The southern press., 1851-09-06
SesIsIegy.


Sociology.
Anybody would think the following PROPOSE
ton 80 clear TINT there need be no discussion
upon n:
We hold ihea truths % b. selEerident--iha
al men ars created Equal, aud thai they are en-
do,ced by iheir Crsaior seih certain inallenable
rights. and ss,gngs these are lys, LIBERTY,
and The pursuit. " hapPinnss'
Every individual desires that, in so far as be
Is concerned, . life. liberty. and tho pursuit Of
happiness" should be his BY right whether he
knows how TO make use Of the privilege or not.
In ihi4 lice all the difficulty.
ills the North which puts forth with so much
brasado wordy nystifeations Of this character
II reads the paragraph-it Is charmed with the
idea---throws up It's hat, without looking TO see
Il il has crown TO IL and iancies itself Free
There Is just as much sense about Il asin The
French application Of liberty, equality, and
fraternity" You may see Il at the corner Of
every street. on either side Of the stately portals
Of public ediices, at the head Of every arbitrary
proclamation or law, but there Is no more truth
IN Il than In the acertain 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, agtated A. il
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 reyolt Of
the human mind against the system; and that
phianthropists and philosophers, charlatans, 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 furnished,
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 il 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 anti.rent barbarities excited
by alarming accounts Of increased crime, as-
founded by details of misery and destitution
among women, to come down, and moralize the
South about slavery, and menace abolition, is
positively ludicrous.
One paper represents the condition of the
"New England wife and mother as one of un-
mitigated, unpitied toll" 1t denounces with
great reason the false sympathy for the black
slave, excited by political charatans and fanatics,
while not a I" thought is wasted on the greater
serf in our midst" Another says: Criminals,
both imported, and of nuiipe growth, are fear
fully increasing among u.s. And after giving
some details of crime, asks the question, "What
is to be done?''
Judge Parsons, of Pennsylvania, suggests
that $5O,000 spent annually for missionary pur-
poses in Philadelphia city and county, world
save more than that amount in the maintenance
of paupers, the administration Of the law, and
the pay of police.
These, and many other confessions of the
moral results of the disorganizing system Of
pursuing happiness in the North, only show us
more and more clearly that il is arriving by slow
yet sure steps, at that glorious condition Of an.
archy which will necessitate the imitation Of the
arbitrary government of Europe, and the loss oi
that liberty 80 much boosted Of
II may well be asked, whether state Of so.
ciety producing such results is free one! We
deny it, There is no freedom but where every
individual is cared for and can live easily with.
out being overworked. The black man in the
South is more free than the white man in the
North, who tolls until his system is exhausted
and premature decay produced. More free, we
assert than those who
Against their brethren turn unnatural arms"
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 Of sin-'
or sink to the lowest levels, despised, sghted
and condemned.
The South, then, which takes care OF it,
workers, and leaves abundant room for the ener.
getc action Of the rest, may well claim the atten.
tion, and exercise the reflection OF philanthro.
pists. It will not pretend that its system is
rerfect--but II does not bonst upon pretences 10
liberty which are mere words Of deception, as
in the passage first quoted. II has facts In its
r.vo. and ia;,,s ,,,;th raason fair con sdarafion
Death Of Beverly Tucker, Esq.
We are panied TO announce the death Of BEv.
ERLY TUCKER, esq, late professor Of law In
William and Mary Cnllena His domestic lie