The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863: Devoted to Literature and National PolicyVarious
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The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863: Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- Periodicals; United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century -- Periodicals
The petty vengeance which the disunionists of
to-day are attempting to wreak upon her will recoil upon their own
heads, and they themselves may yet be forced some day to look to little
New England as their redeemer from anarchy. A purely commercial people,
her interests are not circumscribed by her narrow geographical limits,
but are, as well as her tastes and sympathies, cosmopolitan. She
stretches out her feelers to all parts of the earth, wherever her
wandering sons may have betaken themselves, and fastens there a little
vine or creeper whose roots are still in her own bosom. It is a part and
a necessity of her very existence, to handle and direct catholic
interests. This, as well as her position in other respects, has made her
the arbiter of this nation and country, and you can no more shut her out
from participation in the affairs of this continent than you can shut in
the mighty river from its outlet to the ocean. And if you cut her off,
see to it that she does not become the little Rome whose conquering arms
shall reduce all the nations of the continent to her sway.
No! New England has planted herself too deeply in the hearts of the
American people--she has sprinkled too many of her scions among the
population of the West and South--to allow of a moment's serious thought
of cutting her off from our communion. The cry is but the party cry of
the designing and evil disposed, the traitors to our name and nation;
and with the crushing out of the rebellion and the restoration of our
nationality; it will pass away forever.
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