New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-29

q hystan6sr tbst The nggeSs were - hspposs 80
Inn this point white servants or vasen wsc no
s>ere 10 be ,een. Eiggsrs every ngsen o. 81
sAsdss AID al vsr Ties sshy ;gs 0S,1s "a as.rr. pS
IN bright with iotelliguDee, nigyep stesped ID s,u
Sjity. neeers horribly ugly, nggefe b.rsly snduisse
S,i,t, VAS the more striking from it, contrast with the
hSeps ndent bearing Of the whites pe ps'ieA eqnsfy
which seems to reign between ell who nave NJ negro
bDod in their veins In Vrgioia ano No'to soo sodth
Casslipa vas in what is PECULIARLY supposed 70 10
d. sri,tocrstc region Of the American Union. Here,
N southern papers assure US are to be found the
American " eeptemcn" par eLcelence ~ dis'iogushet
from tSe Northern rot.''er' tee snsl hs.ed IsrDers
>scticul whom " free society" il soIrnfully de-
ssibsd a. producing In abundance. l s4 CIV
ing my impressions, OF course only o. me
IL surface with which one comes 10 eootsct 10
vaSvays and steamboats,; but the feet " that,
at kast to the traveller on the wing, the aristossac
element in the population 10 nowhere visible. FROM
IA tmors to Montgomery, in this state In ne species
Of CONVEX ance did meet with more than Two pofsoas
vhe Judging from dress. maonefs and conversation,
veulo IN England be called "g-ntenen' connoe
shis obseiva specially TO the slave region. IL no.
kpe Of New. England. There may be hundred aud
spe reasons. every one Of them good one, why my
experience has been peculiarly unfortunate, put my
Sslow passengers from Baltimore southward pore no
nsnpei Of resemblance to anything which the looeeet
and widest rad cal in the Old World would call gen
nsmsnIy'S They we're dirty, de toute maniere. Tney
were ,babbiiy dressed; they chewed tobacco, aud
p sm,S Lever 1 to have washed sny potisn Of their
nsnons in their lives In South Carolina, the
cbosen bone of chvslr,, / sat in carriage
IN ahich the mud formed by years Of dust and oceans
az ,alya was three inches dep on the floor, IN
eenrspy with men INTO whose presence most English
hcits would be afraid TO venture sat at breakfast
and dinner side by size with Individuals who, what
ever their other qualities had certainty no more Claims
49, oh mr. eah-dflVera
ne were waited on with defereI and assduity which
our Epplish Johps would do well TO initiate, by ne
sroes Who certainly in all the endowments which give
men social standing In an sr'toc'atlc county save
birth alone seemed TO to be just as good company,
and vast deal more entertaining than those they
served The arisocracy Of race, l thick, never sp-
reared under more lud creus aspect draw no con.
esson from this in any way derogatory TO the general
character of the people, compared with those of any
ether country. But must cay ibat do not fe.l war
ranted in drawing rCm the conclusion that the gen
tiliy" argument, on which the Southern press has
placed great stress In its recent deeDses OF Slavery
q q silly delusion. Abe sneers which have been
launched by 1t at Northern vulgsrity wear Gu
rioss aspect to any one VINO has had the felicity
of passing short time with the we'll TODD class,
the travelling class in short, OF those States which
claim the exclusive honor of harbOring the graces.
A els an well-dressed, educated man In a Northern
railway carriage is by no means rae pheao nenon
though there but class for all grades but in the
South You may travel thousands Of miles without zee
ing me- So much for the advantage Of Slavery as a
rcfner of manners. shal doubtless be told, 10 reply
20 this that must seek for spec@ens OF Soathern gem
tiity In the mansions Of the wealthy p'Anters bat
claim the right TO judge of the effect of an institution
fVm the mars whom we meet on the high wa,s and
not from iDfnifesimally small number whom We
mutt seek for in secluson, and who owe oil their e.
terns advantages the fact that their veal enables
sAsm TO live apart from Slavery, and out of toe at
mopphere which 1t generates. The great planters
whose residences scattered here aud there over the
vilds of Virginia and the Carolinas may be snd no
doubt are, polished gentlemen; but they are iust that
portion Of the community who feel leHt the influence OF
the peculiar institution TO 'wt the North 1r Us WI
lust as sbsr I'd il would be for us to taunt French
men with their poverty because the Marquis of West
mist euard your readers however from Supporting
fbat became polish not to be met with good breed
ipg il altogether absent Mos. English travellers 10
America have their bile reused, Imagine, at the very
sptset by the want of all deert from badly dressed
men to 9ell-dres.ed men, and ever after look upon
everything with jaund ced eyes There 10. perhaps no
country In the world in which mere dress elics less
denomination of pect Every msn has more or less
Of what in England Is called mallness, tOlers-
DIV sure Of his position and his own rights, and
aDtaiDs Dir dignity Bat to suppose tn At this oesets
positive rudeness Is mistake ieei qa.e saL''ed
ss they ara here travelling, especially for ladies', would
be intolerabe One would zee more coarseness, rude
mess and indecorum in one day In IN En- Sish third
olsss earisge than one sees here IN week, making,
oonvendonaines by which people In the two countries
requisite their coDduc in public.
stayed a night 10 Augusta, Georgia, and witnessed
. torchlight procession III honor OF Dir. bu ;haasn.
leading feature in the performance was sixty-egbt
pouDder Ofcanvas, with lights inside, and besrng the
seriptiop Buck cannon in huge letters. Abou; two
thousand persons took part in the ceremony, including
sgood many negrce lnogibg rom tneI aPpear;anGe,
neDt Of all TO the relative merits OF the candidates
for the Presidency; but as every one OF them had
vote every of them exeri cd sone influence upon
80 Al. -nA thA asNIf
hing States in the world The proceedings were woand
I'd With discharges Of artillery and speechifyng from
local ato in the rt.house. The negroes seemed
enthusiastic 10 The a. snyb dy which the Pro
Slavery EN- to think heavy blow and great dis
cosrsgemeDt TO the Aboonlsts. Ii is curious ding
70 Gee how the minds Of people all other subjects
moot sensible ct asonable most Gle uheaded seem
70 riot the slave question, and set at utter deh-
ance both logic and experience. Taking with in
telgent mao 10 Montgomery the other DAY upon me
luminosity existing between North and south, be ssd
NE South .ss 80 sure o. AZ .s ssH NO ion
op IT, lie added that 10 of civil war large force
Of negroes might be raeed, who would reader excel
LIANT service. He evidently considered my mterroga-
tories to whether personal freedom was not absjlute
h essential to the efficiency of hastily raised in
troublesome times not worth a moment 8 consders-
ZION. Liberty had clearly lost all value in bis eyes as
an Incentive to exertin the field of bse-at least
h America; an yet have not the smallest doubt that
had carried the subject fal the and come to talk OF
European al Mrs be would have declared that the love
of and the craving for 1t in the breast VI Pole or
Hungarian rendered him match for two or three Aus
6isns or Russians.
1t curious TO see how the passion for dress, and
Aheve all for French fashions in it, has penetrated to
even nook and con er of the country Ian staying 10
hotel IN which all the chairs maze OF deal; IN
which the is average OF thee beds every cold
bare whitewasbed room; 10 which am wN'ed upoo
b. filthy peroee; in which my looking glass nailed
% the vail and s only four inches squar. Txo-thcds
Of The men in the little town board in 1t and before
each meal wash in t~O tin basins, aHd arraoge tbeir