The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-11

been wretched themselves, and made others -.
But irflDite wisdom has ordered Ii much better.
The adult negro il morally and physically .
full grown chiA-a child's heart in q mans bo-
dy; Intellectually, he has the feminine peculiari-
ties; and like the child and the woman, he
is made for obedience, and readily yields It.
Selfg0vernment terrifes him, although ne Is
eager to be free from labor; and If you eman-
cipate him he throws down the reins to his
vices, till disease cuts him short, or the law
gives him jailer instead Of master. think
It is better tor him to luxuriste and multiply
on Southern plantation, in his own cottage,
than to expire in Northern hospital or rot in
q Northern jail.
The black laborer at the South gives his mas
ter one thing which the free white lab0rer does
not-a control over his choice of laboring; and
he gets one thing in return, or rather many
things, which the white laborer does not need,
but which be does-foresight, calculation, pro-
vision tor the future, and will to labor at all.
The last is precious wage, which enn0bles
the black man, not degrades him. You might
as well say that the soldier is degraded by the
discipline which inspires him with the courage
and even with the intelligence of his officer, as
the negro by that which imparts to him the in
dustry, and in great degree tho intelligence
of the white. Virtues obtained by participa-
ton are real virtues, take it, or else the SOL
diers Of Cesar and Napoleon ought not to be
called brave. The sort Of organization which
Is necessary for different races of men is
different. When you see that under one
organization race fourishes and increases, and
that under any other it decays and perishes
you know that the former is necessary for them.
Arithmetic, or the logic of q great battle, can't
prove thing palmer than that. The system
that ends in defeat is false and that which
wins the campaign is the true tactics /
thought so when, the day after our arrival,
little troop came to pay their respects to us
s6me four or five little black nurses, of seven,
eight or nine years, holding as many more
ebony infants in their arms, with large heads
and calm features, and baby -frocks white as
snow.
the corn. rye, oats, &c. shall pay the expenses
Of the farm and feed the people, leaving the
wheat to invest. The prospect Of the corn
failing is therefore very unwelcome, especially
when it dashes from their lips the cup Of rare
opportunity, such as the present high price of
breadstutls affords Imagine the anxiety with
which, under these circumstances, the heavens
are watched when another week of drought
will destroy the crop, and three days rain at
this moment would save it. We sympathise
deeply with the wishes of those around US, and
/ never knew the time when the skyey infu-
ences interested me so much.
The society here is composed Of few fami-
lies nearly connected, whose estates border on
each other. There are, indeed, many smaller
prcprietors lying all around these, but the in
tercourse between them and the larger land
holders, though friendly, is not intimate, not
from aristocratic feeling on one side, so far as
have observed, but from the inevitable law of
social Intercourse in the country. A large
visiting acquaintance is bore anywhere, but
especially in . rural district. Owing to this
popularity there is delicious feeling of re-
tirement in this Middletown valley. Every
house in sight is the mansion of friend or re-
lative of your host; every grove that dlversi-
fies the landscape is the ornament of such a
dwelling; the woody heights Of the mountain
that encloses the beautiful country, as far as
they overlook these domains, belong to them;
if there are villages or scattered houses within
eye shot, woods conceal them, or they are
nestled and hidden in valleys. The only ele-
mcnt wanting to render the view perfect is
water, the eye of landscape.
We have been here now whole week, and
shall leave to morrow for a higher point in the
mountains shall give you an account Of
what see. RUFUS RAMBLER.