Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-06-20
Another Novel from Mrs. stowe.

The New York Tribune. after having completely
exhausted itself in attempting to prove the iniouity
OF slavery as nJuriously affecting the black race has
now set about TO show that its results are truly de.
porable IN demoralizing and debasing tie poorer
classes OF the white population 1t announces with
great flourish that Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe is
at work upon new novel, which she will shortly
publish, illustrating the benighed and besoted con-
d:on OF the white laboring people of the Southern
States. Such a book would be eminentlv worthy If
the authoress of " Uncle TOMS Cabin" Having
raduced and backened the character of the planters
and other wealthy members of the slaye-hoding COM
munlty before the world, it is fitting that she should
complete the picture of Southern depravity bv re-
presenting the poorer members in as dark a hue as
possible. Otherwise her labors would be INCOMPLETE
We are not at all surprised therefore to hear of Mrs.
otoWes new literary enterprise Defamation, like
all other evil PRACTICES becomes, through long induI
gence IN it pleasure. We know that cutting off
neads was at last an agreeable excitement TO the
leaders of the French Revolution, and Mrs. Stowe
has been long accustomed to abuse her neig bors
and vltuperate the holders of slaves tt at she must
ind life rather insipid without the employment of
SANDER. In one respect, however. she has under
taken dangerous task. Uncle Toms Cabin" was
so mastery production in its way and gathered SO
many immense lies into vast aggregate, that it
will! be extremely difficult for her to bring out any
second collection of falsehoods that will not seem
tame in comparison
We need not be afraid of any honest inquiry into
Vie soCIl dSpeclS OF the oOutnern States, and
eddy we shall not insult the intelligence of our read
ers by defending the humber white population on
this side of the Potomac against the vulgar deracion
OF Greeley and Mrs. Stowe. When from the very
lowest classes in the South there shall arise such
dlabolCa tanaticism as that of the Wakemans: when
our madhouses shall be filed with the victims of
splritualism; when Southern Joe Smith shall pro.
pound new evangel, the leading doctrine OF which
shall be unrestrained Righteousness and cAr1v off
thousands of our people into bis vile communion E;
when tree love associations shal hold weekly meet
Ings in larger cities, and when mob law shall be
annually dominant therein the peace and order
OF society, then and not till then will we institute
parallel between the working population of the two
sections of the country.
The fact is that free society has everywhere failed
to elevate the moral and intellectual condition of the
labonng classes and in other respect is the supe-
rorlty of a slave-hoding people so clear as in its
raising the status of the whites whole The
unendlng struggle between Labor and Capital is but
succession OF conquest of the latter the former
and the strife which has already commenced in New
England, will grow fercer and erCer, with increasing
density of population, until civilization will be threat
ened by the results of its advancement Then
ii will be discovered that it is quite possible to push
physical wellbeing 10 perlous extreme-that great
cities, the boast and pride of the State often contain
in disconnected and facous class of proletaires the
gems of tumult and anarchy, and that in the vely
neghborhood of great churches and theatres and H.
brarIes and museums there may exist, Macaulay
has strongly expressed it, "a race of Huns fercer
than those who marched under Attla, and Vandals
more bent on destruction than those who followed
Geuseric''
1t is consciousness of this fact, and the greater
conservatism of the Southern people, that so embt.
ters the Northern fanatic against u.s. and makes Gree
ly talk about Southern lazzaroni. We are little af-
fected by such epthets, and do not care what they
may say so long retain an orderly, honest
brave people, in the place of the restless and insane
classes of New England.-South Side Democrat.