The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-22

people, who see honorable men put In the
places hitherto seized and m0nopolized by
t1cksters, and who see in this the inevitable
overthrow of all our corrupt political systems.
The Centre or American Civilization.
New York Is the centre of American intel
lect, culture and civilization. The press Of
New York, the society Of New York, the fash
ions of New York, the stage Of New York, the
business of New York, the pulpits Of New
York, the commerce Of New York, and, In
short, all things in New York are the best that
can be found in this country or on this CONT
nent The State of New York is always far In
the van Of progress. No other American city
but New York can compare with such European
capitals as Paris, London, St. Petersburg,
Vienna and Madrid. New York is truly ma
tional city. It draws its wealth from all quar-
tiers Of the country, and, indeed, from all quar-
ters of the world Here we see the American
character developed to the highest degree of
perfection of which 1t is at present capable
When foreign tourists visit the United States
paying only chance visits to other American
cities. The great ambition Of the people Of all
other sections of the country is to come to
New York. Thus we remark that the testi-
mony of both foreigners and natives agrees as
to the supremacy of this State and city. With
constituency so enlightened and intelligent
no wonder that the platforms of both Of the
political parties in New York should be pre-
cisely such as the necessities of the republic in
this crisis appear to require.
When we consider philosophically the condi-
ton of the other sections of the country, we
easily discover the reason of our superiority.
The South we may now leave out of the &C
count, since everything there is chaotic, its So
ciety and its institutions being in the process of
thorough reorganization. But as that reorgan-
ization is occurring under New York influ-
ences-as the men, the money, the business
capacity, the tact and the intelligence Of New
York are largely concerned In it, we may an
ticipate for the South splendid future. The
East is bigoted, fanatic, transcendental, theo-
retical, narrow-minded. Its people are afflicted
with peculiar mental manias In religion they
are either rigidly Calvanistic or absurdly loose,
atheistical speculative. Their minds, kept
down by their system of education, react,
break from all restraints and indulge in the
most fanciful and the most terrible license.
More people 60 to church in New England
than in New York, perhaps; but there are also
more rapes, murders and other horrid and I'M
natural crimes committed there. People
starve in Massachusetts,, State noted
for its pseudo philanthropy and its inter-
ferences with the affairs Of other portions of
the nation The West settled chiefly by emil
grants from New England and from Europe,
has much the same characteristics, but upon
somewhat different SCALE The West is even
more arrogant and insolent than New England.
1t says the same things in more domineering
and border-ruffian tone. If Boston and Sumner
are fair representatives of New England, Chi
cago and the drunken Senators from that
region are fair representatives of the West.
Where New England has finger in everybody
elses pie the West sticks in its whole hand.
New England deals in abuse; the West in
downright blackguardism and great deal of
knocking down and dragging out 1t Is as in
sane as New England, and upon pretty nearly
TIC bdHlo OplCSS Uut IHc Insanity 10 VI O WAAuch
and more demonstrative form, and calls more
loudly for strait waistcoat In one respect,
however, both New England and the West are
exactly alike, and that is in regard to their
marked, decided, indisputable inferiority to
New York, which is by all odds the best and
proudest development Of the American nation
and the centre Of American civilization.
The EMPIRE STATE MAINTAINS IT'S SCEPTRE-
The State of New York has furnished remark
able lesson to the whole country in abolishing
all parties, and going with oil its strength, its
greatness and its political prestige in support
of President johnson and his statesmanlike
policy. 1t is only BETTING the position which
this State occupies that it should be so. Being
the first State in the Union, commercially and
intellectually-th centre from which radiates
tho IN omit qnirit IF tho countrv fta antpr-