Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-28
FRIDAY, August os, ,lsca.
Massachusetts, and South CSroIina-Pur-
Itanism versus Barbarism.


granite underes and upholds the crust of the
habitable world, and in great upheavals see !
how it aspires, tlinging itself against the sky
in magnificent mountain peaks,-to catch the
first ray of morning whispering to the sleep
ers of new day,-to hold the evening light,
a great, rosy beacon, on its summit, guiding
the nderers in the darkening valleys to
their homes. And ice-does it not lay its
hand on all fevers, to cool and cure? Is not
the everlasting granite itself scored and chan
neled by the sweep of that awful ice-foe in
unreckoned ages OF the early world? And
on the mountain-tops, nearer to God in its
passonless purity, does not the ice outshine
the granite and show the fire and warmth and
heart within it by reaching down from the far
heights to give the cup OF cold water to every
little one who needs? Ice and granite then
prefgure MEN, and since the May-fower
touched the granite of plymouth rock, in the
midst of that sea of ice, New England has
been, par excellence, breeder of men. She has
the granite strength to uphold the noblest civ
llizalion, the broadcast culture. She lifts that
strength high into the atmosphere of truth,
and catches each ray of light for the jewellers
in darkness. She holds the cup of refresh
ment to the lips Of every perishing and faint
ing one, and the night of barbarism trembles
at the rosy beaeon-fres burning in the high
hearts of her children, and oppressed hui
mainly looks to see its eternal morning break
ing along her hills. This light and strength
the true sons of New England have carried
forth with them wherever they have gone.
The grand West looks with pride and love to
the little handful of states with their "stern
and rock-bound coast" for the seed of her
rich harvest was once garnered in the meet
ing houses and school houses of New Eng
land.
New England, with her vigorous brain,
thinks,-and the thought flies abroad; it in
spires wood and iron with life; it makes them
workers, and sends them to every house md
farm, to every factory and workshop, to say
to the toilers there, "Friend, go up higher -
This is what New England does with and for
the glorious masses of her working men,
this is what ice and granite bring men up to
And read this record of our men since the war
brought their strength and virtues out before
the eyes of the world; it is the tribute OF a
western man, who has been on our battle
fields and in our hospitals from the begin
ming, and has seen trials and sufferings that
no tongue can ever tell, has seen herosms
and self-sacrifces, and noblenesses, that
words too faint to picture, and he says:
81 declare to you on my honor, l lave never
yet found born child of this race, wounded,
or sick, or dying, who did not show some
grand mark of patience and heroic quality,
such as make men weep for pride and JOY
that they belong to such a stock" What
shall be said of the land of ice and granite,
where such men are born?
There is another land, destitute of ice and
granite an alluvial country, without stone
or a hill, lying low to the kisses of the bright
Atlantic, the land of the myrtle and the rose,
the jasmine and the magnolia. Its soil is rich
and deep; the ig and the orange ripen there;
the air is heavy with the rich perfume of its
flowers. To this shore also came a vessel
flying across the sea, in the pleasant summer
time, freighted with summer butterflies, with
trifers and adventures, the WORKOUT refuse
of worn out families, who had shut nil their
virtues in their ancestral tombs; a company
of swash-buckers! And from that day to
this, they have bred DULLES and braggarts
Massachusetts said, 'Work is honorable"
South Carolina said, at is disgraceful." So
the one stirred its rich soil and cast therein
the germ of barbarism-slavery; while the
other scattered among her rocks the seeds of
a high civilization. And both crops fourished.
In one state was heard the cheerful chime of
school bells and church bells; in the other,
the fall of the lash on naked backs. In one
state SOD was taught to honor and love his
mother; in the other, we have seen a son
punished because he refused to beat his own
mother for an unfinished task. What WON
der that antagonism grew up between two
states of society so different? and what won
der that the bad hated the good? What won
der that the position of South Carolina to-
ward Massachusetts has been that of a mon
grel cur swapping and snarling and biting at
some noble old thoroughbred, too conscious
of his own strength to acknowledge any need
OF asserting it? And 50 has sprung I'D os
one side system of outrage and insult; on
the other, of patience and forbearance.
The swash-bucklers have vapored and
Dragged, have scorned and reviled the
"damned Yankee peddlers" and .mudsllls''
and ''greasy mechanics" whose fathers were
the ''canting" Puritans of the Mayfower, and
gentlemen from the beginning More than
thirty years ago, South Carolina Hayne rose
in the senate, on the great question of the
right of state to nulify; and, as the repre-
sentative man of his state, he vituperated,
and spat upon, and scorned, and insulted the
glorious old Bay state. 1t was the first flash
and murmur of the gathering storm, but Web
ster's great eyes quenched his lightning, and
flashed annihilation upon him, and the thun-
der of his eloquence, as it swept over the au-
dacious SOuthron, and wrecked him into i'm
mortality, was like the thunder of the sea,
learned by the Massachusetts senator on his
Marshneld beaches.
In the year 1916, Judge Hoar was sent by
Massachusetts to South Carolina. to test in
the courts the constitutionol;,,r e A. -