The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-01
From The .Ne,o Orleans Picay,ne.
The Russians of the South.

" But the honorable Secretary and the olner
gentlemen who sell their men to work on the
cotton plantations and their women for some
thing worse"
Hem. All. Did you ever meet Russian
In your own country, meanp -(Engan
eyes, | met one at dinner once"
"Did you go out Of the way to be uncivil 10
him, because he owned serfs p
"No, but don't go out Of my way to be par
ticularly genial with him"
Exactly The cases are precisely parallel.
The Southerners are our Russians. They come
up to the North to be civilized; they send their
boys here to be educated they spend good
deal of money here. We are civil to them, but
not over genal-some Of u.s. at least are not.
This precious extract is from an article IN
Fraziers Magazine, Nondon,) called Catching
n Lion, by a New Yorker" and republlshed in
Stringer g. Townsend's International Monthly
Magazine, November, 1850. We doubt not the
source of the article the pen-holder out OF
which " this dainty driblet ran," was held in the
so-called Metropolis of the Union. There
are natty phrases, cant terms and :" ear marks
enough to show that the writer knew the To-
caity well although he may be one OF those
ink. pot bandits from England, who migrate to
New York end hire out teir pens for living !;
or possibly genuine American, honestly be-
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many in the North towards the Russians"
of the South, is duly described in our extract,
will not bear denial among those who have lived
much in the North especially with the teachers
and literary circles. Let the paternity of the ex
tract then be either alien or domestic, we believe
the ideas developed to be those OF n somewhat
influential class Of our own countrymen, and
shall so consider them. That there Is a ludc-
rous tone of annoyance, and n lordly disdain of
each other in the literary cliques OF the three
great Northern cities has long been evident to
The outsiders The Mutual Admiration So
4iety" of Boston, an odd mix Of clergymen who
NEEDLE least of all with divine things, rampant
old maids and sweet singing poets-hold the tar,
ialow, calico and Wall street aristocracy, whom
Willis has scented with essences and baptized
into Japonicadom," kid gloves and French
patents, in great contempt. The huge pumpkin
regards its brother vegetable, the "Dutch cab
bage," with eye askant and rolls over to the
other side. Meanwhile the philosophical So.
ciety" clique of Philadelphia now and then dip
their fingers into Uncle Sans mint, and dilate
largely on the days when the right-angled city
was not altogether provincial. Curious it is in
deed, to behold "Whistar-p party at this latter
home of all the talents, grave professions, cru
dite editors (sometmes,) potential olhceholders,
and sucking poets, gather over the grooming ia
BILE of OYSTERS terapin and chicken salad and
settle the fate of doctors, medical schools, maya
zines sind humble asprants to 'the club" which
laborious duty done, the lucky recipients of the
"feed of the lions" may at times, low down in
the small hours, be seen following irregular
curves round right-angled corners and have been
known TO go off at a tangent over the curb
stone!
"These be your gods oh Israel" To these
sets of worthies-to Cambridge and Yale, to
Saratoga and Broadway, to the medical schools
of philadelp hia-do we, the Russians Of the
South, 90 yearly to be civilized and educated
| We spend our money there; "argal," we are
ciyilly treated, but not geniaIly. Oh. no, of
course not But our dollars are genial enough
! Now, without abiding to the Islander on
slavery implied in the commencement of the eX.
tract, or giving undue importance to the imper-
Thence of its writer, we ask our readers if there
is never to be time when q South will be in
dependent in mind, society, and manufactures
| WHY NAV not New Orleans, by car ing out her
contemplated improvements, stand forth the ex-
moment of Southern civilization Are our col
| legcs always to be e0ete, and our schools hot
| beds for Northern universities Have we no
self respect which will spare those who think
with the magazine contributor, the need ofapolo-
giving for keeping our company! 1t is useless
to shy such feelings 90 not exist. They do
and the evidence of the catalogues of Northern
colleges the millinery bills of Southern ladies',
the rush of Southern planters to Northern wa
tering places, and the publication of such articles
in European magazine of note, copied for
home circulation into popular New York peri
odical We have no desire to fan the present
sectional excitement; and, so far as that is con-
cerned we can afford to laugh at the stories Of
"chaining negroes at night in gin houses; and
feeding them on boiled cotton-seed," of Secre-
tares of the Cabinet at Washington vending
their slaves at New Orleans for prostitution !;
| and similar amiable stories OF the Hutchinson
! family, Whittier, Russell Lowell, and other Alb
| clifton poets. But we are earnest for total
| secession in matters OF education, and for indie
pendent thought on what is bestfor Southern
manners and interests. A few more kicks in
the face like the one we have copied. and posi-
| bly, we may have a beginning made at home lit
erature and our planters will discover that the
South Is genial as well in summer as in win
ter.
The editor of the Picayune, commenting on
this article says -
1t is understood, we believe, that these papers
are written by Charles A. Brsted, grandson of
the late I'm Jaorh Aslor, and heir Of no incon
Sdt rable part Of MS wealth., lie N tne same
parsonage who not long ago appealed to Eng
land and America, against the Injuries, inflicted
upon "American hospitality" in his pers n, by
the rcfus of the Honorable Mr. Law, mem
her Of Parliament, To rrpay some money which
| Mr. Bristed had lent in New York to the son Of
! Mr. Law, n scape grace whom the toadies Of
| New York hnd lionized rs a sprig of nobility
Mr.. Bristed knows MS much Of the feelings of
the North as he does Of the intellectual and 500
ca state Of the South, and that is about what
he can gather within the walls of the brown
stone palaces on the Fifth avenue, in which p r.
venues gather themselves in exclusive uote-ies,
and encourage each other to forget that they
live in Republic. He has taken up his resi-
dence in Paris, we believe, rs better suited to
his tastes as a man of exquisite re6nements than
even the uppcrmost circles of New York prcten-
sion.
FACE Som IN MIcmGAN.-The Tribune foots
up the result of the late Congressional cleo
ton in Michigan as follows Wing and Free
soil vote, 30,872; Democratic, 29,249 Wing
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