The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1863-03-23
MISCELLANY.


SOaR hANOOLIh AMI 1hlclhAM DOh0Es
The systematic and persistent attempts of
the rebel sympafhizers TO divide the North,
aud 10 create such prejudice against New
England As shall, IN their proposed reconstruc-
ton oil the Union, .ieave her out in the cold"
reminds one OF the attack oil John Randolph
upon New England many years ago. Unlike
some oi the slanderers Of our section of
the country at the present day, especially the
viper nourished Ia the bosom oil our own Uni
versity, who has recently so defled himself
in attempting to defame New England before
a New York audience, Randolph had as an
apology for his conduct, eccentricity that al
most approached insanity, and prejudices, the
result OF lifelong education.
A generation has passed away since the
whole country was electrified with the speech
of New England man who dared to defend
the soil that gave him birth against the attacks
of the representative OF the old Virginia aris-
tocracy. At that time, 1s27-lS39, Randolph
ruled the House with almost despotic sway
His sarcasm and invective beat down all oppo-
sifion, and all feared his frown, almost his no
tice, lest they should fall his victims. New
England was the special object of his abuse
On all occasions. in season and out of season,
he omitted no opportunity 10 Willy that por-
ton of the land.
During debate in the House In the Twen-
tieth Congress upon the tariff question, RAN
dolph interrupted, with even unwonted inso-
lence of MANNER Tristram Burgess, who was
then addressing the House. and after an I'M
commonly severe fling at the cherished object
of his hate, closed by saying-"New England!
what Is she? Do you remember that appropri-
ate exclamation, DeteHdd est Carthage ?"
Burgess instantly replied: Does the gentle
man mean TO say, sir, that New England must
be destroyed? so, will remind him that the
fall of Carthage was the precursor 10 the fall
of Rome. Permit me TO suggest to him TO
carry out the parallel"
The next day, Mr.. Burgess continued his
speech. replete with learning. argument, and
bitter irony. He defended New England in
the most mastery manner, and closed with
that burst OF eloquence and whitening retort
SO Often acclaimed ny school boys, aud yet so
well To be remembered in these sad and
gloomy hours of the nation.
81 The policy OF the gentleman from Virgin
ia,' said Mr.. Burgess, ~calls him 10 course of
legislation resulting ia the entire destruction
of one part OF this Union. Cypress New Eng
land until she shall be compelled TO remove
her manufacturing labor and capital TO the re-
gions OF iron, wool and grain; aud nearer TO
those of rice aud cotton. Cypress New Eng
land until she shall be compelled TO remove
her commercial labor aud capital to New
York, Norfolk, Charleston and Savannah. FL
nally, Cypress that prescribed region until she
shall be compelled TO remove her agricultural
labor and capital. No, she cannot remove
that Cypress aud compel her, nevertheless,
to remove her agricultural labor TO the far-off
West; and there people the savage valley and
cultivate the deep wilderness OF the Oregon.
She must. indeed. leave her agricultural CAPT
tai; her peopled fields; her hills with culture
carried TO their tops; her broad, deep bays;
her wide, transparent lakes. long winding riy-
ers. and popnlous waterfalls: her delightful
villages. iionrishing towns, and wealthy cities
''She must leave this land, bought by the
treasure. subdued 10y the toll, defended BY the
valor of men, vigorous. athletic, aud intrepid !;
men, godlike in all making man resemble the
moral image OF his Maker; a land endeared
oh! how deeply endeared, because shared with
women, pure as the SHOWS of their native
mountains; bright, lofty, and overawing as
the clear, circunambient heavens over their
heads and yet lovely as the fresh opening
bosom of their own bushing and blooming
June. Niue own romantic country must
we leave thee? Beautiful patrimony of the
wise aud good; enriched from the economy,
md ornamented by the labor and perseverance,
oftwo hundred years! Must we leave thee,
venerable heritage of ancient justice and pris-
tine faith? And. God Of our fathers must we
leave thee to the denagognes who have de-
ceived and traitorously sold us? We must
leave thee to them: and to the remnants OF
the Peiiobscots, the l'equod~, the Mohicans
and Narragansetts; that they may lure back
the far-retired bear from the distant forest.
again to inhabit the young wilderness, grow
ing up In our fourshing cornields and rich
meadows, and spreading. with brars and
brambles, over our most pleasant places
All this shall come to pass, to the intent
that New England may again become a lair for
wild beasts, aud ahuntng-ground for savages
the graves OF our parents be polluted, and
the place made holy by the first footsteps oil
our pilgrim forefathers become profaned. by
the midnight orgies of barbaorus Incarnation.
The evening wolf shall howl again on our hills
and the echo ofhis yell mingle once more with
the sound Of our waterfalls. The sanctuaries
OF God be made desolate. Where now whole
people congregate in thanksgiving for the ben
efactions of time and in humble supplicatior
for the mercies of eternity, there those very
houses shall be left without tenant. The
owl, at MONDAY, may roost on the high alta
of devotion, and the fox look out at the win
dow, 'on the utter solitude of New England
Sabbath.
'New England shall, indeed, under this pro
scribed policy, be what Switzerland was unde
that Of France New England, which, Xix,
Switzerland, is the eagle nest of freedom
New England. where, as in Switzerland, tn
cradle Of infant liberty was rocked by whrl
winds in their rage: New England shall, a
Switzerland was in truth, be the immolate,
victim, where nothing hut the skin remain
unconsumed by the sacrifice; New England
as Switzerland had, shall have nothing lei
but her rocks, her ruins, and her demagogues
The mind, sir, capable of conceiving proee