Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1854-03-16

and took lessons from them, Cor such is the
relation of the southern child 10 age. This
may explain somewhat Of the ascendancy
and power Of the southern men on the floors
Of Congress, notwithstanding their numerl-
cal inferioriiy.
But why are there no other exhibitions
Of the southern mans intellectual vitality ?
One reason is that the conquest of nature
in new country absorbs much Of his ener-
gies but that is not the only reason for it
is equally true Of the Nor,h, where there
is a passion for literature which is seized
and driven without any regard to conse-
quences. Here books pour annually by
thousands :; but, at the North, there is COM
paratively lille social life-,he southern
man takes it out in talk. Visits from whole
families, for days and weeks, are the south
ern custom; in the delicious intercourse Of
the long summer evenings, in festive, but
calm and entirely nntroubled scene, you may
listen TO discourse that would delight you
bey ond measure, from men, women, and al
mos, children, for talking comes almos, as a
gft TO the southern man. There is no nasal
twang no "bu," nor ''if"-,hose northern
tion, like the gliding Of brook. No twad-
die of senlimentalism restrains the merry
laugh end The quaint conceit.
Such is the perfume in which the though.
of the South exbales itself. !. is not brought
into the marketas means TO get bread there
fore there is beauty, freshness, an aroma
about j. that you seldom meet in books
Men at the South look on The northern
book max ing or writing diseases as danger
Gus TO the country. The time will come
when men will no. have 10 write books for
bread, then we shall see the spontaneous
outburst of our literature. make The fol-
lowing allusion not politically but as bring
ing ou, a trait of his character: Near his
palatial mansion, the proper residence for
him and his children, (from which the
stranger is never sent away with the infor-
nation tha, there is tavern two miles dis
tan,,) there is village Of matched cabins.
Women and men are returning cheerfully
from their labor, happy children run out of
the huls TO meet them. One is frlghlfu
old black woman, from whom one of your
children would run in flight; his child
clings to her with affection. Between him
and this unsigh,ly old woman there is tie
Of sympathy and love which binds black to
white by thousand bonds which people
of the North cannot realize. She was his
nurse perhaps his mothers also.
His boys play with these of his people,
wres.le with them, fair trial of manly
strength, which farther nor overseer con-
trolls. The masters child is treated as a
lord, but is dearer to them than their own
children. This boy grows up he is bound
to provide for the mental, moral and physi-
cal welfare of his people bound TO provide
them with teachers of the way to heaven.
Almos. every large plantation ] am &C
quain'ed with, has its religious services, lis
catechetical instructor in religion its reli-
gious wants are attended to even on week
days, and never deferred even to NEE, the
exigencies Of the harvest. Those people
love their master and his family. They
would willingly give their lives for them.
Thus there is opened peculiar phase in
The southern mans life which we here and
people in other countries cannot undertand.
They are not slrocks and stones TO him !;
they are his property, but they have claim
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allow. This is no defence of the institution
Of Slavery, nor of his character, that defence
he is able to make for himself at the pro-
per time, and leave him TO make it. have
but given an illustration TO aid your percep-
,ion Of the southern man. lie thus has his
affections bound up in his domestic circle.
The people of the North, though not So
cial, yet live much publicly : large beques,s
to public objects, missions to the ends of
The earth characterize them. Perhaps while
they see the mote in a brother's eye, they
neglect the beam in their own; perhaps
their spmpa'hies, being for remote objects,
are sometimes misplaced bu. the southern
man has the heather on his estate, the suf-
fering and the sorrowful about him end to-
wards them his sympa,hies become active.
1t is said he gives from impulse and irregu-
larly. do no, dispute it, nor undervaIue
principle !; yet think il is well 10 have a
hear. back of your charity. This man has
faults as we'll as virtues. Al times he is la
zy, negligent, hot-empered, ex,ravsgsnt in
speech and act. He gets up no cases of
Grim. con. or libel bis personal prowess
settles such things. This is not always the
best plan yet there are times when rash
ness is more to be trusted than prudence,
and there are some wrongs which the law
cannot redress. There public opinion hon
ors private opinion, and feelings find the lar
gest utterance. And if there be extravaganza
there in individual, may there not be here in
social action
This man, fond of The pistol, fond of drink
Who runs belimes into excuses which he
scpen,s during lile-Ihis man is your bIo-