Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-11-23
Totals $4,000 l.

Here is gain of about 10000 votes in
two years. 1t is true that If we take IL
linois, where half of the entire gain has
been made, We shall still find proportion
al majority considerably smaller than We
have here in Massachusetts, or in Maine
and Vermont The same ratio, for in
stance, which prevails between the Repub-
lican majority and the entire vote of the
latter State, would swell the majority and
the entire vote of the latter State, would
swell the majority of Illinois TO the neigh
borhood of 10000. But seeing how
much better not only Illinois, but every
Western State, does in this respect than
the old and highly favored States of New
York aud Pennsylvania, all invidious COM
PARSONS ought to give way 10 profound
satisfaction and gratitude. The West is
mighty for the right, and she is growing
mishlier every day.
And why should not this be the case?
She is in hood, and in her leading char
acteristics, New England transplanted I'M
der the most favorable auspices. For our
rocks and ice, for our Gas John Randolph
said) six months winter and nine months
cold weather." she has the rich and bound
less pralies, long harvest seasons aud
genial sky. She has the capital Of New
! England, her literature and her morals,
and a stalwart army of recruits from US
every year. Thus the West is under
solemn obligation to do well-as she does
do, particularly in politics. We rejoice in
it the more, because she is bound, in no
distant future, to rule her venerable parent
and the rest of the country. The votes
will be hers, and where the votes are there
will be the hearts of the politicians, and
the political sway of the hour-leaving,
perhaps, the empire of ideas, the forma-
ton Of issues and the forecasting of re-
suits elsewhere.
But it is getting to be said quite fire.
quently Of late that the people of the
West are already more radical than those
of New England. We take leave to doubt
that proposition. 1t is admitted that they
are much more demonstrative. Where
western man, in answer to an unjust de-
mand, would declare that he would be
cut into ten thousand pieces before he
would submit to it, Yankee would SIM
ply "rather guess not" But in the SUI
preme pinch Of trial, who would say that
the one would yield before the other So
in the present national exigency, there is
possibly more outspoken, defiant language
at the West than there is here, but neither
the votes nor the record of the past give
us reason to expect greater steadfastness
in the practical support of loyal and pro-
gressive measures from Western repre-
sentatives than from our own. There is
notable difference in the composition Of the
loyal party in the two sections. In the
West it is one mass on level-here il.
has the flying artillery Of the advanced
radicals, the rank and file Of the Republi-
cans, and respectable reserve Of conser-
vatives, all right in sentiment, but little
slow in action. When one Of our radicals
"a Phillips or BntIer-goes out West,
he seems 10 set the prairies on fire but his
words are heard just as attentively here,
though, TO ar outside observer, they APP
pear to make no particular impression
The inference is, that the West is more
impulsive and demonstrative than the
East, but not more thoughtful, resolved and
resolute. But here, again, we would avoid
/ odious comparisons, our object being mere
ly to correct a mistake. The West has
virtues enough OF her own already, ant
her future is so unspeakably grand and in
spring that she need not covet the distinc
; ton of others. She is the complement o
the East, indispensable in her Contrast a
in her conjunction, the twin pillar on whiel
: reposes the immovable arch of the Union
7 and let her be IGNORED according y.-Bos
ton Journal.
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