East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1866-11-29
The Boosted Civilization of New
ENGLAND.

The Boosted Civilization of Ney
England.
There are few radical paper
{ which occasionally startle us with fii
full CLEANS of good sense, and tempo
, rary spasms of independent honesty
Such q journal is the Mac-a-cheel
Press, published at Columbus, Ohio
An article. iu the last issue of tina
sprightly sheet, entitled New Eng
land Civilization" particularly suit
us. Ii is good-yery good-in fac
almost as good as if we had writer
ourSelf. The novelty of finding spcl
a truthful, well written article in rad
ical paper will be sufficient justiiica
ton for copying il entire: ~ Z
The Press takes the following OK
tract from late speech by Wepdsl
Il Phillips aa'its test: u. :. F...ig ~ :,
| "Now, taat reconstruction can b.
had but one way, the South must b.
!, won to the capital and to the energy
to the brains and the habits Of tn,
North; il must be free passage an,
a free dwelling place for Northern
brains and Northern capital, as th'
W est has been. What makes. th'
West in the likeness of New Eng
landY Because the old and ricl
States poured out of their abundanc,
upon the prairies, and made then
over in their own likeness, tina
strengthened them as sister States
| That process is the inevitable and un,
spariug process of the territories south
Of Mason and. Dixon's line"
Commenting on the above, the
sauoy Press says.
"Plutarch tells us that when ele.
plants were first used III the Roman
wars they proved nearly as destruo.
tive to friends as foes. We are re,
minded of this sometimesin reading
Wendell Phillips great efforts, and
the above is a specimen of death to
our allies. i4r
"The West is enjoying realizing
sense of New England civilization,
and the South may well shrink in
dismay before an extension of that
style of subjugation.
"When, through the madness and
wickedness of the. South this fearful
war broke upon us, the great West
was aroused TO an armed resistance,
and offered its entire population and
vast resources to a patriotic support
Ia
ization was aroused to keen sense
of its pecuniary duty. 1t stole into
Congress, and in the absence Of South.
ern opposition, and in the presence OF
the all-absorbing patriotism of the
West, that looked only TO fighting the
rebels to the bitter ersl, it pi ocured
the passage of Morrill's tariff bill, that
set the mills of New England TO go-
iua on Gill t;...e, ~.@l .-aadn f,o'., that
perid to this, ruinous war TO us a
source of profit 10 herself.
"'What makes the West in the
likeness of New England 2 The fast
that we have it literally stamped up
on all that we eat and. drink. and
wear, and seek 10 enjoy. New Eng
land is stamped on Western mans
breakfast his dinner and hislsupper.
New England is stamped ON his shirt,
his drawers, his coat, his boots and
his hat. New England is stamped on
his horse, his COW, his mule and his
ass. New England stamps the glass
he drinks from, the dish he eats off,
the bed he sleeps upon, every dose OF
medicine he takes, and the coffin he
is buried in. New England gathers
tribute of threo dollars ON every acre
of land a Western man owns. one OF
which goes TO the Government, and
two to the civilization. al
"Under the pressure of this eivili-
zation so palpably stamped upon US,
we have the pleasing. reflection that
one-t third of tho tribute goes to make
up the stealings of New England
agents. one-ilnird to the support OF
New England civilization that mani
fsts itself in manufacture, and one
third to the SUPPORT of our Govern
mcnt. tt. iu.
"This goes on comfortably Ito New
England civilization) while. the South
blindly fights for a dead issue, and
the Northern enpperhead howls in an
guish' over the nigger.' 1t goes. on
comfortably while national manuiac-
turers of rags, such as Jay Cooke &
Co, issue promises to pay that we
call money But after n time the
South will waken TO thefact that her
slavery is dead, her aristocracy dead,
and her population starving. And
1.-The copperhead will discover that the
Niger he fears, no longer; exists as, a
ngger, but lives as a citizen. And
the West. and Middle States, in q
great financial crisis that will come sc
surely as the sun shines, will discover
that New England civilization shaken
off, will retire from the contest to live
upon its accumulated capital. Z
"This assertion in behalf Of New
England is as impudent as it is false
The late rebellion demonstrated the
fact that our empire lay outside OF
New England. While that region
was filling its pockets and securing
Europe and Africa in search of sub
stitutes, the Middle and Western
States poured out their living thou.
sands 70 find graves and prisons on
Southern soil. We gave to the con
test all the pluck, tenacity, wealth aud
brain our side exhibited. We cut our
way down the Mississippi to the Gulf
we marched through Atlanta to the
sea /; we gave the, American blood
that watered the highway into the
heart of Virginia and swung the
eagles Of the Republic through the
smoke of battle over the fortiIications
of Richmond, and crumbled the Con.
federocy into powder We did all
this, and at the same time enriched
New England.
"How poor we are, no man knows