New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1875-03-28
THE sCEpTRE PASSES FROM JUDAH.

! THE SCEPTRE PASSES FROM JUDAH.
-"snd the lawgiver from between his feet"
The extraordinary progress which ha
given the West a preponderant vote il
American politics, has also developed al
Independent and paramount doctrine il
metaphysical and material sciences. I'm
migration from Europe has enabled on
ancestors on the Atlantic slope to organic
and NJ ctideas never tolerated in the Oh
World. immigration into the vast Yves
has filtered these European ideas still
further and still more pure, the politica
doctrines of the West differ still further
from that Of Europe, and there is &
further advance beyond the Southwest O
those who gave liberty, and who have SC
long given law to the republic.
There were evidently two schools o.
doctrine in carly America. At the North
the severe sentiments attributed to the
Puritans prevailed. It was even dishon-
ored by intolerance and Intervention in
the affairs of others. Somewhere, in their
exile in Holland perhaps, these people had
adopted the idea of ships and workshops
as means of counteracting the sterility
of their soil and the inclemency of their
climate. They had also always the wis
dom of education 9s a means of develop
ing the capacities Of the country. These
sentiments, with that Of universal equality
in this world and the better part Of the
next made school Of politics and Of
morals.
In the portion Of the South settled in
and by Virginia there was different
sense Of religious, political and social
duty. 1t is probable that this standard
had been derived from the superior in
Auence of the courtiers and churchmen
who occupied the political and educa-
tional posts Of those colonies. Yet it
would be mistake to suppose that this
sentiment was wholly aristccratic or in
ecclesiastical coincidence with England.
There were large numbers Of. English
yeom en- and laborers. There were many
who sided with the English Republicans
in the civil wars, and it is historical
fact that Bacon and those who, with him,
resisted the aristocratic Governor Berkely,
enacted in their legislatures every one Of
the principles century afterward embod-
led in the successful struggle against the
mother country. Almost all Of the promi-
nent revolutionists were Of the middle or
planter class, including the author of the
Declaration of Independence, whose ideas |
are the basis of republican doctrine to- !
day. That these men were not Royalists
was proven by the fact that they made |
common cause with Massachusetts,,
to encamp before beleagured
Boston, and form an alliance which con-
inued until the common enemy had been
lriven from the continent. The same
common sentiment brought the same
Southern aid to the seamen of Massachu-
etts imprisoned in the Ships Of Great
Britain, These had schools founded at
JAMESTOWN and Plymouth, which were in
thical antagonism for more than CEN
,lry. They carried this conflict into the
obstruction Of the constitution, the
'orth taking the benefit of every actual
gency of the government, and the South
ejecting all such aid on the principle of
bstract limitations.
The war which arose upon the opposite
obstruction Of these two schools de-
eloped new and controlling opinion.
he great West had grown by accre.ions
n good part from the Atlantic States, but
had imported predominant popula- ;
on from Europe. A population who
knew not the Joseph Of the revolution,
either comprehending nor caring for
,hn Adams or Thomas Jefferson. The ,
est fed the late war, and in great part
ught the war; The result naturally !
we to that section q right to put its own f
instruction upon the constitution and r
political action. With it's vast advances =
education and enterprise have grown a
'ldness and authority to its voice which o
owns entirely the querulous maunder- a
gs of those meritorious old grand
others who founded and long governed c
O Union 1.