New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-29
THE SOUTHERN sFArB OF THE AMERICAN
TTNION-lBY AN EsGLIsB TIAyILER

FroBg TIE Losd On Ddlb lfvs
SxLxA, Alabama Nov. ~ 1880.
Any one who comes to America win me hos'ons
comlony prevalertin En- land touching rsuvG ss,.
cling in this country I'M 0 ma for 9iss sp %ss sSour
tba hiphest speed ne b likely to attain; be WV mo
biu,seH carried elong ct the rate OF twcrThse o
thirty. He viii expect to be Jeasc inso ~ n,ob'
ably stabbed twice or thrice, easr having dec,nsa =
yariet, of challenges TO mortal combat Al nee
wspecu Ikewise, he will find that ne hastosen ,so
inc under dek1sious American railway trayealng, ~
at on the great Ines 10 smooh REASONABLY saio l'
ersbly punc,uai, and tie, whole pc Aeefui iof me
pesceabe. But sftsr i've days a. ~ WIN vey
ton one Or two Of its dTaw bsckA, pemsing 81 inc
ontset tb,t. hey are drawbacks insspsrsole iIom
the state Of society and sdt o. no, is%e sr .s,sr
Coming soufhwad from Sew-fork 70 fpnshe4nla'
there not much, save the total sbas'.ce OF ydure'
remd tina, you are not a. hSlas m ine Hle
along the principal sst Of town 10 al express train
with belt toiDg funerally on top Of the locomotive
and children play ing pdch- ccte % inc un
n AZ ans rather strange 10 sshionaby dressed
ADV In the seat behind cad WHO 70 chewing quid
Whenever he Is net slipping brandy, and who insists,
with sense Of ysopriety which cannot be TOO hlghy
commended, upon having the window open u" ~, 70
main features Of what ors sees are .a.enaslly En-
/ elbh Housss, streets, Sgns, dress, language, 90
mesnor are much the same In new - IN Oh En-
! gland The sun shines more brightly and the cir
ourer and Ire accent little more nasal 10 The ofmsr
ssn IN he latter but Aere 10 scarce anything out
andisb a. 10 Jar upon the susceptisites OF anybody
but an unuaveIed coskney. only when one enters
MARYLAND that American pecusatiss Brst su,ke an En-
glisi man forcibly Travelled down from Baltimore
10 Norfolk In Virginia, by one OF the Chesapeake ny
steamers snd for the 6rst time lighted on gang OF
slaves gsing south In custody of regular trader ma
ryand Is one of the great slave breeding STATES OF me
TnIop and supplies yearly large quota OF the bone
and sinew which gather In the harveets Of Louisiana
and Mssissppi Her contribution on this occasion was
oompe red Wholly Of lads and girls from "a 10 ~ yean
Of age well clad and apparently well fed. They sat
in circle all the evening In the middle OF the main
dsct nnder the dim light Of lamp swinging from the
| ceiling their arms round one-anothers wass, some
Of The youpger ores sleeping with their heads On their
elders knees the majority singing snatches OF metho-
| dist hymns They were seldom able TO get out more
than one or two lines Of the words, but this never
caused any sep n the muse. The leader put In tse
first tbrg that oee into bis head, and the others Si-
| flowed up the s6en
| Thus the line,
ave are passing away Ike long Summers day.
| would be followed by
| took my brodsr BY de hand,
| And Led him 70 do promised Land
| Groups Of white men surrounded fheas> sscusslnS
| their points In connection with the mnkec ana Pou.
tics; and the slaves didn't seem 10 les "a ine hase
abashed by their scrutiny affected ~ sser own ST.
usfiop though & would be hard 70 r.A9ne c'ouaet
future than tina, of boy or gun las en'enTs ms ~
time oee esmes IN copsct with degraded rsee ones
nerves are slwsys tired more 81 es one never nnes
10 find ores self IN the company Of cosvic@ lie
nre.encs Of ir5yi6uais whom crime OF nkoStuis nas
blassed ard 90 whom soesy has set Ne scamp o. eh
| conmT ,cston. OF deprived Of al the ordinary "a
cent? es to exetion and to enierPfve, sAd Ok ~ .ns
bsIer esd nobier bls<sipEs Of exsaesS4. ss'~ WI