The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1853-11-15
RICHM OND. VA
TUESDAY MORNING. NoyruRrp,s -.
SOUTHERN MIGRATIoNs ToTaE NoRTE


According to q statisticaltable recently pub.
iished, it is computed that Southerners have
spent s5,0o0,o00, the past summer, in North
ern travel. Commenting upon this fact the
New York Times remarks that "the social and
moral effect of this annual migration can
scarcely be appreciated. Associations spring
up friendships are formed opinions inter
changed and prejudices corrected; similar
tastes are cultivated, and homogeneousness
promoted by this free and unrestrained in.
tereourse. Whatever strength there NAV be
In our political ties and inthose relations that
are founded in business necessities, it is very
obvious that the highest Importance is to be
attributed TO those social interchanges, which
make us favorably acquainted with one ano-
ther. Ignorance is the most efficient ally of
malice and pride. Whatw want Emost is a
reliable knowledge of all sections of the
country, and as this is obtained, we shall see
the utter folly of indulging the evil tempers
that always characterize sectional vanity
The free intercourse of domestic life is essen
tial to this end"
The Times adds:
'But step further. The irresistible tendency of
things is toward Capitalization at the North Sara
toga, Newport. Nahant, Niagara, Hudson River and
White Mountains are here. Fashion, taste wealth
ambition, talent. viii come to them Business men,
Tor the most part are intimately connected with
YORK and Boston 1t is so too, with religious organi-
xations educational facilities and general
The South has the White Sulphur, and
hundred other mineral Springs, the meanest
Of them possessing more majestic scenery,
more genial and salubrious climate and more
natural attractions of every kind than Sara
toga; she has her own Old Point, Hampton,
and fifty other pleasant resorts on her extend
ed line of sea coast she has noble rivers of
her own, and her own peerless Blue Ridge
and Alleghanies, but all these her people ha-
bituaIy neglect for N Northern watering places,
which have nothing to recommend them but
fashion and crowd. They leave behind
them the simple, hearty and pure atmosphere
OF Southern social life. and exchange it for
the hollow and heartless thing called Life at
the Springs,-which is miserable compound
of foreign manners, uniting the hauteur of
English and the depravity of French So
ciety.
The eulogium of the New York paper upon
the moral effect of this annual migration is
very pretty, but, it would be just as true, if
the migration flowed the other way, move
ment which the Northern press is too smart in
any way to countenance. The Northern peo-
pie are much more ignorant of the state of
things at the South than are Southern men of
Northern affairs We have no "Uncle Toms
circulated in our community for the express
purpose ofexciting prejudice andhate against
Northern society, and we have no Seward
politicians who deliberately seek to advance
their own fortunes upon the ruins of Northern
institutions. Hence it would have an excel
lent effect for Northern men to visit the South
and see for themselves how different is the
real state of things in the Southern States from
that which they have supposed to exist. But
this sort of social interchange would not suit
either the political or speculating spirit of our
Northern brethren.
We cannot but admire the humble, forgiv
ing, childlike and submissive spirit which
leads Southern men to repay all the indigni-
ties and wrongs they have received from Nor
thern hands by patronizing every branch of
Northern industry and spending five millions
year at Northern watering places. The un-
derground railroad takes the negroes and the
overground railroad carries their masters to
the same inviting latitudes. The greater the
business done by the lower branch, the heav-
ier is the travel on the upper. The more
Mrs. Stowe and her allies of the press and
pulpit abus us, the faster and the thicker we
hurry on to stop the mouths of our calumnia-
tors with a shower of gold.
''Fair sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last;
You spurn'd me such day, another time
You cald me dog; for these courteses
Iulend you thus much monies"