New-York daily tribune., 1856-03-20
SHALL 1T co FURTHERs

looked upon as natural enemy unu hLico' Pein"P'
cooked. without further ceremony. There is some
sense in the CUSTOM if it be admitted that barba-
ism is good thing, and worth keeping in repair.
Strange eyes and foreign tongues are bad for abuses
of any kind So that those who thrive by them, or
think they do, may well be jealous Of such prying
and prattlipg intrusions. Our Southern brethren
share TO considerable degree in this just and natu
raj suspicousness. They don't like spies about
them, and there are not wanting instances of their
dealing with lookers-on who had unpleasantly
excited their notice, in way that would have done
no dscredit toa New Zealander or q Feeee Islander.
We don't wonder that wsyfarers and sciourners
are looked on with an evil eye in those latitudes,
and especially after reading again Mr.. Olmsteds
book of travels in the Slave States, Of which we
cave a notice not long since. Such spyers-out of
the nakedness Of the land should be regarded as
public nusances and abated, by law or without law,
by all the upholders Of the status quo OF our public
affairs Not merely Slavery, but the politics. the
religion of the country Interested in the sup
preston Of revelations so damaging to the corner
stone at once of our Republican and Of orr Eccle-
siastical institutions. Where would be the Demo
cratic party; what would become OF the Know
Nothinps wherecOuld the American Board Of Com
mssioneis Of the American Tract Society find
ashes enough for their heads or sackcloth sufficient
for their lons, if blow should be aimed at their
ytas through the heart of the National the Scrip
tural ordinance of Negro Slavery, Yet this is
what such pestilent fellows as this Northern
Farmer are doing who go dropping in, like 80
many Paul Prys, among our Democratic and pious
countrymeu over the line, and then come home and
tell all about il. Mr.. Olmsted is none Of your
fanatics. He speaks very civiy Of individuals,
and he makes use Of none Of that harsh language
which even We are sometimes (very erroneOusly)
accused of using when treating Of this matter
But he hits terribly hard knocks for all his soft
liness ix-pound shot is none the less con-
yncipg argument, when addressed to mans head,
because it is slung in the gossiest Of silk handker
chiefs
How these travellers stories do disillason US, as
| Frenehman might say Until they went thrust
ing their noses into other mems business, what
lordly idea one used to have of STAKEHOLDER. We
used to picture him in an ancestral mansion, the
hall hung with the portraits of bis forefathers and
Win Luc tlophic5 Va tuc Shoocs oAsoNO
plate sustained the smoking hospitality of his
Astounding board, and generous wines flowed in
perennial streams from the caverpous recesses Of
bis cellar An ample library furnished him with
the lore of all ages, in which he employed the lei
sure his wealth bestowed upon him in fitting him
self for the duty of governing us well as his
slaves His half patriarchal and half feudal cha
b;S i,b &C
honor, his unlimited hospitality reconciled us to
the idea Of his looking upon and treating the whole
nation as larger Kind of plantation which he was
appointed to oversee Indeed we felt as if it were
by his grace and favorthat we existed at all. He
furnished us with the great staples Of our COM
merce and manufactures, he grew the raw material
of Presidents and Generals, and Commodores and
ambassadors. If he withdrew the light Of his
countenance from Us, if be threatened to withdraw
his supporting hand, we trembled as on the brink
of poverty, ruin starvation rags and anarchy, and
we were ready to submit to anything rather than
risk the loss of bis protection
But alas all these visions are dispersed BY q
single wave of the pen Of auch disenchanters as
this Mr.. Olmsted. The landscape smiles no more.
Instead of the lovely South, covered with magni6.
cent plantations, cultivated by happy and content
ed slaves tesselated with excellent roads and glo
rious rivers, waving with superb harvests for the
food or clothing of mankind, and crowned with the
bsronisl country seat, where refinement and cul-
ture, and benefcence presided over ALL We see be-
fore scene Of the sloyenliest Of farming Of the
most detestable of roads, of general decay and
growing poverty sf houses of logs or Of the shah
biest build, of tables compared with which the di-
etary Of an alms-house or pententiary is plenty
and excellence, and that of farm-lsborer delicacy
and luxury. For our imagined baronage of patri-
srchs We have ill-mannered ignorant, brutal, tObac
co-chewiDg grog-drinking, splitting semi-savages,
whose ideas have never wandered beyond the limits
oftheir plantation whose notions political econo-
my are confined to the supply and demand of mig
gers, who have no conception of any machinery
but black men and women, of any motive power
but the whip, or of any commerce but in human
beings. And the tendency not, as elsewhere in the
country, from badto better, but from bad to worse.
Now, there are imaginable circumstances under
which poverty, and even ignorance is no crime.
We will not here enter into the question to the
character Of the circumstances which have thus
blasted the Southern region. But we do affirm
that poverty and ignorance are not the best quail
fcatiOns for appointing the magistrates, making
the laws and directing the policy of intelligent,
Industrious thriving people. Yet, ever since the
formation Of the Federal Government, this ele
ment, of which poverty and ignorance are essen
tial parts, has notOriously been the predominant