The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-11-24

St&N4 "A ttiNN t+ ~ - 1897 AtA a.
hoss Enarl.s na g
lho York Herald, comnaIir up she
s lon ana lhe hereditary amb| au g
tie Cars 20 carr oir conauening arms thR
osphoe nd ancle, causa fof pas-
sna llle beto en Russia odd
Ining q the Norsn
home "a Gle happi regions q
South Referring 9 tllo poliaeal reason, the
stare policy which has VIGOROUSLY aetuated the
successors at katherine ii ISL their transactions
with he Ottoman lower. Die writer says:
I3at there Is something under tEis, aud older
thaa R0nonolls themaol the instlneElVe
turning d the human race towards the South
the pres ure 81 The population, ct az times rom
icy regions of the North from snow field, sandy
waste aud dismal swamp towards sunlit hills rich
plains. the vineyard, the orange grove, blue air
ton changes he desire Of change ranailis. In
one age a0maaic ribe, carrying It's household
goods driving its cattle Oh before comes down
from the great Steppes. Ages later, Dk-
raine horde mounted and armed, that rolls down
the corn lands Of the Crimea, and dasles itself
like tide against the rocky barriers of the Can
casus. falling back ID broken poWe1less Wayeets.
stu further down, the tribe. the horde isofga-
nized aud differed after European nlodes Its
march IS ammo led By diplomatic agents and its
advance celebrated hy religious rites. But It is
nevertheless tie old erupfion- forced by Old
causes The fr0skbitten citizen Of St Petersburg
dreams Of the gorgeous climate Of Constantino-
pie, as the Goth ia lis forrest dreamed Of Indian
vino gardens; the Injuries Of Pera, the sunlit
shores Of the Bosphorus, have the same power III
the imagination Of 3 Russian woman Is tie re-
ports of the surprising poap and glitter Of I'M
perla Life had on the fancy Of Yandal savages
striving with arid nature for scanty subsistence
This IS undoubtedly, the popular view Of the
case,and embraces notion respecting tie North
ern barhariansD which has had popular accepta-
ton for thousand years. The Gaals and Ger
mans, tie Cloths and Vandals, have given mems
minds set ii the matter; and the North has al
ways been regarded As the rude cradle Of still
ruder races born for no other purpose than to
hunger after Southern possessions, md to crafty
the fierce Instinct, at successive eras, by Eruption
and conquest. The ancients used to speak, as
modern poets have written, of tie 'teening North =
as If there, amid cold and desoIation nature, Or
at least human nature, we're m7re prolific than ii
more favorable elimes; and few have paused to
consider the Inconsistency 81 that belief. 81 to
weigh tie doubt aiieultes which 1eset every.
och 81 ha Does NoIih 81
did em with rednlillant populations Is
it natural and essential Characteristic Of the poo
pie q the North that they should pine to exchange
their lYanps andIorests for the gardens and vine
yards 81 tie southg Were the national inigra-
lions Of ancient times, by which Southern Europe
vas often overwhelmed By torrents Of strange
sas aps due 70 tide whose first upheavalH
he North Were the Northern bar
whom history tells Us So much, bar
the North after all7 Al these qaes-
t Of but one answer, which IS ii the
and one cannot ponder the subject With
sring 81 the singular uniYersaIity ana
lance Of which is nothing better than
] chimera sd ion. The Russians may eovet
md mako not likely to prove success
ID descent upsn oonstagtinople; but We are not
% infer that The canse has any connection with
he reason assigned 81 the writer quoted, q to
,elieYe, IS be docs that We see IN the invasion,
new chapter il tha history of Northern barbaric
rrupti0n.
Nothing is more idle than ofion of the
Northern races being deficient neut to
heir native cIines. The fact IS iousIy the
opposite The love Of the Ieelanders for their
miserable Island, rock Of ice and cinders, pro-
erbial. Even the starving Esqninaux marvel
hat men should be willing to exist ia those green
i'd sunny regions where there are "a ioc-holes 70
watch over for seals, and whale blubber IS q lgxr-
J Of tia table unknown. Are Laps ana Finland
Is ever seen voluntarily changing their abodes2-
+ changing them to So South DO they--or
yen Danes and u constitute any con.
iderable portion Of the euaigrants who seek a
Apply home il tie United statesg The disposi-
ion IS wanting the force ana numbers are
lgs and i s perfectly true, however contrary to
istory It may seem. chat neither Europe nor any
ther portion Of tue world has yet suffered from
BE- Eruption Of any real Northern barbarians.
lhe Idle Is on tie other horse Il IS tie North
p races which have suffered from the irruptions
{ Southern barbarians The Laps, and Fins,
Cd Esquiraux above mint TONED arc the only gen
me relics Of the aboriginal Northern tribes; and
they haunt tie borders of the Polar sea, ii is
seause they have been driven from tieir lands BY
ivaders from tie South. who now occupy them
conquer0Is
However We may choose % adhere to ancient
mes and epithets il IS perfectly wen known that
e barbaians who invaded Europe il ancient
mes were not properly speaking, Northern bar
lrians tier origin and native homes, ii Ell n
ances beng g the tenlpeT q rigions Of Central
81 xast table land q tlle Altai chain
mountains tending from he ra 81 the
moor and tie Pacific 81 tie East g he CAS-.