Year: 1865

JOY the satisfaction Of trying our handl
upon other people. If We lose our ~


groes, We shall not have to find thsn
and shall be at liberty to take otser
peoples negroes from them. We hlve
had our full share of being the target
for the rest of the world, and would now
relish the satisfaction of making targets
OF other communities. We have hero in


Virginia great manufacturing facilities,
and we can use them to- supply tho
troops and fleets of the United States
while other people do our fighting -
When New England ideas prevail, We
shall no longer confine ourselves to mind
ing our own business, but shall take
charge Of the concerns of all the rest Of the
world, and see that they toe the mark.


We shall repent not only of our own
sins, but those Of ell other nations, End
see that they bring no discredit upon
our repentance. We shall discard those
contracted ideas of the country which
accept the Potomac and the Rio Grande
as its limits, and adopt what is said to
be the New England theory: that the
Equator and the Aurora Borealis are the
natural boundaries of the United States.
Our monotonous agricultural existence
will give place to pleasurable love Of
novelty, like that of the Bostonians who
are said, by one of their own people, to
divide their time between metaphysics
and fancy poultry, and "while they
look upon Emerson as far ahead Of
inspiration, look upon a thirty-pound
rooster as far ahead of Emerson" Our
old-fashioned notions of religious tolera-
ton will give place to an intelligent and
discriminating charity, like that detailed
in an anecdote we have somewhere seen
Of a conversation between a. Nassachu-
setts father and son who had been
missing that morning from the family
pen. Abimelech, my son," said the
father solemnly,, as his son came in to
dinner, "Bimelech, have you been to
meeting" ayes, sir" said Bimelech.
stoutly, "pve been to the Universaller. y
"Well, my son, aint like good many
fathers, that don't want their children to
go anywhere but just where they say.
No, my son, l aint one of those. Tolera-
ton is my motto-largest liberty and all
that, that our forefathers fit and died for.
Yes, my son, 60 where you please to
meeting; Idon't care; only this 1 will
say, Chat if catch you going to the
Universallers again I'll take your hide
off," There are certain other ideas of
that latitude in which we could easily
become profcients. We have heard
good deal of Yankee love of money and
other property, but we have our doubts
whether they can give our native>born
spectators and extortioners any new
ideas on that subject. Judging by the
quality Of the milk which is sold in Rich
mond at the moderate price of ten dollars
quart, we should say that patent had
already been obtained here from those
Yankee milkmen who are said to skim
their milk on the top, and then turn it
over and skim the bottom, and then di-
vide it into ten parts, carefully skimming
each part. The love of property, that
in face of the declaration of General Lee
that the employment Of negroes is q
military necessity, refuses to make the
sacrifice, needs no importation of New
England ideas to invigoGate its hold upon
goods and chattels. We must do New
England the justice to say that its ideas
on the subject of defending it's own
homes, from the period of the Indian
wars to the close of the American Revo-
lation, never went to the extent Of re-
fusing any sacrifice which was necessary
for the defence of its soil.


On the whole, we are determined not
to be put into rage by the invocations
of Mr.. Beecher for the universal props.
CATION Of New England ideas in the