The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-08-16

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II We gave, yesterday, an account, taken
from letter to the New York Trib une, of a
recent ARRAY at Newport between the guests
and walters of the Ocean House. The account
turns out to be so far incorrect that the wait
ers taccording to the HeraId) were not Irish
men, as stated by the Tnbune's corespon.
dent. but negroes. which ogsravatcs the mat
ice teBiold.
1t will be recollected that such an alterca-
ton took place. two or three years ago, at
Cape May, which il was thought, at the time,
would effectually deter Southern gentlemen
from resoriing to that watering place ever al
forwards. And yet crowds have hocked thi'her
from the South, during the present season.
having quite forgotten, it would seem, an out
rage ofsuch comparatively recent occurrence
me TACT is that Southern people do wrong TO
60, for relaxation, sheFe The usages OF society
sanction any Insult that may be visited upon
them by the free blacks. Every where Nof'i
oil the Potomac, Cuffee assumes port anu 'o"'
so insufferably insolent, that no Southern inan
can stand il, when manifested towards hinseii'
Admitted to theoretical equality with the
whites, he actually lords it over them. in some
places, with an air of superiority. He pushes
the white pedestrian from the side walk into
the mud. He attends, in Boston and else~
where, many of the churches, and seats him.
selfin the best pews. He takes the most COM
Portable place in the railroad cars, to the ex-
clusion of ladies'. Such is Cufee when al
lowed the privilege of citizenship. He moves
about en- grand seigneur, fourishing like the
green bay tree, but diffusing around him less
agreeable odor. Now, if our Northern friends
like this department on the part OF Cuffee, let
them fraternse with him freely. For our
selves, we do not. Though it may argue a
somew hat fastidious taste, we like not in Au-
gust to have Cuf1ee "be,wixt the wind and our
nobility" And therefore it is that we prefer
10 remain in a region where the relation which
nature ,rself has fixed between the white and
the black races is properly observed.
II Southerners would reflect upon the utter
" defenceless position in which they place
themselves at Northern watering places, we
are sure they would not flock thither so gre
gariously. In this instance, consider what
would have been the result if MIR. Yerger had
shot down and killed one of these insolent
black scoundrels-as, beyond a question, he
would have been fully justified in doing
Why, he would have been instantly arrested
by the civil authority and sent to Jail to await
his trial. No legal continuance could have
succeeded to admit him TO bail. And when the
trial came on, he would most probably have
been condemned by an anti slavery Court anc
Jury, to be hung. This is an awkward thing
TO consider, no doubt, but what method does
any one think Of, for escaping il? Public
opinion, which always overawes the Courts, i
on the side of the negro, public sympathy
which inevitably sways the jury, would he ex
ercised in his behalf, and what hope might b.
INDUCED, think you, of pardon from Yankee
Governor? 1t would be we'll for Southern
gentlemen to think of these unpleasant thing
before placing themselves in a position il
which they may any day be called upon tc
rebuke negro impertinence with the horse
the pistol.
The South itself contains section of coan
try which, for summer travel, and for the resto
ration of jaded faculties, cannot be equalled il
its attractions and advantages in the world
In the mountains of our own State we have
medicinal springs and baths which would have
made old Sir Francis Head-if he had resorted
to them instead of the Brunnens of Nassau
beside himself with delight. More than that,
we have scenery Of the most enchanting de.
scription-ranges of mountains not, indeed
piled up like summer clouds, in Alpine mag
niicence, but Astounding in the loveiest land
scapes that ever bewitched painters vision
where the atmosphere braces the frame will
youthful vigor, and clears the head for enjoy
ment. Cannot our brethren of the sum,
South find here "emple room and verge
enough" for summer rambling, that they mus
go off annually TO Newport, to Saratoga, to
Sharon, and other northern watering places?
At all events, we have one suggestion to
make before dismissng the subject. Ii is this.
Every body knows the northern hotel keepers
derive, bv far, the greater part-perhaps four
ffths-of their summer revenue from southern
tourists, and that if this were Withdrawn, most
of their establishments would have to be closed.
Every body knows, TOO, that the pocket nerve
is the most sensitive of all The Yankee organs
Of sensation. Now, if southerners are so fond
Of northern excursions that they cannot de
bar themselves forever from lettering in New
England, let them try the experiment of stay
ing away en- masse from that region for two
or three years, with view of finding out whe
Their il might not improve the tone OF society
there as TO the proper position of Cuffee. Per
haps it might. Let it be tried.
LETTER FROM GEN. PIERcE.-A letter ap.
pears in the Washington Republic, from Gen.
Pierce, in reply to one addressed TO him by
Edwin De Leon, regarding the abolition senti.