Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-07-02

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the HERALD and mankind in general, h,
seems to settle himself down for specific II
charge upon New England.
In the article to which we refer, the n
Courier says;
II is well known that New England was =
once the penal colony of Old England, and
then. too, we happen 10 know that the
Puritan branch of emigrants that settled |
here, left their country for their conntry's ,
GOOD. They quarrelled with each other
and everybody else on the eastern shores
of the Atlantic. They have done nothing
else than intermeddle with other peoples
business, quarrel among. themselves, quar-
rel with the indians, and quarrel about the
negro, since they came to the western
shores of said ocean, until from their
preaching and lecturing they have well
nigh brought this once fair country TO
destruction and themselves to disgrace.
Indeed. were it not for the continual en-
grating of new and improved sclons on
a. old stock" the Union would have
been DESTROYED long ere this, republican
government overthrown, and moharohy
-sucb as our hero, the penny-a-ilher, al
yoye nrates about-reared on the ruins,
The foreign scions engrafted on the oio
.,oclr - prevented the nations decay !
That same element, to-day-somewhat III
termixed-is fighting the coun'rvsa bai-
Ties and if ever the Union is restored, II.
will not be by that old aristocratlc ''stoclX"
that we are told of, which is tho Off
snring of the old tories of the revocation,
the fathers and trainers of the old. Connect
icut blue laws, under which tAe penny-a-
liner would have been fined and inprison-
ed for kissing his wife on Sunday
Now, in the rea1img of history there
are many things to be thought of; and if
man is DESTROYS of getting rlght view
it is necessary that be should know
something of the responsibility and
cedibility of the authors he relies upol
for his facts. There is probably no natlo
nor people-who have any history a
all-but that have been tradnced an
villfed by writers who claim to be histt
rians. To this point we might cite man
instances wherein the people of our ow
land, psritans and cavaliers alike, hay
received deal OF abuse, and insult,
the hands of these historical writers, wi
seek to bls.cken the page of history
kheir miscnnstr1eton of facts, and by the
slenupci4tion Of those with whom they
not happen to ffaternize. But these poir
are too familliar-and are patent to
merest tyro in history amongus. But,
This connection. we will cate single
stance in the history of history writing
which perhaps will not be so familiar
our readers,and which perhaps the editor
the Courier and its readers will more n
Oily appreciate.
Something over century ago there
a curious minded and somewhat MIS-
thropic Enghshman who undertook to p'
hsh an elaborate History of Engla
Ireland Scotland, Wales-aed all thelsIG'
theyeaato beloaging." This work in
course of time was completed IN many
nmes. All IN regard to the portions of W
now constitutes the English home COVE
ment was we'll spun out in accordance
the usage of the penny-a-lner writ
of history in those days. Volume a
volume was devoted to the main lar
and chapter after chapter was gwen
each of the Islands until the author ca
To the elsie of Man ;"-and here we
compelled-though mortified to say,
all the word this veracious and +
elaborate historian had to say OF thai
nalitv was that: "The Isle of Man
small island lying in the Irish Sea, n
way between England and Ireland,
the people thereof are cross betwee
.Iackass and id fool 9-and HI
the adage to that effect still existing
many parts of England to the pre-
day.
Now we stand ready to JON
our friend of the Courier in any pre-
which he may choose to make as aga
this style of historical writing. He
arraign Hume, or Shakespear, or even
foul of the immaculate Blackstone,
speaks, if we remember Alright, Of
Isle of Man as nest Of outtaaos
we Will do our best to aid him in recc
ing to the descendants of the Isle
Just rights in the premises. But We
insist that while we are ready to do
that the editor of the Courier shall re
from publishing political slang, as his
cal facts, in regard to New England,
drop the intensity of bitterness whic