Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1875-07-13
REPUBLICAN NOMINAT ION.
FOR GOVERNOR.
SELDEN CONNck
OF AUGUSTA.
NEW ENGLAND IDEAS.


bitter. fauatical TRADE against New Eng
land. a foolish laudation of the South, and
a declaration that the two sections can
never live together in harmony. Says the
General: mot space, or time, or the
convenience OF any human law, or the
power of any human arm, can reconcile
institutions for the turbulent fanatic of
Plymouth Rock and the God-fearing Chris
tian of jamestown. You may assign
them to the closest territorial proximity,
with all the forms, modes and shows of
civilization; but you can never cement
them into the bonds of brotherhood"
In defence OF New England ideas thus
savagely attacked. the Chicago Tribune
has an excellent article from which we
copy;
The attack upon New England ideas, deserves
attention. not particulary because this orator has
attacked them, but because they are exactly the
ideas which the South needs to insure her mate
rial growth to accelerate her industrial and social
progress, and to promote her recovery from the
waste and ravage of war. The South very gener-
ally already, and before long will entirely, aban-
don the idea of the servitude of the black race to
the white and will accept the idea Of the posses
sion of equal political rights by the blacks. This
very materially shortsns the distance between New
England and the South. Then what IDEAS have
the Puritans, as Gen. Preston styles the New Eng
landers, which will provo injurious to the South,
or which the South cannot accept? Let US see.
New England has . most admirable common
school system, which spreads the blessings of ed
ucation to the whole population. 1t has the lar
gest, most fourishing, and most richly endowed
colleges in the country, with the ablest and best
paid professors. 1t has gigantic system of man
ufacturipg industries. 1t has perfect system Of
banking which invests the capital Of New Eng
land to the most profitable advantage 1t has
system of expediting communication by water,
rail, and telegraph, which has added immensely to
the productveness and profit of its unfertile soil.
1t has devoted much time and labor TO the in-
provement of the sanitary condition of its cities,
towns, and villages, with excellent results Its in
surance interests are protecting both life and
property, not only in New England, but even in
the South. 1t has great and benefcent system
of public charities, caring for those who are una
bic to for themselves, relieving misery, pain
and poverty, and helping those afflicted by nature
or by accident. 1t has loaned out to other States
hundreds of millions of dollars by the develop
ment of its own industries. Almost every village
has it, public library, diffuslng knowledge with
out cost. 1t makes books, translates books. and
reprodnces the best literature of the world. 1t de
votes itself to political economy. 1t tolerates the
largest degree of religious independence, and free
dom Of opinion. 1t enlarges the bounds of scien-
tifc research and constantly swells the list of use
full and labor saving inventions. 1t recognizes the
fact that ignorance is the fruitful parent of evil
and misery and therefore earnestly strives to reach
the highest possible degree Of general enlghten-
ment. Now, these are the dominant New Eng
land ideas. Does the South object to them Does
the South imagine, or does this silly Virginia Or
ator believe, that they would prove injuriousi Is
he not writing himself down the veriest Of dom
keys in declaring that these ideas are ineconcla-
BILE with the ideas of the Southl 1t would be an
insult to the common sense of the Southern people
to suppose for moment that they held such apo
sition.
There Is one New England idea, however, not
yet possessed by the South, which lies at the very
basis Of New England prosperity, and which the
South must accept before it can make any matcri
al progress towards the highest success. 1t may
be that the South is not yet sufficiently recovered
from the influences of its old social habits to &C.
cept It, but the sooner it does accept it, the sooner
will peace order, and prosperity reign within its
borders. In New England, every man works.
either - employer or employe. Every man puts
his hand to the anvil, the loom the forge, the
plow, devotes his abilities to mental and intel
lectuAl lsbors, thinking, and directing. 1t is a
great beehive of industry and activity in which
there are few drones. Now, this is an idea which
the South needs more than any other. One cause,
and perhaps the most prominent cause, of the dis
order and unprosperous condition of the South
les in the fact that the labor Of the South is per-
formed by one-half of the population, and thst the
other half lives upon those who labor. Therefore
there is no surplus of production for profit. The
idle man eats up the surplus produced by the la
boring man. All this might be remeded if the
ex-slave oligarchy of the South accepted the New
England idea that every man should work and
produce surplus with his own hands.
The orator of the University of Virginia, like
many other Southern men, speaks Of New Eng
land ideas as if they were confined to New Eng
land. These ideas have no such narrow limita-
tons. They are the ideas of the whole North.
New England ideas and civilization are dffused
over the great West. During the Rebellion the
South encountered the New England "idea" be-
hind almost every musket.
Everywhere that the New Highlander goes he
takes his ideas along with him, and everywhere
that he takes his ideas they produce abundant har
vests Of prosperity. If the South wishes like
prosperity, let her sdop these New Er.,l2nd ideas,
and give no ear to the silly bombast Of such men
as Preston, who represent decayng luminosity
and the ghost Of an idea which persisted in the
late War. If the New England ideas are iirecon-
cilable with the Southern ideas then are the
Southern ideas irreconcilab.e with peace, order,
enlightenment, civilization, and the blessings
which flow from their conjunction"
We have always assured our readers that the |
democrats Of Boston meant free rum when they |
preached license, and the events of the past fe
days confirm this opinion.-Boston Journal.
The people of Maine may learn by the
above sippificant para graph. il they did not