New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-06-22
coysoL1TIOy FOR "DoWN EAST"

4 newsman in a neighbOring city inscribed
upon his bulletin, announcing the KepuDllcah
nomination, of you wish to be President,
{" go West Young manw The star OF the
Presidency does indeed, seem to be taxing
that direction. We have had Lincoln anu
Grant. and now we have Hayes. we 90 not
say that New-England men have now no
prospect of the place so much hungereu anu
t5irsbed for, but it appears to us that their
opportunity, always small, is growing less ana
less. Every four years the available characters
of that section are much talked OF, and then
they are found not 20 be available at
all New-England remains as 1t always
has been, the nursery of statesmen, but
they 60 elsewhere to reap their honors ana 10
make their calling and election sure. Nor Is
there any brilliant prospect to compensate LOT
the notifications of the present. In all the
England States there is not man to-day
of either party who has any reasonable chance
of The Presidency. This when we consider the
hicb average of culture in those States, Is
rather remarkable They are by no means
wanting in men every way fitted ior the place
they have hardly one who is Likely TO at
tain it.
New-Englandcrs. however, may congratulate
themselves upon the fact that the nominee Oh
the Republican Convention is OF good New
England stock, like 50 many other prominent
Western citizens Connecticut particularly
claims him rs her son. lie is OF New Haven
" Jescent,r they say rather proudly, IA II that
fact alone settled the matter OF his worth ana
competency. "He is of Vermont stock, too,'
say the Green Mountaineers. The grandfather
of the Cincinnati nominee was born In AeW-
Haven. and removed to Brattlcboro Thence
like q sensible person, his father removed 10
Ohio There the probable next President OF
the United States was born with his veins full
of New-England blood. If the people OF the
United States have lost the habit of looking
10 the East for their great public servants
tbcv vet show penchant for Eastern pedigrecs
Those who still cling to NeV-Lngland WITH
an abiding affection are sometimes httlc MI
ta,ed ut Western complacency. On the whole
however, we think that they bear their Tor
tune with toeTable equaEimity. Most OF what
is really worth haring they still retain-weaith'
culture, and quite a much public virtue as any
other section can boast Of Whatever the
future nav have in store for them, their
"past j. secure They have at least a
history. They have population as industrious
AS happy, and rs yirtuous as any upon
the face OF the globe. They have
system of education which is providing
competent men for the whole Union. Nor are
they forgotten in times of public danger and
necessity Their soldiers are buried upon every
battlefield OF the Rebellion. Their wealth,
which had been found 50 convenient IN colo
ni-ing the West and in covering 1t with cities
and with railways, was not without ITS use
during the dark days of the Republic. They
were wanted then, and the time may come
when they will be wanted again. Ii matters
little to which section public honors may fall
most numcrously, SO long as the older states
keep up supply of efficient and successful
coloui,tS,