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The Daily Dispatch: March 14, 1863., [Electronic resource], A Western opinion of New England. (search)
misdoings and errors of a rest, even when that part to dominant. While, therefore, I analyze the elements of New England society, and their relations to our position, I shall not confound that which is mischievous, in colonial times, the resentful bigotry of an Endicott was relieved by the amiable character of a Winthrop; as in later Daniel Webster [cheers,] stands like a granite rock repelling the wave of New England . [Cheers] I would not confound Ruins Shoats, Chief Justice Shaw, Benjamin F. Thomas, and Judge Curtis, and such illustrious men, [cheers,] with Theodora Parker, Wendell Phillips, Gov. Andrews, Charles Sumner, and the lesser spawn of Transcendentalism. [Hisses] The one class have ever cultivated the graces of civil order; the other have been and are the Marplots of the Republic. I speak of that ruling element, which even before it reached our shores, while it was in exile in Holland, while it ruled in early days at Plymouth and at Boston, and which has since been