North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-06-21
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Recommendations Of the Charleston News
u KEY WEST, (Fla.) June 8, 1851.
This ia s1nbaticslly the dun season of this .sde-
tronnlis Of South Florida" All kinds of business
have ceased to be profitable, and Ploddng hn.
gmanity; having grubbed through the w inter and 4
SprnS iswingng its butterfly way to the gay North
10 recnperate after year as the warm season.
hundreds of our people leave US thus, as
regularly as wild ducks or swallows.
The annual expenditure Of the people of the South
ern States upon Northern trips of pleasure, purely
has been estimated at million of dollars. Nothing
can more forcibly illustrate the dominion Of fashions
In no respect the Northern Summer resorts or
watering places desirable than similar places at
the South and West; and we might mention. very
many, besides the Kentucky Springs and Mammoth
Cave. Pascagolla, Point Clear, Old Point, and the
Springs in Georgia. South Carolina, North Carolina
and Virginia, which, apart from fashion, are more
beneficial, agreeable, accessible and economical to
Southrons. as ii
! Fraternal warm and undoubted affection, in bye
gone years, linked together Northern and Southern
hearts; affection which planted and which
grew up amidst common dangers and sacrihces, and
the enjoyment Of equal political rights and privileges
The Summer tide OF visitors, from South to North,
was the natural result of this affections and fashion,
stamped, with her all approving hand, the practice OF
thus annually mingling with Northern brothers.
| 1t was good fashion then and the stream flowed
naturally from generous source but, like many
others, has continund and seems destined to con-
tinue to flow in augmented food, though the foun-
tain may be drying up, and though those who
were brothers may have degenerated into second
cousins.
terms of frank, manly and yet aectionate appeal and
warning, lose half their effect fall unheeded upon
the addressed. when thousands of people
exhibiting their gay and happy faces, and lavishing
their wealth from the kennebeck 10 the Delaware,
giving the lie every thing like Southern discomfort
or complaint This is sad fashion, and one which
Southerners, at this moment, would more honor in
the breach than the observance" al.. as-
Apart from the common sense view which must be
! taken of the advantages which the South would de-
rive from the expenditure of this fund at home, il
cannot escape that the sudden reux of this tide of
Northern travel would, to Northern minds, be I'M
mistakable proof of Southern feeling If the South
ern people must travel and spend their money, let
Potomac, and the good results would be apparent at
Ionce. Identity of interests and sentiment, and OPP
portunity for consultation and interchange of views,
would result in general to the meas
ures best adapted the times and for this union of
sentiment amongst her children must the South now
steadily labor. Parties at the North distinct
as the waves; yet upon the question vital TO the
South, they united and one, the
| Southern Legislatures and Conventions will vain
ly meet, resolve and complain, during the Winter
months, long their numbers spend their Sum-
ners at the NORTH The unuored children of the for
est suddenly abandon the abodes and walks Of the
pale faces, when about to break the pipe of peace
and the pioneer and squatter, when they find their
wigwams lonely, know that they are in earnest
At the commencement of troubles with the
mother country, franklin closed letter to who
had, in England, been his warm friend, somewhat in
this style - Our countries al hence
forth you my enemy, and respectfully, Yours
Ben franklin" But, {" there giants in those
days." l..