New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-21
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A contemporary of yesterday has a sg
nifcant article on the Pilgrim Fathers
1t shows how willing some people may b.
| to cultivate sectional hatred, bitterness
and contempt, rather than charity and
brotherly love; how ready to attribute acts
to base motives, when, possibly, they were
prompted by good ones, or at worst, only
by those ordinary inclinations to make
| profit and get on in the world which I'M
| derlie and are the main spring Of all en-
terprise everywhere; how prompt to cry
"hypocrite and pharisee," when, it may
be, time could be better employed IN hunt
ing timber in their own eyes.
The tendency of such articles land they
are too common) is unmistakable. 1t is
to teach our citizens to despise the citizens
of Massachusetts, to look upon them with
contempt, as a low order of beings, and to
engender bitter feelings in return. How
soon, under such teachings, shall.we be-
come a land of brethren?
Probably Massachusetts, will survive;
perhaps she will not be greatly moved by
the attempted ~facetiousness of the article.
When she is joked about her peculiarities
Of religion, she may remember that it
comes from the land where horse shoes OF
the door stills are yet abundant. When
twitted of her disposition to make money
she has only to look at her W face
rugged, rocky, barren and forbidding by
nature-and see how the energy and en-
terprise, begotten of this same disposition,
have made that face to smile as a garden.
She has only to look at her schools, MOL
leges, asylums, churches, begotten of this
same energy and enterprise, and say:
.'When any Southern land can show
something better, then will there be point
in Southern taunts. Till then, Massachu-
sets need not blush"
Moreover, when it is cast in her teeth
that her citizens in olden time participa-
ted in the slave trade, there are many an
swers at her command-answers that
should sting, if her ~revilers can feel.
She can remind them that when
government was organized, b was o
than ready-anxious to prohibit the in
fanny at once, and that they were Southern,
not Yankee States, that then peremptorily
insisted that the diabolical traffic should
not merely be tolerated, but have consti-
tutional protection until the year 1905.
Or, she could commend to their consid-
Grafton the old saw about the equal guilt
of the partaker, or that other on the SUBJ
ject of residents in glass houses.
This and more she could do but filings
such as those under notice have been so
long INDUCED in, that probably her
people have become used to them, and
finding themselves still surviving and pros
porous, feel very generally much as one Of
her Congressman once expressed himself.
He had obtained the floor for a speech, just
after a Southern member had delivered a
terrific TRADE against Yankeedom in gen.
eral and Massachusetts in particular.
Some anticipated hot words in reply, but
he began, "Mr. Speaker there are three
1 never stop to ~defend-the Atlantic
Ocean, Niagara Falls and Massachusetts,.
They can take care of themselves"
By the by, as the Outstanding infu-
ence of slavery upon the African is
alluded to in the article of our contempo-
rary, We beg to refer him, for some choice
on that subject, to this same
of the Hon. Eli Thayer. If he
did not in that speech do full justice to
self-sacrifcing missionary spirit Of
the fathers and mothers in Israel of
the South, in their efforts to Christianize
African souls, it was because words were
weak.