The Ohio Democrat. [volume] (Canal Dover, Ohio) 1840-1900, 1863-02-06


is conflict upon new issues of the ideas
aud elements represented by thosenames.
1t is war of the Yankee aud the South.
ron. 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
negro united all New England 6rst. and
afterward the entire North and West,
and finally sent out to battle against him
Celt and Saxon, German and Knicker.
booker, Catholic and Episcopalian, and
even part of his ewn household and of
the defendants, of his own stock. Said
Mr.. Jefferson, when New England
threatened secession some sixty years
ago; "No, let us keep the Yankees to
quarrel with" All, cir, he forgot that
quarreling is always hazardous ex-
pertinent; and after some time, the coun-
trymen of Adams proved themselves too
sharp at that work for the countrymen
of Jefferson. But every day the contest
now tends again to its natural and orig
inal elements. In many parts of the
Northwest-I might add of Pennsylva.
MIA, New Jersey, and New York city
the prejudice against the yankee" has
always been almost as bitter as in the
Souti Soutn. Suppressed for q little while by
the anti.slaVery sentiment and the war,
it threatens now to break forth in one of
those great but unfortunate popular up.
risings, in the midst Of which reason and
Justice are for the time utterly slenced.
1 speak advlsedly; and let New England
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
eualgota imperii arcane, posse prtnci-
penn alibi, guam Rome feri. The peo.
pie of the West demand peace, and they
begin to more than suspect that New
England is in the way. The storm ra'
ges; and they believe that she, not Slav-
cry, is the cause. The ship is sore tri'
ed; and passengers and crew are now
almost ready 20 propriate the waves by
throwing the il-omened prophet over
board. In plain English-not very
classic, but most expressive-they threa.
ten to "set New England out in the cold.
And now, sir, I, who have not drop
of New England blood in my veins, but
was born in Ohio, and am wholly of
Southern ancestry-with slight corss
of Pennsylvania Scotch IriSh-would
speak a word to the men of the West
and South, in behalf of New England
Sir, some years ago, in the midst of high
sectional controversies, and speaking al
Western man said some things harsh
of the North, which now, in more cath
oic spirit as a United States man and
for the sake Of reunion, | would recall
Ny prejudices, indeed. upon this subject
are as strong as any mans; but in this
the day Of great national humiliation
and calamity, let the voice of prejudice
be hus he'd
Sir, they who would exclude New
England in any reconstruction of tn,
Union, assume that all New Englander
are yankees" and Puritans; or pragma
tical element, or type of civilization, hA
always held undisputed sway. Well
sir, Yankees, certainly, they are in on
sense; and so to Old England we are al
Yankees, North and Sonth; and to tn
South, just now, or little while age
} we of the Middle and Western States
also, are, or were, Yankees too. But
there is really very large, and most lib
, eral and conservative non.Puritan ele
, nent in the population Of New Englan'
which, for many years struggled for tn
mastery, and sometimes held it 1t di
, yided Maine, New Hampshire, and Con
: necticut, and once controlled Rhod
| Island wholly. 1t held the sway dur
ing the Revolution, and at the pcrio
| when the Constitution was founded, an
! for some years afterward. Mr.. Calhou
: said very justly, in l847, that the wis
e dom and enlarged patriotism of Sherma
e aud Ellsworth on the slavery questio
il. we were indebted for this Admirabl
, Government; and that, along with Pa
r terson, of New Jersew, "their name
!, ought to be engraven on brass, and liv
It forever" And Mr.. Webster, in 1881
e in of those grand historic word. pair
h tugs in which he was so great maSte
l. said of Massachusetts and South Care
e lima: Hand in hand they stood aroun
e the Administration Of Washington, an
It felt bis own great arm lean on them ft
support" Indeed, sir it was not ii
s some thirty years ago that the mario
y. presumptuous, intermeddling, and fana
}. tical spirit of the old Puritan elemer
" began to reappear in form very muc
le more aggressive and destructive than (
}. FIRST, and threatened to absolute ma
1t terry in church, and school and State
- A little earlier it had struggled har
,e but the conservatives proved too Stror
9, for it; and as long as the great statesms
pt and iurists of the Wing and Democrat
IN parties, survived, it made but small pr
in gress, though John Quincy Adams ga
= to it tue strength of his great name
to But after their death it broke in as
I'd food, and swept away the last vestil
,y tof the ancient, liberal, and toleratin
ut conservatism. Then every form al
Q. development Of fanaticism Sprang up
o. rank and most luxuriant growth, I
of Abolitionism, the chief fungus of q
nd overspread the whole of New Euglal
Z; first, and then the Middle States, al