Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1864-11-24

THE EaREPREssIBLE REV NNGLsNDER.
We frequently meet with agreeable pictures of the
hopeless isolation and ruin which will be brought upon
New England by the eventual separation OF the orh
western and Middle States from the land OF the pill
grims Chained TO barren rock with vuture deVour-
ing her liver she would expiate her cces against hui
mainly and present an example oil the nal tibrlatioDs
of sinners which would prove perpetual warning to
all MANKIND.
We wish we cculd share these pleasing anticipa-
toCs. But in the first place the wicked rarely receive
their deserts 10 this world aud in the second place we
have grave doubs OF The capacity OF the Western and
Middle States to reduce New England to that state
of solitary punishment which would prove so Beneficial
tofhe rest of he world, The otG has not been Invent
ed that Yankee cannot pick. Try i, by all means
but if you shut him at tie dos, he Wi! come IL
by the window or chamb r. ike an snterprisug grim
a!kin upon the roof and come through the chimney
lie has as many lives Cat ana ii you tie him cd
in bag, and send him mill pond TO be drowned,
ten one he is back before his executi0ner aad purr-
ing away 10 bis old corner with much Conpcsute
and gravity as if noting had happened
L would be pleasant TO ct RID OF this elastic and
pervading nuisance, but We might as we'll expect to be
free from mosquitoes and fevers in s~emp8 of CIV
EngianGe.s where any thicg be mad. Inc Middle
States and tie West shut oct New E giaDd! Why
the former separate from tlem, OF dhete1t
coionies different race, and hating the very name OF
them, aCd yet tkey could not keep them out. Toe
more they eXecrated th5n the the Yankees delight,
ed in teu beguiled them wlh re1PleadanE tin ware,
made love daus hters aud Sisters, aud becne
their sous,inaw ana their br0thers law. Thus,
in process of Time they got possession OF he whole
country, so that there few families n the Middle
States or Northwest which canaot trace their pedigree
by either their paernai maternal ancestry, to Ply
mouth Rock.
Sous of the Piigrims The very name indicates
that they are not to be kept IN one place, and least OF
ALL the land OF htir tathers 1t is to them that
their country is unprCductive as grinds one GA
the contrary il is their traditional glory and pride Ga
that grndstone they sharpen their wis., and hold tie
world be their oyeer, hey 80 forth to open it, they
are just the cues sharpest critters alive. The hacst
Sheffield cutlery cannot be made keen They rejoice
ia their emar saints do Ia virtue. Fixed iOca!
attachments they have none. They look upon New
England as a mere base from which 10 operate upon
other regions. AS THEY are hedged, they fly
away to seek their fortunes elsewhere. they keep
thing at home but class Of manufacturer sshp
ping merchants and Old maids. Even thesa would not
stay if their uDicn with the North and West was
dissolved. The iaad, it is true, would become wilder.
ness but it is the people want to punished and not
the laDd The land has been punished enough already
in being inhabited By such race. How will The North
and West keep this people out? Nothing but sword
and fire have kept them cut Of our own borders. We
fear that even here after The over they will come
back in swarms, like flies when winter IS ended and
settle in hungry myriads upon every living thing.