American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1863-02-06
NEW ENGLAND AND TIE WEST
The Internal Spirit OF PuritaniSm What
shall be done with IL.
From the Cinciun ii Fnquirer.I

j From the Cinciun III EnIuirer.I
when the West was anuihiItted by The
Z British and Indians in the war of 1872 and
when our women and ehild.en were being
i murdered who came to our relief? Did
S.w England No She was meeting ia
The Hartford Convention to concoct nie,s-
ures 10 withdraw from the Union, aud -
ally herself with Great Britain. The south
d west came To oar relief most galIantIy. aud
our plains drank mp the generous blood Of
il. sous on the l:sIisin, TiPpecauoe aud the
81 Thames.
There was never any political difference
between the West and the South until the
Puritan spirit Of New England, which, always
ntermeddling and prosecuting, originated 1T.
That spirit which hung Qnakers, banished
Il Baptists burnt men for being witches aud
which ina modern times wants to prescribe
the drink, religion aud morals of the whole
world which burnt Catholic converts and
dispatched State inqusitorial committees TO
prs into Catholic nunueries which during
the past year, rode Democratic editors on
rails, tarred and feathered them, and mobbed
Democrats simply because they were Demo-
Gratis, took on IA suddeu the idea into its head
that ITS mission was To set free the servants
Of other people aud other States Its dew
ilish ingenuity ia fomenting this question
has brought all the trouble upon us.
No people ever conld get along with the
Puritan spirit of New England The Hol-
laud Dutch of New York had a ground of
complaint against it two hundred years ago
So did the Swedes and the Fins who settled
in Delaware and New Jersey and also the
Cavaliers in Virginia. IL was prosecuting
intolerant, hateful and malignant spirit, that
drew down upon it the hatred of the whole
World. Ii was sour, narrow minded and il
liberal
We are not hater Of New England We
admire the industry, frugality and economy
Of her people We admire their great charac-
teristics, especially their enterprise, shrcwd-
ness aud vig.r that have assisted to make
them wealthy and prosperous. But we
dislike their interfering propensities and es
peciAily their notion that the world must
have precisely their ideas in morals and re-
ligion, or else be punished with fne and i'm
prsoument for its comtumely.
We think New England, when il tries to
regulate the morals of the whole world, and
prescribe them drink aud diet, has uuderta-
ken task greater than she perform, and
will only bring trouble as long as she per
sists in it. We think she is rich enough to
live without any bounties or tariffs, or gov
eminent protection of any kind, except that
protection " which all receive. If she
continue to abide with as, she will have to
give up her tariffs aud agree not to NEEDLE
with the local in erests of other commune
ties. She will have To give up her tariff,
robbery and negro stealing, or go out in the
cold by herself.
Before the war when enjoved the Gus
tom of the South, corn was worth from fifty
up to seventy cents per bTshel. 1t now
brings in many places in Indiana and Illi-
nois, about fifteen cents. There is not "a
city ia the West whose manufactures 20 the
extent of one dollar find market in New
Engl nd. What mechanic manufactures
of this city made a dollars worth OF
goods or for the East2 Our extensive
furniture establishments, our foundries, and
indeed all workers in either wood or
iron would soon close up and rot down il
they depended for business on New England
custom. Instead of being customers they
are rivals, and cut under our people in every
market in the West to which they come, un-
der the international free trade.
Not only that. There is not article we
buy of them that we could not procure from
fifty to one hundred per cent. cheaper in
Europe, if were allowed to do SO. New
England goes to Congress and tells the mem
bers that she cannot live unless she is - pro-
tected " by n tariff; that is, unless the
Western, Middle and Southern States are
compelled to pay her great deal more for
goods than they could be procured for else
where She is so ornamental to the Union,
that in the West pay her at least one
hundred millions of dollars year to support
her manufactures, that are nothing to us.
IL is thus, from money taken in IA robber-
like manner from other sections of the L MON,
that she has grown rich and prosperous
Relieve the West from pay ing that tariH-let
her cease to be tributary to New England
and, in a short time, this would be the rich
est country the ever shone oD- Why
should the Western farmer, when he buys n
coat, at the same time buy another one to
present to the New England manufactures,
as protection" Why should n New Eng
land man, when he catches Goldfish. receive
a bouuty out of the national treasury Why
I'd l;ra nd thrive a
system of tariffs and bounties that wrongful
~ wrests money from the hard earning of
other sections of the Union? Why should she
not, as we do, live alone upon industry, un-
sided by government bountiesf
But we are told that the natural outlet
for immense stores of grain is through
the Northern lakes and by canals to the city
of New York If cut off from the Eastern
States this outlet would be denied us, ana
water communication with the world
would be the roundabout, uncertain. I'M
healthy course down the Mississippi river
The % natural outlet" to the ocean through
the g artificial" canals of the East, and not
through the deep. broad magnificent rivers
which God has given to the " estern coun-
try, and bv which its produce can be so
easily and cheapiy forwarded to the ocean
That is novel idea, truly. These great
rivers in the West the life blood ana
arteries of our whole agricultural,
mechanical and commercial. They are cheap,
natural outlets to the ocean. Our eotempo-
rary insists that s'there is a great dIsparlty
of sentiment social and political between
the people of the Northwest and the South,
hut great harmony between us ana new
England Who settled Ohio. Indiana and
Illinois? The proportion of Southern emil
grants is visibly larger than those from New
England.
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