Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1857-09-17
From the Columbus Ga Sun.
NORTHERN LITERATURE.

The circulation of Northern periodicals and sol
distant newspapers at the South is increasing to sn
extent which should provoke spirit of inquiry on
the part ofthe Southern people as to the character
of their contents and the influence they will be like
ly to exert upon the public mind. Every publication
at the North, SO far knowledge of their
character and proclivities extends is tinctured
more or less, with Abolition sentiments; and, in
deed, the magazine which is nov most popular, and
the most extensively circulated in the Southern
States, is not only owned by avowed AboltiOnists,
but its principal editor is but little better than
Greeley or Seward Ipon 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 OCCASION for important offices by the
Black Republican party. This magazine, though
breathing the most pernieious Abolition sentiments
disguised under the attractive garb of romance, and
disulng its poisonous miasma into the minds of cur
people, is patronized to extent in the Southern
States that would place a firm footing Southern
magazine that conld cope with it in every depart
ment of interest while it would be free from the
faint Of Ab9litionism which attaches TO Harper's.
Indeed, so open this magazine a few years
since in its promulgali)n Of abolition sentiments
hat it opened the eyes Of its Southern patrons and
caused many of them to withdraw their patronage
while the almost unanimous Southern press denOune
ID it as unworthy of Southern support The calcu
lating publishers the ruinous tendency of their
course and altered their tactics and since then their
abolition sentiments have been carefully dis
seminaed, and so carefully disguised as to almost
escape the notice and detection of the casual reader
But wit hstanding they have abated, TO some
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 he South for their
semi-abOlition publications.. They grow rich upon
| the money of the South, and abuse it Gd Lbitum
while the South, like whipped spaniels, lick the
hand that smites them
We are candid TO admit that Harper has some lit
erary merit and some pictorial attractions never
| attained by Southern periodcals-and from this
cause many persons patronize 1t, without thinking
of the aid and comfort they giving TO their
mics. They only paironize 1t as literary and pic
torial publication, but the practical effect is the
same as if they patronised it Abolition publ
cation 1t sustains them in difusing their poison
Gus sentiments through the country, and enhanc
es their power to InJure an institution TO which
many of their patrons profess to be devotedly at
tached. 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 at the South, they could COM
pete with any of their Northern contemporaries
not only in literary contents, but in the beauty Of
| illustration.
The Southern Literary Messenger, RusselIs 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
publish better magazines than could be published
at the North, were their Southern patronage taken
away from them. The fate of Putnam's Magazine
conclusive evidence that wi bout the aid of South
elm patronage the very best of their magazines
would soon die Putnam used to enjoy 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 anal gamated
with the United States Magazine, another abolition
concern and the twain will hereafter be one flesh.
We have selected Harper's Magazine for the fOun-
datOn of the foregoing remarks, not because il is
the only Abolition concern patronized by the South
people, but because it is extensively pat
ronzed than any other and is holder in disseminate
ing Abolition sentiments. All of the other Northern
literary works more or less tinctured with 4 bo-
itiOn sentiments, and the people of heSOUth owe 1t
TO themselves, to their country, and to those who
are striving to build up Southern literary pubica-
tiOns TO withdaw their patronage from these North
ern publications, and bestOw II 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, a Northern
price and Southern price? In all of the Abolition
States you buy a single copy of the periodicals
for Is cents, while at the South you have pay %
cents. They sell them by wholesale to Northern
booksellers at 10 cents piece, and to Southern book
sellers at Is cents. On the cover of the Northern
editions the price is printed 10 cents; and on 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 >
We hope not.
In this connection it may not be smiss to state that
rapid has been the increase the sale of Harp
er's Weekly paper and so great is the demand for
IT. that booksel ers have increased their price
-, Ev, ,rs,bt
would increase it to five dollars, that those who with
pay tribute mig be made to paT it in such
amounts that it would open their eyes to the folly
and selfinjustice of the course they are pursuing