The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-02-20
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OF Ohristian charity
Under the sun."

New England point OF view. It is elabo-
rate in its pleadings for all the wrongs,
atGooities, Observation-Disclosures and bigot-
ry OF curly New England colonial life,
and for the prominence which it gives
throughout to the defence OF New Eng
land ideas, customs and ci utilization, as
shown in the onward march OF historical
events. He has industriously sought to
make the peculiar type Of New England
life thing Of national Importance. He
is syidenAysof the opinion. of Wendell
Phillips. That it is the duty Of New Eng
landers 70, impress their policy. upon
other Communities and States. In one
of his harangues, Phillips complimented
the North-western.S States for their readi.
ness to sccept the dogmas and to shape
themselves upon the model OF Massa-
chusetts. Hs objected to South Caro-
lima, for her obstinate refusal to let New
England do her thinking. Bancroft is
disposed to proselytism. His history
iss work Of Industry. written in fresh
and hearty style. and is perhaps the best
apology for his section Of the country
that could be made. We open it's pages
to-day not to criticize them, but to re-
fresh our memory upon few facts.
When Mr.. Bancroft is compelled to
give the facts Of New England social
customs, or to explain her anomalous
ststntss, .ha. docs it with suoh art as to
make them merits; or discovers and ex-
pends into proportions whioh'are meant
d hide whatever may be disagreeable.
some contemporary excellence or some
accompanying virtue. he is obliged. for
instance. in the course of, his narrative.
to tell Of the cruel treatment inflicted
upon the poor Quakers; but in doing 80,
and while axtolling the courage whiob
disregarded torture and death, by way OF
Offset. he says their own extravsganoes
occasioned the "foul enactment" and
their conduct irritated the Government.
He Iss.es rapidly hhl to show how eanses
we're in operation which were fast sub.
stituting the frmness and charity OF in.
telhgence for the severity ot;,fehSious
bigotfy. And just here the fago Puri-
tanism'i ID displayed to blind our eyes and
to withdraw our attention from disagree
able facts. and the early beginning Of
Harvard University portrayed con amore.
The bequest of half his estate and all
OF his library, by John Harvard, inr163s,
was the folHdation Of Q literary inatitu-
tion which has long been the largest in
the Union. and which has exerted q
powerful and generally benefoent inau-
ence on New England mind and charac-
ter. To'it the footsteps of the faithful
turn, and there is the shrine as which
they adore. It has an array of honored
names in many, departments OF human
knowledge, Of which it may well be
proud. It is the Mecca of the New Eng.
laid mind. Butithe old evil of political
and religious intolerance, of excessive
conceit which blinds tie view OF merit,
except about Boston, or in Massachusetts
or New England, is not extinct yet.
Historians who follow Bancroft will have
to repeat his apologies for this same
trait in tho people. Neither time. free
schools, universal education. experience.
reflection, nor Harvard, with all its good
influences, have been able to extirpatv
this vice. It is cherished as an excel
lenoe and defies eradication.
The volume of poems of our exquisite
poet--Timrod--,is made the occasion OF
notice by some Of the Boston journals.
The praise they accord it is covertly
made the vehicle Of detraction OF
the people among whom Timrod
was bred. and by whom he was
highly appreciated in life. and
lamented in death. The fact that for
some months just preceding his death he
was in straitened circumstances, and had
not always the delicacies and comforts
which were necessary to his feeble con-
dition OF health and peculiar organiza-
tion. was. alasl true OF many others here
besides him. II the Boston critics could
have looked upon the destitution and
desolation then prevailing in Columbia,
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