The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-11-01

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Lafay cite rs dead The cockades wore 70 welcome
him are moth but Danvers wanted holiday and
hero, nd fortunate Danvers has found both.
Peabody, the iustrous, has been received with ban
quet civic and trnmphal arch hncenas Everett
shea bis light the festival counting the anancial Au
eus,rs IN his usual oil silver rhetoric, while pos
eyiiy of the witch burners, who must always DO mad
some suhjeot-eiiher religion, money or savery-wcat
deransea for this occasion only in honor o. the hero
banker Now that the unketng over, and the cannon
have stopped firing, may we mildly ask VINO
We have never dned with the banker, nor hobnobbed
81 his tab with the waits Of English nobility therefore
violate hospitality in asking again, who me devu
Is Peabody prophet, a poet, phianthropistY Has
he squared the circle disco ered new star or comet
passsTe2 No, but he has that these: he has
got rches and what may surprise people IN this neigh
borhood obtained riches without cheating corporation
though long a resident in England his rise ma be
dated from the period when he was established -
banker In London by the house OF Wetmore 90, q
New York Having partner, and being quick In deci
sion, as well as having thorough knowledge Of his de-
paftment he owes to his Womptude In action the pos
session Of i've millions accumulated in less than hiteen
years When have added that he Is man OF amiable
and benevolent hough unusually benevoent dispo-
sitiop-that he has given many dinners to his country
men IN London and also thirty thousand dollars 70 M
the history OF George Peabody, ESQ., Is written.
We bave INDUCED In this preamble to note q marked
difference between Northern and Southern society.
We have In Louisiana and the South many men Of
large wealth. tho fesst their friends and who have
given tin thirty thousand to various Southern
private circles, but the reflection Of every reader win
enable him 10 recall them &NHQ
Yet do not think p, oper TO 60 down our knees,
and receive them with ovation like that which the
vassals Of euda baron offered him hts return from
xoule rom the suassns Of his Graces close
borough whore every elector was dependent on bis
bounty.
But the grand public reception lately at Danvers TO
US n oeLt OF toady and dis POSITION 10 adore
wealth Surely there nothing astonishing IN the fact
that hey OF Danvers has become wealthy and 70 benevo
lent Many have returned homo rich from foreign
lands But none, like Peabody, Esq, have become as
sociates Of noblenen, cultivated amabe relations be-
titled staat men Of Albion itis to his rank in Engish
society these Northern donors have been paid An Eng
si mup Of rank IN the North received like Pashs 10
Syria or Egypt.
Papas feast and mothers adore him. and daughters
prompt TO quit home country and friends but the
sacred Of fashionable lie and with tact and
energy rarely fails in compromising his rsdesmen and
paying for his bouquets from the fortune OF the object OF
his alteration On The contrary the south S0reigners
Of distinction received without surprise or effort but
a. gen temen with easy, frank and careless courtesy
they are treated with the best our households and neigh
borhoods Afford and have apologies to offer for any
differences between foreign and Southern customs nor
any idea that mode Of life Is not good md
pleasant that Of Chatsworth Windsor Palace. Fo
reign gentlemen noblemen bringngus letters establish
their characters 1t home invited 70 our houses and
plantations show them crops, greasy negroes,
poor cattle and tine horses in the sugar region We strike
the nsin, besides teaching them 70 wade through
mud 10 sbcot snpe and ducks in our canals and
lsgoons In The cotton regions we hunt The deer
astonsh these jumpers Of five foot yielding hawthorn
hedges by following full lit horseba " the fox and
the yepiDg pack ever q single log bridging wide and
deep channel Our young women ride with them (net
In bugRes, thank heaven) but on the back of true
Southern pet and producon-the horse; nirt listen with
laugh nesting the aleeve 10 their big taks," give
them the mhen u they propose, and end BY marrying
their young peighbor, who just beginning Me with
rifle ten negroes, four mules and yoke Of oxen, by
falsya
Not the least advantage Of Southern institutions
the independence and love OF homo they inspire The
bonds which attach US to home are rivet!ed In the negro
cabin well a. in the mansion. When travel In taking
families take but half household friends Be-
rides, there "a q hayward charm for people In the
1s a tDS ,ups oI ,1S a.
planters hfe; Tor contrary 70 the theories a the Hon.
Mr.. Banks, no class Of men OF equal numbers,
South North, have contributed much he political
literature Of America the planters, who know
far more Of the history, politics and literature Of their
who panoer Northern sentiment for the purpose
obtaining patronage Dom those classes IN oommu
or subss nce-from The wesi,hiest banker bssnS biz
exchange on slave staples through the gradsons Of
hardware and dry goods men and srocers down 70 The
humbkst mechanic hammcriDg cotton GIN sugar
MILL or hborer cooperiDg hosshoad, or ripping COT
tan bale-are yet but too often the most ukewNm In
onal rights Of he south The mind Of lie pisnsss &C.
cordng 10 Mr. Banks, u mot exhibited 10 book making.
ID beoame Southern talent absorbed In politics,
ory and conversation in gu q which our people ar az.
eel the Northern.
II our genius is not mechanically inventive, il be-
cause We agricultural, not ar.an race; and
strong must be the attachment Of planters 10 pur
suit from which not even fevers, overflow loans a.
twelve per cent, with first mortgage land and
roes Of ten times the value, have been able 70 drive
them.
Iowa or Wisconsin, but they loved Southern nshusona
and have adhered with patriotic perseverance, 70 thst
me same energy and patient battling for long years
with drheatenDE difficulties would have given thsm
twice the income from any other pursuit. Bat ne day
runcus rates. will ond his bank In his cosoa bales piled
high his plantation 10 be sold only as his within
TO sacrifice her capital pay the Interest Of debt
In this eptode Of Southern life, festival 81 DAnvsre
"a wen nigh forgotten and tho triumph Of Peabody k
No such worship - this scene at DAnvers could
occur In the South The men lvcor have livod-Among
who with far less wealth have contributed far
New ORLEANS and other Southern towns but they have
not therefore become heroes people toadies.
although we are aware the assertion may appear =
little hazardous, when II RENE mber Cd how many gen
hs n ssse soe, on . . s
made" o. aihered with the down OF amisble Southern
geese; ard when We consider the taste and Patriotism
that would allow public libraries 70 burn down with
out repa,rg them and Then order secondhand statues
Of the hero OF Chamec represented In the sublime a
tude Of lining OF bis bat while mounted on chubby
charger rearing ampcd attitude, In order 70 snabsoI
BIN 70 balance successfully IKE quadrupeda rope
The good people Of panyer. have gone 70 the sHpsuse
dinner and parade merely from gratitude for former
esnelae,on hey hope nor more. They have The
expectation Of return. They know the value Of aatery
and have administered H. But grave has been
mtied They should have remembered Peabody
has lived long in foggy Ene land and has perhaps forgot
ten the customs Of his Puritan friends Had Bordeaux
and Champagne mingled their bouquet with odors a
flowers and fruit who tell 10 what magnincence a
future bcnevoIence the hear q Peabody Esq, might mo-
have been inspiredf
NOTE PROM THE MEXICAN CONSUL GnNKRAL AT HKv
ORLEANS.