New Englanders

Um, and then I would say in the moment you're not going to convince anybody of anything.

Um, and that's because, uh, most of us New Englanders don't like to admit this, but we actually do have feelings.

[laughs]

[laughs] And feelings sometimes follow-

We don't have to go into a lot of, uh, details or a sermon, exposition of what they're feeling or what they're going through, but just to, uh, be available.

The gift of presence is just so critically important.

One thing you said reminded me of, um, the funeral I officiated yesterday, how you said New Englanders, we do have feelings.

Uh, the gentleman that passed away, his name was Robert, and, uh, they just talked about he wa- he was kind of an older Vermonter.

Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.

However, if one designs to construct a dwelling house, it behooves him to exercise a little Yankee shrewdness, lest after all he find himself in a workhouse, a labyrinth without a clue, a museum, an almshouse, a prison, or a splendid mausoleum instead.

Consider first how slight a shelter is absolutely necessary.

I have seen Penobscot Indians in this town living in tents of thin cotton cloth while the snow was nearly a foot deep around them, and I thought that they would be glad to have it deeper to keep out the wind.

If we do not get out sleepers and forge rails and devote days and nights to the work, but go to tinkering upon our lives to improve them, who will build railroads? And if railroads are not built, how shall we get to heaven in season? But if we stay at home and mind our business, who will want railroads? We do not ride on the railroad.

It rides upon us.

Did you ever think what those sleepers are that underlie the railroad? Each one is a man, an Irishman or a Yankee man.

The rails are laid on them, and they are covered with sand, and the cars run smoothly over them.

Section 4, Enchantments Encountered, Part 2.

The New Englanders are a people of God settled in those which were once the devil's territories, and it may easily be supposed that the devil was exceedingly disturbed when he perceived such a people here accomplishing the promise of old made unto our blessed Jesus that he should have the utmost parts of the earth for his possession.

There was not a greater uproar among the Ephesians when the gospel was first brought among them than there was among the powers of the air after whom those Ephesians walked when first the silver trumpets of the gospel here made the joyful sound.

The devil, thus irritated, immediately tried all sorts of methods to overturn this poor plantation, and so much of the church as was fled into this wilderness immediately found.

I am ashamed when I read French authors giving this character of Englishmen.

Ils se haïssent les uns les autres et sont en division continuelle.

They hate one another and are always quarreling one with another, and I shall be much more ashamed if it become the character of New Englanders, which is indeed what the devil would have.

Satan would make us bruise one another by breaking of the peace among us.

But it was founded in 1749 by the British as a Protestant bulwark against French Catholic Canada.

It's inhabited almost entirely by the middle of the 1760s by New Englanders.

There's a planter migration that occurs in the 1760s.

About 6,000 New England planters moved to Nova Scotia.

Something like two-thirds of the population of Halifax are New Englanders, or they actually refer to them as Americans.

So it's a separate colony, but it's very much populated by people that have shared relations and culture with New Englanders.

New York City, of course, is this really prosperous Atlantic port city, diverse city, politically contested city, and also like will become the sort of center of the British operation in the war.

And I argue really the center of loyalism during the war.

I've always said if I had to move out of Minnesota, I would get Massachusetts better than just about any other state.

So this is sarcasm for all of you non, uh, whatever Yankees that we are.

One of the things that was astounding is how big this bill was.

What is it? 300 pages you put together? Andrew, describe the length of the ballot initiative.

It is needless to point out how this would affect the movement of Western settlement in respect to individualistic speculation in public lands, how it would open a career to the land jobbers as well as to the natural leaders in the competitive movement for acquiring the best lands, for laying out town sites and building up new communities under boon conditions.

The migratory tendency of New Englanders was increased by this gradual change in its land policy.

The attachment to a locality was diminished.

the later years showed increasing emphasis by new england upon individual success greater respect for the self-made man who in the midst of opportunities under competitive conditions achieved superiority the old dominance of town settlement village moral police and traditional class control gave way slowly Settlement in communities and rooted Puritan habits and ideals had enduring influences in the regions settled by New Englanders, but it was in this Old West, in the years just before the Revolution, that individualism began to play an important role, along with the traditional habit of expanding in organized communities.

The opening of the Vermont towns revealed more fully than before the capability of New Englanders to become democratic pioneers under characteristic frontier conditions.

Their economic life was simple and self-sufficing.

They readily adopted lynch law – the use of the birch seal is familiar to readers of Vermont history – to protect their land titles in the troubled times when these Green Mountain Boys resisted New York's assertion of authority.

New Orleans gave way to New York as the outlet for the Middle West, and the Day of River Settlement was succeeded by the era of inter-river settlement and railway transportation.

