The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-12-18
THE. DAILY DISPATCH.

THE DAILY DISPATCH.
Tss.,ssy Ms,.i.., Decssssr IS 1856.
Southern I,ectarer, North.
The N. Y Tribune continues its ribald assaults
apon Mr.. simms. Of South Carolina, In the follow.
Ing explosion Of malice and vulsarity:
81 Il ss, nsss.s
invite w, Gilmore Simms Lii. D., to instruct then,
aad their fellow cssns In history and Southern ldyl
nsss. Wsll Ms. aimms came, and We have slrssdv
told our resdeu what befel. The announcement, re-
speetsble were the names OF his invters not
those that did 90 reg.led with discourse, the
prevailing and pervadius dullness # which was re.
isevcd BY lauihabe of history and
sp'ced BY uauts to Themselves aud their part OF the
country. Nov. had Northern man done the hun.
dredth part the 1.-THE Of this la suth Carolina how
would he have been treated! He would have had
bis ,mpertinence tehuked BY term in the peniten-
ary - an incter Of insufectton or have been TAR
ntshed with complimentary coat Of tar and fss-
en- the contrary all tho pensive public did was to De.
ohne being bored second time, and to leave the
lecture room the next evening to the sole use and De-
hoof Of the lecturer and the sexton The press pre-
suned TO be sure correct his conversions OF history
and 10 cemment on his solecisms in good manners
And a. punishment II these outrages the msIsyrea
man shakes of the dust of his fact a. testimony
against US, with air as II he wore Lamer ana MD
ley rolled into Surely, there must be an oiig,'
We have ocstsion now and then to rejeice that the
IDOLS are net ali dead yet
The Tribune, doubtless, has peculiar reason to
be glad that the fools are not all dead But the
rest Of the United States, to whom the blended
idiocy and malignity of that sheet are likely to
work as much injury ~ q monkey with lighted
torch 10 powder magazine, cannot possibly JOIN
1t in its desires for a continued existence. Would
for the sake Of the country and of humanity, that
the fools had all persisted from the face OF the
earth, and first and foremost among them' the IN
cendary simpleson of the Tribune, who would SET
fire to our Republican structure and laugh At the
cracking flames.
The complacent and patronizing air with which
w. Gilmore Simms is spoken of in the beginning
of the above paragraph, is amusing enough
to all who know the history and pretensons OF
the Tribune critic. Who is Horace Greeley, that
he should sit in judgment upon the literary merits
of W. Gilmore Simms, the first novelist OF tho
present day in Americas Mr.. Greeley, with all bis
political and statistical knowledge, has no preten
sions that we have ever heard Of to the taste and
culture Of the scholar. Nor can justice be expect
ed from bis reviewers.b by any author or lecturer
go unfortunate as to be citizen OF the Soutn Ii
is idle to pretend that Mr.. Simms went to the
North to deliver lectures, insulting and offensive
to that section Of the country. Every one &C.
ouainted with his works, know that they are per
vaded by a liberal and national spirit May not
Southern gentleman vindicate, in manly and tenn
pera.e terms, the character aud history OF MS ma
tive State without being held up to public odium
rs an aggressor upon the rightsiand sensioihles
Of others. We have seen no report OF the lecture
of Mr. Simms, which has brought such hornets
nest about his ears; but we feel sure, from his
characteristic good sense and good taste, and from
the significant fact that the journals which abuse
him so roundly, have never, to this hour pretend
ed to quote an offensive expression from HIS lee
ture, that there have been no reasonable grounds
for the indignities that the Tribune school have
sought to heap upon his head
1t is considered an amazing stretch of conde-
scension and generosity by these abolition critics
that Northern audience should be willing to lis
ten to Southern lecturer. It is all right that the
North should absorb immense annual profits from
Southern fields and Southern labor that its mag
nihcent commerce and vast manufacturing enter
prise and wealth should be based upon Southern
staples that the fortunes of its merchant princes
and their stately palaces should be created by
Southern cotton that its schoolmasters school
books, and other literary wares and notions, should
fad ready sale in Southern markets that its
cloths, shoes, ploughs, hoes, brooms, buckets
should seek Southern patronage that its lecturers
should be welcomed with kindly smiles to South
ern lecture rooms; that its citizens, who settle in
the South, should be received as brethren-yet, if
one Southern gentleman accepts an invitation to
lecture before a Northern association, be is boot
ed at by the ribad throat of the free soil press
"a Southern pauper, seeking the cold charity oil
Northern lecture rooms! This, too, from q
ton which would be a land Of paupers but for the
food of wealth which Southern trade and South
ern staples have poured upon every city and every
village within its limits!
Who is 1t that speaks contemptuously of Simms
as "pauperq" Greedy, editor of the Tribune, who,
few years ago. was in q condition of abject power
~, which neither Simms, nor any other citizen Of
the South has ever known, in their own experience
or even by personal observation. We speak no.
of this as a rsproach-honestp poverty Is a reproach
to no man-but does not . sheer at poverty come
with the worst possible grace from one who was
hut yesterday himself a 'pauper," and who has
grown rich by sacrificing patriotism and principle
to pelf' Mr.. Simms, an educated gentleman, a
man of genius, learning and honor, depends upon
the labor of his pen for support as does the very
scribe who would stgmatise him as pauper; as
do Thackeray, Dickens and all the great English
and American writers of the day Are they pau.
persf Do the multitude of Northern writers.
who send their books South, the horde of Northern
lecturers, the myriads of Northern editors belong
to the same helpless and hopeless classl What
point or Significance then is there in ths miserable
tsuntH What meaning has it Of any kind but the
blind vindictiveness of a heart OVERLOOKING with
spite. spleen and maicei 1t is hard, indeed, for
Southern man to satisfy the demands of the New
York Tribune. If he possess inherited wealth
he is aristocrat, and ought to be exterminated
If be earn his bread by his own labor, he is a pau
per, to be sneered at and peted by every beqrar
on horseback in the Free Soil press
1t Is but just to say that the Tribune is not fair
exponent Of Northern sentiment upon this, or anv
other subject, in which the South is concerned .
The majority of the Northern people, as demon
strsted by the last elections are opposed to Black
Repubicanism and the majority OF their literary
world approve, we doubt not, the good taste and
generous feeling Of the cultivated communities of
New Haven and Boston, which have extended 10
Mr.. Simms an invitation-which however he has
felt compelled TO dscine-to repeat his lectures In
those cities.
CLOSING OF THE SOUTHERN COMMERCIAL Cox