration Of Gods
spirit in the human soul, has been tried
for 1000 years /; and with what success
There never was such agitation in this
country as there will be if you undertake
to shut up free discussion in the pulpit
or out Of the pulpit. Massachusetts, con.
tributed more to defend the liberties Of
the country than the whole South. Even
if New England territory were to be
turned out, the New Eogland people
would remain in the other States in largo
numbers, and their books, their machines,
their influences But even if these could
all be driven back into New England.
what would be the result? A gun need
not be in a fort to lombard fort. New
England does not need to be in the coun-
try with Slavery in order to lombard it.
On the contrary, she would open every
portfolio. and through every newspaper,
and from every pulpit, she would pepper
the nation ten times as much IS she ever
did be 1o'e. Tremendous applause.) In
this last mortal struggle one or the other
must 90 down, either the eagle that scars
to the sun and is the symbol of our liber.
ty, or the black snake, the deadly copper.
head. Great applause) l remember
that when the sister sent to the Great
Master that her brother whom she loved