Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-03-20

duFGi bAoSllbi3t III tO-0aJ D paper
SOUTHERN AssAILANTs OF NoRTHERN I,ARoR
"A correspondent of the New York Post, gives
the following "reminiscences concerning Senator
Hammond, of South Carolina
II knew his father, who was a true Yankee
from Massachusetts. He then resided in Lex.
ington district, South Carolina and was the owner
and manager of a mill He had previously
carried on the business of butcher, at Columbia
His chief PRIDE seemed TO be centred in his son
James, whom he trained from childhood in ora
torcal exercises. The mother of James was |
think, the daughter Of an Englishman named
Fox. So the aristocratjc Senator is half Yankee
half Bull His Yankee father grudged no sacri
flee TO make him an orator, and fit him for pnblic
life, not expecting that he would distinguish
himself chiefly in efforts against the land Of his
fathers
On the Boston and Worcester Railroad, short
ly after passing the Westboro' station, may be
seen an old fashioned square house. with cupola
upon the top, but otherwise Of very unpretentious
appearance This house is occupied by two fam
ilies--brothers. One is wheelwrght a yery
worthy man, and much respected by his fellow
citizens. But he is Northern labofer, one who
gets an humble living by the sweat of his brow,
and one of the class stigmatzed by Senator Ham.
mond az slaves. This worthy mechanic howey.
er-this child Of toil-this Northern slave. as he
would be termed by the degenerate son of a New
England sire--is the father of another Southern
speech, has bitterly reviIed the home OF his youth
and the principles OF freedom and free labor in
which he was educated. In that old house, Mr.
Maynard, the representative of the second dis
trct in Tennessee, was born Here his father
pursued his useful calling, and his mother and
sisters braided straw bunnd shoes, and taught
school to aid him thaough college Here MIR.
Maynard imbbed principles which should have
governed his career through life, but which seem
to have oeeh LOST sight OF IN the pursuit Of the
glitteung prizes Of ambition The son Of a Mas
sachusetis wheelwrlght-the yankee school
teacher" for such Mr.. Maynard was when he first
went to the South, is one Of the most jealous de
tenders of the peculiar institution and one Of
those who haughtily spurn Northern labor. and
who are ready at all times to strike it down
whether by tariff which will encourage foreign
manufactures, Or by more direct blow at indi.
vidual interests. 1t has been said and perhaps
truly, that Yankees make the hardest slaye.dri.
yers. SO New England man, who has fairly
! turned his back on the home Of his childhood
and identified himself with Southern interests Is
too often the most ready to attack the interests
| Of d section to which he owes all that he is
| Boston journal
The physical degeneracy question has
taken new turn, After showing how
| Americans have deterioraied in physical now.
er, the London Times proves to us own salts.
| faction that trenchmen also exhibit great
1 phyhlebl uechy' Inns lpucheB sensitive
point in the Frenchmen's feelings, and the
! Journals retort that the French soldier has
more physical endurance than the English,
Drunkenness, they say, is prevailing Vice in
England, and such habits always tend 10
physical deterioration The French adyices
frou Calcutta aud Bombay present a terrible
havoc Of the British troops landed in those
ports from the transports, by the groeeest
| abuse Of ardent spirits Hundreda Of vyratrh
cd soils are weekly sent back to 5uez.