The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-08-16
A SOUTHERN VIEW OF NEW YORK WATER.
: ING PLACES.

The following extract is taken from an edi-
torial article in the Petersburgh (Va.) LnteHi-
ge,.cer which purports to be edited and pub
lished by one John w. Syme.
The passage which we quote will be enough
to satisfy the most careless reader, that when
sithe writer of it sleeps alone, he lies down with
a very uncomfortable bedfelow:
awe have no idea that single Southerner
will, after the lapse of few years, be found
spending his money at Northern watering
places and hotels, in pursuit of recreation; for
oy jumping in the cars at Nashville, Memphis,
Montgomery, Augusta, Columbia, Washington,
Richmond, Petersburgh, and dozen other
points, he can go upon the wings of steam to
such places as the White Sulphur, the Allegha-
ny, and other numerous springs in Virginia. or
to the charming retreats which abound in West
ern North Carolina. We think that it is high
time that this habit amongst u.s. of considering
the North as everything, and the South nothing,
should be abandoned; and as there are rapidly
increasing evidences meeting US from every
quarter, that this desirable change is going on
with certainty of its being thoroughly effect
ed, we feel satisfaction that we cannot easily
express in contemplating the proud results to
which it will lead"
There is no likelihood of the Southern peo-
pie abandoning Northern watering places.
Southern men 90 North in order to see cvli-
zation on grander scale than they can find
within the domain of Slavery; and it is this
which attracts them more than the watering
places. A trip to the North is the very fru-
ition of hope to the young people of the South,
just as the tour of Europe is to those of New
York and Boston. Southern patriotism, preju-
dice, and soundness," can never suppress or
abate the ardor of curiosity. The Southern
man who has not seen New York, and Boston,
and Philadelphia, and Niagara Falls, or who
has not witnessed the beautiful scenery of the
North river, feels his pride humbled whenever
those places are mentioned and he resolves to
sacrifice the earnings of whole year, or per-
haps two or three, in order at once to crafty a
natural and laudable curiosity, and to wipe
| away the shame of never having seen anything.
The mountain scenery of Virginia is sublime
and beautiful, but its attractions are rather for
the denizens of crowded cities than for the law
yers, planters, and shop-keepers, of the rural
South. These are more interested in the mag
nitude of cities, with their din and dust, and
crowds of people, than in the wildness and
. grandeur of the mountains. G.
Mrs. Swisshelm is enthusiastic in her admira-
ton of Cassius M. Cays heroic assertion of free
speech in Kentucky. We sympathize with her.
We sincerely wish that she may infuse her gen.
eroqs appreciation of true manliness into her
sex generally and then we cannot doubt that
the noble cause of Freedom will find heroic de-
tenders in all the States. She says:
"Cassius M Czay-We do not know how
our readers feel about it; but the account Civ
en-, in our last ISSUE of Cassius NJ. Clay's stand
for the freedom of speech in Kentucky, makes
our blood Jingle to our finger ends. 1t has al
ways been matter of devout thankfulness with
us, that we were not born boy, and doomed to
grow up a man but we would like to be Cas-
sius M. Clay for one week, just to breathe the
,air up there where he stands, and know what
one feels like outside the various strata of cow
ardice which envelope the surface of the earth
like a marsh miasma. What clear, well-de-
fined sense of existence he must have, who
combines in his own person that moral power
which is necessary to enable one to perceive
and love the truth, the intellectual strength re-
quisite to give it effective utterance, and the
skill and physical force which insures a re-
spectful hearing.
"The AntiSlavery war in this country has
produced many moral and intellectual heroes,
and undaunted carnal-weaponed soldiers will
ARISE to hight out the battle by and by but we
have no idea there will be another Cassius M.
Clay during the war. He is, mentally, morally,
him and his hero wife, we realize what Moses