The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-03-04
PATRIOTISM OF NEW ENGLAND.

PATRIOTISM OF NEW ENGLAND.
The Democratic press has been most bit
ter and unrelenting during tho past six
months in it's attacks on New England; but
il has not had 9ae word to say against the
rebels This is not the result of accident:
it is 4 design-a systematic one. We are
to be aroused to state of frenzy against
New England. until we will consent to sever
the ligament that binds us together They
charge against New England that she has Il
tariff to protect and support her manuiac-
lures. If that is 50, repeal it. New Eng
land did not make the law-she had only
twelve votes in the Senate, and small rep
rescntation in the House. 1t is Il self i'm.
posed burden, and yet tlry charge New
| England with being our opprcssors, forget
! ting that she has only six States ont of the
| thirty-four. The oifense of New England
! is political, and consists in ths that she
| loves liberty too well. Cheers. They
charge, and are constantly repeating it, that
| New Englanders won't light--that they are
a white-livered and moncy-getting race.
! Where is the New England regiment that
| has ever rW? ] am Il Northwestern man,
! but love New England. We can afford to
do her usticc. Wheu did New England
soldiers prove craven or show the white
feather?
At the time of the Revolution there were
| four New England States and six slave
States. At that time New England had II
! population of $4,000 souls, and the six
slave States had IL population Of 1872 600
souls. The four New England States fur
nished seventy-six thousand more soldiers
| than the six slave States.
The single State of Massachusetts sent
5000 more soldiers than all the six South
ern States. Let me contrast the two repre-
sentative States. Massachusetts furnished
| $4,000 white, South Carolina furnished $500
negroes, My friends would you pacify
the rebels by kicking Massachusetts, out to
let South Carolina in! TO the soldiers of
New England than to all others we owe
more. We have borrowed from them their
institutions, their free schools, and their
free democratic government. | ASK how
much have we borrowed from South Car
olna? A voice, Butternuts."l Daring
the rebellion, the first invasion was made
! i'll Massachusetts Boston drove out the
enemy, never to return, and the last place
evacuated by the enemy was South Caro-
lima. New England sailors have established
and maintained our character abroad; our
ships are manned, nineteen-twenticths by
!
sition is made that we shall turn New Eng
! land out
know New England has her faults. All
have their faults. | never saw perfect
man or perfect nation. But take the peo-
! pie of New England as Il whole, they are
us intelligent, AS energetic, and as loyal to
their Government and their country as any
in the world.
| KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN CIRCLE.
Before concluding, | must allude to a sys-
ten,atic effort being made to destroy our
army. thank God our army is sound.
The attempt has been made to demoralize
and corrupt the soldiers. Letters have
been written by tens of thousands to induce
them to resign. They have been told that
they are fighting for the elevation of the ne
gro; that the blacks are getting as thick as
blackbirds at the North; that their wives
and families are suffering, and are fast pas
sing away; that a great change of sentiment
has taken place at the North, and urging
them to desert and come home. A large
portion of the deserters are traceable to
the efforts of these traitors at home. Men
come home on sick leave. They beg them
to stay hereto resign or desert. They are
told that while pay is lavished on the Off
GERS, they 1.-THE priyates) are put of with a
poor pittance. What do you think of the
moral condition of the men who use such
argument TO induce our soldiers to desert
1t is we'll known that secret society ex-
lists in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and several
other States, known as Knights of the Golden