New-York daily tribune., 1854-05-30

be like that Of Europe in the middle sges and her an
rexstions impossibe-the very terocty OF northern-
made bowie knives and revolving. pistols and guns
which make the master the overmatch OF the slave
A., these have saved and given such strength 10 the
South as she now has. Take them away and would
eloouence and distractions save herl What would
the political lumber of Calhouns essays avail; or the
windy editorials Of Enquirers and Examiners and
all the other parish newspapers Of Virginia aud
Carolina Ii is most true that the South has nothing
but politicians and soldiers; of inventors, Swans
artists-men who really shape and sustain Empires
she is destitute We hear Of nothing that she pro-
duces beyond raw material and political distractions
For legal works-substantial contributions to the
science of Government-we must LOOK TO the
North-to the Kents and the Storys. The com
parison about the soldiery, however, is drawn
in the above quoted paragraph, will not answer. Most
true il is that propositions and votes to increase army
and navy come from the South, and gentlemen with
such magnificent notions of chivslry-who compare
northern laborers to the pimps of nameless houses
Are ever ready to get commissions and salaries paid
out of the pockets of the northern laborers. But
here we must stop in the parallel. Let the North
..suppy the men and the South will supply the ofi-
scers" was the word during the Revolution; and 1t
is go now. The army and navy of the United States
are recruited as far the men are concerned almost
exclusively from the North SO was it during the
Revolution. Massachusetts, gave more troops to the
American armies than all the South put together
So much for the chvaric boast aforesaid. And they
were the men who fought to say the least equal to
any others. if no. better the same being the case
among their immediate ancestors, the iron men OF
Cromwell's army who never turned their back on
foe, and who performed "impossbiites in Flanders.
As regards the fighting, willing to take up his
tory and show chapter and verse that the laboring
men of q nation, not enslayed at home have always
been nvincible against whatever foe. When the
combined armies of Europe were led by chlyalry
against the workingmen of France, commanded by
mechanics in the revolutionary wars baker and
printer sent the Duke of York bowling 10 his gods
only his MONEY CHEST, says Cobbett, being secured
in the ingorous flight. Talk not either of fighting
Romans in cont adistnctiOn to those that at Mara
.thon and Leuctra bled" to the awful wonderwars
of the reused peasantry aud artisans Of France to
the heroes of the commonwealth OF Old and New
England, to the might that ever lies in a freeman's
arm As for the sneer against the North as produc-
ing the teachers and publishers of this nation, ac
cept IL. - Literature, says Dr' VVnuSon; 10 'n0
..chief glory of nation" So thought Washington
when he entertained the idea Of National University.
So thought Jefferson when he instituted that of Char
lotteyille But il is reserved for the downward ten
dency of the Virginia mind to attack letters and the
press The teacher, the pubisher-the man who
opens the youthful mind to the uster of thought and
the amenities of lie-the man who harnessing steam
power to the oden craft of Typography, sheds as gen.
erousy spray the light of books on al-rlch
and pOor-alike only saving those crushed in the iron
grasp osspresson Fit subjects for attack from such
qudff~i.
Our northern readers should be kept aware of the
garchs and in the above extract they have another
sample.
We have shown how men who buy and sell "excel-
"ent mechanics and d" steady field hands, as they
do hogs and asses respect the people of the North.
We have exhibited the ideal of Virginia as drawn
from Mummius in the times when gladators fought
by thousands in the big numbering of the Coliseum
and the fant-hearted were driven by applications
of redhOt iron to strike and de-when four hundred
slaves under master put to death according
to general law for the crime so-called of one of
them. Blessed be such parallels We love those
dear old bits Of history chattered in the cherrup-
trebles Of chivarOus schOo-bOys who are taught so
much of Rome as she was not and repeated in the
ore roundO of mOuthng craftsmanship, or the solemn
pretenson of Oracular abstractionsm