Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1863-02-04

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lrseay - iasiAs nissa I !.
NE Ia stAnd nusu& I'll rs d Ii
lax England nj the 9SoEbk do aotI Il
silnarily grow hu1of slavery They ars5
lsepsr. aid VIII Always b he ahfsR 4
,bslsels ia tbs way Of snlI and absolnse
.euuion. Thar aks foundsEsd 10 sislfegaaea 4
4 nsnnsgs, habits, and sosial diasreal
notions about politics. m0Tals, and rn- 4
iVish. Sir After Ill, this whola war Is
apk no mach Ona og seetiena le&sk Of al I
bsswesn the saaveh0lding &ud runs slave
holdtng aaoEsaa&~~as q sasss, EspEsssas-
ing not difference In blood, bot mind
and iss development, and different sypes
cf civilization. It Is the old conhics o. | !
the Cavalier and kha Ruundhead, she
LibsrsIIss and ths Puritan; on rather il
ID sonAics uptn nav issues, Of the ideas /
and elenents represented by those nazaes.
II IL i war OF the Yankee and Ehe
Southron. SAID Boston writer Eha /
other day, eulogixing d New England
ofieeg Who fell at Fredasicksburg @This /
4 Massaehussas,s war Massachusetts, and |
soath CaroIihA neie it, But Ia the
ibeginnEng, the Roundhead outwitted Che |
Cavalier, aud by skillfui nee Of slavery |
and the negro unitsd New England iirss,
and afasyward sha entire North and West,
and finally aadt ont to battle against hira
Oelt and Saxon, German and aKincGes-
booker, Catholic and Episoopalian. and
even part 81 hts own household and Of
the desoendAnss Of his own stock Said
MIR. jefferson, when New England
threatened secession some sixty years
ago ssNo, let us keep the Yankees, 10
quarrel With" al, sir, be forgot shat
aaarraling ID always hazardous expert
nsnt and sitter some time, the country
men Dc Adams proved themselves too
sharp at that work for the coantrymen OF
Jefferson. But every day the contest now
tsnds again 10 It's natural and original
eIemsnss. lii many parts Of the North
west---I mighs odd OF Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, and New York cisy-the prejudice
against The \ Yankee has always been
, almost as bitter as in the South. Sup
, pressed for little while By the anti
. slavery sentitn eat and the war, il threatens
i uow TO break forth in one of those greal
, but unfortunate popular uprisings, In TIE
! midst of which reason and iustiee are foI
! the time utssrly sileneed. I speaA
adxisedIy; md let New England heed
! else she, and the whole East, too, in theii
!. struggle for power, may learn yet trou
the West The same lesson which civil wa
I, taught to Rome, that's ertslgato i,apsTi
!. arcasso, pdsss pySneipen abb, 9uaa
!. Rome Gssi. The people OF the West de
: rnand peace, and thsy begin 70 more thai
!. suspect thai New England 10 in the way
: The storm RACES and they believe tha
. she, not avery, Is the cause. The sbi
h is sore tried and passengers and cre'
are now almost ready TO precipitase ID
! waves By throwing the ILL., onened prophe
overheard. In plain English-not YER
70 classic, bot most expReesive-the
& threaten TO 'sset New England out Ia th
= cold"
70 And nov sir, I, who have not dro
y Of New England blood in my veins, bu
y was born Ia Ohio, and am wholly Q
- southern aucessry-with slight cross c
d PennsyIvauia Scotch Irish-would Spea
!, q word to the men of the West and th
y South, m behalf Of New England. Si'
~ some years ago, in the nidst OF big
y sectional controversies, and speaking as
70 western man, | said some things harsh c
," the North, which now, in more oathoii
- splris as United States man, and for ID
., sake of reunion, I would recall. n
@ ursiudieesJ indeed, upon this subject Al
u as strong de- any mans; but in this, Ii
u day Of great national humiliation az
Gu calamity, let the voice of prejudice
- huahed.
y Sir, they who woaid exclude New Ent
o. land In aut reconstruction Of the Uniol
Ae assume that all New EnglandeFs 3
% s<vzukssz's anH PuFsEans sud that Il
s. Puritan cd pragm&tical element, or tyI
'@' of civilization, has always held undi
rs puted sway. Well, sir, Yankees, ecrtaini
W they are in one sense and go to Old EN-
ID land we are all Yankees, North and Sout
81 !; and to the South just BOW, or q litt
.. while ago. We Of the middle aud westel
W States, ALSO are, or were, Yankees, to
Oh But there is really very large, and mo
II liberal and conservative non Purit,
ng element ID the population of New En-
q land, which, for many years, struggl'
~ for the IN kstery, and sometimes held
I'D Ii dividsd Maine, New Hampshire, nj
IL Cehncctidat, and once controlled Rho
as Island wholly, Il held the sway dGriI
A. the Revelation, and at the period wh,
la1 the Constitution was founded, and +
ne some Years afterward. MIR. Calhoun 50
I'm very Justly, ia lS47, that to the wisdo
af and enlarged patriotism Of Sherman al
wv Ellswo ORTIZ on the slavery question '
ed we're indebted for this admirable Cover
We ment and that, along with Paterson,
PIE New Jersey, 'stheir names ought to
10 engraven on brass, and live forever
u And Mr.. Webster, in 1880, ia one
o. those grand historic word paintings,
Ne which be was so great q master, said
aF- Massachusetts, and South Carolins
70 s'Hand In hand they stood around q
70 Administration Of Washington, and fl
20 his own great arm lean on them for su
y, port" Indeed, sir, 1t was not till son
ne thirty u ears ago that the narrow, pr
a sumptuons, intefmenddling, and fanatic
'Ss spirit OF khe old Puritan element began
ca EeappeaFt ia form very much mo
we aggressive and destructive than at FRI
and threatened 10 obtain absolute maste
Ias in churc h, and school, and STATE.
On little easliey IL bad struggled hard, b
g. the conservatives proved too stroi
M for 10 /; sod 30 long rs the great state
- men and jurists Of the Whig and Dem
'ae cratic parties survived, it made sml
VIC progress, though John Quincy Adam
o. gave to 10 the strength Of his great nam
S., But after their death it broke in ~
IsF aood, and sweept away the last vesti,
na OF the ancient, liberal. and toleratil
r conservatism: Then every form al
ne development of fanaticisua spFang up
ne rank and most luxuriant growth. q
ass sboliaohism, the chief fungaa of a
al ovaEspraad the whole oil New Enrlsr
ar Hrst, and then the middle States, Al
ri Eaally eFery State in the Northwest.
CertaiBly, sir, the more liberal or mol
Zee Puritan element was mainly. though NJ