Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1854-08-16
WATERING PLACES NORTH AND
SOUTH


the cool breezes of the mountains and the de.
lightful sea bathing were more needed to re.
fresh and recruit those afflicted by sickness.
wearied by the cares Of business or ennuied by
the dull routine Of ceremonious visiting, than
the present summer. The memory of man does
not run back to a summer so remarkable for
consuming heat and desolating drought.
1t is indeed relief to quit the noise the
strife, the struggles, the heat, the dust and the
heartlessness of cities and soourn for sea-
son at one of those resorts of pleasure where
the bright, the gay, the joyous, the beautiful,
the intelligent, and the refined are wont to as,
semble. Refreshed by relaxation, invigorated
by fresh air, renovated by a change of scene,
made happy by seeing all around US happy,
recruited in body and mind, we can return to
our accustomed pursuits with increased zeal
and energy. There are but three kinds of PEG.
pie who fail to derive benefit and improvement
from such recreations. The invalid, who can
enjoy nothing the grumbler, who rails against
everything; and the unfortunate person who is
cursed with an amending holiday from year to
year. His business is to seek for new pleasures
and new scenes. With no occupation, and a plen-
ty OF money he becomes worn, wearied, and en-
nuied. New pleasures soon become stale and
fiat, new scenes unpleasant to behold, and new
acquaintance insuiierably dull. The common
laborer, who tolls from daybreak to sunset, and
lives on the plainest food is ncomparably hap
pier than he. The laborer enjoys what he
eats and drinks, sleeps soundly at night, and
is happy when Sunday comes. He puts on his
clean clothes, plays with his children, and has
an extra dish for his dinner
The watering places at the North are said to
be well attended, while those in the mountains
Of Virginia are said to be unusually crowded
with visitors from every part of the country.
The cities are deserted. All who can find it
convenient to quit their business, all who have
the strength TO travel and the means to defray
the expenses of a journey have hurried off to
the country. In many cities the cholera panic
has frightened off many. From what we can
learn comparatively few southern people have
visited the Northern watering places the present
season. Most of the pleasure-seekers from the
remote south have focked to the mountains of
Virginia or to other springs in the Southern
States. Two causes have contributed to this.
One is, that when Southern families go from
home to spend the sickly season they always
have TRASHY and favorite servants to carry with
them, to whom the children are accustomed
and attached. If they go North, the abolition.
lists, who are always on the lookout, flock
around them like buzzards around q carcass
They either raise row, and abuse and threaten
the master, or else they steal away the slave,
whether willing or not to go with them. Any
and break up the whole pleasure of the trip.
Besides, it would be attended with great ex-
pense, and very probably with bloodshed.
The other cause is this that the abolitionzed
servants at some of the watering places of the
North have great prejudice against Southern
ems, and manifest that prejudice in many dis.
agreeable forms. There is a third cause that
operates with considerable effect at this time
1t is the great hulla-bullu that has been raised,
throughout the whole North, against the South
since the passage Of the Nebraska BILL So far
as Southern support for the present season
is concerned, we have no doubt that the aboli.
ton madness has deeply injured it at one place.
We refer to Saratoga, at which famous and pop.
uar place of resort the aboltionists and free.
sellers have advertised to hold their great fusion
convention. 1t cannot be doubted that these
things have tended to divert from the North
the great tide Of Southern peasure.seekers.
1t is painful to contemplate such a state Of
things. We regret deeply the necessity of al
luding to them. 1t is melancholy to think, that
fanatics and madmen should thus, even in the
matter of pleasure-seeking, raise barrier be.
tween the Northern and Southern States. In.
stead of being one people, common brother
hood, they have divided and separated us. The
Northerner may take his family and travel all
through the South, carrying what property he
pleases, and, if respectable man, will be
treated with consideration and kindness. But
the Southerner, who takes his servant to the
North, is insulted, outraged, and plundered.
People may quarrel about politics and yet
remain friends, but social quarrels are sure to
end in arrangement and bitterness. There is
a great responsibility resting on the good and
educated men Of the North. That response.
bility will not be discharged until they rise in
mass and in majesty and put down those
wicked enemies Of their countryside aboli-
tionists.
The people of the North and the South should
know no sectional difference. The homes Of
the one should be the homes Of the other
They should mingle like brethren. They have
fought shoulder to shoulder. They have shared
disaster and triumph. They are of the same
origin. Their history is the same history. 1t
would be an outrage on the memories Of our
fathers, disgrace to the nineteenth century,
and dishonor to the American name, to suffer
a band Of frantic fanatics and unprincipled
ruffians to divide, what the patriots of the reyo
luton Joined topether-the American States