Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-06-15
ne Meanness Of New England
AbOliti0piSm.

The character and spirit Of New England
ltionism, philanthrophy and christianity
.. Sc never more truly portrayed than in
late negro school celebration in Rich
uond. The exercises were conducted
by Bostonian strong-minlod women teach |
ers and weak minded men preachers, and
tho aim scented 70 bU % insult ti1o wIIftc
population Of the city by the inculcation Of
hatred in the minds Of the negroes for the
John Brown body lies mouldcring in the
ground was chosen as the opening hymn
which was Immediately followed by the sol
emu and expressive "psalm' Hang jeff.
Davis on sour apple tree, after which
came a number of questions concerning the
state of mind in which the negroes found
themselves in the new born freedom and
their desire that teachers should be sent for
from the north. BY way of variety, the
decomposition Of Browns body and the
regular locomation Of bis soul, was then
sung.
The unionism which selects him as its
type is that of New England and the CON
stitution for the United States which he,
in conjunction with negroes, framed in Can
ada, and sought to enforce in his attempt
at revolution, is much more accordant with
the Puritan mind than our present one. .-
What singular IDEAS of the loyalty which
has prompted the north to bear and suffer
SO much in the recent war must have been
presented to the people Of Richmond when
an assassin and traitor was chosen as the
representative of its spirit and deiled on
such an occasion. If the honors paid to
his memory has been prompted merely by
tanaticism, which did not ningle hatred of
the whites with its love for the blacks, the
the Nirginians might have regarded the
scene with contemptuou pity for the actors
" hen it is remembered what Browns crime
against the State and the United States was,
and that he was Justly executed after trial
il which every advantage Of law had been
awarded to him, it is impossible not TO in.
fer that the music was intended to be an
insult to the people Of the State, and hu.
initiating taunt. 1t was, in fact, an asscr-
tiun that the murderer and rebel whom they
had executed now triumphcd over them,
aud that The iucondiary and awlcss doctrines
he advocated whore those which where here
after to control the government of the ma
ton and state.
We apprchcnd that the penalties which
the confederate have already undergone lor
their rebellion, and those which are by law
provided, are sufficient for their punish
mcnt, Boston and Massachusetts, whose
cowardIce and ineillcicncy in sustaining the
war have been as conspicuous as their male
Violence in dcmandingAits continuace long
after the period when II might have beer
honorably closed are not called upon tc
send missionaries to punish thorsouthcrr
PEOPLE by tauntiug them with their defeat
and insulting them in their distress by such
exhibitions as that Of the negro schools in
Richmond on. this occasion. 1t may be
readily understood how such n punishment
can be made very severe one. The south
has been taught respect for the courage and
manlincss Of the north but she is as well
acquainted with the want Of both which
Massachusetts, has shown, when compared
with the other northern states as ourselves
She has better reason for despi,ing the
Puritan spirit OF Boston than ever before
It joined with her to precipitato the war,
animated by mutual hatred as they both
were, but shrunk from sending due pro.
portition Of citizens to the field. If the
south is to be tauntcd, ridiculc1, insulted
and humilatcd by every ingenious process
which hatred can devise, outside of penal
ties legally inflicted, Boston Philanthrophy
an! Boston hritiaIty are the proper