Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1863-04-10

some OF tue pTeJuolccs WHICH c4ist again
P New Enganders. The American peop
n are conglomerata. That among S
Y many various nationalities there shoul
S be prejudices was to have been expected
' The wonder is that there has been so lii
4 tie. The strangest has been that agains
Q the African, for he is of race not onl
unlike but antithetic to the white race
separated so far that although there nigh
have been Christian and moral associa
tion, there could have been no union be
, tween the two without an amalgam a
powerful as Slavery. The world know
that Slavery has been the practical anal
gamator, and Liberty keeps the races as
under. Next is the prejudice against tn
Irishman; but this is against the Irish
man just come over, ignorant and rude
for the moment their children become
naturalzcd through our common schools
all trace of prejudice dies away. Mex
is the prejudice against the Yankee. Il
is educated into the people Of the West
and South. Parents teach it to theil
children. Even the slaves are so inocu
lated with it, and so accustomed to hear.
ing the Yankee spoken of with objuration
that it is related that Christian slave
was recently heard praying for the I'D
Yankees" He thought that was their
Christian name. Laug liter. If Fow.
lcr & Wells would examine the Southern
Uranium, he would probably find some
where between the love Of whiskey
and the love of tobacco the organ of
hatred of the Yankee. This is no new
feeling. 1t is as old as the country. 1t
was just as marked in the army of the
Revolution as it is in our armies to-day.
Indeed, the Puritan stock was always
powerful, but never popular. 1t tmade its
own way; it never advanced in any d.
rcction by the mere force Of popular IA
vor. Out Of the early Puritan has grown
up race of men far milder, but just as
sharp and just as conscientious. The
New Highlander is sober but not morose
Nowhere else is life regarded so earnest
and real. From the cradle men are born
with the feeling they were to do some
thing. and when they grow old they look
as if they had done something. But
never had love and friendship a more en-
during fame than in New England. They
are not like bosterous streams. that run
with full banks while the rains are falling,
but are like deep wells. A mercurial
people might easily misjudge more deep
affection. But the objection is not to the
Yankee woman; for woman, like gold, is
legal tender the world over. The South
erner who is ready to slay the brother is
quite ready to wed the sister. Yet the
Yankee WON is more Yankee than
two men, The char lctcr of the South
erner is to give expectation Of more than
you can find. You can find more in the
Yankee than you look for. The inven-
tive character of the Yankee leads them
naturally to become the manufacturer for
the country, and it is not strange. there
fore. that a young man in Connecticut
should finish his education by pcddlng
tour through the South The sharpness
of the Yankee peddler, like a CAD fly,
lighting here and there, and drawing
blood every time. has made the character
of those who stay more obnoxious than
it woad otherwise be. | will not deny
that there is in the New England charac-
ter certain anxious particularly in
small sums but when, by small sums,
they have made fortuue, where else un-
der Gods bright canopy can you find a
people though they pinch the sixpence and
penny, who will give hundreds and thous-
ands with such transformations liberality
as New England? Applause. The
necessity of their condition obliges them
to be small in small things; but the gen.
erosity Of their nature makes them more
liberal in large things, as their schools,
academies, colleges and institutions, bear
honorable witness than the people who
sander them. Time is money in New
England time is nothing in Alabama.-
Much has been said of Southern hospi.
tality; but there it is favor which a
man who lives alone does to himself when
he receives with welcome the man who
breaks his solitude. In New Eagland
they take it out OF their marrow when
they entertain company. In the South,
the slaves who have nothing to do take
the burden, and the hospitable master OF
the house takes the pleasure. 1t is not
hard to be generous when you take it out
of other mems bones. l will be generous
if you will let me take it out of your
pocket. In New England they take it out
OF their own. Work, in New Engatd
means simply honesty. In the South
there are two classes, one having rights
and the other none, and injustice becomes
an element in Southern law. The South
"rner puts his heart in his lies, but nc
brains the Yankee. brains aud very lit.
tie heart. The Yankee lies by telling
truth so as to mislead the Southerner
by telling falsehoods. The Yankee is a
poor law-breaker the Southcrncr settles
his difficulty by fight. Consider what
must be the result of bringing together
these two classes of men. 1t is not won.
dcrful that the grit of the one offends the
pulp of the other | have great compass.
sion for Southern man who really be.
lieves in Slavery, but for the man born
in New England, who drew liberty with
his mothers milk, who goes South and
upholds it, have no compassion and nc
faith he is an apostate. A man is bad
in proportion to the distance he has tc
travel to get his wickcdness. A woman
has to 60 great deal further to become
wicked woman than man has to be
come a wicked man. God put woman
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