Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1853-06-11
N. P. Willis upon Georgia.


In one OF Wiliss sketches of Southern
life and scenery, written during his visit last
spring, occurs the following notice of G cor
gia: =
"Wo were eight hour crossing South Car
olina-a dirsespectiully brief traverse, Of
which felt quite ashamed on first visit.
and crossing the Savannah river, we ascend
ed bank into the State of Georgia. This
seemed the beginning of higher platform of
land, different soil, and surfhce more un-
even and picturesque. Augusta, the town
we landed AT, looked very New English to
my eye. There was lively air about the
people in the streets, plenty of fresh paint
on the houses, new signs, bright colored
bricks, broad streets with no gruss in them,
and nn unequivocal nccustOmness to ENTER
prise in the paces of tho cnrt-horses. The
ladies whom we saw shopping looked very
inshionably dressed and metropolitan. saw
but one novelty which told of climate aud
usages different from tho North "A very cuin-
mon-lookng man strolling along lens,IreIy
IN his shirt sleeves aud gnzing into the shop
windows, but pith a negro behind him carrying
his coat! This was the nearest approach
Ind seen, out of London, to the mounted
tsiiGer: riding behind the the dandy 'swell, ;
crupper. The darkey footman was dressed
in tow.cloih jncket aud trousers, aud wore n
white felt hat with ragged rini-his black
skin underneath looking fat, shiny, and COM
iortable. The curious part of il wns &c see
the quality OF the man that could afford to he
his tnnster. lie wns himself hardly as clean
and tidy MS would he necessary To pass for
respectable in working-nInn nj the North.
Most likely he wus an eccentric specimen,
hut there was no nisgivin of his authority
ia the air of his faithful Juba.
"There must either be generally dilfus-
ed taste for parkscenery in Georgia, or there
is some local advantage in thinning out
woods, and clearing them Of underbrush,
which appeals to the common policy Of eve
ry iDhahitant. Woodlands of majestic trees
with open pasture-range beneath, were new
CT ont of sight, from one side of the State
10 the other. IL was only odd--alter seeing
these in England us appurtenances OF an
clent family estates, every aisle OF tree trunks
serving nIninly as a note of admiration 10
some famous names-to see them here doing
honor TO nobody in particular. Passing
through what might he manoriul estates OF
great magnificencc, inquire in vain for the
name of the prOprietors Nobody knew
iThose grandeur aud dignity was there waiy-
ing in the wind mud making a hillside i'm
posing. 1t was like gorifcalion going 10
waste.
81 was disappointed travelling, as one does
IN rail car, like mniled letter in an enyel-
opel not to have had the opportunity to see
a specific and undoubted specimen Of the
Georgia Cracker This is said to be the on
ly customer with whom the Yankee has no
chance-a sharper ofihe South that can out
wooden-nutmeg even a Connecticut pedler
They inhabit the sand-tracks, waste lands
aud border settlements, aud are usully de-
scribed as whie-headed, yellow-skinned, ,lean
and depraved out OF missionary reach. How
they come by the sngacily with which they
squat, swindle, evade the law, aud enjoy an
Arab freedom of range, aud what is their
constituent genealogy, wish some Audubon
would ornilhologize."