216 ISOLATION OF RACES. 



places upon the Hudson Elver, &c., so the Irish and the 

 Highland Scotch, and even the Norwegians, establish 

 themselves in separate localities, and give a tone to the 

 manners, feelings, and habits, and new words and 

 accents to the language of the tow^nships, counties, or 

 states, in which they choose their homes. This will, 

 no doubt, be found to give peculiarities to the popula- 

 tion of the several States, and to modify the temper, 

 and even the legislation, of the Houses of Assembly in 

 each State. But these State differences will disappear 

 in the Federal Congress, and will rarely affect the action 

 or procedure of the Central Government. The greater 

 fire and impatience of one State will be restrained by 

 the coolness and caution of another ; and thus, while the 

 warm temperaments of some of the States may prevent 

 national stagnation, they will, it is to be hoped, but 

 seldom prevail to hurry forward the whole Union to 

 hasty and inconsiderate measures. 



In regard to the new States which are springing up 

 towards the west and north, it is very interesting to 

 observe how important an influence is exercised by the 

 restless New Englanders upon the establishment among 

 them of political, religious, and educational institutions, 

 and upon the general character and expression of public 

 feeling and sentiment. 



The emigrants who go out from Europe — the raw 

 bricks for the new State buildings — are generally poor, 

 and for the most part indifferently educated. Being 

 strangers to the institutions of the country, and to their 

 mode of working, and, above all, being occupied in 

 establishing themselves, the rural settlers have little 

 leisure or inclination to meddle with the direct regulation 

 of public affairs for some years after they have first 

 begun to hew their farms out of the solitary wilderness. 

 The New" Englanders come in to do this. The west is 

 an outlet for their superfluous lawyers, their doctors. 



