The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-23
THE YANKEE.

Iron the Memphis Avalanche January 49,
1t seems that the South is to have no
repose. Yankee adventures, like the
lOcusts of Egypt, are swarming i'm every
nook and corner, cr0ss-road and by-path,
nosing out a bone to pick. With pick
x and spade they are digging about
after the ends and scraps that have been
left of southern wealth. The South
needs o little leaven of northern enter
prise and energy, such as the stalwart
men of the West can bring; but we
hope Providence, in His infinite mercy,
will preserve us from the narrow minded
intolerant Yankees of the New England
states. The South has much to fear
from an invasion of this sort. 1t is a
war more to be dreaded than that which
has desolated IA homes. BY patient
industry and judicious economy, our
people can live in comfort. They can
erect new dwellings to the charred
chimneys which stand out along the
| INVADERS march as so many frowning
monuments to perpetuate his vandal
ism-they can live without the melody
of their rich toned pianos, and sit upon
stools instead of luxuriant sofas--they
can supply the place of their silver
spoons with pewter ones but If the
corruption, folly and ~tom-foolery OF
New England is to be disseminated in
our midst, then indeed are we a doomed
people.
That Internal slavery agitation which
eliminated in the late revolution had
its birth in New England. Indeed, it
Is the nursery of the most dangerous
and disorganizing doctrines, moral,
social and political, with which virtue
and truth have ever been called upon to
contend. There is something in New
England society that encourages every
thing fanatical, ridiculous, inconsistent
and impossible. AS fast as one humbug
rots down another sprouts upon its
grave. The plague never found a more
c%Ongenial home in Damascus than does
a silly vagary among these infatuated
people. This superstition and intole-
rance is honestly Inherited. The Pill
| grims brought with them more bigotry
and persecution than they left behind
them. Society would have been largely
the gamer If, when landing on our
shores, Plymouth Rock had tumbled
like a huge mash.trap upon these phar-
isaical hypocrites and converted them
into Mummies. Then Roger Williams
and the Quakers would have escaped
the most cruel tortures-and the meet
i%nghouses of the Methodists would not
have been burned or preachers horses
killed. Then we would have heard no.
thing of the Salem withcraft humbug.
These fanatical fools also made 1t q
misdemeanor for a man to kiss his wife
on Sunday, and the scamp who stole a
kiss from his sweetheart was guilty of a
filthy dalliance" which deserved death
at the stake. In these piping times tho
veriest ninny in the neighborhood could
have shrouded himself in q dirty sbeel
aud placed an illuminated pumpkin or
his head, and filled the whole colony
with the profoundest fear and distress
The Hartford Convention had it's birth
in the same detestable region. But this
was a humbug of short duration, for the
hoary headed covies, after performing
their infamous work, adjourned never t.
meet again this side of the internal
regions. Fourierism, with its corrupt
ing train of leveling precepts and de
grading purposes could have vegetatet
upon no other than New England soil
That blasphemous and most despicabl,
hunlbug, Millerism, had its run in tn,
same unclean quarter. In Boston, thes,
ridiculous fanatics erected a huge Millel
Tabernacle, with sky-lights to turr
upon hinges, so that the saints could &c
up. Ascension robes were prepared, ar
bedizened with fringe and lace, and
when the %eventful morn came, on which
the sun was to be blown out and the
earth rolled up in a scroll, the disciples
of Miller were found dressed up in theil
best bib and tucker, looking like SC
many culprits upon the gallows. Mes
merism and Spirit-rapping took the
place of defunct Millerism. All New
England resounded with bangings upor
inoffensiye tables. Julius Caesar anf
George Washington were made to ente,
the room of these greasy vagabonds an,
unclean spirits. Free-Lovism and IN,
doctrine Of Woman's Rights, emenatet
in the same pestilent region. Maine
] Lavish, Know-Nothingism and Adolf