1862 he determined to form a settlement upon this land. One of the first regulations of the colony was, that there should be no intoxicating liquors sold on that fifty square miles, save for medicine, until it was demanded by a majority of the inhabitants. The population increased rapidly, and engaged chiefly in agriculture, and especially in raising grapes, peaches, &c. The whole region is now a beautiful garden, with pretty cottages, schools, churches, and about twelve thousand inhabitants. The poor-rates for the whole place, chiefly for the maintenance of vagrants from other districts, are £80. There is no policeman, and only one constable, elected yearly, who receives no salary. His income from fees is from £5 to £10 a year. Vineland has 170 miles of roads and streets, and you may ride through all this domain among orchards, gardens, vineyards, fertile fields, and smiling villages, and see everywhere happy homes and an industrious and prosperous population. They have societies for mental improvement, music, recreation; schools as good as it is possible to make them; a healthy, moral, intelligent, prosperous, and happy community. What is there to prevent the formation of a thousand just such colonies? Why may not a whole continent be covered over with Vinelands-with beautiful colonies or settlements, filled with industrious, intelligent, temperate, happy people? Why may it not be everywhere "ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN ?" Why not? POSTSCRIPTUM. AT LAST! Since the preceding pages were in type we have had news of a political revolution in America. The Republican party of Lincoln and Grant and the carpet-baggers has been defeated. Tilden, a States Rights Democrat, who was accused during the canvass of defending the right of Secession and opposing the policy of the war, has been elected Governor of the great State of New York by a triumphant majority; Massachusetts has elected a Democratic governor, and Ben Butler is beaten on his own stamping ground. There will be a Democratic majority in the next Congress, and Gen. Grant will be succeeded by a Democratic President. This is the verdict of the people on the policy of coercion, conquest, subjugation, spoliation, and the rule of ignorant negroes over the conquered States. It is a rebuke to the cynicism of General Grant, who in August, 1864, wrote to Mr. Washburne, since United States Minister at Paris :-" The rebels have now in their ranks their last man. The little boys and old men are guarding prisoners, guarding railroad bridges, and forming a good part of their garrisons for entrenched positions. A man lost by them cannot be replaced. They have robbed the cradle and the grave equally to get their present force." The American people have now, at last, passed their sentence upon those by whom the Southern people were driven to such extremities, and by whom they have been for ten years ruled, and robbed, and ruined. This defeat of the Republican party is a victory of Conservatism and the principles on which the Federal Union was based. It brings the promise of freedom to the South, and prosperity to the whole country; and if the party now restored to power will earnestly begin the work of reforming the abuses and removing the scandals of American politics, it may for many years to come guide the destinies of the nation. If it fail in this it will be disgraced and defeated, and the country will either be divided or governed by a military despotism. For a great nation there must be either the control of brute force or the rule of righteousness. The corruptions and oppressions of American politics have strengthened the hands of Despotism, and chilled the hopes of the friends of Liberty. Only a thorough reformation-a hearty and complete return to pure and honest principles and action can take away this reproach, and restore the Great Republic of the West to the position she has so proudly claimed in the van-guard of Progress, Civilization, and Freedom. God is above majorities. No song Of victory can sanctify a wrong; American Migrations, 500 Buffalo, 91 Buffalo, A Gale at, 99 Cairo, Illinois, 166 Calvinism, Protests against, 39 Camp Meetings, 44 Canada, American Efforts to Conquer, 403 Canada, Invasion and Expected Annexa tion of, 405 Canal Voyage, 91 Caroline, The Steamer, Taken, 106 Carpet-Baggers, Influence of, 499 Catholic Sisters of Charity, 301 American Manners compared with Euro- Catholic Sisters of Charity in New Orleans, Bancroft, the Historian, 234 Barnum and his Nigger Dancer, 369 Beauregard, General, at Charleston, 431 Books and Authors, 224 Boston, Honesty of, 78 Boston Merchant's Story, 79 Buchanan Opposed to the War, 410 288 Catholic University, 295 Chicago, Burning and Rebuilding, 477 Christy Minstrels, Origin of, IOI Cincinnati, 112 Cincinnati, Staples of, 113 Cincinnati Markets, 117 Clarke, Rev. James Freeman, on Negro Clay, Henry-Last Visit to New York, 192 Clergy, 246 Clergy Running for Office, 250 Clergy, Southern, in the War, 416 Climate of America, 483 Coal in the Alleghanies, 119 Coal in America, 474 Colony, A Model, cor Cooper, Peter, 179 Cooper, the Novelist. 231 Communism in Indiana, 256 Congress, Houses of, 305 Congress-Bribery of Members, 338 Considerant, Victor, 144 Constitution, Federal, Ratifications, 424 "Cost, the Limit of Price, 258 Croton Water-Works, New York, 179 Dancing in New York, 184 Debt, Abolition of. 37 Decoration Day, 183 Democracy, Southern Sympathy of the. 480 Dialects, 60 Factory Girls, 86 Family, A Divided. North and South, 88 Farms and Farmers, 6 Fever and Ague, 122 Fillmore, President, 346 Finney, President, of Oberlin, 249 Fourth of July, 20 Fourth of July in New York, 18c Galveston, Texas, 139 Galveston, Steamboat Trip to, 141 Grant, President, on the War, 503 Greeley, Horace, a Model Yankee, 320 Greeley, Horace, his Defence of Secession, 327 Green Bay, Indians at, 109 Gould, Jay, his Politics, 496 Dickens, Charles-his Reception in New Gould, Miss Hannah F., 225 York, 188 Diseases, 245 Dishonesty, Growth of, 51 Dixon, George Washington, 228 Douglas, Stephen A., 305, 348 Drunkenness Increased by the War, 472 Editors, Newspaper, Position of, 223 Education and Politics, 499 Education-Influence on Pauperism and Gulf of Mexico, On the, 148 Halleck, the Poet, 232 Hamilton, Alex., on Coercion, 425 Harper Brothers, Publishers, 226 Harrison, President, 339 Hayne, Senator, on State Rights, 426 Health of Immigrants, 276 Herald, The New York, History of, 215 Herald, The New York, its Warning of the Houston, Gen. Sam., 145 Ice, Trade in, 168, 174 Ingenuity and Versatility, 53 Irish Servants, 275 Irishman, Southern, Story of an, 157 Jackson, President, Sketch of, 333 Japanese Ambassadors, 194 Jefferson, President, 331 Jesuits in America, 287 Kossuth, Welcome to, 192 |