New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-11

think should kke 10 buy small arm near soSso
town where could send my children 70 scnoS!-a
farm that could take caro- Of with one or two hiroi
men. One thing wanted TO ask you; are the
Germans learning English at an :" "Ob, yes; they
teach the children English in their schools. % And
have they good schools" wherever they havo
settled at all clssely, they have. At New-Breun-
fels, they employ American as well as German
teachers and instruction can be had in the CLASSICS,
natural history, and the higher mathematics"
When left, he mounted horse and rode on
with me some miles, saying he did not often find an
intelligent man who liked to converse with him On
the question Of Slavery. II seemed to him there
was an epidemic insanity on the subject II is un-
necessary 10 state his views at length They were
precisely those which used to be common among all
respectable nen at the South. have recently re-
ceiyed letter from him. in which, after abiding TO
the excitement which the Kansas question has pro-
duced, be says he thinks a considerable change of
sentiment has occurred from reflection, stimulated
by the discussion OF Kansas affairs. He is fully de-
termined TO go TO Western Texas, and reckOns as
many as ten families and thirty single men would go
with him if there was prospect that free servants
and labOrcrs could be hired there and negroes be
kept away. am sOrryto say that, since the out.
break of the KnOwNothing pestlence, which was
extremely rancOrous in Texas, the German immi-
grafton has almost entirely ceased and the discOur-
agement of two failures Of crops leaves little
to expect its revival The country will soon PrOba-
bly, be occupied by the slave labor withdrawing
from Missouri, and the German population, dis
prited and dispersed lose all its respectable quail.
ties. A slavehoding country cannot support
towns, and without towns or village communities
the maintenance Of varied, intelligent industry is
impossible. The Germans will relapse TO Doors or
progress to rufians.
As we rode, an old negro met us and we greeted
him warmly. lie observed to me that he had
rever uttered his sentiments in the presence Of
slave, but in some way all the slaves in the coun-
try had, he thought, been informed what they
we're. for they all looked to him as their special
friend. When they got into trouble, they would
often come TO him for advice or assistance This
morning, before | was up, negro came to hin
from some miles distant, who bad been working
for white man on Sundays till he owed him three
dollars, which, now the negro wanted it, he said
he could not pay. He had given the negro the
three dollars, for he thought he could manage to
get it from the white man.
He confirmed the impression had Termed of the
purely dramatic and deceptive character of
what passed for religion with most Of the slaves.
One of his slaves was preacher and
a favsrite among them. He sometimes went
to plantations twenty miles away-even fur
theron a Sunday, to preach funeral sermon,
making journeys of fifty miles day on
fost. After the sermon, hat would be passed
round, and he sometimes brought hsme as much as
ten dollars. He was the biggest rascal, the worst
liar, thief and aduterer on his place.