The Yazoo Democrat., 1859-09-17
Hotel ronaYlsm to the south.

We publish the following letter from the
Lowell Journal and Courier It is fair
specimen of the affection entertained for US
by our Northern Jrethern:
"An East Indian, by the name of s. G..
Gangooly, now travelling in this country, was
not allowed to sit at the dinner table at the
Glen House. The chief waiter supposed
from his color that he was "nigger." The
Boston Transcript says Mr.. GangOoly is
about the color Of Tom Corwin or Senator
Hamlin of Maine. Mr.. Gangooly wrote a
letter to the Transcript in which he says:
"The man who refused admittance to met
for my oriental color, ought to know that
white complexion is not the standard in the
whole world, DOR in heaven--his Master and
Lord was an oriental al-the Apostles were so
TOO"
This little incident is significant Toady,
ism of the South, and Southern opinion is no.
whore more rife than among the keepers Of
our Northern watering places, and summer
resorts, such as the Glen House.
In point of civilization, and in all the quail.
tiles which characterize gentleman, an East
Indian Brahmin is infinitely the superior Of
an Alabama or Mississippi planter There is
class of population, however, in Hindostan.
who have many striking points of resem
blance of our rlce-swamp cbivalry. We re,
fer to the Thugs Nena Sahib would make
first rate Southern politician, He is a
man of the genuine Arkansas, South Carolina
stamp Respect for man, as man, exists to
far less extent in the United States than
it does in the Old World
Southerners find no more subservient toad
les than among Northern hotel keepers of
the Newport, Saratoga and White Mount-
ain breed. AT these places an insolent cot
ton planter can talk as insultingly of the
North and Northerncrs as he can in Congress
or on his own plantation, and "mine host"
will listen with mods and smiles Wealth,
and the universal hunger for wealth, are
fast destroying every manly sentiment
amongst US, and every trace of honesty like
wise. In the city of New York drunken
Malay of cotton dealer from Mobile can
shoot down poor Northern Rahab like Vir.
ginia Stewart with impuuity. Who believes
that the Mobile assassin will ever be punish
ed2 We read in the New York papers how
he receives his meals, while sojourning in the
Tombs, from the Metropolitan Hotel. The
Herald also adds, by way of soothing the
feelings of bis friends, that he wGntS for
nothing. The Herald is mistaken. lie
wants coil of hemp about his neck with a
hangman's knot in it. But be is not likely
to get it in our American Sodom. As Shak-
speare's Jew says, in the Merchant of Venice,
so may we of the North say, "suferance is
the badge of all our tribe" What the
South needs more than any other section
of the earth is chastisement. The social statc
us Of some of our Southern States is a dis
grace to this country and the age. They
have nominally the jurisprudence and insti,
tutioDs of civilized countries, but in effect
each man there rights himself Nearly all
personal differences result in murder
Drunkenness and assassination flourish with
out check. A Sepoy rebellion amongst the
blacks will probably be the kind of retribu-
tion which will be visited upon the South
for its outrages upon humanity and civiliza-
tion."