Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1866-08-16
THE WILMINGTON JOURNAL.
WILMINGTON, N. G., AUGUST 10. 1866
Massachusetts Bfg6try.


Massachusetts Bfgotry.
Of all the New England States, we believe that
Massachusetts, is universally regarded being the
most bigoted and intolerant. 1t is the hot-bed OF
all kinds of isms-isms political and isms rei-
pious It arrogates to itself all the intellect and
virtue of the country and boasts of its unselish
charity and widespread philanthropy. 1t was in
the prolific womb of that nursery Of evil that
aboitionism was engendered, fostered and en-
couraged, whose fruits now seen in the ruin
and desolation around us. In fact there has
scarcely ever been an element of discord In our
national affairs but what originated generally in
New England, and almost always In Massacnu-
sets. There is no State in the Union more hos
tile to reconstruction more bitter towards the
South, more inveterate in their preudices against
lis. or who hate the entire Southern people lex
cept, of course, the negroes) with more venom
than the State where Adams and Webster lived
and died. We have been at loss to account for
this intense luminosity, and even now we cannot
comprehend it. We not aware that the South
has been guilty of any particular outrage upon
their rights properties on the contrary, we
have q case in point, which we will submit, to
prove the existence of the most friendly feeling
and most active sympathy on our part, gen
orally, and this city in particular, towards
their people when in distress. In July,
1774, when the news of the passage by Par
lament of the Boston port bill reached this State,
the citizens of the town, this very town of VIII
mington, assembled in public meeting and unanl-
mously declared that the cause of Boston was the
common cause of America. Their action did not
stop there but as an evidence of their sincerity,
and as indicating their sympathy. they sent by
Parker Ounce, member OF one OF the most
prominent families on the Cape Fear, and who
sacrificed nearly his entire estate, very large one
for the cause of independence ship loaded with
provisions for their suffering brethren in Boston
This was the course pursued by the South towards
the North by North Carolina towards Massachu-
SETS And they were right in doing so. They did
not stop to countthe cost or to estimate the conse
uuences; it was sufficient for them to know that a
portion of the people of the country were threat
ened with distress, it mattered not what section,
to bring into active exercise their warmest sympa
thies.
We would not be understood claiming any
merit for this action on the part of our people;
we only cite it as in striking contrast to the course
pursued by our 'northrenibrethren" towards u.s.
If there has ever been the first expression of sym
pathy or the faintest evidence of regard e1hlb-
tied towards u.s. by that State in particular, since
the formation of the government, we have yet to
see it. On the contrary, it has been the first to
irritate every movement tending to our degreda-
ton. It bounded on John Brown in his murder
GUS raid upon the peaceful citizens OF Harper
Ferry and when that miscreantspaid the forfeit of
his crimes with his life, it canonised him as
saint and exalted him to the side of the Saviour
of the world And even now, when we are utter
~ powerless and PROSTATE, unable to earn even
bread sufficient for starving people, and we
simply ask for peace the answer comes back,
there shall be no peace except by our voluntary
dishonor and the evisceration of our manhood.
Look on this picture and that; contrast the &C
ton of North Carolina in 1774 and Massachusetts
in 1866, and judge between the two, and say which
exhibits the truest phianthrophy, the devout pu-
ritans of Plymouth Rock, or the barbarous slave
owners of the South