Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-06-13
From the N Y Tribune'l
Tho Downfall OF Down East.

all New EuglauutIs VI eHs
and real old Puritan stock nave emil
grated to the West and the SIX noble
an Tow prosperous States which con-
stitl a the great Yankee empire, have
been 7errun ~ lrishmen, by Scotch
men, ~ Engls omen, and by that mis-
cellanr us clas~ OF foreigners usually
designa ed in the lump as Germans.
Upon such topic II is easy for any one
TO generalize himself into perfect mud
die of apprehenslon-to picture the Pope
establishing a new Vatican In Beacon
street, with dungeons in his cellar and
An auto-da.fe on the Common-to dream
of Irishmen carving Plymouth Rock
into a statue OF st. Patrick-to look for
ward to the murky hour when Saxon
speech shall be strange upon the shores
OF Massachusetts Bay, when Goethe and
Schiller shall take the place OF Shakes
peare and Boucicault in the theaters, and
when lager beer and mountain dew shall
supersede that ancient and famous fuid
known in every cline as New England
Rum. One by one the Congregational
meeting. houses, with their pure faith
and their wooden steeples Of thrilling
and impressive ugliness, will disappear
the Jesuit will make the groves of Har-
ward resonant with the colloquial Latin
ity of Corderus, and the congregation
of the late Theodore Parker be banished
to sitka the 'squires will all be changed
into Baronets, and the Honorables into
Dukes. while the English element which
was feeble from the first, will buy Ollen-
DORIS Method OF Studying German, and,
having hung its harp on the old elm OF
the Common, drop its last "h" in an
agony OF sensibility. While New Eng
land shall revive, great and glorious,
upon the Pacific Coast, the places that
knew the Pilgrims shall know their chill
dren no more forever. 10 far off lands
the descendants of the Eastern fathers
shall study the Bigelow papers as the
Jews studied David's poems by the wa
tiers of Babylon, and shall read of the
age OF Webster, of Wilson, and OF Emer-
son as we read now of the Norman in
vasion or of the War OF the Roses.
But the tates have something still
more dreadful in store for the happiest
region under the sun. 1t is the opinion
of the prophetic gentleman above allud-
ed to that, after undergoing her predes'
innate metamorphosis, the degraded
State of Massachusetts will send "a
solid delegation Of Democrats to Con
cress." This is, indeed, a Crusher. At
such prospect Philosophy refuses to be
comrorted, and Hope declines to spring
any longer in the human breast. Any
thing but this !" we hear the respectable
Yankee in his distress exclaiming "any-
thing but this. Take any shape but
chan
tremble!" Fell disease" he continues,
"and CHASTITY poverty are nothing; gene
raj insolvency, canker worms, and the
cattle complaint are nothing foreign in
vasions, with perpetual Punishment, are
nothing but spare unhappy New Eng
land this flnal and unmitigated degrade
dation let not the partial resurrection
of defunct party in Connecticut be-
come general from New Haven to Aroos-
took. This would be worse than the
fate OF Rome given up to BLACKBOARD
Emperors, and invaded by yellow. haired
barbarans." 1t is hard case, we know,
but we cannot in conscience offer the
mourner any encouragement. In the
overthrow and up-turn and general
transmogrifcation and bedevilment OF
everything, perhaps Plymouth Rock
and the White Mountains, and the softly
swelling hills of Berkshire may refuse
any longer To cover the deceased old
party, and with frightful vitality, it
may squeak and gibber in Faneuil Hall
and send a battalion Of men, who, If moi
dead, ought to be, to represent it in
Washington. or course it would not bt
reputable to live any longer, even il
Boston, after this and writing Icha
bod" with their walking-sticks upor
their natal SOIL those who have made
New England great and good would de
part for different skies and distant pral
ries Their exodus would be rapid and
complete BY way Of preparation, they
would r. ad a few verses in The De
4,rted Village" and then, sadly pulling
40 their stakes, they would start for 8
new aud unsOphistlcated Canaan.
These prophetic visions are so sOmbel
that we are pleased to be able to say
that we do not credit then in the least
If we accurately know the Yankees, anC
we think we do, they are made of stut
too stiff and too stern to permit them
selves to be shouldered out Of their an
cestral Eden by anybody. Many of then
will 60 as many of them have gone, t
found In fresh ATTITUDES still newer New
Englands There may be many swarm
ings from the old hive, but enough o
the original stock will stay behind in il
to keep up its character 1t is the blood
In the long run, that tells. Tits Mynheel
who is TO be translated, and the gentle
man from Cork who is TO suffer change
Unto something rich and strange" Herr
Teufesdrach will slowly but surely bt
nodded into Mr.. Smith, and Mr.. 0'Some
body will have grandchildren uamec
Bigelow. If the New England Jonathan
the father of all the race Of Jonathans
throughout the world, cannot hold hi
own and little over against all corners
then, not only is he not the patriarch VT
take him to be, but there is no virtue il
the district school-hoHse Let hin
alone; of all mortal men he is most
abundantly capable Of taking care o
himself.
The State Ticket.