New-York daily tribune., 1854-05-30
NORTH AND SOUTH.
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the columns of the great oracles OF savedrving but
| we have rarely met with more instructive than
the following from The Richmond Enquirer
The relations between the North and the South are
very analogous those which subslsed between Greece
ard the Roman Empire after the subugation OF Achaa
bv the Consul Nummius. The dignity and energy OF the
| Roman character conspicuous IN war and IN politics,
were not easily tanned and adjusted to the arts OF industry
and literature The degenerate and plant Greeks, on the
conrary exceed the handicraft and polite professions
We learn from the vigorous nyective OF Juyena, that
thev were the most useful and capable of servants,
whether pimps professors of rhetoric Obsequious,
dexterou ard ready, the versatile Greeks monopozed
the business of teaching publishing and manufacturing
! in the Roman Empire-allcwng their masters ample
leisure for the service of the State in the Senate or in the
field The people of the northern States OF this Coneder
acy exhibit the aptitude for the arts of industry
! They excel clerks, mechanics and tradesmen and
they have monopolzed the business of teaching publish
| ing, and pe6dling.
Considering the habitual Difference Of the northern
doughfaces to southern presumption and trucuence,
we are not ready to be surprised at anything in the
way of insult in return for all that the North has done
to sustain the political supremacy of the South The
above, therefore, is in perfect keeping with sundry
antecedents and has in it truth which might well
sting with shame the class of persons to whom it fits.
There s indeed, class at the North whose religion
! has been apty described Commercial Chris
'tanity," who are "pliant Greeks" and "pmps'
to the South sObsequious, dexterous and ready to
sell their very souls to whoever be cheated into
buying so false a commodity. These men are apt to
be dealers in cotton molasses or tobacco great
saviors of the Union, haers of agitation and of hui
manty, rending their opinions makeweights to
their merchandise. OF this loathsome description
of creatures we have full supply in the great
commercial Cities, where every vice and detormity
resorts for profit and conceament But, thank God,
they are few and feeble compared with the uncor-
rupted and unpurchased millions who till their own
farms and toll in their workshops, and who
know what it is to vote for truth and justice, and
their honest convictions. On these millions the
hichborn aristocrat" of Virginia looks down with
equal contempt making the fatal bunder of confound
ing the sons of labor with the prostitutes of COM
merce. This is not nor surprising. That men
who do not work should despise those who do is
fashion as old as society. He shall serve his
.'brethren"-and get spit upon and kicked for his
pains Virginia selling and sweating negroes, or
drawing on the blue book for ratons, is of
the "impersonation of the high-born aristocracy,"
and the extract we have given is consOnant with such
claims But let us look little further into the ideal
which Virginia sets up for herself
The classic Enquirer introduces us to Mummius,
character so happy in quotation for chiyalrc Illus
tration that we must describe him. Mummius was
brutal Copsul-a barbarian-mOre advanced perhaps
than men who sell their own sons and daughters in
Virginia-but still barbarian. Not respecting the
grandeur or glory of Athens, and having force at
his command greater than that little Republic could
oppose to him, she fell. Having conquered her. the
fret thing do to rob her. according to the in
variable rule of chiyalry. Not even the statuesque
gods whereon genius had wreaked its holiest fires,
were spared, and Mmmus superintended the work
of brigandage on the temple itself. An evidence of
bis chvalric culture commend to the southern
ehiyalry whose art-productions are fully equal to
those Of the Romans at that period. When the
Atbenian porers removing the treasures Of the
temple Mummius told them if they broke <he statues
they sheuld make others. o Phidias Mummius
was chlyalrc gentleman of the true steel The
dignity and energy of the Roman character, con-
"'peuous in war and in politics, were not easily
tanned and adjusted to the arts of industry and lit
erature." So it seems, by the above anecdote, and
that the majority of the great of the South have
much acquaintance with art Mummus we fully
believe. The Greeks it seemed toiled, and allowed
their masters ample leisure for the service of the
State, in the Senate in the field" Of course the
analogy between this and the North and the South is
perfect The people of the free States work. and al
low tltH SOUTHERN masters ample leisure lOr SER
vice of the State in the Senate the ield. True to
tie letter. Our national legislation down TO 1850
proves it. The degradation Of the North seemed to
have touched bottom about lo50-but there was
lower deep yet unsounded, shown in the pas
sage Of the Ksnsas-Nebrsska bill. Whether there is
anything yet lower are not prepared to say. How
ever, il is we'll TO know what is thought Of the
NOrtherners who coalesee with the Southern ogarehs
and find no work too mean for execution.
Politics and fighting, however did for the Roman
Empire what they doing for the south-they sent
il to perditiOn Not even Grecian art and industry
could save it. AS Empire spread heroes had to be
rewarded and little by little slave labor usurped the
place of free The slaves, originally one fifteenth
portion Of the population, became in due time one
half and seryile wars and the crucfXion of army
Of gadiaors whose dying shreks ye. seem to pierce
tie Of the centuries marked the decay and cor
ruption of the Roman model of the southern aris-
tocraCy. That the southern States would not have
been saved from st. Domingo massacre without the
SUI port moral and material Of the northern may well
he believed for all history teaches that blood wipes
cut tyranny But the humanitarian tendencies of the
North-its huge array of labor-saving maehnery-its
cotton gin, whose inventor is of more value to the
| South than ell her potcians-its steamboats-wth-
out which the INSTRUMENTATION Of the South would