The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-11-22
A BUslUN LETTER.
PARKER HOUSE, Boston.
" November IL, 1867.


Editors Journal: . Szzz $3.50 ---a-
/ Good Frenchmen, when they die,
igo to Paris. The good Yankee, self
iexiled from his dear, native New
IEngland, whose hills are so lofty,
magnificent, and great" and not the
Hess beloved that they are covered
with snow for six or seven months in
the year, and g,udgingly yield their
sscanty products to the farmers
WEARY toll during the remaining
months; the good Yankee, I say,
f. wandering on a foreign strand,
Specializing in cotton in Dixie, max
ing his pile by Yankee enterprise.
lin a western city, or wherever the
tates and a rowing disposition may
have cast him, treasures up endearing
memories of the place Of his nativity,
the home of his childhood, and
Ilongingly hopes that if not before, at
least when he dies, he may go to Bos-
ton.
After an absence of more than six
wears, in which | have mingled with
the people of other States ard other
Hands, and tried to acquire the habits.
manners and feelings of a cosmopc-
lite, it was humiliating to perceive
Suspicious moisture oozing from the
corners of my eyes as I caught the
first view Of the steeple of Park
Street Church. Where was my phil
losophy, what had become of my cos
imopoiitan indifference when I bowed
an uncovered head before the statue
.of Ben. Franklin? or grasped the
Ibronzed hand of Webster? Why
should a mere citizen of the world,
holding all countries and all peoples
i'm equal regard, have sat under the
old Elm on the Common till the old
South" clock struck the midnight
hour, dreaming of Lang Syne, the
friends, the scenes, the hopes Of the
iolden time?
! / propose no analysis of Eastern or
Western character, no treatise on ma
itional or local peculiarities to Justify
my love for this little corner Of the
Union, or my affection for this dear
iold city, where. in the brain of old
Sam. Adams, of blessed memory, the
Union was conceived which had its
birth at Independence Hall, in Phil
ladelphia, Its baptism amid the fire
and blood of the Revolution. | can
not apologize for the feeling that I
am traversing holy ground as | walk
Through the aisles and corridors of
iFaneuil Hall. And though I have
seen these crooked old stree-s desc
Grated by the feet of the lank haired
slave hunter, | know that they have
been pressed by the feet Of Liberty's
modest martyrs.
Take it for granted then that, with
all these faults, which are neither few
nor small, l love poor old Boston
and this Yankee land.
THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION.
Since the verdict Of the people was
Iemphatically announced condemn
ing prohibition and the odious ma
lchinery by which it was enforced-bv
the election of an prohibition
majority in both Houses Of the Leg
islatuTe. a very marked change in
public opinion IS clearly perceptible.
Many Of the oldest, most respected
Headers and organs Of the prohibition
movement now freely express such
sentiments as would have been deem
ed rank heresy few months ago. 1t
will be remembered that Governor
ANDREW, than whom a purer states
man, more earnest patriot, never
lived, drew upon his devoted head the
fierce anathemas of the radical tenn
perance faction by daring to give at
.terance to an opinion antagOnistic to
hn
ments have become the settled policy
of the State. The men and the pa
pers that hurled their anathemas at
him, now advocate his views.
The COngTegdtt0naltst, the organ of
a very large, wealthy, and influential
religious denomination, which has
always been in the van of the Tenn
perance cause, says, in a recent issue:
THE result is not due to any sud
den decentralization of the commu-
nifty. There are as many good men
In Massachusetts to-day as there ever
were. We doubt not there are as
many good Temperance men as ever.
.Unquestionably, that class of the com
muDity which uses intoxicating liquors
freely, and would have them sold
without any restriction, voted with
the majority, and worked hard to
swell that majority; but it is equally
beyond question, in our minds, that
many Temperance men, having the
best interests of the community at
heart. but honestly favoring a judi
cious license law for that end, also
voted with the majority"
J It advises the friends of prohibit
tom to co-operate with those who