The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-02-06

In this endless competition, by some new way Of
easier doing, to earn more than others. His earn
ings are sma H. at best /; his frugaty must there
fore be intense. New Englnders have industry
economy, and an inevtableness of wiIlto which
few but Yankees would submit. Now, It is not
impossible that this should take place through
generations, and not leave its impressions upon
character and manners. The SouthernRr lives In
climate that requires but little provision on a
soil that Fields ahundantly, at the cost of but lit
tie labor he has his work performed by his slaves,
and spends his time in politics, in hunting, or in
neighboripg convivialty. Careless himself loving
indulgence, devoting himself to pleasure, living
in a climate that will not permit New England
Industry, he cannot but dislike the sharp, keen,
industrious, economical Yankee; and when the
pedler gets rich, when be marries a plantation,
or buys out some old crumbling estate from
first family ii is not strange that men change
their tobacco from one side OF their mouth
the other and express their views upon Yankee
character in phases that are more distinct than
pious. daughter Bnt it is an even game of
contempt; for the Yankee despises the careless,
loose-llyng SOutherneT, who wastes enough to
support an honest maa-despises him just as
thoroughly as the easy-going Southerner hates
the shrewd, scheming Yankee. But there is, be-
low all this, singular and curious element, not
ordinarily considered in explanation of the Daliona
character. In spite Of this dishonesty, which con-
ssts in pushing sharpness too far, there is in the
Yankee traders character en- underlying regard
for principle. The frame work of New England
society is the most intensely moral of any on the
earth. If the New Eng lander is not moral it is
because institutions cannot make him so. There
are no classes in New England except natural
classes-the aristoCracy OF virtue and intelligence
There is true democracy in New England. A
New England township, | think, is the only literal
political democracy on the globe. But the ground
work of New England society is in ideas the
right of each man TO all his attributes the duty
and the dignity of work and, above all, the fun
damenta morality of political economy, the doc
trine OF equivalents-th that man must give fair
equivalent for every thing that he gets. That is
New England and though you may call it by
other names in political economy and in trading,
it is simply the doctrine Of radical honesty. The
spirit of adventure, of speculation, of large fnan-
ciering, has come in later, and belongs to excep-
tiona cases. The masses of New England men
are educated to the moral conviction that no man
has right to anything that he has does not earn
or inherit and | might almost say that the
people OF the South are ordinarl, educated TO the
idea that no man has right to anything that be
earns. WORK in New England is almost an
equivalent term with honesty. Nowhere else ia
begging Sc disgpcelul. Nowhere else is the
conviction SO ingrained that man must earn al
he holds. Southern SOCIETY reVerses this idea
(TO BE CONTINUED.)