Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-01-02
GLORIPYING NEW ENGLANp.
R..chsr Rfnas the sa.s of the
Earth in Plymouth Hack, and
Declares for state Rights.

| Earth In plymouth R9ck, and
| Declares for state Rights.
The New England Society celebrated
| its sixty-sixth anniversary, at belmont
co.'s ON the 22d ult. The pastor OF
Plymouth church madeaa speech from
which we take the following piece OF
Yankee egotism:
Our fathers hsd sise ideas in respect
to the machinery Of government, and
you shall find that their ideas pervade
all this country. They are New Eng
land institutions; they were shaped
there. and have spread from State TO
State throughout the whole continent.
The political machinery Of North Amer
lea is New England machinery, and
notably that doctrine which is never to
be forgotten, the doctriuo of State
rights-[applausel l--aF doctrine which
is vital to such a nation as ours. You
can not build a nation from here TO
the Pacific ocean that can bear
the strain unless you build it with
joints In this vide sweep Of territory
there must be some point TO give way,
and it is at the State line where that
point comes and the doctrine OF State
rights-mark me, | do not say State SOW
ereignty, which is another thing-a bas-
tard birth not of New England-the doc
trine Of State rights is New Eagland all
over. Applause As they were jeal-
GUS of the individual, 80 they were Jeal-
GUS of each esparaie community; when,.
therefore, it is said that State rights were
born in Virginia, or are most jealousy
cultivated south Of Mason and Dixon's
line Mason and Dixons line, gentle
men, was the line separating freedom
from slavery, as perhaps many Of you
did not know)-Ilaughter]-it is a mis-
take; 1t is New England, and il has be-
come Southern because the best things
in the South, are New England Did
they not come to our colleges for their
best men-Calhoun and others-and did
not these carry home New England wives,
and was not New England blood the best
blood they had with some Scotch and
Irish here and there2 Our fathers also
brought into being that living foree-the
power of public sentiment and this can
only be had when the whole people are
bred to think about public affairs.
In England the State owned the
church, but in New England they
turned this .ound, and the church owned
the State, and the spirit OF the church
and the spirit of religion was that every
citizen was to be a thinker and doer
in public affairs. II was not q thing
banished from the pulpit; and there
never was anything OF moment done in
New England but the preacher was CON
suited with the magistrate about it, and
the old New England pulpits were not
filed with dry doctrine; political ethics
were taught-to love not only our father
but our fatherland, and it is this living
force, this power of public sentiment,
which gives us the power continuallyto
recover ourselves. It is this spirit that
is our salvation. 1t is not that republi- |
can, government is better than a mon
archy but Il is that when grave evils
come up we can bring the whole power
of the people to mitigate them. We
had an instance of this in the driving
out of slavery. Let bygones be bygonos;
glory be to God, itis gone. "a WTCd 4