Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1870-03-04
BELLOWS FALLS, VT, FRIDAY,

to do our part in maintaining them. l
believeit happened-am not right, sir !?
that in the last contest for republican
government, the first blood shed for the
cause of the country was New England
blood. The streets of Baltimore recelv-
ed the blood of Massachusetts, men rally
ing at the first trumpet call to the defense
of their capital. New England is not
ashamed of that. 1t was a species of
admonition and kind of tempest to
which her sons have been accustomed
not less than those of other parts of the
Union. 1t happened then as it had done
before that she was foremost.
Again the Pilgrim banner
! Led the vanguard OF the race.
What then are our other sins? We
have sent out, it is true, since the foun-
dation of the Government, every year
thousands and tens of thousand of our
citizens who have in a peaceable way
emgrated to the South and the West
with their families, They have built up
homes They have carried schools with
them. They have carried equal rights.
They have carried observance of the
law. They have built churches. They
have founded States, and those States
sometimes have sent back to us the sons
of New England representing them with
high honor here. They are here now
l see before me Senators from many
States whose birthplace was in New Eng
land. Illinois has one; Kansas has one;
Indiana has one; Louisiana has one /;
Michigan has two; Nebraska has enc /;
North Carolina has one; Oregon has
one; South Carolina has one Wiscon-
sin has two. Those States find no need
to admonish New England, l trust in
that respect.
Although New England thus has been
the source and instrument of constant
tide of emigration of this character over
the country, she is not left entirely des-
titute; she has still a steady population.
| am not alarmed at the drain upon her.
When / look around upon New England
men representing the States of New Eng
land in this body, with the exception of
one State, which will name, l think
they may be safely trusted to maintain
rights and perform the duties the Con-
stitution has given them, without admo-
milton and without great fear of any
tempest.
When all that we have done has been
to stand side by side with our brethren in
other States in carrying on this war and
securing its just fruits, | am at loss to
know what is meant when we are threat
ened with whirlwinds and storms, and
when this is supposed to be a fit time to
admonish New England for her conduct
, in the course of this rebellion or since
Why, Mr.. President, New England can
not be overthrown. She can breast the
whirlwind and the storm she can stand
admonition, because the principles upon
+ which her institutions are founded are
principles that no storm can overthrow,
3 that no admonition can tarnish, and that
no event short of the hand of Omnipo-
tence can disturb in the least degree.
They lie at the foundation of all trae So
' cial progress; and thepeople that is true
to them builds its institutions upon an
] immovable rock. Wedo not boast of it.
We are only instruments in Supreme
hands which will carry on their great
work in spite of storms or whirlwinds.
The same Ruler who has brought us thus
far over the abysses will be with us still.
Qui transtatli s,stiaset. The one increas-
ing purpose that runs through all the
r ages will, l doubt not, manifest itself
more and more in national unity and
national harmony.
/ have said this, sir, with considerable
E regret. dislike to refer to the history
of part of our country, because | am
one of those who believe in the unity of
t the nation, and that New England in
any sense that is different from the ma
tional sense is no New England. She is
only one part of the common whole
But / have felt obliged, not to boast Of
New England, but to defend her, to pay
e some attention to what are called the sd-
: monitions and the threatenings of tenn
pest and storm with which she is to be
visited because she believes in the power
: of this Government to preserve in peace
what it has secured in war, and in the
right of her Representatives to act and
e vote freely as they think most of the
$ common good of the whole people.
S A VAST MINE OF SOLID SoDA.-The
: Gold Hill (Nevada) News states that
' about fifty miles east of that place and