The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-02-07

idols they worship. The result is universal men |
tai activity. There is not room enough in New
EngIand for her own population. 1t is like the
birds nest. There are always more eggs laid in !
the nest than there can be room in the nest for
the birds to grow 1t is good place to be born
in; if a man wants to fly he must 90 somewhere
else. They invent, they manufacture and under
stand brain opportunities as well as any people on
earth. Outside Of their corner Law continent
which needed Just what their enterprise could
give-education. The Yankee swarmed the land. I
Wherever patient, untiring, mcthodical thought
and industry are required, there YOU will find the
Yankee along the Lakes in all the Western
States, at the South, at the mouths of the Mis-
slsslppi, you Will find they carry thoughts alto
gethec dIsprop)rtionate to New E1gand popula
ton. She furnishes cashiers, bankers, fund com
misslonetS, engineers railroad managers, captains
Of ships and STEAMBOATS,, commerciasts, ma
chnsts foremen, agents, Judges, lawyers, profess
ors, schoolmasters, doctors and clndidate8 for
Congress, Qaughter) though | will admit that in
this last respect she is not to be compared with
the South. The Southerneg goes to Congress as
d means to an end when the Y nkee goes he eX-
poets to make something by it, But Southerner
emlgratng 10 lndiani improves the first opportu-
nifty to Offer TO become their Senator in Congress
if there be one elected, he will become represen-
tatve, bat if that berth is filled, he will consent
to be State Senator. II they need no more, then
ne will consent to bea Judge OF their Supreme
Court; it that berth be occupied, he will 60 to
the Legislature, and if he cannot so to the Leg
sature, he will be sheriff, and if he cannot be a
sheriff, rather than do nothing he will constable
anything that has a salary and No work. This
occupancy of places OF trust, industry and
thought throughout the country, by Yankee
minq, has followed the great law of want and
OF supply. The Yankee is not in such places of
responsibility because he has been favored, but he
has always risen in spite Of prejudlce he has not
wormed his way to these places. lie is there
simply because he was wanted. AS many have
been exported to order from New EnglaUd as
ever have emigrated to these eminent places and
trusts. Where they wanted Northern men to
denounce New England, to show her off, even
. that they have got Yankees to do. Yankees till
their plantations, make their wares and furniture
their hands carry the produce to market, do their
banking, marry their plantations, teach their
creoles, preach their funeral sermons, defend their
' rebellion, and SANDER New England Qor pretty
much all they do of that is done by lankees)
and in the Northern States, the very men who
+ lead the cry against New England are mostly o.
her own blood. Gov Seymour OF New York
will scarcely deny that Connecticut blood is good
to make Governors Of
t New England too has inspired and controlled
the literature and leatnng OF this continent. Ii
is silent work but it is the seat of power in the
naton-the leader in our day-that controls
C newspapers, legislature. New England creates
books furnishes school libraries. New Eng lane
gives to this land its class of literary men. This
is not saying that only New Englanders are ed
ucated to letters, but they, her sons, have giveI
to this continent its literary national character
D That the Yankee has employed this opportunity t
glorify the merits of his ideas, his fathers merit
and the history of the colonisS, is not to be den
s ed, for it is thing both natural and honorable
AS respects national vanity there cannot be
If nation without it. You may as we'll ask for
n peacock without strut as nation without vanity
n You cannot find one on the globe which has no
IS this attribute; and as 10 boaSting, you might a
IS we'll expect cock that would not crow as t.
n expect nation that would not boast. Does no
v France think that Paris is the universep Di
e you ever see thorough h.bred Englishman that di
e not boast? That America boasts, and that Ne'
g. England boasts, is but to say that they have tn
IT attributes Of national life She has boased then
o no more than any other nation, but she hel
q the high places of learning and letters so tha
Is she can make 'her merits known and she has bos
J. ed so we'll that she has made every nation curlou
v to know what she says, not more than, but be
o ter than others. She has done this thing
It But if all these things have made New Ems
Of land only dsagreeabe, it is not her oibls but he
,r force, that makes her the object at once of he
,r tired and of fear, for New England is no longe
,r mere territory, she is moral power. Her nam
10 stands for ideas, as Athens did and Rome doe
q 1t is her moral power not her social nor materit
ID prosperity that enrages the enemies of mankind
q We may sum up the real cause of her offence i