Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1866-11-15

the cNth ana towns may sprnY up, ~ II ny mAglc,
around him, but Ill their physical snd material advan-
tages shall be than counter balanced by what he
has lest by what he has done violence in the change
The sacrifice may be matter Of necessity or duty, but
It is none the lees a sacrifice New England Is z cd
place 10 emigfate from, for It is good place to give
the founders Of empires their preparatory training
Its mountains are good places from which TO quarry
out the corner or foundation stones OF States But,
such changes involve the loss Of what never be
estimated by money. standards, Of what be
replaced by wealth aod soiisl Influence.
The language OF natural scenery may not be easily
translaable into words; but II has meaning. II
speaks directly to the soul Says Of the most emf
nent naturalists that ever lived THAT which the
painter designstes by the expressions Swiss scenery
or Italian tky,' IN based IN vague feeling Of the
local natural character The OF the sky the 81
teots OF light and shade the haze floating the distant
horizon, the forms Of animals the sucouence Of plants
the bright, glossy surface of tie leaves the outline of
mountains, all combine to produce the elements on
which depends the impression " any one region ~
The emigrsbt from New England, Westward, goes
out from the influence of such natural atmosphere, by
which he has been surrounded from infancy, by which
he has been taught new conceptions OF beauty, by
which he has been inspired TO perform many forbid
ding duty, or bruced up TO many difficult undertaking
He cannot transfer 20 his home these sterner
poets Of nature, whose narcuate language has been
to him like the voice Of an uuwearyiug and sccpless
monitor; can he transport the rugged soil that has
thousand times broken or rejected his pIoWsharo;
nor the short seasons that have driven him 70 pruvi-
dent and industrious husbandry the small profits
that have rendered him faithful To- particulars and
snug calculator He cannot take with bun, the
tain range that has osst it's morning evening shad-
dow Of protection upon the little farm that nestled
along the waerbrook beneahit, orept up to IT. cold
and torblddiug shoulder; where he has watched the
tenderleaycd Spring IA she has put her garments
of green the Summer in her mature beauty; the
autumn ia her crimson richness; the Writer, she
walked 10 white lie goes out from the influence of all
these inauimate faces Of Nature sud Natures God.
They have given him their blessings from bis earliest
infancy. They give him reluctant, almost reproy-
ing benedicton now. Tut they 60 not With him lie
cannot tmuOTf them When q Ia Gel
60 follow the star OF empire across the Mississippi, o.
embark their energies 10 Inc great enterprises Of the
West, even though New EoglAnd farms and hamlets
become desoaton, or go into the possession OF the
alien shall not remind them, that when they have
left behind their backs the soil the climate the scene
ry Of their native region, they have orsakeu the sur
rouudiugs 10 which New England Characteristics have
hsd their natural development; which the natural
c0nservators Of these charaotersuosl The bulianoy
Of gem sometm,s depends AS much upon its setting
as upon Itself IL III the setting and the stone com.
biued, that produce the effect sought Aud New
England character hss its true surroundings among
its own green aud granite hills, its lakes that dash
like mirror in the sunlight and its rivers that go
enrichng he ucryales down 10 the gray old Ocean,
that daily bspuz3s anew It's Eastern shores
tbird source OF New Eng aud Civilization, are
New England Institutions. Aud Theses OF course, are
New England each OF these has peculiar stamp and
Tyre; and, therefore, exerts peculiar Influence Men
talk about Institutions, just thew talk sbDut climate
and soil, as though the grand OH CT in establishing
them, consisted ia what We can make them to be- aud
not DO what they de- for u.s. We talk about men :
making institutions, But institutions make men. a.
we'll just as. and even more than climate, scenery,
soil
Iii saying scarcely too much 10 claim that nation
il formed 10 the cradle Of its innuts. AZ any rate,
the true statesmen must admit, that the family is the
moral uu ssry OF the sar that before leaving he care
of It's mother the little child already has in embryo.
the qualities that will Distinguish hm citizen. Il
he s prove true 60 hs obligations his fellow ou-
zsus he has already shown IL in the miniature
wealth OF which he is memter; II be s 90 be o. law
breaker be has already deserved aud had retasts Of
the cell and die dungeon / not speaking here Of
tendencies, tut OF determined character The mother
sometimes renbits nc the exhibition uf passion, Of
which aome OF her litue brood capable. she
bembles, not so much for the present the future
Such outbreaks are comparatively safe 10 this rta m
of love over which she presides She muCles pity
ana The perHuasve eipQueuCe OF her ttudcr eye,
with her efforts At rursut Bat, the tribunal of
society is not made up Of such stuff as mothers
Society has little patience with offenders; while its
attempts TO restrain criminals, are frequently 30 sd-
ministered as 10 confirm ihem ia their downward
courses. The many reoummiimenis for the same or
crimes, tell learuy against the lractct ability
Of really reforming men prisons and houses Of cor
re'uon IL is The good family that makes The child
the good citizen And our schools of reform prac-
ticaliy valuable, only 10 proportion as they Vsn be
inside o. assume tie character and impart the inhu-
enoe of the fauily.
New England families have been, and are stili, in
s0mc good measure, peculiar for the cise Of pa
rental authority and restraint over The tastes and
tendencies, the character aud habits ui children. Law
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