Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-01-17
The Reply of N1assaeHusetts4tO to Tory In


The closing passages of Governor An
drew's Message convey the calm reply Of
Massachusetts, to the infamous assaults of
her Tory enemies
Massachusetts,, limited in territory,
aiming to cultivate and develope the ca
paeities of both man and nature, given to no
one distinctive pursuit but devoted to
many, is at once an agricultural, CONNER
cial, and manufacturing Commonwealth
The individual citizen, adapting himself
| to the seasons and the market is not un
] frequently an expert in divers callings.-
| In the winter he cuts ice on Crystal Lake
for Calcutta, and he goes fishing in sum
mer on the banks of Newfoundland. He
carries on his fathers homestead in the
growing season, and makes boots for Bos-
ton market in the intervals of farming
He seours the Pacific in a New Bed
ford whaler while he is young and
fond Of adventures, and settles down
at last as the keeper Of country store
on Nantucket river. He goes to college
for his own education and teaches school
himself in the college vacation. He man
ufactures plows and reapers in Massaehu-
sets, and puts his earnings into railroads
in michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin Massa-
chusetts buys material from all who have
it to sell, and yends her wares in every
State. Her sons have been found purs1-
ing their way in every opening Of the
West and South, while her own narrow
but hospitable borders afford prosperous
home to tens of thousands honest sons
and daughters of toll, from every nation
in Europe.
Peaceful, rural, and simple in their
tastes, her people, never forgetting the les
sons learned by their fathers, knowing
less of war than Of religion, are found in
arms for their fathers flag wherever it
waves, from Boston to Galveston. The
troops of Massachusetts in MARYLAND. in
Virginia, in the Carolinas, in Louisiana. |
in Texas; the details from her regiments !
for gunboat service on the southern and |
western rivers her seamen in the navy. |
assisting at the reduction Of the forts from |
HatteTas Inlet to the city of New Orleans,
or going down to that silence deeper than |
the sea, in the Monitor or the Cumberland
all remember their native State as a single /
star Of brilliant constellation, the many |
in one, they call their country. By the
facts Of our history, the very character Of
our people, and the tendencies of their ed
ucation, industry and training, Massaehu-
sets is Independent in her opinions, loyal
to the Union, and the uncompromising foe
Of treason.
Geographically on one side of the con-
tinent, her soldiers come from the Golden
Gate of California to encamp by Dorches-
ter Hights, that they may serve under the
white flag Of the pilgrim commonwealth.
We proudly count our brethren in public
station and in all the honored walks of
private life, in Oregon as well as in Barn
stable. Her sons have sent from around
he world their benefaetions for the relief
Of the families of her braves. Though no
1rOp Of the Father Of Waters laVes our
shores, or descends on any hilltop which
sheds into our streams, yet narrowed by
no policy Of sectional or territorial jeal-
busy, We would gladly and proudly con-
.ribute through the national treasury, in
he interest Of our national defenses, for
he connection by ship canal Of the Missis-
Jippi with Lake Michigan, and of Lake
Erie with the Hudson
"Unionists in no double sense, we have
leld from the beginning that the Govern
nent, greater than any class of men or of
S9N1I AAo IN VI u ihaA hllu III fIehCflp-
ible right to the devoted and hearty SER
Iice Of every subject of its protection and
'Ower. We deny the rightfalness of the
and we are in arms against it
md we have equally denied that the rebel |
'tates could rightfully be allowed TO i'm
'ose their reasonable viii upon any hu-
nan being where interest or desire would
nake him loyal. While our wives surrender
heir husbands. and our fathers their sons
0 all the perils of dreadful war waged'
y rebellion, we have never discovered a
eason-Why the rebels should retain their
laves, and compel them to be rebels too.
always the government, with I
ut conditions as to its policy, we rejoice
With unutterable joy that its policy is
hat Of human nature, and not that of hu-
nan sophistry; and we hail the return. (
ng day of the civic virtues, which our na-
ional departure from the practice of jus
ice and the principles Of our fathers had
iscoursged in the North and had over
brown in the South"