Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-01-23

anu aIHerent notions about politics, morals
and religion. Sir, after ALL this whole war is
not so much one of sections-least OF all be-
tween the slaveholding and non-slaveholding
sectlons-as OF races, representing not differ.
ence in blood, but mind and its development,
and different types Of civilization 1t is the old
conflict of the Cavalier and the Roundhead,
the Llberalist and the Puritan; or rather it is
conflict upon new issues of the ideas and
elements represented by those names 1t is
war OF the Yankee and the Southron, Said
Boston writer the other day, eulogizing a
New England officer, who fell at Fredericks-
burg "This is Massachusetts, war; Massa-
chusetts and South Carolina made it." But in
the beginning, the Roundhead outwitted the
Cavalier, and, by skillful use of slavery and
the negro united all New EnglaRd first, and
atterward the entire North and West, and fin.
ally sent out TO battle against him Celt and
Saxon, German and Knickerbocker, Catholic
and Eplscopalian, and even a part Of his own
household and Of the descendants Of his own
stock mF
Said Mr.. Jefferson, when New England
threatened secession some sixty years ago.
mo, let us keep the Yankees to quarrel with &"
All, sir he forgot that quarreling is always a
hazardous experiment and, after some time,
the countrymen 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 original ele-
ments In many parts of the North-west---I
might add of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
New York city7-the prejudice against the
ankee' has always been almost as bitter as
IN the South. Suppressed for little while by
the antislavery sentiment and the war, Il
thFaafana M 10 l. r.. -, r ~
great but unfortunate popular uprisines, in
the midst of which reason and Justice are for
the time utterly silenced l speak advisedly;
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 epulgato
iniperff arcane, posse priaeipem dlibi, guam
RoDce tieri. The peopleo Of the West demand
peace, and they begin to more than suspect
that New England is in the way The storm
RACES; and they believe that she, not slavery,
is the cause. The sh'p "a sore tried and mas.
sengers and crew Gia nOw almost ready 10
propitiate the waves by throwing the illomen.
ed prophet overheard lnplain English-not
very classic, but most expressive-they threa.
ten to "set New England out in the cold"
AND now SIT, J. who have not drop of New.
England blood in my veins, but was born In
Ohio, and am wholly Of Southern ancestry,
with slight cross of Pennsylvania Scotch
Irish, would speak a word to the men Of the
West and the South, in behalf oF New Eng,
lend Sir some years ago in the midst Of
nigh sectional controversies, and speaking as
a Western man, ! said some things harsh Of
the North, which now, 10 more catholic spir-
It as a United States man, and for the sRke of
reunion, | would recall My ptejudiees, ia.
deed, upon this subject are as strong as any
man 8 but in this the day Of great national
humiliation and calamity, let the voice Of pref.
udee be hushed iaA