Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-04-08

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| From tho Richmond Dispatch February ~.
what the South Can Borrow from New
| England.
Henry Ward Beecher says that he woulc
give ell his children TO see New. England
ideas prevailing in the South We hav,
no doubt of that ; but would be give him
self2 If so. why has be not volunteered
in the Union army? With his am" zinp
powers of blowing up people, Gen. Graul
would have found him ihvluable in the
mines before Peters sGurg.
| When we fist saw this saying of Broth.
er, Beecher we felt wra hfuI in the extreme
and, # he had been anywhere within reach
we would have collered him on the spo,
aud compelled him to come home with Us
and ent u Confederate dinner. Bat, after
reflection, humane and charitable senti
nents expelled he suggestions of revenge
and cruelty. We can now read with CON.
pcsure the longing Of Mr.. Bcecher, and
what is more, it may be possible that he is
entitled TO gratitude ins cad Of indigua
tion.
The establishment of New England ideas
and institutions in the South is by DO
means as dismal and unhappy a condition
MS ita first appears. The chief OF New,
England ideas-a high idea of itself
would greatly promote our happiness We
have too long suffered as people for the
want Of assurance aud self-ssseflion -
While New England was annually celebrai.
ing The landing the Pilgrims, we uever had
u jamestown festival, and never raised
monument TO Captain John Smith, the
founder Of Southern civiliz ition and the
man to whom New.Euglaud is indebted
for IFS very name We shall be great
deal more comfortable when we become
thoroughly imbued with that exquisite self.
appreciation which induces Massachusetts
man to regard Boston as the hub of the
universe, the center of the civilization Of
the pla Ell, and the hope and consolation
of all other planets and all future ages,
which makes Pilgrim Rock the Holy City
of America. and considers Theodore Parker
superior TO Muses.. That is the way for
people to think of themselves, if they
want TO be happy and to have other pep
pile thiuk well OF them.
While every member OF the Massachu
sets Legislature is hcnored with biogra
phcal and genealogical sketch in the
newspapers, the grsvestone ut Monticello
is crumbling into dust, few of US know
where Madlsoa or John Marshall, and a
host OF other great men, are led. and un
I'll lately We have no other memorial o
Patrick Henry and Henry Clay than lh'
tavern sign in Clay's .old neighborhood a
Ashland. which bears on lis two sides
counterfeit preseutment CT each OF lhos
two illustrious sons of Hanover, who de
served better fate than to be glbbeted il
such style for the inspection of posterity -
We can never admire enough the heroi,
assurance with which New Eogland hu
| made the rest Of the country believe
that they were all descended from the Pill.
grim Fathers, and has quietly taken iul,
its own hands the management of the en-
lire United States. This is lhe way to gel
on in this world ; and if Beeeher will show
US how 10 do it, We shall consider him q
public benefactor.
And, besides, when we get TO be New
Euglander we shall cease 10 be viclimizeC
by oil the rest Of creation, aud shall eno,
the satisfaction of trying our hands upoI
other people. II we lose our negroes we
shall not have TO find them, and shall be a.
liberty TO take other peoples negroes from
them. We have had our full share of be
ing the target for the rest of The world, ano
would now relish The satisfaction of making
targes of other communities. We have
heie in Vuginia great manufacturing facll
ities. and We can use Them to supply The
troops and fleets of the United States
while other people do our fighting. Wher
New England ideas prevail, we shall nc
longer eOnhne ourselves TO minding of oul
own busiJess, but shall take charge of tn,
coBcerns Of oil the rest of the world, and
see that they toe the mark. We shall 70
pent not ony Of our own sins, but those O
other nations, aud see that they bring M
discredit upon our repentance. We shal
discard those CONTRACTED ideas Of the coun
Try which accep: The Potomac and the Ri,
Graude as It's limits, aud adopt what is sale
TO bs the New England theory that th,
Equ aiordand the Aurora Borealis are III,
natural boundaries Of the United States -
Our monolouous agricultural existence viii
give place to a pieasurable love of novelty
like that o! the Bosionians v ho are said
by Que OF their own people, to divide lhei
time between metaphysics und fancy poel
Try, and while they look upon Emersol
AS far ahead Of inspiration, look upon
ihirty.pound rooster as far ahead OF Emer
son." Our old'fashoned uo,iops Of relie
'1us liberation will give place TO an in,elii
gent aud discriminating charity. like iha
detailed Ia al aascdole we have somewh her,
seen OF conversation between . Massachu
sss,s father and sun who had been missing
that morning from the family pen. /" Abb
aaslscb, my son. said the father solemnly
- hia sen csms 10 10 dinner. "Biuslssb,