Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1857-01-01
prom The NJ. Express, Dec. loh.l

games realization, however, is yet far behind what
the real AlaTmists now desire, and attempting;
and that is, the creation of a LIrgRATURE, which
shall cut the North from the South. The Indepen~
dent, for two or three years, has been publicly
struggling to convert the greet National Tract SO.
ciety into Abotian Tract Society, and in the
end, will probably dragon It's reluctant managers
into obedience, as it has drsgooned many into the
ranks Of Abolitionism, by changing an old, into
! the new name of Republication. But while the
Independent has been thus publicly at work. der
cover all the Abolition energies of the North have
been gathered in some of the Publishing Houses
for the circulation Of an Abolition Literature in the
/ Southern States.
| The Publishing Houses Of this Country-of this
Continent-We may say, in this city, Philadel
phia and Boston; for here we now really do the
work about all, of Spanish America, snd for the
| Canadas North, and the British Provinces East
Many OF these publishers, and more especially in
Boston, have been bending all their energies upon
Abolition Literature, and this Literature has been
/ circulated far and wide in the Southern States,
through Southern Bookstores; and, it NAV be, has
been in part the means Of exciting the recent slave
instructions there. Not only enormous efforts
have been used to give these works circulation
South as well North, but this class of publishers
| have pitched upon the New York Tribune, as the
book organ of their advertisements, not alone to
! carry the advertisements Of their Books, but 10
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the Tribune in their Book Shops, and thus 20 cir
culaie the Aboltionism of that Journal in all the
reading rendezvous OF the whole Southern country.
| Now Book Publishers, in free land OF free dis
cusson, Fave right to do all this sort of thing We
kDow-and thus, in Republic Of thirty-one States
| to make upon fifteen of tEVm-bug it is light
I that exists IN no other country on earth-and
that could not exist here day, if the Union were
/ broken up. The right, however, speak OF, is a
legal right-but only alegal highland when view
ed by the lights of patriotism, inter State good
| neighborhood and Literature, it is all as wrong as
wrong can be. The Book Publishers, as guardians
! OF our Literature, are something TO a country be-
yond the mere making Of Sspsdtion party aud Sec
fiORdI books. II ought to be their pride to estao
! sh National Literature, co-extehsive with the
whole Republic-such as thewhole Republic could
join heart and hand in, and such would exat the
Literature ofthat Republic, not only at home, but
| in foreign estimaton-but the aim OF too many ef
Ihem has been to open all the wounds OF she Re-
public and to hold up those wounds to foreign ma
tons, to scken and disgust them with institu-
tons. We one peOple-of one common conn-
! ty-with one constitution, and one destlny-bow-
ever, our local laws may differ, as differ they must
in Republic of such gigantic magnitude, extend
ing from the Tropics TO the frozen regions almost
from the Atlantic TO the Pacific Oceans and it
ought to be the aim Of Book Publishers, to consol
date that country-to endear one part OF il to an
other, and to unite all in the bonds Of a common
Brotherhood by q common Literature. We regret
to say certain quite large Publishing Houses bend
all their Influences and their capital TO policy just
she reverse.
The tendency of Abolition Observation-Disclosures
it is designed or not-is not only TO CIVIL bat to
serve war. We cannot presume, that any of our
POok Publishers desire to have the slaves in the
Southern States rise and cut the threats of their
masters but nevertheless, they act as they did,
desire, say, not that some Of them might not
wish it, il Instructions were likely to be success
full but certain of failure as they are, they cannot
desire the irresistible and fearful punishment of tho
slaves that would follow.
If the Literature of a country is to become Sec
tonal,-th will soon be seen in that Literature,
What is seen in the Churches, two Literstares one
Northern and the other SOuthern,-for it is not TO
be presumed that the South will long imbibe the
spirit of Literature from hostile prints, any more
than the spirit of religion from hostile pulpits and
hostile organizations. The Abclitionsts wisely
reason, looking to the history OF the world that
Literature, in the end, reigns over a people,-and
10 the government of a hostile Literature, the
South is no more likely to submit, than to hostile
political government. Nevertheless, the Northern
Abolition feeling is doing all it can, In all ways to
create that Literature.-and BOOK Publishers are
aiding them with their capital and means. This
Abolition hostility, the other day, expressed itself
10 New York Abolition Journal, in hostile crti-
| cism upon a novel recently written by Mrs. VIM. @.
| Rives, Of Va.,-a lady, whose lie North, AS well
| as South, IN Europe as well as in America, has Civ
/ en- her opportunities for observation lar beyond
/ what are usual with her sex, and who, therefore,
was entitled az least to respectful criticism. most
! eloquent and popular novelist OF the South-Ar.
| Symms, OF South CarOlina-was recently abused
out OF New York city by the same Abolition PERI
sons and Abolition feelings: a maa who has done
! honor to our Literature and to our Country and
who has had no more to do with Politics, or Slave
| ~, than Washington Irving-while Thackery ana
! Dick ens-Eng lishmen, in education and sfeeling
hostile to both the Northern and Southern States
are Ested by these same Aboitonists, to an extent
siekening even to the f.ted. These Abolitionists,
! indeed, do not treat countryman as well as they
4 treat foreigner
! The British Journals and Reviews, aware OF the
/ points of our country deemed weak in Europe,
have recently sent over here, aud put under pay,
| the Northern LterGu whom the Abolition BOOK
! Publishers of the North have started and fostered
into life. The Edinburgh Review, it seems, has
recently found South Carolina born American,
living in New York, who is ready to sell his pen,
not only in abuse Of his whole country, but OF the
particular section whence he came. He indites un'
truths to travel the world over through that great
organ OF public instruction; to damage his country
and Republican ms ttutiOns. The London Times,
we see has stipendares here, TO do its British Ao-
clifton work; that is reduce fifteen States oil our
4 RepubIic--one-half-to the miserable condition 70
which British folly and fanasicism have reduced
Jamaica and other British West India colonies
! These unnatural writer's, if Americans, thus 90
double trade here-one for the home market, and
for the Abolition Book Publishers, and the other
Tor the British Market It's Edinburgh Reviews, &c.
We do not know that there il any renedy-but
now that the Republic has Gsarly the two Bibles
and the two Gods Of Burlingame, With the South
+ Carolina and Massachusetts, madmen thrown Ia, and
has come very near having two countries from
oarely sectionasly organized parties-it needs but
a Southern Literature and Northern Literature
as wedges driven into complete the isolation and
separation. IL is but justice, however, to say
such great Publishing Houses as the HarpeTs in the
North, with almost all in Philadelphia, and feS
in Boston, have given into this secstondliziH5
Of our Literature-uever directed their capital 20
; that purpose-never, especially, patrouized THAI
species of Literature. 0there than the Harpers
here In New York, We might name with like credit
but NC name them as the great house. Of the Re-
pubic--successfal for nearly thirty year,, oy re-
membering the Whole Rspahhc, esd profering IN
tellectual smeut for all that Republic Sach hous-
Is deserve monuments Of gold for the good they do
to Literature-Na,ional ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Li.erature-snd 10 this connection, thes should
ever be mentioned with praise.
The British Publishers, OF late, seeing the Sue
cess of our Northern Abolition Publishers, have
: hi, upon some method al the Custom House not
oulte compfehensibe to as, By which they bring
in their BOLTON sheets here, with little or no dusy
70 the great damage Of our Printers, Paper Makers
Book Binders, &c.-immensa classes OF our oSn
Northern society Hereafter, Ne may touch aPoa
this mischief 10 connection with kindred SUBJECTS
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