New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-03-03
Evsss The Dispafck, Feb. ~.
What the South Can borrow from New.
Euxlaud.


al his children to New England ideas prevailing in
the South. We have no doubt Of that but would he
gne ninsen, is why has he not volunteered in the
opIo army WIN MS amazing powers OF blowing up
people, Gen. Grant would have found him valuable in
the mines before Petersburg
When we irst saw this saying Of Brother Bcecher
we ieit wratiul IN the extreme and If he had been
where within reach, we would have colared him on the
spot and compelled him to come home with us and eat
Confederate dinner But after reflection. humane and
charitable sentiments expelled the suggestions of re.
yenge and cruelty We can now read with composure
the longing Of Mr.. Bcecher, and, what IL more it NAV
be posi- Die that lie is entitled 10 gratitude instead Of
The establishment OF New England ideas and insti.
utons in the South IL by no means as dismal and IN
happy condition as it at first appears. The chief Of
New England ideas-a high idea Of iself-would
greatly promote happiness. We have too long suf
fered people for the want Of assurance aud self
assertion. v hilo New England was annually cele-
orating the landing Of the Pilgrims, we never had
jamestown festival, and never raised monument to
Captain John Smith the founder Of Southern ciylza.
ton, and the man 10 whom New England Is indebted
for its very name We shall be a great deal more COM
Portable when We become thoroughly imbued with that
exquisite sefapprecinion which induces Massachu-
sets TO regard Boston as the hub OF the universe
the cenor of the civilization Of the planet, ard the
hope and consO iton of oil other planets and all future
ages, which makes Pilgrim Rock the Holy City OF
America. and considers Theodore Parker superior to
Moses That is the way for people 10 think OF them
II they want 10 be happy and To have other pe0
pie think well Of them.
While every member OF the Massachusetts Legsla.
ture is honored with biogr phcal and genealogical
sketch In the aewspaper, the graveStOnc al Monticello
is cIumbling into dust, few of know where Madison
John Mar-lall. and host Of other great men, are
buried, and until lately We have had no other memorial
Of Patrick Henry and Henry Clay than the tavern sign
in Claws old neighhorhoud at Ashland which bears on
its two sides counterfeit prrsentDent OF eac1 OF
those two ilustrCus OF Hanover, who deserved
better fate than to be gibbeted in such style for the
INSPECTION OF posterity. We can never admire enough
tho h. rOc assurance with which New England has
made the OF the country believe that they were al
descended from the Pilgrim Fnthers. and has qiety
aSen into its own hands the management OF the entire
United States That is the way oget on IN TINS world
and if Beecher will show MS how to DO 1t. We shall con
siIer him public benefactor
Aud, besides. when get to be New-Eugland we
shall cease TO be yctmzcd by all the rest of creation
and shall enjoy the satisfaction Of trying our hands upon
other people, If lose negroes We shall not have
find them. and shall be at liberty to take otner PEG
pes negroes from them We have had our full share
being the target for the rest of the world, and would
relish the satisfaction OF mixing targets u other
communities. We have here in Virginia great manu-.
featuring facilities. and can use them to supply the
troops aud fleets OF the United States while other people
do orr fighting. When Nev-Englnnd ideas prevail.
We shall no longer confne ourselves to mind
ing Of our own business but shall take charge OF the
concerns Of all the OF the world and SEQ that they
toe the mark. We shall repent not only OF our own
sins but those Of al other nations. and see that they
bring discredt upon onr repentance. We shal us
card those contracted IDEAS OF the country when
accept the Potomac and the Rio Grande as its limits
andldopt what IL said 10 be the England theory
raj boundaries Of the United States. Our nOnotonous
agrlcullurli existence will give place to pcasurable
love Of novelty. like that Of tho Bostonlans who are
said by one of their own people 10 divide their time
between metaphysics and fancy poultry, and while
they look upon Emerson as far head Of inspiration
look upon thiriy.pound far ahead Of Emer
son" Our old fashioned notions OF religious tolera-
ton will give place to an Intelligent and DISCRIMINATE
ing charity Ike that detailed In an anecdote we nave
somewhere seen of conversation between Massa-
chusetts father and who had been missing that
morning from the family pch " Abimeeol, my son.
said the father soemnly his son came IN 10 dinner
- Bmecch. have you been 10 meeting" yes, sir"
sad Bmecch stoutly I've been TO the Uniyersaller"
- Well my son. Amt like O good many fathers. that
don't want their children to go anywhere but just
" here ihey saw No son. amt one of those. Iol
Grafton is my inotto-argest liberty and all that that
our forefaihers tit and died for. Yes, my son, go
" here YOU please to meetings | don't care; only this
III say that catch you going to the Uniyorsalers
again i'm take your hide of There are certain other
IDEAS Of that latitude ia which We could easily become
proicents.
We have heard good deal OF Yankee love Of money
and other property but We have our doubts whether
they can give our natIyeborn spectators and ex or
TONERS any ideas tgat subject Judging by the
quality 81 ihs milk which IL ooId IN klchnond at the
price Of ten dollars aquar We should say that
A patent Ind already been obtained here from those
Yankee miknen who said to skim their milk on the
top and then turn it over and skim the bottom. and
hen Ill, ide il into ten parts carefully skmming each
part The love Of property that in face of the decla
ration Of Gen. Lee that the employment OF negroes Is
military necessity refuses TO make the sacrifice, needs
no importation OF New England ideas 10 nvigorae Its
hold uuon goods and chnites. We must do New |
England the justice say that it's ideas the subject
Of defending its own homes from the period OF the !
Indian wars 10 the close Of the American Revolution /
neye went 20 the extent Of refusing any sacrifice which
WINS necessary for the defense OF its soil.
On the whole We deter mined not TO be put into
by the invocaons Of Mr. Bcecher for the universal
propagation of New. England ideas In the South Seed
cannot take root and flourish unless 1t f on favorable
ground The exotic of Puritsnsm will need great
leal of nursing and hot house cultivation to attain
,tately growth IN this uncongcnia cline. Nor is IL
lne certain that the seed will be permitted to be sown
ilr Beccher's sons may to the 'front.' and be may
bow his own rams horn vigorously IN the rear out I'M
ess the Coniederacy is doomed Jericho it will not fall
II such a summons
Ersss Ths SrMfiMek FEB. IS.
Important Bills.
The House of Representatives passed on yes.
erday and sent 10 the Senate for several