New-York daily tribune., 1844-08-08
A Voice from Old suffolk' 90,

GREENP0RTs aug. II iSff'
To the Editor Of The 7r6nne:
The people on the East end of Long Island are
not little surprised &, your remarks relating 10
the opcning Of the Long Island Railroad, IN The
Tribune Of the 29th ult 1t is new TO US that our
locality " he's heretofore been terra ineognita
nearly as title known 10 geographers as ihe CEN
ire of Africa, and notorious only ioF lis fish, mig
gers and Loco Focoism." Will venture TO es
ser, that The Company who came TO GreonPori
On the occasion of the celebration V brought
more "niggersn with them than can be found
in the whole town Of Southold, ii you search never
so diligently. As for ignorance, we admit we
have it in abundance; We plead guilty; out
we are temperate, and measurably moral; and
though we are pleased that the Railroad has been
extended TO this place, we stl hope that hereafter
ne occasion may require the transportation OF
seventy five baskets of Champagne and two ceml-
Johns Of brandy to from our v'ilsgs and we
sincerely trust that were we to have celeoralion
OF our own, commemorative oil any eVent, our
speakers would al be sober men, and our Iriends
who came to visit US would require no assistance
in getting into car when they returned. fou
think that civilization is TO penetrate this dark, be-
nighted region | hope you do no! refer 10 such
civilization as was exhibited here on the day oil
the Celebration.
Loco Focoisn abounds here I know; | am
sorry 70, IT, but don't abuse what Whlgs there are
here, many of whom take The Tribune, and are
pleased with it, by termiDg the grounds Of their no.
! loriety I" fish and niggsrs.' Come among us, sir,
and we will use you well; you will tind US friend
", aiTectionate people; though ignorant, we are
,l,r hoo, 81,
we trust we may see the light. am subscriber
for your weekly paper and ever read 1t with
pleasure but ask you FOR the sake OF humanity
never again to insult the feelings of those OF whom
you know nothing. H.
u Our correspondent is all right, though he
takes sportve remark quite too seriously. We
suspect our reporter who went down to Green
port with the New-York party on the opening Of
the Railroad must have taken a fair share of that
champagne mot of the brandy, for he's sort of
Temperance man, and feeling specially Gull and
heavy next day, fanced he must have been to a
stupid region. But we never considered it a re-
proach to people that fish abounded among
them, and as to the negroes of Long Island, We
wish all cur population were as honest and peace
able as they are. Our friends who look down to
Fire Island and about assure US that cleverer
fellows to fish or cut bait, bag game or even shoot
it (when you want the reputation Of a sportsman
and have to do it on borrowed capta) can't be
found any where. As Loco. Focoisn our cor.
respondent owns up;' so we'll only say on
that head that We are sure the People of Suffolk
would vote better than they DO if they mad half a
dozen Railroads or even daily stages visiting
every neighborhood and distributing good. sound
truthful journals to each. The mistake in Suf
folk is that the People live in the last generation,
and do not vote for what is no1o right and need
ful, but for what ,oas right forty years ago. Ii
they would but consider and act upon the Tariff
and Texas questions they would vote with the
Wings; but they keep on voting for Jefferson
and George Clinton, without seeing that the
men who assume to be the lineal successors of
those patriarchs have practically repudiatcd their
most cherished principles. This they will gradu-
ally amend-we are sure Of it-so Prosperity to
Suffolk and success to the Long Island Rail
road Ed. Irib.