North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-01-15

New EAglana ana the Wese.
How frequently arc people disappoint-
cd sometimes happily, sometimes unhau-
ply, One year ago tho financial storm
cloud was seen rising, or at least thought
70 DO, and prognosticators told us that it
would be upon us in all it, fury bsfors .
twelve month passed by. Well the
months have gone, and the storm may
! come, hut It has not yet. Never was buss-
ness more fourishing in tho West than
now, and it appears 40 il the car Of pro.
gress intends, BY its extra speed, to make
np for anything lost during the years Of
rebellion. Speaking of energy in tbs
West reminds US Of a paragraph in one Of
the speeches Of the Rev. Henry Ward Bee.
cher on tho political Rights Of American
Women" We quote one paragraph,
"What throng could we gather if ~
should, from all the West, cali our women
that, as educators, are carrying civiliss.
ton there Thousands upon thousands
OF these are OF women that hare gone
forth from the educational institutions Of
New England, to carry light and knowl.
edge to other parts Of our land"
10 say tho least, this smacks much az
Rtecherism, and.we believe that we have
Authority to deduct about twenty five per
cent, calling that much extrnvagance, and
then we will come down from what Bee.
cher says to what Beccher means. This
buncomb for New England ia not confined
alone to Mr.. Beecher. Others have the
idea the West would have been peopled
by lot of heathens If it had not been for
New England teachers and missionaries.
They presume that all tho learning and
picty has been, and still is imported, when
the facts are the West must needs send
mon to tho East to give them some idea Of
native greatness. The lamented DoUcLAs
said tho East would do to be born in, but
the West was the place to be cducated.--
A little more than year since we heard
n young man say that were it not for the
educational and moral enterprises sent &,
the West from the New England States,
the people out here would be but little bet
ter than heathens, and but little above the
savages Of the crest.
a missionary few years ago was aens
out to a neighboring State to carry reli.-
gion and morality to the heathens and was
directed to the aourishing town of Rock
Island. Ills lady accompanying him, tho't
it a great sacrifice and work to 20 so fiar.
When they arrived there, the following
day Sabbath) the aforesaid missionary
and lady found their way to the Sabbath
school, and while they were singing, the
lady says to her husband, "Dear me, how
the little hcathens can sing
Now we feel compelled, when we see the
native energy, physical. mental and moral,
that has been seen in the West, to say that
all such Beecherisms and New En- gland
notions are the nominal results of New
England bigotry that to us Westerners 10
disgusting.
Religiously, We must go to the East to
find our deep-toned skepticism, and one
might almost conclude there was a heavier
importation ofthat quality of morals than
of The genuine piety. intellectually, men
brought up in the West, educated in the
school of nature, are the men of broad
ideas. ,+
With all their sneers at the West, and
the idea that the East is the central sun
from whence cometh light, it would not
be surprising. if, before the present gencr-
alton should pass away, the West should
have the capital Of the nation. But New
England may think this all visionary
Well, it may be, but more visionary
schemes have come to pass, and, as VAL
landigham said during the war, Just wait
and watch and if your watching does not
see it come around, if you have any chill
dren, they may sec what you fail to see.