The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-08-27
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r,o ,o,,srs from eockncy travellers in the South,
.,,,.ho, IN Nor,hern free-soil presses, are among
a.. 49,, amusing specimens Of epistolary litera'
ture ax,ant in the English tongue. They seem to
~ ol.,,orate limitations Of the letters which Eng
p.h nockneys used 10 write FROM this country 10
Graa. Britain. There IL the same impudent as
sumption Of superiority. in civilization, refinement
and knowledge; the same msgnihcently patroniz-
,ns arscthe same profound adherence OF TRUTH the
same intense vulgarity, protruding its nnnistake-
able ears through their pretentious talk. Inc
..pooh-poohing' at the best things the south can
exhibit; the pretty we'll pretty we'll over her
finest achievements in art and agriculture, are COM
pleto reproductions of the conceited airsand AFRO
giant words Of the English travellers OF quarter OF
century ago. These fne fellows talk and act very
much In the spirit Of Sir piercie shafon In the ha-
hiation of Dame Giendening, only they differ nom
that elegant and euphumistie knight OF the silver
bodkin in the habit Of giving expression to his self
oncet in the presence Of those who could chastise
him on the spot. Nothing is good enough for these
elegant gentry not one In hundred of whom, IN
all probability. ever saw the inside of gentle
mans house before visiting the country they talk
about In SUCH tone of supercious contempt
The whole country is barren; the houses poor the
public buildings wretched; the taverns abomna-
tons. Nobody wears n decent coat, and they can I
get ANYTHING TO eat-they who, when stu hum,
lodge in an attic, and eat at a cheap restaurant,
where ninepence worth Of tie flesh of some uti-
known animal, disguised by an imitation OF French
cookery. is the nearest approach to dinner they
ever make.
We have lately a letter from one OF these
elegant gentlemen, published In tho New York Trl
bune. in which he acknowledges au act OF Kind
ness and hospitality shown to him by some kind
hearted people in Alabama, very much i'll the tone
and style in which Spanish hidalgo would recoS
pize the courtesy of some amable but ignorant
peasants. These people labor snder strange hal
Iucination. They reverse the old saw, and insist
that all rs gold that glitters.' Unless mar
puts all he is worth on his back, or in his house
they set him down paurer and barbarian
Vow. no one will deny that, In big cities, splendid
buildings (whole rows of them built by foreign
capital and owned by foreigners) in elegant furni
ture In fine clothes, and in French cookery, the
North is nearly az far ahead of the South as Eng
land is ahead of the North. But then they ought
10 remember that the great staples of Southern
production form the foundation Of the wealth and
splendor which see nj tho North, and which,
were the commercial handling of these staples
transferred to another section, would vanish like
1.-THE haseless fabric of vision" Let them be
content with making more out of tho South than
the south makes for herself and not insult her to
boot. If she be the goose they represent her, she
LAYS golden eggs for them, and they ought not TO
cut and thrust at her with their abolition knives.