The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1863-06-05

ttious economical Yankee /; and when the
pedaIer gets rich, when he m.rries PLAN
tation, or buys out some old crumbling es-
state from "A :. first family" IL is not strange
I thai men change their tobacco from one side
of their mouth 10 the other, and express
their views upon Yankee character in
phrases tha, are more distinct than pious =
daughter But it is al even game Of con-
contempt; for the Yankee despises the care
less, loose living ooutherner. who wastes
enough to support an honest man despises
him just as thoroughly as the easy going
Southeruer hates the shrewd. schemng,
monsy-graspiug Yankee. But there is. be-
low sli this. singular and curious element.
no, ordinarily considered in explanation of
the national character. In spite of this dis
honesty. which consists In pushing sharp
ness too far, there is in the YANKEES trai-r S
I character au Iderlying regard for principle.
/ The frame work OF New England society is
the most intensely moral of any on the
earth. II the New Englanier Is not moral,
il is because Institutions cannot make him
SO. There are no classes 10 New England
except natural classes-the arstocracy OF
virtue aud intelligence. There is true
democracy in New England A New En-
gland township, l think. is the only literal
political democracy on the globe. Bat the
ground work of New E gland society is in
ideas ; the rig ght OF each man TO all his at
trib ties /; the duty AMI the dignity OF work /;
and above all. the Fundamental morality OF
political economy. the doctrine OF eIuiva
lents that man must give fair e1aiva
lent ior everything that he gets. That Is
New Englani and though you may call 1t
by her names in poli'ica. economy and IN
trading ii is simply the doctrine of radical
honesty. The sfiri. of adventure, Of spac-
ulation, Of large finsnciering. has come in
later, and belongs to exceptional cases
The masses Of New England men are elu
Gated to the moral conviction that no man
has right to snythin that he does not earn
or inherit and [ might almost say tina. the
people of the South ordinarily educated 10
ihe idea hat no man has a right in any
Thing Work in NV Z gland is almos; an
equivalent erin with honesty. M where
else is eg5ing disgraccful. NJ whore
else is the conviction 50 ingraine that men
mast earn ali they hold. S)athern society
revarses thi, iiea.
The dominant idea is to live without
working and to get the most with ths least
exsrti,n. l ansnot speaking of the any
Ju>t AMI no ,orabIe m.n in every s,atheru
4
and ars ruled by the universal laws Of c,zn
merce and equity rather than the local in
flonces aroind them. BIZ southern society
i bailt on pecu'isr institution lpat has
dominated in the So..l.
They do not steal money, bat money
makers Theif earrings are not their own
earnings. bat VIA their sia es earn far
then Th;s fact begets another--the divI-
sion Of men iulo classes, thu ineql .lty Of
natural rights. aud this leafs 10 the framing
oi laws partial and uni Ist; therefore mi Is
tice Is tn. organic p 1nci pie that has b.en
wroaSht into The Industry, commerce anl
political economy Of the S,uh. As .,tice IS
the elemcn, that has bsen wrought in . ths
fun iamental Institutions Of New + gland.
This tain works up anl down all through
the Southern character When the Y tnke3
is dishonest, it is MT By denying the prin-
cip'es of honesty it is by carrying his
smartness to excess, a ID cvaiin5 III doe.
triaes of honesty. HIS principle is = n, orai
one; his error lies ia pushing his shrc vi.
ness too far.
The Southern maa will tell YOU lie
point blank for parpose; the Yankee has
been reli ,iou,y educated that he invari
ab' assumes clumsy lie to bs wicked -
(Lfa shter and applsuse.)
They must be inyenious, they must be in
sinative, they must be constructive there
must b. smartness in them that shall ex-
cite surprise ii not ,!mration The South
erner puts his heart into his lies bl. no
brains; the Yankee pus very little heart
into his but great deal of brains He will
10, admit tha, they are les-they are pro-
positions. (Laughter)
They have misled men. bat what fools
men must be to be misled Il is their
iault. The Soulherner lies by telling false
b ois /; the Yankee by tellin. truths.
Tins ever the vices OF the two sections
reveal the basis on which they s.and, and
the education on which they have grown
up. This moral restraint in men who will
do wrong produces singular developments.
The pioneer Southerne- casting off all re-
stralnts and preteuces, act fearlessly accord
ing to their will
They have a sort of free and large eour-
age. They are men unrestrained aud they
have that low degree OF excellence which
lnheres in the savage. The Yankee is
educated TO obedience OF law; he is law
abiding and be Is a popr law breaker, the
poorest in the world he is coward before
the law; he must do wrong within the
statute. If AT all.
it Is not uilncult 10 carry this further 10
show that the organic inf lences at wor. in
the two societies make men 80 diff-re
that they cannot CO exist without s,me de-
gree of jar. Consider what must be the
eject OF briagio- stria gent, restless. active,
pIying, In &c atisable money loving class OF
men. Ia contact with careless, shif,Iess. easy.
indoleni meH tho drive along the easy cur
rent of life with an intense sense of TO dav
and a tropical repugnance 10 thinking much
of 10 morrow.
Is it ~o1derful that the grit of The one
should offend the pulp of The other?
IL is this energetic ature, made iutenssr
by his original moral educatioa, that iustifes
he impression and explains he fact that
Yankees are the sevetesi SHAREHOLDERS.
We have only 10 consider the iniustic.
and cruelty OF exacting from slaves The in.
dustfy and regularity which Northern
msn eIpeeis fren himself all his lie. II
would kill a slave ~ de- the work which a
free man scarcely feels. The one rows up
stream. the other down No mar can raw
as Tar up stream IN day As he can down.
We must add TO this the atSayra.ahls IA