Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1855-08-03

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| CJUyicr expresses its oninions as follows
owe bovo srh,,i,.o1 ;.l..,. .,
il is chocrir,, ,n G,'j l., ... 'i. w" 'o"g an
cations and rro,n;soa ar 10y ao''"' .to ii'I
assertion or Soutiar,, Ca.; 'li''V many 7'I'
zone bv ,vbon - ,,.a, I,, ~ 'i'hc w
s,v tLat {. CIo,on,, .''''oi poIu enough
| bnIn .. o,rsoi'o, : ~ 'u cVi', pu, we canno
we trust ,rLoroi,, ','J ,'i, i'as "iNo gone ny
| ovon ov,I,,,I i w o'"i" w e't's"eu an,
hnortod doc,,'o "Po'oHieS anu n"''
rord;,li,. J;1 o"' '"oSc ""o' ho"e!'
.tr,non,.. 'lol.V,ou' uIo from hecessitl
| cbonto d,s,;,, P''"'''i PoSi''oh anu its IN
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ovor,. l., I;,. o,''r' Incre'ore' we repeat a
scIc-ossar.;''.'" y, P'opcr sIi-resPect an'
Snrth o,,J 'm WI ~ par' OF 'hc NINA OF th'
ded aryury or In..a :" J eaJ" l.siancp tne au
The practical and larrc.minded statesman.
snip OF the South has long since outgrowr
wv saEdIles ana tlnkering cXpedients of the
ready modo and io IoLa,3 MIu,u keoP CONSTITUTION
thrust in the spirit Of indiscriminate y rro o.
nagandism on all nations, and peoples, and
,o,,-i. ,.,eccSS'ty is iald on us as on every
task and trnst nr soif ,'o,.or WV, '"u 5ivI.
out our destiny, and to achieve our own
Gnr'er' We ask no mora7--we cannot take
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be a cur;omsI,, ;..t.a.; p.n ~ ! "Uuiu
and present tho modes in which literature
ana art, as distinguished from the mere
.P'oP"S ana time-serylng utteranccs or can't
the negro ;nd;yidnoii,, and o1nt;..ot,. T.,
is n topic of singular importance. md this os-
pect OF the question has been too often over
.'.l. .ooheu IN the prominence OF merely local or
IF tho snL;oct Louarn az 10 Iar.iruiar iac'l
element Of literature and Art-ond The
question cannot now admit a doubt--it be-
comes important to us OF the South, to the
Iitcrotnro shenid hn hn' - Itte"' u'"o SUN
healthful and snontaneous dovclonmont y
Tho MIA, tbor or .Lo c,,., ..,.o "a.
rethcr. seems to bo sto oors;do, s,o-or,,
as essential to the norfoct idoo1 orro,;,otio,,
of Society. an Ultimate GOOD in ;tsolf A
svstcm Of oducotion odo,,.od :. .Lo .,;.,
tion and nornotro,ion or .t,;s 60, - c..;....
Iitor,t,iro or1 A.. a, H.
adj poIi,ior 90 ocu.o,,
This il ,n,,s+ ho oa.c,, -.,.
no,y undor tbo en-, r. '''7
its norts 1ndoo1 a.. ;I.a va
of society "a m rlt;no,o roai;sa
BILE form Good nor 20 o~to,1 .'.''@''
Even anon, tbo o,oio,.1 -.
dental and emn;ricol ond o,.onn,.',o.
rcssfnI corston,I,, a..o.1,i ...t
,yretcbed and
the notion or , nr;st;no ;d,aI s.o., ee.1.
which sIovorv did not i.. MI -
opinion among tbinkin, mor ,ros thot rIan1
-v is unnotur,l and rn;,,, Al .l-,
some few considorod II r,trroI ;c ,Lo.9,
al subjects of it couId ba detsrr;rod ,.o. -
his was innossibe IN ,r,o,;o,' 'sIa,o.,. 1.
llways attended with ;n;rs.ioo rh;.
lcar as the onc;ort, oyor oono > a.,
southern theory ~, ,bo od.o,,. &C ,r-;
ianitv its uncomnotihiIitv With s,,ot, ia.
vas very soon norcaived and Cal. ,,aaa ;...,r
Known in the moral as well as in the intel.
ectual nature of man, and to this feeL,uc II
: owing that Christendom il not what tbo
ncicnt Ileathendom was in relation to slave
y. The theoretical part of the Southern
Ian appears therefore to be new JndooI
t is rcry ncw-for it is not vet thirty v.ors
nco the very authors Of the plan. or men or
he same generation at the South nronouncod
laycry to be ga fatal cancer on the body
'olitlc eating into its yery yitals g" ..tbe
Icavest calamity which has ever befaIlcp
nv norton of the bun,n roco - r.. a,.
log, 1t is said, must have his day. Slavery
hitherto has always been snubbcd and kept
the background despised and piticd In
ii the orders of political architecture where
layery has been used at all, 1t has been,
rom its unsightliness employed merely as a
ort OF underground rubbe, and been cons-
ered an insecure foundation at that never
Using into the visible, certainly not into the
nore striking parts of the structure. Now
t length however, we are to have society
according to the idea, and slavery
; to be taken from its seryile place, and ele.
ated to the regions of beauty and ornament.
he edIfce is to be adorned, not with Corin
hian, but African capitals, in which the
,egro, us - staple of Art" (probablv
after the fashion and attitude in |
ihich he figures at the head of Southern |
lave adyertisements) is to stand for the |
cauthus leaves. The South. then. is or |
ill be, new and peculiar and exclusive, if |
OF wholly in the form, yet in the essential
lea and permanent principle of its orcaniza-
ion.
Its svstcm of education. bnsod uror ooJ
otermined bv this org,nizot;or and oininc
D make men who " will rejoice in their own
Institutions" must. of course. be new. recu-
Jar and exclusive. There beinp.-ns the
lev. Mr. Marshall very ;ustIv ramorks
othing extant in the way of books, school
ooks or other, adapted to produce this re-
ult, so essential to the permanence of the
deal State, there is about to be produced at |
he South, by their own citizens and