Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-09-22
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

oUHc is attributable to the zeal and steadiness
with which it has pandered to the insane sec
tional 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
such phobia, and are highly indignant under
the soft impeachment. The Tribune, as a
matter of business speculation, has steadily
cultivated (nursed this state Of sectional senti-
ment among its readers, and literally never
appears without containing articles the design
of which is neither more nor less than to make
it apparent that nearly all the vice, poverty,
crime and ignorance that curse the land, exist
In the God-forsaken slaveholding States. To
be sure, day by day whole pages Of that elabo-
rate journal are devoted to the record of crimes
committed, and the exposure of other things
initiating against the well-being of society in
the non-slaveholding section of the country,
which tell Of truly fearful state of things
there, SO far as the future as well as the pres
ent of Northern morals is concerned. The phil
osOphers of the Tnbuns, however, have On easy
way of getting around the dilemma in which
more modest folks would find themselves in the
matter of reconciling their theory Of the So
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,
boldly to demand that the truth of their views
Of the relative condition of the two sections, in
dustrial, moral, &c, shall be taken for granted,
malgre the palpablc facts they publish concern
ing their own section, and their utter inability
to find facts concerning ours on which to hinge
their persistent ISLANDERS Of it. We-never fail
to be struck with the mendacity of the Tn
bnne's war on the South, when reading its own
its arguments referred to above,
But very few days ago, when inveigh-
ing against the Collaborating character of the
South, as illustrated by the course of the oppo-
nents of the abolition party in Kansas, it pa
raded the names of hundreds of the ten thousand
patrons of its very last New York "wrinkle"-
The FennS Mtsceliany-a libidinous publica-
ton recently broken up by the police. Among
the whole ten thousand, it seems that two only
disgrace the slaveholding States by being in
habitants or citizens of the South-twO only.
So, too, do we find it publishing column after
column, embracing practical warnings of the
lands at ruling prices. The theory of most it
has published of late on that subject is, that the
dishonesty and recklessness of speculation in
Western non-slavcholding State lands, rail
roads, &c, now practced. is at the bottom
Of all the financial trouble that has recently
come upon the North. At the same time it
''Out HERALD, the Herakt'' in misrepresenting
the true condition Of the South concerning the
value of property and the safe returns for labor
of every description there. The Herald, it
will be recollected, maintains in effect that the
South, and especially Virginia, is but the land
of the Hottentot at this time, as 1t were. Acco-
mac especially-her alleged darkness, indo-
lence, viciousness, &C., has been the theme
of the Heraid's ridicule for perhaps ten years
past, until hundreds of thousands of really igno.
rant newspaper readers at the North have come
to believe that of all parts of the United States,
none other approaches the Eastern Shore ofVir-
ginia in thrftlessness; and that consequently
one is better of in Northern poor-house, than
as the owner of thousands of acres in that be
nighted region.
The following brief letter, which we take from
a late number of the Richmond South, however,
ton Of the Old Duminion's industrial status:
To the Editor Of the SOHth In the month of
July, there appeared in The SOnGh a notice of
various sales Of land in Accomac. at prices rang
ing from $40 to $50 per acre. Since the date Of
that publ icaton an unusual number OF sales have
been made, and for the most part at very high
prices. Two OF them ! will mention, for the
further information of Mr.. Eli Thayer, AS we'll
for the benefit of those OF your readers in Wiz
ginia who imagine the Eastern shore TO be a pow
erty-stGicken sandbeach, productive only of fish,
oysters and sweet POTATOES.
Mr.. James GarrisOn's farm Of rs acres of high
land with some marsh, } sold for Sl2, ODO-beiny
about go per acre of high land.
Nh. Thomas Floyd's farm of 100 acres sold for
$1,000, or $50 per acre.
Both Of these tracts are situated In GO Bfadford,s
Neck" one Of the most thriving aud beautiful
agricultural districts in Virginia. Neither ii 1
am rig tly informed, has improvements OF such
costly character As to account for the high price
obtained IL was for thu Iand that the price was
paid-an adventitious value being impaired 10 it,
however, by its advantageous situation with ref
erence to the water. Yours, &c, j.
We have merely to add that there was no
speculation in these prices; for land sales in
Eastern Virginia are invariably bona fie bust
ness transactions-the figures involved in them
representing money actually paid, and to be
paid in six, twelve and eighteen months, with
out depending on any contingency Of rise
Of prices. Lands bought in that section of
the State are invariably purchased for -imme-
date use, Cultivation, )and not on speculation.
We submit to the reader Of common sense,
that facts such as are found above, show as
clear as light, the entire groundlessness of the
persistent efforts of the Tribune, Herald, ct III
Omne gems in the newspaper line, to misrep-
resent the condition Of the South to the people
Of the North.
The CONVENTION TO FRAME A CONSTITUTION
FOR kANsAs.-On taking his seat as President
Of this convention, Mr.. Calhoun delivered an
address from which We make the following brief
extract by way Of showing his views upon the
line Of the conventions duty, the latter being
at this time the most interesting political ques-
tion in issue before the people:
" constitution wisely framed and properly
fairly, and honestly approved by the true citizens
OF Kansas. will settle all the difficulties that sur
round US, and that have been surround ing US and
will at once restore harmony to the Union |
m her w rI,aps An;., TT,