Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-09-18
From the Colsmbus Ga. Sun.

extent which should provoke spirit OF inquiry on
the part ofthe Southern people to the character
Of their contents, and the influence they viii be like
ly to exert upon the public mind. Every publication
at the North, far our knowledge of their
character and proclivities extends, is tinctured,
more or less, with Abolition sentiments; and, in
deed, the magazine which is now most popular and
the most extensively circulated in the Southern
States, is not only owned by avowed Aboliionists,
but its principal editor is but little better than
Greeley or Seward npon the subject of slavery. We
allude to Harper's Magazine, whose owners are the
Harpers, and whose editor is Henry S. Raymond
the noted Black Republican, who has been run on
more than one occasion, for important Offices by the
Black Republican party. This magazine, though
breathing the most pernicious Abolition sentiments
disguised under the attractive garb of romance, and
dstllng its poisonous masma into the minds OF our
people, is pstronized to an extent in the Southern
States that would place firm footing Southern
magazine that conld cope with it in every depart
ment of interest, while it would be free from the
faint of Abolitionism which attaches 10 Harper's.
Indeed, so open was this magazine few years
since in its PRONUNCIATION of abolition sentiments,
that opened the eyes of its Southern patrons and
caused many of them to withdraw their patronage,
while the almost unanimous Southern press denounc
ed it as unworthy of Southern support. The calcu-
lating publishers saw the ruinous tendency ofther
course and altered their tactics and since then their
abolition sentiments have been carefully dis
seminated, and so carefully disguised to almost
escape the notice and detection of the casual reader
But Notwithstanding they have abated, to some ex-
tent the PRONUNCIATION of their abolition sentiments,
through their magazine, they still hold to them
privately, and annually spend thousands of dollars
of the money they obtain from the South for their
semi abolition publications. They grow rich upon
the money Of the South, and abuse it Gd hbitun,
while the South, like whipped spaniels, lick the
hand that smites them
We are candid to admit that Harper has some lit
nd aft
attained by Southern periodicals-and from this
cause many persons patronize it, without thinking
of the aid and comfort they giving to their enc
mics. They only paironze it as literary and pic
torial publication, but the practical effect is the
same as if they patronised it Abolition publi-
cation 1t sustains them in difusing their poison
GUS sentiments throughout the country, and enhanc
es their power to iDjure an institution to which
many of their patrons profess to be deVotedly at
taehed. Nor is their patronage justified upon the
ground that we have no such publications at the
South. If the patronage bestowed upon the North
ern press was concentrated the few literary pub
locations we have the South, they could soon
pete with any of their Northern contemporaries,
not only in literary contents, but in the beauty Of
| illustration.
The Southern Literary Messenger, Russelrs Mag
azine and the Parlor Magazine, with 1.-THE of the
patronage that Harper gets from the South, would
be placed upon such footing would enable them
to publish better magazines than could be published
at the North, were their Southern patronage taken
| away from them. The fate of Putnams Magazine
is conclusive evidence that without the aid of South
eTn patronage the very best of their magazines
would soon die. Putnam used to enjoy a large pat
ronage from the South, but he became SO bold in
his advocacy for abolition sentiments that the South
withdrew its patronage, and the consequence was
that the concern soon collapsed, and amalgamated
with the United States Magazine, another abolition
concern, and the twain will hereafter be one flesh.
We have selected Harner's Mapazine for the foun-
dation of the foregoing remarks, not because it is
the only Abolition patroniZed by the South
ern people, but because it is extensively pat
ronized than any other and is holder in disseminate
ing Abolition sentiments, All of the other Northern
literary works are more less tinctured with Abo-
lition sentiments and the people of theSOuth it
to themselves, to their country, and to those who
are striving to build up Southern literary pubica-
tions, to withdraw their patronage from these North
| ern publications, and bestoW it upon those which
are devoted to their interests, and whose fortunes
| are identified with their own.
By the way, do those who are so profuse in their
patronage of these Northern works, know that their
| publishers have two prices for them, Northern
price and Southern price? In all of the Abolition
States you buy q single copy of the periodicals
for Is cents, while at the South you have to pay %
| cents They sell them by wholesale to Northern
booksellers at 10 cents apiece and to Southern book
sellers at Is cents On the cover of the Northern
editions the price is printed Is cents; and the
Southern edition % cents is printed the price,
| Will people who profess independence and self
respect suffer such discrimination against them, and
still continue to patronize those who practice it p
! We hope not.
In this connection, it may not be amss to state that
so rapid has been the increase in the sale of Harp
er's Weekly paper, and SO great is the demand fol-
it, that our booksellers have increased their price
from five to ten cents per copy. We wish they
would increase it five dollars, that those who wish
to pay tribute might be made to pay it in such
amounts that it would open their eyes to the folly
and selfinjustioe of the course they are pursuing