New-York tribune., 1867-06-10
rHK DowNrlLL or DoWNEAr

some self tormcnting genius Of more leisure
than lucidity ha, been bothcring his lll-trcatcd
brains to know what will bc the social result
the religious aud intellectual and economical
upshot. when all New Englandcr, OF the blue
blood and real old Puritan stock have cmisIat-
ed to the West, and the six noble and now
prosperous States which constitute the great
Yankee empire. have been oycr-m by
lri,hucn. by Scotchmrn. hy Engli>lmen, and
by that miscellaneous class OF foreigners
usually designated ia the lump as Ger
mans. Upon such topic It il easy ior any
one 10 gcncraizc himself into Il perfect muddlc
of apInchcnsion--to picture the Pope establish
ing Il new Vatican in Bracon-St with dun
geons in his cellar and an auto-da-ic on the
Commou-to dream of luSlrmrn carving
Plymouth Rock into statue ot -. Patrick
Ia look forward Ia lhc muky hour when Saxon
speech shall he Strange upon the shores oi
Massachusetts Ray. when Goethe aud schiller
shall Iakr The place al Shakespeare and B"u-
cic.iult in the theatci>. and when lager beer
and mOunian-dcw shall snpciscdc that ancient
aud famous fluid known IN every rllmc ~
New England Rum. Onc by one, the CuugIt-
eational meeting houses, with their pure faith
and then wooden stcrplcS of thrilling aud inn
pressive uglncss, will disappear; the Jesuit
will make the groves of Harvard resonant with
tle colloqulal Latmity of Cordcrius. and the
congregation of the late Theodore Parker hc
banished 10 Sitka; the 'SqlircS will all bc
changed into Baroncts. and the ll0noablcS into
Dnkes, while the English element, which was
feeble from the first, will buy OllendOriFs Method
of Studying German, and, having hung
its harp on the old elm of the Common, drop
it's last N in an agony of sensibility. While
New England shall revive, great and glorious,
uuon the Pacific Coast, the places that knew
the Pilgrims shall know their children no more
forever. In far off lands, the descendants of
the Eastern fathers shall study the Blglow
Papers IA the Jews studied Davds poems by
the waters of Babylon, and shall read of the
age of Webster, of Wilson, and of Emerson
AZ we read now of the Norman invasion on ot
the Wars of the Roses.
But the fates have something still more
dreadful in store for the happlcst region under
the sun. Ii is the opinion of the prophetic
gentleman above alluded to that. after under
going her predestinate motamolphosls. the de-
graded State of Massachusetts, will send ~
| solid delegation of Democrats Ia Congress
This is, indeed, II crusler. At such II prospect
Philosophy refuses to be cOmfortcd, and Hope
declines 10 spring any longer in the human
breast. Anything but this ~ we hear the re-
spectacle Yankee in his distress exclaiming
anything but this. Take any shape but TINS,
% and my firm nerves shall never tremble :"
Fell disease he continues land ghastiy
poverty are nothing; general insolvency, can
"ker worms, and the cattle complaint
"are nothingj foreign nvasions, with
perpetual banishmcnt, are nothing; but
spare unhappy New England this final
"and unmitigatvd degradation Let not the
partial resurrection of defunct party in Con-
"nccticut become general from New Haven to