Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-07-22
British .lO1rDptissss.

10 see how egregously British tory writer's err
in ,he;- attempted delinealions Of American in
situations and character. Selling with avdiy
upon the productions of every oalumniafor oil
his or her country, like Charles Sumner or iiai
riet Beecher Stowe, they do not sorup'e TO en-
dorse in their entirety the most absurd ana r'a'o'
ulous stories concerning the social manners ana
institutions of the South. Witness the late
mons,rous !, Roorhack" about railways and re-
yolyers in Georgia." which found prominent
nlace in So respectable journal as the London
Times. and was heralded to the world as an in
dication tina, the people in the Southern portion
of this republic were but semi civil Lied. and fast
relapsing into state of barbarism but little re-
moved from the aborigines whom they suppant-
ed.
The Modification of Mrs. Stoves second series
of Hbels upon nearly one half of her country has
furn ed the theme for fresh dissertations upon
American slavery, and American manners. and
hence we find in the last number OF the London
Quarterly Review about fifteen pages OF double
column devoted to DRIED, A Tale 81 The Great
Dismal .S,camp. BY Harriet Beecher Stowe
After landing the motives OF Mrs. Stowe, and
her zeal in - The great cause to which she de-
votes herself" the reviewer INDUCES his British
penohan, by criticizing the literary execution oil
the work, affirming that some of the "rhapsodles
cross the narrow line which separates the su
blime from the ridiculous" Considering that it
is mania with which nearly all British writer's
are afflicted. to ridcule the style of American
books. we are not sorry that Aunt Harriet
has come in for her share but we have looked III
vain for any intimation that her statements may
be exaggerated. as her fancies admitted 10
be oyorwrought
A very considerable portion of the review is
devoted to Summers Infamous speech in the
United States Senate, and the results which
unfortunately for the South but most opporiune
ly for the cause of the Black Republicans flowed
from it. The Review afiirms that that speech
is an example and proof of the deterioration of
American taste. Mr.. Sumner is well known in
England, indeed in Europe, as man Of good
sense and Of good taste almost to the edge of
fastidiousaess. But when he has TO address an
audience Of his fellow countrymen he INDUCES
in such strains as these:"
Portents hang on all the arches Of the horizon
threatening To darken all the broad land, which al
ready yawus with the mniterings of civil
y Hirelings picked from the drunken
spew and vomit of uneasy civilization leashed
geher by signs and lodges, have renewed the
atrocities OF the Thugs. The Senator
from South Carolina. with ineoherent phrases, dis
charged the oose ca pectoration OF his speech now
upon the representative of Kansas now upon her
people.
Mr.. Sumner" says the Review is too able
and too practised speaker not to adapt himself
to his audience. This must be the imagery that,
delights the gravest and the most intelligent
body that America possesses; aud as such Mr..
Sumner. much ne be may have been ashamed of
it. was perhaps justified in using it. The sub
stance of the speech is as generally good" {be-
cause AMI! slavery "as the style Is frequently
de'esiable." We are happy to have even this
much testimony wrung from Aboiionis,
against the " stvle" of the most dsrepuiable
speech ever made in the senate and whist we
free 10 admit that that body is not what il,
was in the days Of the great trumvirate," il
still had good taste end refinement enough left
to put its seal of disapprobation upon the manner
and style of that harangue. Which did not an.
proach to the dignity Of speech But the Re.
view asserts not withstanding. that the speech
shows how the Missouri Compromise was bro.
ken by an act introduced at the end Of the ses-
sion, and forced through by the STARE holding
President o. und his slave holding Cabinet !"
Let us see how much truth is here. The Pre-
sdent was native citizen of New Hampshire.
whose laws prohibit the holding Of slaves, whilst
four of the seven members of his cabinet were
also from non slaveholaing States. So that of
the eight members ef the executive branch of ,be
government, including the President, three
were from slave holding States whilst FIVE had no
connection whatever with the institution. So
much for the Reviews facts on this point.
After sundry quotations from Southern news.
papers respecting the Brooks and Sumner affair.
it gravely afirms that, "the Senate refused 70
expel Mr.. Brooks" Now we should like r.
know what control the Senate had oyer Mr.
Brooks, or by what process of legerdemain he
could have been expelled from body with which
be had no sort Of connecticut lie was prose
cuted." quoth the Review. "to acquit him wa;
eren in America. impossible. He was fount
guilty. His punishment was fine of 300 dol
lars. This is the value set in Washington, O,
freedom Of debate. Any ruffian willing TO pa,
Co., may waylay disable, and. as we fear vii
be the event in this instance. injure for life an,
political opponent"
We have not space to follow this elaborate re
view of American affairs further than to appent
ABORTION of the concluding paragraph, which We
commend to all those who lightly esteem the
value Of our national Union:
We