The southern press., 1851-09-05
sociology,

Sociology.
Anybody would think the following PROPOSE
ton so clear, that there need be no DISCUSSION
upon il
4" We hold these fruths 10 be selceuidenf--lha
all men are created equal and that fhev are en-.
doped by their Creator soiih certain inalienabl
rights, and amongst these are life LIBERTY
and The pursuit Of happiness"
Every individual desires that, in so far as b,
is concerned, +" life, liberty, and the pursuit o
happiness" should be his by right, whether h.
knows how to make use of the privilege or not
La this hes all the difficulty
1t is the North which puts forth with so much
.brayado wordy mystifcations of this character
IL reads the paragraph--it is charmed with the
idea-throws up its hat, without looking to see
II 1t has crown to it, and fancies itself free
There is just as much sense about il as in the
French application of /" liberty, equality, and
fraternity" You may see it at the corner OF
every street, on either side of the stately portals
OF public edifces, at the head of every arbitrary
proclamation or law, but there is no more truth
In it than in the certain inalienable rights be-
fore alluded to.
After all, We must come down to the reality
the every day practice, the fixed facts of life
and in them what do we find Why that the
Northern pursuit of happiness is about the most
unhappy in its results that can be imagined
we need hardly recur to Europe, agitated as it
Is by revolutions. Every one knows that the
individual struggle, or selfish pursuit of happi-
ness, has brought about such harassing state
OF things, that there is one universal revolt of
the human mind against the system and that
philanhropists and philosophers, charatans, poll
ticians, and Don Quixotes are all racking their
brains for solution Of the difficulty.
Here, in the South, is no such movement.
We feel no difficulty of getting along, without
strewing the fields of labor with the famished,
the overworked and the criminal. Our control
Is better, and our care of the busy workers
greater. There is little want, there is less crime.
We may therefore venture to say, our social
organization is more perfect. And if it is more
perfect, its material results will be larger, all
other circumstances being equal.
For the North, then, agitated by socialist doc
trines, outraged by ant-rent barbarites, excited
by alarming accounts of increased crime, as
founded by details of misery and destitution
among women to come dow n, and moraize the
South about slavery, and menace abolition, is
positively ludicrous.
One paper represents the condition of the
"New England wife and mother rs one of un.
mitigated, unpitied toll" 1t denounces with
great reason the false sympathy for the black
slave, excited by political charlatans and fanatics
while not a thought is wasted on the greater
serf in our midst" Another says: [" Criminals
both imported, and of native growth, are fear
fully increasing among u.s." And after giving
some details of crime, asks the question, "What
is to be doneg'
Judge Parsons of Pennsylvania, suggests
that $4,000 spent annually for missionary pur
poses in Philadelphia city and county, would
save more than that amount in the maintenance
of paupers, the administration of the law, ant
the pay of police.
These, and many other confessions of tn,
moral results of the disorganizinp system o
pursuing happiness in the North, only show vi
more and more clearly that it is arriving by slow
yet sure steps, at that glorious condition of an
Archy which will necessitate the imitation of tn,
arbitrary government of Europe, and the loss o
that liberty so much boasted Of
1t may well be asked, whether state of so
ciety producing such results is free one? W.
deny it. There is no freedom but where ever,
individual Is cared for and can live easily with
out being overworked. The black man in tn
South is more free than the white man in tn
North, who tolls until his system is exhausted
and premature decay produced More free, w,
assert, than those who
Against their brethren turn unnatural arms y
And the morality of the SYSTEM honest YOU
may be,
But what avails thy feeble truth
Soon to be won by golden guileful tongues,
To do blithe service in the cause Of sim
or sink to the lowest levels, despsed, sighted,
and condemned
The South, then, which takes care of its
workers, and leaves abundant room for the ener
getic action of the rest, may well claim the atten-
ton, and exercise the reflection of phianthro-
pists. 1t will not pretend that its system s
Perfect-but it does not boast upon pretences to
liberty which are mere words of deception, as
in the passage first quoted. 1t has facts in it's
favor, and claims with reason fair consideration.
Death Of Beverly Tucker, Esq.
We are pained to announce tho daotb of Rev