Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-01-25

grow out OF slavery. They are deeper, and
will always be the chief obstacle In the way O.
full and absolute reunion. They are founded
In difference Of manners, habits, and social life
Il and different notions about politics, morale
and religion. Sir, after all, this whole war il
not 90 much one Of sections-least Of all be
tween the slaveholdIng and non-slaveholding
sections---as OF races, representing not differ
enoe In blood, but mind and Its development
old conflict Of the Cavalier and the Roundhead
the LIberalist and the Puritan; or rather IL ID
O conflict upon new issues of the ideas and
elements represented by those names. Itis o
war Of the Yankee and the Southron. Said a
Boston writer the other day, eulogizing New
England officer, who fell at Fredericksburg
"This is Massachusetts, war; Massachusetts,
and South Carolina made It," But in the be-
ginning, the Roundhead outwitted the Cavalier,
and, by skillful use Of slavery and the negro,
united all New England first, and afterward
the entire North and West, and finally sent
out 10 battle against him Colt and Saxon.
German and Knickerbocker, Catholic and
Episcopalian, and even part Of his own
household and Of the descendants of his own
stock. .. lsiIIUI Li4Ga.- ....
Said Mr.. Jefferson, when New England
threatened secession some sixty years ago :
/ wv AOb VI hCop bub uuhoOb w 4uhLOi WIN.
Ah, cir, he forgot that quarreling is always Q
hazardous experiment; and, after come time,
the countrymen of Adams proved themselves
too sharp at that work for the conntrymen of
Jefferson. But every day the contest now tends
again to Its natural and original elements In
many parts Of the Northwest-I might add of
Pennsylvania, New jersey, and New York
city-the prejudice against the yankee" has
always been almost as bitter as in the South.
Suppressed for little while by the anti-slavery
sentiment and the war, II threatens now to
break forth 10 one of those great but unfortu.
nate popular uprisings, In the midst of which
reason aud justice are for the time utterly 81
fenced. Ispeak advisedly; and let New Eng
land heed else she, and the whole East, too, in
their struggle for power, may learn yet from
the West the same lesson which civil war
taught to Rome, that epulgafo imperii arcane,
posse prtncipem dlibi, guam Rom0 feri. The
people of the West demand peace, and they
begin to more than suspect that New England
is IN the way. The storm RACES; and they be.
lleve that she, not slavery, 10 the oanse. The
chip is sore tried; and passengers and crew
are now almost ready to propitiate the waves
BY throwing the ill-omened prophet overheard.
In plain English-noI very classic, but most
expressive-they threaten to "set New Eng
land out Ia the cold"
And now, cir, l, who have not drop of New
| England blood in my veins, but was born In
Ohio, and am whollyof Southern ancestry, with
q slight cIoss Of Pennsylvania Scotch Irish,
| would speak word to the men of the West
and the South, in behalf of New England. Sir,
some years ago, In the midst Of high sectional
controversies, and speaking as Western man,
Tsaid some things harsh OF the North, which
now, In more catholicsspirit as United States
man, and for the sake Of reunion, would re.
call. My prejudices, indeed, upon this subject
ate as strong as any mans; but In this, the day
of great national humiliation and calamity, let
the voice Of prejudice be hushed.
Sir, they who would exclude New England in
any reconstruction of the Union, assume that
all New Englanders are yankees" and Puri-
tans; and that the Puritan or pragmatical ele-
meat, or type of civilization, has always held
lundisputed sway, Well, sir, Yankees certain
| ly they are, in one sense; and so to Old Eng-
land we are all Yankees, North and South;
and 70 the Sonth just now, or little while
ago, we Of the Middle or Western States, also.
are, or were, Yankees, too. But there is really
very large and most liberal and conservative
non.Puritan element in the population Of New
England, which for many years struggled for
the mastery, and sometimes held it. It divi.
ded Maine, New Hampshire and Connecticut,
and once controlled Rhode Island wholly. II
held the sway during the Revolution, and al
the period when the Constitution was founded
and for some years afterWard. Mr.. Calhoun
said, and very Justly, in 1847, that to the wis
dom and enlarged patriotism of Sherman and
1 Ellsworth on the slavery question we are in
debted for this admirable Government; and
that, along with Patterson, of New Jersey
"their names ought to be engraved on brass
i and live forever" -. M. IN
And Mr.. Webster, In 1890, in one of those
grand historic Word-paintings, In winch he was
so great master, said of Massachusetts and
South Carolina: "Hand In hand they stood
around the Administration of Washington
and felt his own great arm lean on them fol
support" Indeed, sir, IL was not till some
thirty years ego that the marrow, presumptuoui
iutermeddling and fanatical spirit of the old
Paritan element began to reappear in a form
very much more aggressive and destructive
than at frss, and threatened to obtain absolute
mastery in church, and school, and State. A
little esrlierit had struggled hard, but The CON.
tseivatitss proved TOO strong forait and 30 long
as tbegfeat statesmen and iurists of the WhPP
and Democratiol parties survived, 1t made bni
small progress, though John Quincy Adams
gave TO 1t the strength OF his great name. Bu,
after their death II broke in as q food, anG
swept away the last vestige of the ancient, lib
| eral, and tolerating Conservatism. Then every
form and development of fanaticism sprsnR III
| In rank and most luxnriant growth, till Aboli
tionism, the chief fungus of all, overspread the
whole Of New England first, and then the Mid
die States, and finally every ssate in the North
west. .l 4ayap {, 5osl ielA
Certainly, sir, the moro liberal or non-Puri-
ltan element was mainly, though NOT altogether
fromithe old pnritan stock, or, largely crossed
with lt. But even within the first ten years af
tsrithe landing of the Pilgrims, more enlarged
and toleRating civilization was introduced. Rog
er w illiams, not Of the May Flower, though q
/ Puritan himself, and thoroughly imbued with
all its peculiafities of cant and creed and form
Of worship, seems yet to have had naturally
more liberal spirit; and, first perhaps Of all men
some three or more years before "the Ark an,
4 the Dove" touched the shores Of the st. Mary
lin Maryland, taught the sublime doctrine o
toleration of opinion and practice In religion
Threatened fret with banishment to Englpd
90 as 10 ''remove as far as possible the infection
Of his prineiplee;n and afberward actually ban
llshed beyond the Jurisdiction Of ofMassachusetts
because, In the language Of the sentence of tn,
General Court, che bFoached and dvulged di
vers new and etfange doctrines against the au
thority Of magistrstes', over the religious opin
Hons OF men, thereby disturbing the peace Of th
colony, he became the founder of Rhode leland
land, Indeed, of q large part of New England 90
'pciety, 4 And, whether from his teaching and ex
ample, and In the persons Of shis descendant
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