The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-08-24
CIVILIZED AND BALr-olvILIzED

In 1870 Boston, seventh of American cite
had population of two hundred and fiji
odd thousands, of whom 1852. $40 were bo
under the stars and stripes, of whom the
were born in Alabama IS, in Arkansas /,
California 81, in Connecticut 957. in Delawa
50, Florida 90, Georgia 81, Illinois Isl, Il
diana 80, Iowa 20, bleeding Kansas s, Kel
lucky co. Louisiana ITO, Maine IA, 1853, Mar,
land 479, Massachusetts, 1885, 341 whites an
1916 colored, Michigan IS, Minnesota 2!
Missouri So, New Hampshire 1882, New Je1
sey BAL, New York 1876, North Carolina Isl
Ohio 239, Pennsylvania 852, Rhode Islam
1893, South Carolina ia, Tennessee AZ, an
Vermont 2495.
The total foreign born population of tina
city was 87,9S6-all white except 1888 o
whom about 5977 were English, SO. 694 Irisl
and Scotch, and the balance in small mum
bers Boston as port has very large
trade. Boston as market supplies very
large area Boston as center is metropoli
tan to very large region. Boston as cen.
ter of enlightenment is unsurpassed upon
either hemisphere. Boston is civilized.
Rockford, in Winnebago county, Illinois,
near the northern border of the State, had in
1870 population of 11,O49 Inhabitants, of
whom 8008 were natives and 3O41 foreigners,
with only SO colored citizens. All Winnie
bago county numbered only 29,3Ol inhabit-
ants, and all the population and wealth were
less than those Of one Of the wards of Boston.
Its property, as assessed, is worth So, 652, 1884,
while its actual value is $23, US, 72O.
Like New York, like Baltimore, like New
Orleans, like San Francisco, Boston is essen
TALLY cosmopolitan. 1t is city typical of the
civilization of the current century. It is a
city which represents mental culture in a
high degree, having no superior, perhaps no
equal, on the planet. The sun of enlighten-
nent pours its copious rays upon Boston,
hence reflected over the whole Continent.
Recently at Boston the great-grandsons of
he men who fought and the women who suf- |
cred in our first revolution, celebrated the |
irst considerable battle of that prolonged |
ontest By invitation there were present
uests from every section Of our Republic.
)nder patriotic promptings people from our
outhern section by hundreds and by thou.
ands went to participate in celebrating the
rowess and eulogizing the virtues of those
no fell on Bunker's Hill in the cause of
eedom.
Notwithstanding recent mournful occur
'nces, they were met with frank, hearty, !
ee and most cordial welcome. They were {
leered as they marched through the flower
rewn Streets and the moulded periods of I
ators were mingled with the rythmic strains t
poets in their welcome. The sons of New 9
,gland were cordial and most manfully hon.
in their salutation to the descendants of s
ose whose blood was mingled on hundred G
battle-felds with the blood Of \
cir ancestors. Msgnanimous Boston well $
med, honored and praised them, in obedi-
ce to noble impulses.
But away off in the West few worthy and Il
eral men of Winnebago asked soldier, Il
tesman, an orator, scholar, patriot and n
entleman to talk to them and their neigh
IS on matters pertaining to agriculture and d
interests Of the West. "
When it was known that the invitation had 81
N given by the Board Of Directors of the @
lnty Fair Association to Mr.. Davis to ad. pa
IS their visitors there was a general howl de
the county seat, echoed by a wi
,pathetic howl from every part of Winnie CO
o, which reverberated over the entire Sc
thwestern country. "Mongrels. puppies,
slps and hounds, and ours of low degree" st
ed in the clamor, until the noble, the &C tn
plished and the gallant Davis was con- ar
ined to decline the invitation. tn
nd such is the contrast between civilized ira
ton and half-civilized Winnebago. Boston to
Rockford !! The glory of the East and cal
shame of the West Highest magnanimity IN
lowest meaness Not three centu. De
of prosperity and culture can bring de- car
ed Winnebago to the level of Boston to
insult to Jefferson Davis was the natural in
ance of intrinsic vulgarity, rudeness and del
nish spleen. The savages, whose name Wis
county bears, would have scorned such cou
uct towards the basest of their enemies. res
Rockport were an exceptional city, and ASS
,ebago alone in her disgrace, we might to
but little. But the same want of Gull y
and breeding, the same low instinct, the pea
narrow prejudice, the same vile illiber. bin
pervade thousand counties and cities L
Q North and West forcing us to the con- crat
IN that the inhabitants of the larger part
on of our Republic must still be rated invt
e the half civilized. the
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