New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-03-06
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doubted influence in moiing his person md
ser Where The summer eng,hens Itself into nine eoao
ucus months whore the da is delicious and tho ,h, 60,
spicy he growsupa especinsn Of tho physical nan
endowed with nervous vitality for he IL accu.ons al f,
bis eni eat years to the active exercsss engaged IN
oil the athletic sports of youth on foot and horsebssk
the forest and the field used t. the pistol and tho ride and
the chase. Yet in every motion there is Degree Of las
sudf surprising to these who understand not the effect
of his cline and which yet mparts degree Of ease Of
graceful eg nee rarely possessed except inhabtant
hdes swinging luxurousy in his hammock he inhaies
delicious ain hot laden ass with d. afh they leave
bis cheek the marks Of his origin and the tale is told
that TIE liver OF the southern Is altogether out Of
order Ibis Is most significant hint and the fact
contemplated by the Greeks who made the word melan
choly, which means by etymoogy. "a black or dis
astriton of intellect In the sphere Of trade whchgyes its
peculiar sharpness to that Of the northern young man be
does not realize thGt mans goods form the substance OF
his life he is surrounded by people who look up 70 bin
tor counsel kindness and support and to whom he is con
nectec by thousand ties which no northern man can
realize snd thus be acquires sort of self reliance not
such that which most Of here are acquainted with
but that which received in the Consciousness of power
and iis exercise and. in some sof, OF the right to
exercie ia power not ortifcially acquired. but
which almost as birfhright. Inhosptality Of
mind thus becomes Of the peculiar marks Of the south
eTn intellect Let thought from where il will be it
extravegont the northern mind gives !! cordial
welcome. Let star shine across the water, and il finds
element never spring in the South and it therefore
supposed that there is lack Of intellectual vigor and
literary taste theTebut erroneousy. This self reliance is
exercised in law justice and judgment s he understands
il ~ books can give him little aid in this regard the
old masters are biz hand-books and manuals But when
the time comes for the recognition of man he is not
slow in his homage At the time he has passion
for the most pbemera literature that of newspapers be-
cause they record the daily transactions Of the world and
especially because they give him political information,
for he is great politician hs daily exercise in
governing men, connects him with the statesman.
When child he probably sat the knee
othe best Of the country and took lessons from them for
UCh ia le n.ff chill IN
may explain somewhat Of the ascendancy and power of
the southern tho floors OF Congress notwithstanding
their numerical ineriory. But why there other
exhibitions of the southern mans intellectual vitality!
One reason that the conquest of nature in country
absorbs much Of his energies but that is not the only
reason for it equally true of the North. where there il
passion for literature which seized and driven without
any regard to consequence Here books pour forth an
nually by housands but toe North there is compare
lively little social lfethe southern takes il on. in
talk Visits from whole families for days and weeks,
the southern custom in the delicious intercourse of the
long summer evenings in festive, but calm and en-
tirely unoubed scene, you NAV listen to discourse that
would delight hey ond men, and
almost children for talking almost gift to the
southern man. There is no nasal twang no but nor
those northern impedimehts-but an cay How OF
conversation like the gliding OF brook No twaddle OF
senme ssn restrans the merry laugh and the quaint
cOnce Such is the perfume in which the thought of the
South exhales itself 1t is not brought into the market
a means get bread therefore there is BEAUTY, fresh
Des about it that you seldom meet in books.
Men ut the South look the northern book making or
writing disease as dangerous to the country The time
bread then shall see the spontaneous outburt OF our
literature mske the following alu.ion not politically,
but bringing out trait of his character: Near his
Children, from which the stranger is never sent
away with the niormston that there is tavern two
miles Distant there is a village of matched cabins.
Women and returning cheerfully from their
daily labor happy children out of the huts to meet
them. One is frightful old black woman. from whom
one Of your children would run in alright bis enid
clngs TO her with affection Between him aud this un
slightly old woman there is a tic OF sympathy and love
people OF the North cannot realize. She was his nurse
perhaps bis mothers also His boys play with those OF
h people wrestle with them fair tra of manly strength
which father controls The masters child is
treated lord but is dearer to them than their own
children This boy grows up he Is bound to provide tor
the mental, moral and phys steal welfare OF his people
bound TO provide them with teachers of the way to
heaven Almost every large plantation am acquainted
with has its religious services its catechetca nsructorin
week doys and deferred even to meet the exigence
Of the harvest Those people love their master and ms
family, 1heywouid willingly give their lives for them
Thus there is oIened peculiar phase in the southern
mans life which we here and people IN oiAer countries
cannot understand. They not stocks and stones to
lin; they his property, but they have clam on hs
heart which no is always willing allow. This is no de-
nse Of tie institution of Slavery nor of his character
that defense he is able 20 make for himself at tie proper
time ard leave him 10 make it. l have Dat given an
He thus has his affections bound up his domestic circle
Tie people Of the North though not social yet live very
much publicly largo requests public Objects missions
to the ends OF the earth characterize them. Perhaps wINe
they the in brothers they neglect the bea
in their own; perhaps their sympahies being for re-
mote objects are sometimes misplaced but the south.
ern nan has the heather his estate the suffering ani
the sorowiu about him. and toward them his synpa1lss
become active. II s said he gives from impulse aai II
regularly. 10 not dispute it, undervaluo principle
yet think il is well to have heart b6ck OF your charity
This has faults well virtues AT times he IS
lazy cggen hot tempered, extravagant in speech ana
act. lie gets up cases of cTin con. or libel
his personal proves settles such things ms IL
rot always the bs,t plan vet there are times when
rasbntss is to be trusted than prudence and there
wrongs which the law cannot redress There Puo
lie opinion honors private opinion aud feelings find the
largest utterauce And if there be extravaganza there
in individual may there not be here in Social action
This man. fond of the pistol fond of drink, who runs
betimes into which he repens during le-ths
is your brother only cast into different circumsan
ces In his veins the same bOOd-that blood whch
rose to the ublimest hight of virtue i'll man coming from
the South but belonging to the North George W a'mng
ton He draws hope from the same ord OF ihie ohali
we derde one another and overlook mutual excelences
Or shall We rather drop party cries. watch"ords OF
political bicotry, aud assist each other TO remedy the
wrong and establish the right The history OF We1ty
centuries is but record Of struggle between North ana
south and now they again are ptied in the l. ist
The North has prevailed and will prevail. But our ma
onal life is reconcaticn and it can be secured eah
can aid bis brotle toward this contamination deyOutiy
d" to be wished for
The lecturer was moderately apPaudsd throughout MS
addief and loudly ut the close