The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-02-07
New England,
BY REV. HENaY WARD BEEoHE2.
Continued from yeIterday's paper.)

an honorable
,oon in every SGu.hsrn city who are " law u,to
Iemsev9s," and are ruled by the universal laws
Tcommerce and eqaity rather than the loclI in.
licences around them. But southern society is !
built on a peculiar Institution that has dominated
in the South. They do not steal money, bat
money makers. Their earnings are rot their Own
alrnings, but what their slaves earn for them.
This fact begets another-the dyissn of men into
classes, the inequality OF natural rights,-and this
leads to the flaming OF laws partial and unjust
therefore lnj lsuce IS the Organic principle that
has been wrought into the industry, commerce
and po,ocl. economy of the South, as justice
is the element that has been wrought into the fun
damental institutions OF New England. This
faint works up and down all through the South
ern charac,et
When the Yankee IS dishonest, 1t IS not by de-
nyug the principles OF honesty; 1t IS by carrying
his smrtne5s 10 excess and eyaGlng the doctrines
Of honesty. Ills principle Is a moral one his
error lies in pushing his shrewdness 700 far. The
Southern mn will tell lie point blank for pur-
pose; the Yankee has been 50 reisouaT educl-
ted tia. he invariably assumes a cllmSy he to be
wicked. daughter ana appause) lacy must
be lng3n ols, they must b5 lmmagnauYa, tuey
must be constructive, there must be a smar,nesS
in them THAI sA1u excite surprise If not adnra-
ton. Inc southern man puts his feart INTO his
lies, but no DFalnsj the Yankee put very ittlte
heart into his, Dat great deal OF orans. lie Will
not admit that they are IeS-they are PROPOSE
tlonS. (L}ushter) Ihey have msied men, but
what fools men must be to be mjsed l. is their
fault The Southerner lies by telling taIsehoods !;
the Yankee by telling truths.
Thus even the vices Of the two sections reveal
the basis on which they stand, and the education
on which they have grown up. This moral re
straint in men who will do wrong produces singular
developments. The pioneer Southerners, cast
ing oft all restraints and pretences, act teArIeSsy
according to their will. They have sort OF tree
and large courage. They are men unrestraned
and they have that low degree OF excellence
which inheres in the savage. The Yankee is ed
uCated to obedience of law be is law abiding
and he is poor law breaker, the poorest in the
world he is a coward before the law be mus
do wrong within the statute, if at all.
1t is not difficult to carry this further and show
that the organic influences at work in the two so
cieties make men so differently that they cannot
coeXst without some degree OF jar CONSIDER
what must be the effect of bringing stringent
restless, active, prying, indeatigable money-Iovlns
class OF men, in contact with clreess, shftless
easy, ind cl9nt men, who drive along the curren
of life with an intense sense of to-day and tropi
cal repugnance to thinking much of tomorrow
Is it wonderful that the grit of the one should of
fend the pulp Of the other? 1t is this energetic
nature made intenser by his original moral ed
ucation that justfes the impression and explain
the feet that Yankees are the severest slave hold
ers. We have only to consider the injustice AM
cruelty of exactng from slaves the industry ant
regularity which Northern man expects from
himself all his life. 1t would kill a Slave to
the work freeman scarcely feels. The one row