The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1859-08-12

~. Mschayss Bsok ON America.
-. hsvs srsys I'm ~ work 81 Or. CMAHtss +
y .nxAr on . Life and Liberty IN America,
IN, ! skesch Of II in The wesn4imstcr Refsssr.
hitch appears 10 - ean6id Al conprehenS
Ave. rsves, no doubt, 4 air ~ Of II. DR..
MAcxAr, il will b. res bersd visited thi.
country not long ago, 81 was anly iionized |
BY the tuft hunters, sesns VI whom, howsscs, |
after his departure, expressed their dissatis-
faction with his proceedings, which no doubt
would have troubled him less than thsir nat
sefics, III be had ever heard Of 1t. The iitcra-
~ traveller, Dr.. MAcx4Y, like most Of HIS ira
yelling countrymsn, managed to lose his popu-
larity almost a. soon - he attained II, and the
consequences was, that he went back 70 Eng
iaud amid considerable squaii Of popular In
dignation.
In his late volumes, DIR. MAckAr, judging
from the sketch before US, does more Justice In
some respects TO this country than we had an
.jcipa,ed. We had concluded, al one time,
hat this foreign pet of the funkeys was
wholly given mp to the ways and works OF
abolitionisn. He still shows considerable
nervousness in his apprehension that the
negroes will ere long out-number the whites
In 1900, the slaves amounted TO 69f ,s97, and In
$50. to 32Gs,3i3 rather under fye-fold in
crease, which gives great alarm TO DIR. MACK
Az. who predicts for them an ultimate nn-
nerical majority. We are pleased to witness
his evidence Of sympathy for the white race,
little a. 1t is demanded We wonder that the
Rsriep does not infer from the increase OF the
blacks that their condition cannot be as BAD as
| Il 10 generally represented. DR.. MAcKAY him.
/ self cannot shut his eyes to this fact. va
| general" he says, ''the negroes are well ieo,
| and are not crueily used; they have their hoh-
days, when they luxuriate in cerporeai ana
mental repose." aWith faces upturned 10 the
4 sum-" says Mr.. FITZ HUeH, quoted by W.
| MAcxAY.) "they can sleep at every hour" we
! ,aIi the attention of our friend FITz HUGH 10
| he following: DIR. MAcKAy," says the fs-
,isr. appears to admit the facts alleged by
his philosophic advocate of slavery, a KIND OF
| rampant CARLYLE, who would ensiaVe hos
only negroes, but the Irish and German emil
grants, set them working in the cotton OF su-
gar regions, or sell them by public anchon
| In the Southern States there is no longer an
apologetic, bat an aggressive, theory OF slave
| nv. Slavery, say various writers in prose and
verse, Is no evil, but the proper conditloh OF
| The masses of mankind. The apostle OF the
| new science Of the social religion OF the South
| is the gentleman already Indicated, MI. Iko-
| FITz HVGH, of Virginia. lie has elaborated a
| system of slavery, writing In grim earnest,
| ustifying the institution by Biblical author
| ity, physiological argument, ara philosopher
| Squares eternal fitness OF things Dr. MAC
KAY, however, comedies that II the 'corpuienl
| and comfortable hog-standard be accepted as
the true ideal of human aspiration, the eondi-
| ton of the slaves in the Southern States Is
| .unerior TO that of the free laborer in Europe.
In that sunny region
.'De Lord He hub de niggar well,
| He know de nggar by de smell,
| And when de niggar children cry;
| De Lord He glib 'em possnHi pie'
DIR. MACKAY says, however, That ne never
perceived 'any unpleasant efiuYla from lhe
| inquirer epidemis of the negro" Wen, there
, is no account for tastes. The author does not
|, ! snare the free States on the negro question
He saws which is true that they concede lib
erty, but deny equality, to the black forbid
| him the omnibus, the railway car, the theatre
| and the church The Southern slave-owners,
he says seem far superior in social Kindness
to the Northern abolitionists. DIR. MAcKAf
| declares that in the struggle between the North
and the South, the negro is made the pretext !;
that it il struggle for political power anc
ascendancy between the Northern and South
I ern sections. DR.. MAcKAY denies that Anne
ricans have secured good or cheap government
! iID&oaks OF a tyranny of opinion which for
bids man to exercise right of judgment in
. | antagonism to his party; he complains Of the
! corruption aud robbery inherent in a system
/, | of change which creates opportunities for self
seeking population, and possible deyilwor
ship; for if your party propose the devil
himself for Mayor of New York, or President
| ba Hayi
by vote and interest or leave your party
The law makers there are more habtually
law breakers than in older communities and
in the Slave States, he asserts, there is ten
dency "to supercede all other jodge ship by the
decisions of that very fcmouxSnd judicious
Judge whose instruments ar&fnB passions OF
the people, and whose name la44ScH." Ma
/ turaIly. there is little reverdS4e for living
worth in America, but for th&noble dead, az
is proved by the purchase of Nount Vernon,
1.-The home and tomb of George Washington
all yeneration is not yet extinct. This grace
luI tribute to a splendid memory is not, how
ever to be ascribed to the men, but the women
If America, and, notably, TO Miss PANEL
| CUNNINGHAM, lady of Richmond. $50 Dl
ar. MACKAY says, but poets are not expected
| TO be accurate-South Carolina is entitled to
! that honor.)
| DR.. MACKAY pays high compliment to the
| sparkling Catawba wine of Longworth, Cincin-
natl. "Probably,'' says he, 'the ciarets o.
| France will never be riyalled in America; buG
| French Champagne the queen OF the wines,
must yield her sceptre and throne to one purer
| and brighter than She who sits on the banks
| Of the Ohio-the Catawba wine" The book
| 10 snlivened at times with the wine of humor-
| Gus illustration, under which head is this elias.
steal solilloquy of an inebriated misanthrope
Talking loudly to himself. hut slowly and de
liberately, he said. Damn every thing damn every.
| body. es, but there time enou sh TO damn
every thins; and it's not my business to 20 out o.
! the way to do it. Besides, have no authority Il
aaInn an, thing, and for that matter to damn an,
| body but myself, which do most heartily, damn
me- And he passed on reeling.
The British Cett III Movement.
According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, thu
leading manufacturers in Great Britain con
| tinue To perplex themselves with the POSSIBLE
| af fntn fn,l