Columbus Democrat

The Puritans--New England.--Their labors, their principles, their institutions, have made New England, with its hard soil and cold long winters, the glory of all lands. The thousand towns and villages--the decent sanctuaries, not for show but for use, crowning the hill tops, or peering out from the valleys--the means of education accessible to every family--the universal diffusion of knowledge--the order and thrift, the general activity and enterprise, the unparalleled equality in the distribution of property, the general happiness resulting from the diffusion of education and of pure religious doctrine--the safety in which more than half the population sleep nightly with unbolted doors--the calm, holy Sabbaths, when mute nature, in the general silence, becomes vocal with praise, when the whisper of the breeze seems more distinct, the distant water fall louder and more musical, the carol of the morning birds clearer and sweeter--this is New England: and where will you find the like, save where you find the operation of New England principles and New England influence?

This is the work of our fathers and ancient law-givers. They came hither, not with new theories of government from the laboratories of political alchymists, nor to try wild experiments upon human nature, but only to found a new empire for God; for truth, for virtue, for freedom, guarded and bounded by justice. To have failed in such an attempt would have been glorious. Their glory is that they succeeded.--Bacon's Historical Discourses.