The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1894-01-09
In the Crown of the sirterhood Of
States.
Which Composes the American
Republic.

A utuCiS Wd5 iuuulSOu ihs lOICdu u
speeches delivered on one of those OF
casions one would think that thei
would have been no civilization at a
on our hemisphere if the Pilgrir
. Fathers. had not come over in tn
Speedwell ana the Mayfower, fetch
ing the embryo of everything admira
BILE in our civilization with then
Even an ex-President, and the onl,
surviving ex-President, apoIogized tn
other night because he is of Virginii
stock instead of New England. w,
are gravely informed that there would
have been no religious or civil liberty
in this country if the Bradfords, thu
Carvers, the Winthropes, the Mathers
the standishes and things had no
ground out the article. The New En-,
gland that burned witches, hanged
Quakers, banished Baptists. enslaved
Pequods, snapped rum for niggers OF
The coast of Guinea and snapped me-
gyoes for tobacco on the coast of Vir-
ginia is held up to us as the leayen OF
the whole American lump.
There are many things admirable in
The New England character. 1t was a
splendid race that produced Samuel
Adams, an Israel Putnam, Daniel
Webster, john A. Andrew; il was
a splendid race that made garden of
The bleak coast where the Pilgrim
Fathers first planted in our country
heir narrow political pOIity and their
narrower religious creed; it was a
splendid race that peopled Northern
Ohio, Northern Indiana, Northern Ill
lnois. But it was no better race than
that which settled New YOrk-those
hardy Batavians with a more heroic
history than any of the children OF
men, ancient or modern. The loyal
Quakers who settled Pennsylvania,
the devoted Catholics who settled
Maryland, the fugitive EIuguenots who
settled South Carolina, all had a.
many virtues as the Puritans of New
and, perhaps, less faults.
The very backbone of American |
manhood was acquired from the cav
alters Fho settled Virginia, and the
Scotc6 -Irish who were scattered up
midtown the coast from New York
= Savannah.
There is more of glory, more of
grandeur, more of the Grecian Democ-
acies and republics, more of the
Roman republic and Commonwealth,
.ssOciated with old Virginia than all
he rest of the Americans combined.
n the formative period she furnished !
he tongue of Henry, the pen of Jeffer-
on and the sword OF Washington.
Ter Marshall evolved from his plas-
lc mind our Jurisprudence. Having ,
ormed the Federal Government, Vir-
inia endowed it with empires stretch
u from the Alleghenies to the Mis-
ssippi, to the West and the North
'est. While New England was hold,
" conventions at Hartford and hoist
y friendly and warning signals for !
he guidance of British fleets, Virginia
as the f. and soul of the American
luse in the second war for indepen-
5nce. While New England litera- =
ire was burdened with treason in
'47, Virginia was advancing the
merican flag in the capitals Of the Z
ontezumas, and it was worth all the
God and tears, all the misery, all the
aSte OF treasure, all the devastation
States, all the characterization OF
clety, all the anarchy OF tue Recon-
period, that Virginia might
'YelUp and exhibit as All an exam
al for future ages the Christian, the .
the Captain, the hero, the !
triot, the man-Bobert e. Lee. =
There is marked difference be-
'een the civilization of Virginia and a,
at of New England. In the war of ts
II Massachusetts, expended a con- M
lerable sum IN the enlistment and A
uipment Of soldiers in our armies, d
d long ago Massachusetts, was rein- ii
rsyl with liberal interest; in that "
'r Virginia expended for like pur- Al
Sc a fivefold greater sum, and she Ia
) never beeu repaid cent, either su
ncipal or interest But there u q III
're marked difference yet-ken- 10
ky Is the daushter of Virginia Or
.nsas is the dan liter Of Msssavilus- oh
:, BY their traits ye shall know a,
'my kt
have nothing aeiinst New England a.