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the council broke up in perfect wonder and nothing was talked of for some time among the old men and women of new amsterdam but the vast genius of the governor and his new and cheap mode of fighting by proclamation as to wilhelmus kieft having despatched his proclamation to the frontiers he put on his cocked hat and corduroy small-clothes and mounting a tall raw-boned charger trotted out to his rural retreat of dog's misery never was a more comprehensive a more expeditious or what is still better a more economical measure devised than this of defeating the yankees by proclamation an expedient likewise so gentle and humane there were ten chances to one in favor of its succeeding but then there was one chance to ten that it would not succeed as the ill-natured fates would have it that single chance carried the day the proclamation was perfect in all its parts well constructed well written well sealed and well published all that was wanting to ensure its effect was that the yankees should stand in awe of it but provoking to relate they treated it with the most absolute contempt applied it to an unseemly purpose and thus did the first warlike proclamation come to a shameful end a fate which i am credibly informed has befallen but too many of its successors so far from abandoning the country those varlets rascals continued their encroachments squatting along the green banks of the varche river and founding hartford stamford new haven and other border towns i have already shown how the onion patches of piquag were an eyesore to jacobus von kurlit and his garrison but now these moss troopers increased in their atrocities kidnapping hogs impounding horses and sometimes grievously rib roasting their owners our worthy forefathers could scarcely stir abroad without danger of being out jockeyed in horse-flesh or taken in in bargaining while in their absence some daring yankee peddler would penetrate to their household and nearly ruin the good housewives with tinware and wooden bowls it was long before william the testy could be persuaded that his much vaunted war measure was ineffectual on the contrary he flew in a passion whenever it was doubted swearing that though slow in operating yet when it once began to work it would soon purge the land of these invaders when convinced at length of the truth like a shrewd physician he attributed the failure to the quantity not the quality of the medicine and resolved to double the dose he fulminated therefore a second proclamation more vehement than the first forbidding all intercourse with these yankee intruders ordering the dutch burghers on the frontiers to buy none of their pacing horses measly port apple sweetmeats wethersfield onions or wooden bowls and to furnish them with no supplies of gin gingerbread or sauerkraut another interval elapsed during which the last proclamation was as little regarded as the first and the non intercourse was especially set at nought by the young folks of both sexes if we may judge by the active bundling which took place along the borders Irving concludes this satire of William the Testy's proclamation by a comic account of how the Yankees captured Fort Good Hoop.

They sneaked into the fort while the Dutch soldiers were sleeping off their dinner, gave the defenders a kick in the pants, and sent them back to New Amsterdam.

End of chapter 5 CHAPTER VI MADISON'S INAUGURATION despite the unpopularity of the embargo act james madison jefferson's choice to succeed him in the presidency was elected by a large margin madison had served a long career in public life beginning with the continental congress and the constitutional convention and more recently serving as secretary of state under jefferson in the following selection margaret bayard smith again reports the washington scene this time the events of march fourth eighteen o nine inauguration day note that she mixes up the sequence of events by starting with the reception after the inauguration before describing the inauguration house to-day after the inauguration we all went to mrs madison's the street was full of carriages and people and we had to wait near half an hour before we could get in the house was completely filled parlors entry drawing-room and bedroom near the door of the drawing-room mr and mrs madison stood to receive their company she looked extremely beautiful was dressed in a plain cambric dress with a very long train plain round the neck without any handkerchief and beautiful bonnet of purple velvet and white satin with white plumes she was all dignity grace and affability mr madison shook my hand with all the cordiality of old acquaintance but it was when i saw our dear and venerable mr jefferson that my heart beat when he saw me he advanced from the crowd took my hand affectionately and held it five or six minutes one of the first things he said was remember the promise you have made me to come to see us next summer do not forget it said he pressing my hand for we shall certainly expect you i assured him that i would not and told him i could now wish him joy with much more sincerity than this day eight years ago you have now resigned a heavy burden said i yes indeed he replied and am much happier at this moment than my friend the crowd was immense both at the capitol and here thousands and thousands of people thronged the avenue the capitol presented a gay scene every inch of space was crowded and there being as many ladies as gentlemen all in full dress it gave it a gay rather than a solemn appearance there was an attempt made to appropriate particular seats for the ladies of public characters but it was found impossible to carry it into effect for the sovereign people would not resign their privileges and the high and low were promiscuously blended on the floor and in the galleries mr madison was extremely pale and trembled excessively when he first began to speak but soon gained confidence and spoke audibly mrs smith now interrupts her letter to her sister-in-law and finishes it the next day the event she describes is the inauguration ball at long's hotel last evening i endeavored calmly to look on and amidst the noise bustle and crowd to spend an hour or two in sober reflection but my eye was always fixed on our venerable friend jefferson when he approached my ear listened to catch every word and when he spoke to me my heart beat with pleasure personal attachment produces this emotion and i did not blame it but i have not this regard for mr madison and i was displeased at feeling no emotion when he came up and conversed with me he made some of his old kind of mischievous allusions and i told him i found him still unchanged i tried in vain to feel merely as a spectator the little vanities of my nature often conquered my better reason the room was so terribly crowded that we had to stand on the benches from this situation we had a view of the moving mass for it was nothing else it was scarcely possible to elbow your way from one side to another and poor mrs madison was almost pressed to death for every one crowded round her those behind pressing on those before and peeping over their shoulders to have a peep of her and those who were so fortunate as to get near enough to speak to her were happy indeed as the upper sashes of the windows could not let down the glass was broken to ventilate the room the air of which had become oppressive chapter six chapter seven of the jeffersonians the war of eighteen twelve the constitution defeats the guerrire isaac hull commodore perry wins a victory on lake erie oliver perry the british burn washington dolly madison the british burn washington george The Battle of New Orleans, George Gleig.