Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-02-03
NEW ENGLAND SUPREMACY AND
NEW ENGLAND MORALITY.

Is it any wonder that Radicalism
has SO long held paramount sway in
the Senate when, as Senator VIII
son is fond of boasting, the number
Of New Englanders in that body is
no less than twenty-six - twelve
from the New England States and
fourteen from the States South and
West? In the House of Represen-
tativcs the number other than those
representing the New England
States is also known to be large.
1t is these men in both houses of
Congress, full of passion, and pre-
judice, and intense egotism, says
the Baltimore Gazette, who have
shaped the policy Of their party.
By appealing to the meanest of in
stincts, the greed of grain, the lust
Of power and hatred of Southern
ers, they have thus far succeeded in
their programme for perpctuating
their rule indefinitely, and have
obtained popular endorsement at
the elections. The West has been
conciliated by enormous subsidies
to railroads; the East by a high
protective tariff; the bondholders
by holding out to them the hope Of
having those bonds paid in gold,
which, under the law, may be paid
in currency, and the National
Banks, by according to them priv
leges whereby they are enabled to
make large gains at comparatively
little risk.
This party so strongly repre-
scented by New Englanders in Con-
gress, and taking its cue from
leaders born and educated in that
section, claims pre-eminently to be
the party of moral ideas" Its
precepts have all the Odor of sane
tity. Butler, in writing to his cor
respondents, intersperses his letters
| with spiritual quotations Wilson
puts on a solemn visage as he talks
of the Crock of Ages" Yates
makes temperance speeches, Har
Ian discourses Of the beauty of
holiness and the blessings Of a well
spent life, and from a condition Of
poverty suddenly acquires great
wealth-by what means he himself
best knows. PomerOy becomes
President of couple of railroads
in Kansas, and of the subsidy
| granted by Congress to one of them
puts, it is asserted by Gen. Boyn
ton, (Radical,) a hundred thousand
dollars into his own pockets. These
are the moralities of the leaders OF
the party. The lobby brides, the
officials steal, and fraud and cor
ruption pervade every department
Of the government. One hundred
millions of dollars, Mr.. Jencke'
tells us, are annually stolen from
the revenue. Mr.. Wells to Il grea
degree confirms the statement, anC
| yet, so completely are the outside
rings and the revenue officers, mem
bers of Congress and high officials
linked together, that it is only il
rare instances an offender is brough
to trial, and moro rarely still tina
he is convicted and punished.
These being tho advocates of tina
nobler theory Of civilization whicI
New Englandcrs boast OF their dc
termination to prOmulgate and pu
into practice, in what terms short
execration shall it be describe
when judged by the acts of tn
Radicals, its chosen expOunders
But putting aside individual case
the question may we'll be aske
f whether the pro cminenco asscrte
for New England in all sorts
virtuous ways is justified by IL
facts. Take the matter Of educ
ton. Outside of the colleges it
e no better than it is in a dozen 9th
}. States, and not 80 thorough as it
p in some Take sobriety. In Ms