Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-09-29
SECTIONAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Three. tOurth6 OF the circulation OF the New lOrH
Tribune 10 attributable TO the zeal and steadineas with
which il has %pandered to the insane sectional hatred
of the South that exists in the breasts of hundreds Of
thousands of ignorant, prejudiced and otherwise short
sighted people of the North; multitudes OF whom
however, do not really know that they are afflicted
with suoh a phobia, and are highly indignant under
the soft impeachment. The Tribune, as q matter
of business speculation, has steadily cultivated
(nursed) this state Of sectional sentiment among ite
readers, and literally never appears without contain
ing articles the design Of Uhich is neither more nor
less than to make it apparent that nearly all the wee,
poverty, crime and ignorance that curee the land, eI'
ist In the God. forsaken slaveholding States. 10 be
sure, day by day, whole pages Of that elaborate
journal are devoted to the record Of crimes COM
mitted, and the exposure of other things
initiating against the wel!-oeinG OF society IN
the non.siaveholding section of the country,
which tell of a truly fearful state of things there, so
far as the future az well az the present OF Northern
morals Is concerned. The philosophers of the Fri.
bune," however, have an easy way Of getting around
the dilemma in which more modest folks would ind
| themselves in the matter of reconciling their theory
of the s~o.much-worse South, with the practical proof
they daily present OF the actual state OF things moral,
in their own section of the Union. 1t is, simply, bold
ly to demand that the truth OF their views OF the 70.
lative condition Of the two sections industrial, moral,
&c, shall be taken for granted. malgre the pslpsble
facts they publish concerning their own section, and
their utter inability 10 find facts concerning ours on
which to hinge their persistent SANDERS of it. We
never fail to be struck with the mendacity OF The
"Tribune's'' war on the South, when reading its own
new columns, which day alter day thus refute lie a.
guments referred to above.
But a very few days ago, when iDvelghing against
the God.forsakiug character OF the South, az illustra
ted by the course Of the opponents Of the abolition
party in Kansas, It paraded this names OF hundred
of the ten thousand patrons of it's very last New YorE
"wrinkle"-"The Venus Miscellany"-a libidiuou
publication recently broken up by the police. AmonI
the whole ten thousand, 1t seems that two only disgrac
the slaveholding States by inhabitants or citizens o
the South-two only. So, too, do we ind 1t publish
ing column after column, embracing practica
warnings of the improperly and danger Of dab
bling in Western lands at ruling prices. The theor.
of most il haa published OF late on that subject is
! that the dishonesty aud recklessness Of speculation ii
| Western onslaveholding State lands, railroads, &c
a. now ~praeticed, is at the bottom of all the financia
trouble that has recently come upon the North. A
the same tune it "ou. Heralds the Herald' in misrepre
senting the true condition Of the South concerning tn
value of property and the safe returns for labor o
every description there. The Herald" it will b
recollected, maintains IN elect mat the Soutn, ant
especially Virginia, il but the land of the Hotten
tot at this time as il were. Accomac especiaNy-he
alleged darkness, Incidence, vioiousness, &C., Co.
has been the theme of the "Herald's" ridicule for per
haps ten years past, until hundreds Of thousands o
really ignorant newspaper readers at the NORTH nav
none other approaches the Eastern Shore OF Virglnis
in thriftlessness; and that consequently one Is bettel
of in q Northern poor.house, than as the owner o
thousands of acres in that b%enighted region.
The following brief letter, winch We axe from
late number OF the Richmond South" however
tells the truth, aud only the truth, OF that section o
| the Old Dominion's industrial statue:
To The Editor of the Soyth-ln the month Of July, Their
appeared in ''The Surth" u notice OF various sales OF liant
in Accomsc, ut prices ranging from SlU TO 300 per acre =
Since the date Of that publication, an unususl number Q
sales have been made. and for tie raost part n very hig
prices. Two of them will mention, for the further in
| frnatinn of Mr. Eli Thaver. Al wall al for the Oeneht Q
those Of your readers In Virginia who Imagine the Easter
Shore 10 be a poverty. stricken sandbeach, productive onl
of fab, oysters and sweet potatoes,
Mr.. James Garrison's farm OF LIS aercs-oi high Ian
with some marsh) sold for So, O0o-being about go pc
acre OF high land.
Mr.. Thomas Floyd, farm of 100 acres, sold for 5000
or $50 per acre.
Both of these tracts are situated on 'Bradfords Neck,
snc # the most thriving and beautiful agricultural distric,
in virginia. Neither, If ! am rightly informed, has iu
provements Of such u costly character as TO account 10
The high price obtained II was for the land thatthe prc
was paid-su sdveutilious value being impaired toll, nov
water. Yours, &c,
We have merely 10 add that there was no specu
lstion in these prices; for land Gales in Eastern Vlrg'
mia are invariably bona fde business transactions
the figures involved in them representing money &C
tually paid, and TO be paid in six twelve and elghtee
months, without depending on any contngenc
the State are invariably purchased for Immediate use
tcultivationl and not on speculation.
We submit to the reader of common'sense, ina
facts such as are found above, show, as clear as lighi
the entire groundlessness of the persistent efforts 9
the Tribune Herald" ct id omN genus 10 ID
newspaper line, to misrepressnt the condition OF tb
South to the people OF the NORTH Wash'nsfo
States.
THE FIRST OFFICER.-If the disaster to til
Central America has cofined Der Commander an
first Officer In uncertain aud shifting graves, 1t ID
placed monuments over them which Will endure fo
ever. Their manhood in fret saving the women an
children from the wreck will not be forgoeon. ~
in splendid contrast with the selhsbness the confu
sion, the INDIGESTION and the cowsrdice which mad
the misfortune of the Arctic a disgrace in part, an
in part a crime. The Captain Of q ship is the sourc
of authority that governs her. The executive Q
board of her, however, is the first oncer; 10 %
courage, the devotion, and the energy OF Charles n
Van Renssslar, there are 81 living witnesses-tend