I Will Attempt, In A Rough Way, To Divide The States, As They Seem
To Divide Themselves, Into These Three Parties.
As to the majority
of them, there is no difficulty in locating them; but this cannot
be done with absolute certainty as to some few that lie on the
borders.
New England consists of six States, of which all of course belong
to the North. They are Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont,
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut - the six States which
should be most dear to England, and in which the political success
of the United States as a nation is to my eyes the most apparent.
But even in them there was till quite of late a strong section so
opposed to the Republican party as to give a material aid to the
South. This, I think, was particularly so in New Hampshire, from
whence President Pierce came. He had been one of the Senators from
New Hampshire; and yet to him, as President, is affixed the
disgrace - whether truly affixed or not I do not say - of having
first used his power in secretly organizing those arrangements
which led to secession and assisted at its birth. In Massachusetts
itself, also, there was a strong Democratic party, of which
Massachusetts now seems to be somewhat ashamed. Then, to make up
the North, must be added the two great States of New York and
Pennsylvania and the small State of New Jersey. The West will not
agree even to this absolutely, seeing that they claim all territory
west of the Alleghanies, and that a portion of Pennsylvania and
some part also of New York lie westward of that range; but, in
endeavoring to make these divisions ordinarily intelligible, I may
say that the North consists of the nine States above named.
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