The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-06-21
THE SOUTH.


Bill, the feeling manifested by Southern
Democrats is any thing but that which
should characterize a Democrat or an
American citizen. That they despise
the North and her Representatives, is
apparent. The North has always sue
combed to the South, right or wrong.
They have generally done it willingly,
for the sake of the harmony of the Union.
Our motives have never been apprecia-
ted. Instead of regarding our acts as
self-sacrifcing, they invariably attribute
their success in all objects calculated to
advance southern interests, to the supe-
rior abilities of Southern Statesmen and
their unity of action. Not content with
violating their own Compromises, they
now turn round and ta9nt the North
with being only fit for clerks, mecba1e-
ics and tr0desmen-" Now, to our mind,
there is nothing disgraceful connected
with these employments, and our best
Statesmen have sprang from among these
occupations. Labor, in the North, is
honorable-in the South, dishonorable,
because Slavery degrades labor-there-
fore they taunt US with being a laboring
people. Their vain-glorious boast that
they are the Romans of this great Con-
federacy, par erceUence, is in keeping
with the high opinion they entertain of
themselves. Others, however, do notes
innate them according to their own stan
dard. The days of northern serfdom
are about numbered. The South will
discover, ere many years have rolled by,
that the Nebraska iniquity has done more
to ALLEVIATE the people of the North from
the South, than all the previous agita-
tions of the Slavery question, either in
or out of Congress.
The Richmond Enquirer, a leading
democratic paper of Firginia-whose ed
itor belongsto enc efthe " first families"
of that State-has the following in re-
gard to as:
ne IG1dIIO0S UCbhccu IIC 4NOIlu anu
the South are very analogous to those
which subsisted between Greece and the
Roman Empire after the subjugation of
Achaia by the Consul Mummits. The
dignity and energy of the Roman. char
acter, conspicuous in wal and in politics,
were not easily tanned and adjusted to
the arts of industry and literature. The
degenerate and plant Greeks, onthe con-
trary, excelled in the handicraft and po-
lite professions. We learn from the Wig
orous invective of Juyenal, that theywere
the most useful and capable of servants,
whether as pimps or professors of ,rhet-
ORIG. Obsequious, dextrous and ready,
the versatile Greeks monopolized the
usiness of teaching, publishing, and man
ufacturing in the Roman Empire-allow-
ing 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 confederaey exhibit the
same aptitude for the arts and industry.
They excel as clerks, mechanics and
tradesmen, and they have monopolized
the business of teaching, publishing, and
peddling."
If Ignorance is bliss ," these gentle
men, who have I" leisure for the service
of the State" are in possession of it.
The South has had a few prominent men
who have been justly celebrated for their
craftsmanship, and but few. The Stats
tics ofthe South, show an extraordinary
number who can neither read nor write.
But it is useless to enlarge on this top
ic. Our Southern brethren, in due time,
will probably have some general system
of education, which may enlighten their
benighted understandings.