Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-26
The West Claimed as Under Pur-
itan COutrOl


itan Control.
Puritan intolerance has reached its zen
ith, and exhibits the clovenssfoot. For
years it has used the Government for its
own purposes-has made millionairs of the
manufacturers of New England, by means
of high tariffs and fat contracts, and now
when the head of nearly every committee
In Congress is New Englander, and to the
''manner born" of those whose lay the rest
of the country under contribution to them,
they have grown arrogant and boastful.
Years ago, we heard WENDELL PHILLIPS
declare that the country could not rest in
quiet until New England ideas prevailed
Throughout the land, in its length aud its
breadth. This has been so far accomplish
ed that the fanatic spirit of that region has
become the prevailing idea of the political
party which form the majority of the pres
ent Rump Congress, and from thence they
are diffused wherever the fell spirit of Rad
icalism has a foothold.
| The Salem (Massachusetts) Journal, a
Radical sheet, published in the town made
famous for the execution of women charged
with the crime OF being witches and of be-
witching others, has the following, which
we commend to the attention of the reader:
"Although it has taken great deal OF
| time and cost us vast amount OF money,
we have at last got the stolid Dutch OF
Pennsylvania and the verdant suckers
and Buckeyes of the Western States ed
ueated up to the higher law standard.
When few years ago they spat upon us
the despised Abolitionists-we determined
that the 'snegro" tas they called the color
ed mani should be made their equals or we
would crush the Union. Colored suffrage
is now a fixed fact. The foot of the negro
Is on the neck of our ancient revilers, and
those who are not in our tolls must stand
from under"
The "stolid Dutch of Pennsylvania
the ''verdant Buckeyes" and 'Suckers" of
Ohio and Indiana, who belong to the Ne
gro Suffrage organization have indeed
been educated up to the duty OF doing the
bidding of Massachusetts,, and the "foot of
the negro is on the neck of" the men of
that party, who, in the days of HENRY
CLAY, thought the white the better race
This has been done, not in the fear that the
braggarts would ''crush the Union," for
that has already been done, but from the
ignoble fear of the party lash of the lead
ers of that organization.
The Yankeeizing of Pennsylvania is thus
described in the same paper: -=i-
"Pennsylvania-poor, ignorant, stupid
old Dutch State-regardless OF the hissings
of Copperheads, is now pretty thoroughly
YankeeiZed." Thaddeus Stevens, native
of Vermont, and man true to his faith,
holds the political elements of the State in
a. bol ~ &c nd oirh ha1l lnf
of the rank and file of the party, would
have been made United States Senator.
Tho State Superintendent of Common
Schools is by birth and education a New
Englander, and it is fair to presume that
the next crop of Dutch voters will be as
completely Yankeeized " as it is possible
to effect out of such unpromising material.
We understand, als o, that each annual Leg
islature is largely composed of New Eng
land men, and that more than one half of
the present delegation in Congress are ua
tives of New England, but OF this we are
not quite positive"
A person visiting Ohio and passing
through the State would naturally sup
pose from the number of New Englanders
teaching schools, preaching politics from
the pulpit and filling all the offices within
their reach, that Ohio was but colony of
Massachusetts set apart to provide for that
portion of its surplus population who pro-
pose to live by their wits rather than by
their labor. These men prate much about
the arrogance and boasting folly of men
from the Southern States, and yet single
State of those now held as a conquered
province added to Pennsylvania has more
OF its native born citizens within Ohio
than all New England combined, Such
was the fact shown by the statistics of 1850,
and such is the fact now.
The States of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
were settled principally from the Southern
States and from Pennsylvania. They are
now, according to the boast of New Eng
land Editors, governed by the New Eng
landers in their midst, and those who do
not bow down to this supremacy in all
things, are denounced as sinful, and are
put under the ban. In matters of eating,
drinking, and observance of the Sabbath, the
intolerant spirit of New England is at
tempted to be carried out in the Western
States, and Temperance and Sunday laws
sought to be enacted, in direct opposition
to the habits and wishes of the people,
who prefer to observe the Sabbath after
the manner of their fathers, and to be
temperate in accordance with the dicta-
ton of their own judgment.
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