Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1872-09-19
REPROTING NEW ENGLAND.

Our friends on the other side of the
chasm, in the States that tried their hands
at rebellion, are not very well pleased
with the election returns from Maine and
Vermont, and display their spite in edtorl-
ais such as were seen in their newspaper
columns before the war. If the people
of New England had any doubt before the
election in Maine of the improperly and
danger of bringing rebels 10 the front in
the national administration, they will have
none now when they see the spirit mani
tested by our southern brethren since
the Maine election. The following arti-
Gle from the Richmond Enquirer will in
struct as well as amuse our readers:
We will not disguise our disappointment at
the news from Vermont and Maine. Not
that we have lost confidence in the issue
of the final result, but because we had hoped
that the elections in New Eng land would give
some token of desire for reconciliation and
reunion in that bitter and resentful quarter.
The prejudices of the people in that section
are stronger and more deeply rooted than in
any other portion of the North, and we should
there rs a happy indication that the ice of
this long winter was at last beginning to melt
AS the signal for general thaw and final
breaking up Of the frozen currents. But
New England is joined to her idols, and for
the future we shall let her severely alone.
We do not expect to carry single State in
that cold and selfish region for Mr.. Greeley,
and therefore the fact that both Maine and
Vermont have pretty well maintained their
radical standing has not affected the result fur
Their than to render a little more hard work
necessary. New England exerts no influ-
ence whatever upon Pennsylvania. The peo-
pie Of the land of Penn. have never had
much friendship for the naughty and sef-suf-
fcient saints of the East. They never
could bow the knee and kiss the barney
stone of Plymouth, and consequently there is
but little sympathy between them. The
October elections will not be affected, there
fore, so much by these results as might other
wise be the case. Pennsylvania will vote en-
tirely independent of outside, and especially
of Yankee, influences; and the same will be
the case with Indiana, which, next to thu
Keystone State, is treer from New England
prejudices than any other northern commune
ty. If reconciliation and reunion come Of
this or some future contest, or through the
interchange of kindly feelings and good off
ces between the people of the North and
South, New England, as Is plain TO be seen,
will not be the first to step forward and re-
ceive the rendered olive branch, or to grasp
the hand extended across the "bloody chasm."
There is no cause to be discouraged or de-
pressed by this New England news. Upon
the whole, it is, perhaps, as well it has hap
pened so. We expected no effective aid from
that quarter; and the very fact that they are
combined against US will unite the middle and
the southern States. Nay, it will do more
than this. 1t will teach US that the fires of
hate still burn as fercely in the breasts of
these relentless Puritans as of yore-and
taught by experience we will learn that the
only road to peace is through victory. We
must gain political power through the peace
full means of the ballot before we can bring
these naughty saints to terms, and to. dc
this we must work. There must be no more
apathy. All must buckle to the task. Means
must be provided at once, and the canvas,
must be carried on with tervor and deter
mination that will insure success. We car
arouse the whole South and West, and in
months time change the entire aspect of the
campaign. Let us begin the work at once
and in earnest.