Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1863-02-25

and above all these. were loud protestation,
Of loyalty to the government and suppor
OF the war, but it must be conducted in {
certain msnncr; but they dill not venture tc
proclaim that there should be no "coer
cion." Cunning appeals were made tc
sectional prejudices; and such arts wer,
not deemed beneath the men from who's,
elevation in station wo might have hoped
nothing would come to taint bright hon
or. To exhibit pair OF brogans. and to
assert that it would soon req ire too loads o.
corn to purchase such articles in New Eng
land, whatever may have been designed
could not otherwise result than in prejudice
in whole community against a govern.
ment embarrassed by traitors who seek tc
cripple it still more by estransing from i,
those who are still loyal. What else than
furnish divisions and sectional commissions
conld have been designed by the passage
OF such resolution as this. by body oi
so styled Democrat"
"Resolved. That hal it not been for me
! fanaticism and peculation OF New England
our generation would not have witness.
Cd the CHASTITY spectry of disunion; and
were 1t not FOR the same causes, still po.
tent for evil. those difficulties could be
readily adjusted; therefore we declare tha,
when we have exhausted every reasonable
effort for tbs restoration of the Union a,
it was. should New England stand in the
breach then will we cheerfully say to New
England with all her cupidity. with oil
her meanness, fanaticism. foIies, and NOR.
al turpi,ude. we bid OH good by. remem-
bering you only for the wrong you have
done us" HR
I Such are the appeals made to tho peo-
pie IN the name of democracy "Oh
Liberty. what atrocities are committed in
tiny name" was the uttered sentiment oi
Madame Roland. Oh democracy. how
Art thou abused by thy lip worshipers! II
democracy requires that l shall assist in
sowing dissensions among sections, slim
ulate the local prejudices oe one state
against another. and thus foment inter-
necine strife where there should he undis.
tnrbed harmony. / shall cease to be a
democrat.
NEW ENGLAND AND THE USfoy.
l cannot forget sir. the part played by
New England in the establishment and
the maintenance of our liberties in the re-
public. What is her record in the annals
Of the revolutionary war? The whole
number OF men enlisted in the continental
service from the beginning to end of that
war was 23l. $50. OF these Lorenz, Sa.
bine says. in the historical essay prefxed
to his American Loyalists, that 67.906
were from Massachusetts { one of the New
England states) alone. All the states
south Of Pennsylvania provided but 59.-
49S. or less by s.4l4. than the gallant
Bay State sent. New England equipped
and maintained lis. $50 meu-more than
one half tho total number placed at the
service of Congress during the war. There
stands her record. 1t cannot be wiped
out.
And when this unnatural contest was
forced upon us. trne to her traditions, the
men Of New England were the first to
rush to The defense of the capitol when it
was threatened by traitors. Sir. am not
New Englander was born and rais-
sd in the West; but am not ignorant of
New England genius. which is famous rs
her patriotism. her thrift and her learning;
nor can | forget how my heart was glad.
dened few years ago on meeting with an
exhibition of New Eng:and's s inventive fac
lily in distant foreign land Far distant
from home. among aliens and strangers.
the eve is gladdened by the sight of any.
thing American; and there all petty divis-
ions and geographical lines are swallowed
mp in the great whole OF my native land.
AT grand exhibition in Pomerania, sur
rounded by from ten to twenty thou
sand Germans. Woods grass cutting
machine. and other Yankee contrivances
and evidences OF skill. quickenel my pulse,
made my blood course more proudly. Her
inventive talant, her industry, her inteli-
geuce. are proverbial. New England
needs no eulogy from me; shc- has been
benefactor to the civilized world, and
would not detract from her merit; but
Mr.. President. all she has done,
ard all she may expect to do,
under the blessings vi GGodi. .ae owes to the
institutions which are the pride and the
glory of this republic. i'
l have sometimes thought that we have
never properly realized our institutions.
their glory and their power. have walked
in Munich where the doors of your Capitol
were cast. and in Florence where your
Goddess OF Liberty was manufactured. and
l have gone to Sheffield ana into Birming-
ham. and as | have seen six hundred men
at work in an establishment there, could
not but think of one feature Of my country
There. from the man lowest in occupation
to the highest. there is in every branch a
boss workman. a foreman. to see that each
man does his proper work. l have seen
that number of men engaged with earnest
ness and silence. each oheying his foreman
and doing his allotted work. Then have
come to my own country. and gone into
our manufactures. where have seen. q
like Dumber of men engaged; but there
Is this pecnliarity-there Is conversation,
and not uncommonly you will see the boy
at the grindstone saying to the boss work
man. this cog is q little to short. or that
is little too long, Sir there are three
huadrsi men thinking in this countryito
one in any other country. It is this inven-
tive power. to this national trait in our
character. to our free institutions, that are
with us when we lie down, that meets ms
when we rise mp. that fll up every inter
stice Of society that New England owes her
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