Weekly Trinity journal., 1863-03-07
A Word for New England.

New England. which is the especial object Of
the attacks of disoyal Democrats at the present
time, is defended by the New York Times in a
long article of which the following is an er-
tract:
GAS regards slavery, New England undoubt-
edly has been less tolerant toward the institution
than any other part of the country. She has dis
cussed its character aud tendencies with an earn
estness nowhere else displayed If slavery has
suffered from this, 1t speaks but very poorly for
slavery for it is only the false aud the evil that
discussion can damage. But even il New En-
gland had erred in this respect the present would
be the last time in the world 10 denounce her for
it, when the Republic Is engaged in putting down
the most hideous and wicked rebellion the earth
ever saw, which this same slavery has engender
ed. The worst that New England ever said
against the institution does not come up to the
! enormity of the crime il has actually committed.
When slavery succeeds in purging itself from all
responsibility for this rebellion, then, and not
until then, may New England be held to answer
for her hate.
But let the rebels and the factionsts howl on.
Nothing will come of it. They may as well bay
the moon"
At meeting held in Chicago. q few evenings
ago, to protest against the traitorous tendencies
of the submissiouists in the Legislature, Hon.
Stephen A. Goodwin made the following eloquent
remarks:
"The recent attacks upon New England are to
pave the way for this deep and damnable design.
| am not New Englad man, nor am Repub-
lican with preconceived attachments to New En-
gland politics, But as born New Yorker. aud
New York Democrat too, with six generations
of New England blood In my veins, both on
fathers and mothers side, deem 1t my right 10
brand with inlamy these foul aspersons upon the
fair name of New England She needs not my
eulogy here. The successive waves OF her popu-
ion have carried the yirtues and the intplleck
and the enterprise of New Englaud over every
rood Of free soil from Western New York TO the
Pacific ocean. Her fame in arts and arms aud
literature is bright upon every page Of our coun-
try's history.
Our own great Northwest is the proudest
monument to her statesmen 1t was Nathan
Dane, of Massachusetts,, that in the old Conti-
mental Congress, drew up, introduced, aud pro-
cured the passage OF the celebrated Ordinance OF
July, 1881, for the government of these North
western States. Wise in all its provisions, it
forever excluded slavery from this wide domain.
To New England lawyer and New England
statesman belongs the credit of the ordinance In
advance, that through all the seven great en-
pres Of the Northwest, her virgin soil should
never be polluted by the footprieus of the slave-
holder nor the crack of the negro drivers whip
be heard either in her soltudes or her peopled
cities
The great Northwest herself-n every valley
"hN piuhici hhu hiii'NNp iF w" H"o"
ument as enduring asher bordering Allegha'
rolling rivers
| 1t Is this Great West that is now asked by
! Norhern and Southern born traitors aud New
! England renegades to part from the Mother OF
Staes-and to accept the destructive embraces OF
slavery, endorsing the foul calumnies of Jelier-
son Davis aud his helish crew upon the land OF.
their ancestry.
Such, my countrymen, is the character and
object of this opposition to the proclamation OF
the President. The time is fast maturing when
the loyal people Of the Northwest, initiating the
example of their revolutionary fathers may be
driven to organize committees of safety, whose
duty it shall be to see that the Union cause shall
take no detrlment from the rebel sympathizers
aud traitors"