Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1863-01-31

SectlOnB-loast OF all between the slave
holding and non slayebolding sections
as of races, representing not difference in
blood, but mind and its development, and
different types of civilization. 1t is the
old conflict of the Cavalier and the Round
head, the Liberalist and the Puritan or
rather it is conflict upon new issues, of
the ideas and elements represented by
those names. 1t is . war of the Yankee
and the Southron. Said Boston writer
the other day, eulogizing New England
officer who fell at Fredericksburg "This
| is Massachusett' S war; Massachusetts, and
South Carolina made it" But in the be.
ginnin, the Roundhe ad outwitted the Cav
alier, and by skillful use Of slavery and
the negro united all New England first
and afterward the entire North and Wost
and finally sent out to battle against him
Celt and Saxson, German and Knickcr.
booker, Catholic and Episcopalian, and
even part of bis own household and of
his own stock. Said MI jefferson when
New England threatned secession some
sixty years ago; mo, let US keep the
Yankees to quarrel with" ALI, sir, he
forgot that quarrcling is always hazard =.
Gus experiment; and after some time, the
ccuntrymen of Adams proved themselves
Too sharp at that work for the countrymen
Of Jefferson. But every day the contest
now tends again 10 its natural and origi-
nal elements. In many parts of the North.
west-l might add of Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and New York city-the prejudice
against the yankee" has always been al
most as bitter as in the South. Suppressed
for a little while by the anti-slavery sent;-
ment and the war, it threatens now to break
forth in one of shoso great but unfortunate
popular uprisings, in the midst of which
reason and justice are for the time utterly
silenced. l speak advisedly; and let New
England heed, else she, and the whole
East, too, in their struggle for power may,
learn yet from the West the same lesson
which civil war taught to Rome, that e.
~{gato mpefs1 erca'to, posse pr,ncipem
abb, gum Rom@ yayi. The reople of
the West demand peace, and they begin
to more than suspect shat New England
is in the way. The storm RACES and
they believe that she, not slavery, is the
cause. The ship is sore tried; and pass
sengers aud crew are now almost ready to
propitlate the waves by throwing the ill-
omened prophet overheard, In plain En-
glish-not very classic, but most express
sve-they threaten to "set New England
out in the cold"
And now, sir, I, who have not drop Of
New England blood in my veins, but was
born in Ohio and am wholly Of southern
ancestry-with a Slight cross of pennsyl-
vania Scoth- Irish--would speak word
to the men of the West and South, in be-
half Of New England. Sir, some years
ago, in the midst of high sectional contro-
versies, and speaking as western man, |
said some things harsh of the North.
which now, in more catholic spirit as
United States man, and for the sake of
reunion, would recall, My prejudices,
in deed, upon this subject are as strong as
any mau's; but in this, the day of great
national humiliation and calamity, let the
voice of prejudice be hushed.
Sir, they who would exclude New Eng
land in any reconstruction of the Union,
assume that all New Eng flanders are Cyan.
KEGS" and Puritans; and that the Puritan
or pragmatical element, or type Of civili-
cation, has always held undisputed sway.
Wei, sir, Yankees, certainly they in one sense
aud so TO old England We are all Yankees, North aud
South aud to the south Just now, littla while
of tho middle aud western States, also are or
were, Yankees too. But there is really very large
aud most liberal and conservative nOn-Puritan eie.
ment III the population of New England, which, for
many years. struggled for the mastery, and sometimes
! held it, 1t divided Name, New Hamp shire and Con
necticnt and once controlled Rhode Island wholly
1t held the sway during the Revolutions the period
when the Constitution was founded and for years
nitcTWard F. Calhoun said very justly, in 1871 that
TO the wisdom and enlarged patriotism of Sherman and
/ Ellsworth on the slavery question we indebted
for this admirable Government; aud that, along Wth
Paterson Of New Jersey, their names ought be cn
graved on brass aud live fOreven" And Mr.. Webster
IN e3O, III ohe oi those grand historic word paintings
in which he was SO great master, said of Nassachu
sets and south Caro- ina Hand in hand they stood
around the Administration of Washington aid felt his
own great arm lean then for support" Indeed, sir
1t was not TIL .oc thirty years ago that the narrow
prGsumptuOns, nuruedGiIng tnutica spirt of the
old Puritan element began TO reappcar III form very
much more aggressive aud destructive than first and
threatened obtain absolute ma slery in chvrch and
school and State. little earlier il had struggled
hard, bat the conservatives proved too stroug for it ;
aud long the great states man and ursts of the
Wing and Democratic parties survived. it made small
progress. though John Quincy Adams gave to it ihe
strength of his great name. But after their death il
broke - flood, and swept away the last vcstige of
the ancient liberal aud tolcratihs conservatism Then
every form and development Of ianaticism sprang mp
IN idnk aud most luXuricnt growth, till abutionsn
the chief fungus oi all oyerspread the whole of New
England FIRST aud then the middle States; and finally
!
Certainly, sir, the more Liberal Puritan Gle
ment was manly though not altogether from the old
Puritan stock, or largely crossed with it, But even
within the first ten years oftbe landing of the Pi grs
more enlarged and teerating civ ZatiOn Wus intro
due I'd. Roger Williams, not OF the May flower, though
puritan himself, and Thoroughly imbued with all
pecullarties OF cant and creed and form Of Worship
seems yet to have had naturally liberal sprit
and hfst perhaps OF all men, three more wears
before the Ark and the Dove touched the shores the
ST. Mary IN Mary land, taught the Sublime doctrine
OF freedom ofopinOn and practice in ,lgon. Threat
| ehed hrst with bani'hnent 10 England remove
as far as possible the infection of his principles and
afterwards actually banshed beyond Jurisdiction of
Massachusetts, Because in the language othe sentence
the Genera Court "he broached and divugGd divers
new aud strange doctrines against the authority of
magisraes over the religious opinions of men, there
by disturbing the peace of colony, and became the
founder OF Rhode Island and indeed of large part of
| New England society. Aud, whether from his teach
ing and his example and i'll the persons of his dcscen
das and those Of his ssociates from other causes
aud another stock there has always been a large in.
fusion throughout New England and what may be called
the "Roger williams element" as distinguished from
| the extreme Puritan Of May flower aud Plymouth
Rock" type ofthU New Engaudcr and its iniiue nee
! I'll late years has always been powerful,
The SPEAKER The gentleman's hour has expired,
| Mr.. VALLANDlGuM, | ask tor short time ion.
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