Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1863-02-05

fortunately they are the least durable. -
They bold a divided sway in the sam
bosom with the nobler qualities of love
justice, reason, placablity, and, excep
when at their height, are weaker thai
the sense of interest, aud always, il
States at least, give way to it last n,
statesman who yields himself up to then
can govern wisely or well and no Stat,
whose policy is controlled by them car
either prosper or endure But war i,
both their offspring and their aliment, anC
while it lasts all other, all other motive.
are subordinate. The virtues of peac,
can not flourish, can not even find devel
opment in the midst of fighting; and
/ this civil war keeps in motion the centri.
| fugal forces Of the Union, and gives ia
them increased strength aud activity
every day. But such and so many and
powerful, in my judgment, arc the cemen.
ting or contlipetal agencies impelling
us together that nothing but perpetual
war and strife can keep us alwaysdivided
Sir, | do not underestimate the power
OF the prejudides of section, or what is
much stronger of race. PREF is
colder, and therefore more durable than
the passions of hate and revenge, or the
spirit OF antagonism. But, as | have al
ready said, its boundary in the United
States is not Mason and DiXon's line.
The long standing mutual iealousies of
New England and the south do not pri-
marty grow out of slavery. They are
deeper and will always be the chief OBJ
stac.e in the way OF absolute reunion.-
They are founded in difference of man
ners, habits and social life, and different
notions about politics, morals and relig-
ion. Sir, after all, this whole war is not
SO much ono of sectiOns-least of all be.
tween the Slavehoding and non-savo.
holding sectlOns-as OF races, represent
ing not difference in blood, but mind and
It's development, and different types of
civilization. 1t is the old conflict Of tho
Cavalier and the Roundheal, the Liberal
ist and the Puritan or rather it is con.
illct upon new issues of the ideas ana
elements represented in those names. It
is war Of the Yankee and the Southron.
Sail Boston writer the other day, eu,o.
Iogizing a New England officer, who fell
al Fredericksburg: "This is Massachu
sets war MASSACHUSETTS and South Car.
olina made it," But lin the beginning
the Roundhead outwttcd the Cavalier
and by u skiIliul use Of slavery and the
negro, united all New England first and
afterwards the entire North and West
and finally sent out to battle against him
Cclt and SaXton, German AMI Kni ,kcr-
booker, Catholic and Episcopal an, AMI
even part Of bis own household and OF
the descendants Of his own stock.
Said MIR. Jefferson, when New England
threatened secession some sixty wears
ago "No, let Ms keep the Yankees to
quarrel with" All, sir, he forgot that
quaDreling is always hazardous expert
mcnt and, after some time, the country
men Of Adams proved them selves too
sharp at that work for the countrymen
oI Jefferson. But every day the contest
now tends again to its natural element. |
In mnny parts Of the North vest |
might ada Pennsylvania, New Jcrscy and
New York city-thc prejudice against the
Yankee las olwuys reen almost as bt-er
as IN the South. Suppressed for little
wu'Ie Ny ire anti.slavery sentiment and
the var, it threatens now to break forth
in one of those great but unfortunate up
llalngs, in the midst Of which reason and
Justice are for the time utterly silenrel -.
speak adyisedly, and let New England
heed, else she, and the whole East, too. .
n their struggle for power, may learn
yet from the West tho same lesson which
'ivil war taught to Romo, that eDulqafo
mperH arcane, posse prjDcipcm ohbi, |
'"om R0mg ferj. The people of the
West demand peace, and they begin to
more than suspect that New England is .
N the way. The storm RACES and they .
1ollevc that she, not slavery is the cause. T.
lhe Sh p is sore tried and PASSENGERS
and crew are now almost ready to pro
pltIaie the waves by throwing the i'll .
omcnod prophet overheard. In plain
English--not very classic, but most ex-
oresslvc--they threaten to "oet New Eng
and out in the cold"
And now, sir, !, who have not drop of.
New England blood in my veins, but vas
BORN in Ohio, and am wholly of South
'rn ancestry, with a slight cross of Penn
'yIvania Scotch Irish, would speak
word to the men Of the " est and South
n behalf of New England Sir some
ears ago, in the midst nj high sectional
controversies, aud speaking as Western
nan, SAID some things harsh of the
North, which nov, in more catholic
'pi'it rs II United States man, aud for the
,akc of reunion, would recall. NV
''GlnIIceS' mIeeI upon this subject ale
rs strong as any mans; but to this, the
lay OF great national humiliation and
'aIamlty, let tho voice Of prejudice be
lushcl.
sir they who would exclude New Eng |
and IN any reconstruction of the Union, |
ISSumc that all New Englauders are
lankees' and Puritons and that the {
'urlHn or pregmatical element. or type
II civilization, las always held undis- a
'u'ed sway. Well sir Yankees, certain
y, they are in one sense and so to Old I
England we are all Gsnkees, North aud /
south and to The South Just now, or a I
IIle while ago, we o. the Middle or /
" eStem Statc7. were also Yankees, too. {
}ut there is rcally very large and most
LIBERAL and conservative non Puritan ele.
nent IN the population OF New England, |
'hi'h Tor many years struggled for mas I
cry, and sometimes held il. Ii divided 4
lame Nav | IamrS ira md EnNno,t;ont ,