Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1856-03-05
Written for the Spirit Of she Age.
Northern rs. Southern Literature.

M. GoRMAN ALLOW me, If you please, .
through the columns of the Age, to direct the q
attention of your readers to the subject which IL
serves rs n caption for this article one :
which, / much fear, has failed to elicit that !!
investigation which its great Importance so Il
prominently demands. I
1t is a Notifying, a humiliating fact and
one that must be d0plored by every lover Of I
she South and her Institutions, that many of s
our best citizens manifest o decided prefer
ence for the coinage of Northern brains, and
for those publications which are the result
Of Northern labor, or which halls frSm a lat
itudS beyond Mason's and Dixon's line. If
the proof of this assumption be demanded, |
have only to point to the store rooms of any
Of our booksellers, to the centre tables Of our
fashionable ladies, or the counting rooms of
any of our enterprising merchants, and it
will b9 established beyond the approximate
possibility Of q refutation. Indeed sir, it is
10 me, an inexplicable mystery; one which
FOR the life of me, / cannot understand, why
those who have been born, reared and edu-
Gated in the sunny South, and whose every
interest is identified with, and dependent up
on the perpetuity and success of her peculiar
institution, zho~ld petsIss IN PSCF9Et":--o
Northern to the exclusion of Southern Lite
nature, while the latter possesses all the con-
servative and wholesome, and none of the
DCEulClOuW uhA . q S"SNAOO "-@
characterize the former. Take for example
the Saturday Evening Post and the Spirit of
the Age. Now, in every element that con-
spires to contribute o really interesting and
} instructive family Journal, the one is the
equal If not the superior Of the other, and is
in every respect, as deserving of encourage
ment and support. Yet in many oommuni
tics. in North Carolina and lower Virginia
!, whore the Age is scarcely ever seen, the Pos
v
J has an extensive circulation while 1t IS, O
the same time, industriously disseminating
0 sentiments directly a~ntagonistic to thos
d which we profess to have espoused, an
ir which, if carried into effect would depriv
us of those Invaluable rights guaranteed t
us by the constitution. Nor is the writer
"a this ~guiltless Of the charge, for during seVe
~ nj wears l have been a constant reader OF i
IL columns, until the mask was torn off, and
We entered the list as the aTCw6a champion
1g rAmnant. Ath9llGjttioq}1irr4l IN NSffittAlhasE n il thi nuf T
at berless cases of o similar character, whs
to these chosen vehicles of rabid fanatics o.
az receiving that patronage which is due to o.
own periodicals. Putnam and Greelv #
-. shame) are yearly locking up within the
Golfers many a mint Drop which shout
ell my dear sir, be in your pockets, or in tho
ok Of the publisher of that valuable but poor
is sustained monthly, the Southern Litera
in Messenger.
Now, sir, I wsuld ask why in the name
,oy common sense and justice, is this sol w
80 will our citizens persist in going to the MOI
w for their reading matter, which, they shol
Tell by all means, furnish for themselves? WI
:. apology can be offered in extenuation Of
policy so evidently suicidal and subvers
of their best interest? If it be affirmed Il
= our Southern publishing houses do not 2
sesS the advantages with which North
ones are invested, | still contend, their c
cks duct is for this, none the less reprehensiI
lur- How can they expect it to be otherwise,
noc long as they continue to withhold from tn
md that patronage which is necessary to furn
the requisite means and appliances for S
10 c~essfully competing with their older {
Joy more experienced rivalsf All they lem;
into is but a fair opportunity, and they will s
TODD show you what they are capable Of DOING
all Give to the Spirit of the Age that amour
uty encouragement which is SO lavishinglv
.nd slowed upon the Evening Post, and l vent
- the assertion that you, friend German, wo
in q short time, present your subscribers '
nu q superior paper TO any of which all Yam
Of dom can boast. Extend to Richmond Chs,
and ton and New Orleans publishers, the m,
will and advantages enjoyed by the Harpers,
eads, they Will soon issue from their presses pr
,ta. cations as neatly executed, and upon as
!, ~ vantageous terms rs do any establishmel
: : Boston or New York. And besides thi
spec is to be feared, the time is rapidly appro
ultu- ing when wSshall be constrained to RELY
,holy our own exertions, and it behooves us to
hap pare for the contingency by sustaining
fostering our own Institutions, so that in
.;oht. of the rupture of our beloved Union we
~ not be dependents upon others for that
80 qua non of a prosperous republic, q
loFe- and healthy literature. Then let US
iture, time by the forGlock and while we are
ing conventions for the purpose of ado,
skies. measures for the redress of our SrisyI
min and judicious means for self-preserv
tb.;y aud defence, and while we are appeali
- each other 10 consume she products o
y. own labor, let not this particular depart
nlgu- be overlooked and forgotten. Then let
scarce longer be said that We have not the q
the and enterprise TO supply our wants no
The longer be dependent upon those, who's
listers duct svinces that they would deprive
). so, our dearest rights and would exult in i
- tinction of our most valued Institution.
let US subscribe for our own periodicals.
9 tne read and pay fer thsn Let - have ear