The Louisiana Democrat., 1859-12-28
AAllGGZANDRlAssLA WEDNESDAY .DECbNBER * Rgq
THE LAND OF THE SOUTH.
BY ADRIAN ALI

BY ADRIAN ALI. a
3H'.ou ye Ae3laado t4e eyprsssaad Myr,le ''s
a Know ye the land where the tall mountains rise
Their battlements, beetlng mid .bluest pf sEiess
Where linped lymph rivers DER bright valies Mind,
More beautiful yaies than the dales Of tile Ind
Know ye the land where the jassamine blows,
The magnolia and laurel, the azalia and rosey
4 Where soft-sighing zephyrs at evening tide come
Bringing perfume and odors troinydIlossom and
bloom;
Aud scattering their fragrance, 50 bounding awas,
10 dance with the moonbeams and sport in The
spray,
/ Fitting them here and tossing them there,
On the leaves, on the lea, everywhere, everywhere;
| sTis the land of the South where in boyhood /
s strayed,
And with the wild winds and the butterflies played;
| Chased from their lars intle green wavy weeds,
The yellow-winge hopper that peopled the meads
Watched the bright clouds as, white, feecy, they
few,
Like silvery snow barques, DER the sky's ocean
+ y 4
blue;
Heard with delight every bird sing and trill,
From bowers and thickets, from woodland and hill
Know ye thatland? Oh! beneath the warm sun
None Others 50 fair $50 enchanting, no, none!
'Tis the land ii tie South It's the home Of NV
youth;
Myssonl, how itworships thee! Land Of The South
The Tendencies Of Black Repub-
licalism.
The following very able and sugges.
tive article is from the Delta tissa
sample Of that vigorous and elegant
writing which has won for the Delta its
high standing among journals
Two events have suHiced to develop, in
shining colors, the tendencies and charac-
teristics Of the Black Republican party
the Brown eneute, and the result Of The.
New York election There had previous.
y been an element in5that party, which
might be called the conservative element,
= conservative, not positively, but rela.
lively. This element comprised the men
who had seized on tile anti-slayery move
ment as one of the avenues tospower and
aplunder thesmen who assume command
from motivesof personal ambition and
the hope Of elevations and the men who
follow in the rear d hang npon the fanksl
to seize q share ID the apoils Of she battle
field and the camp. These persons act
ing in the same organization as Wendell
Phillips, Garrison, Greedy, Smith and
Giddings, persisted in asserting that thel
others were the followers, and they the |
leaders; that they disliked Abolitionism; q
that they intended to- advance Only. to a /
certain determined limit thatsaiI they (
wanted wassparty success, or, in other
words, office and power.s Many Of them |
were perhaps sincere intheso decIara-
tions but events have shown that they
are poWerless to control the rushing tide /
Of Abolition fanaticism and sectional
ambition, Try BY such means to restrain,
the torrent Of triumphant Abolitionism
as well attempt to turn back Niagara
with q hand broom ,sor bailout the ocean
with d apitchfaks The famous Mrs. Par
tington, who was once seen III ,sthe midst |,
Of 9 raging inundation, trying to- sweep
back the advancing waters Of the sea,
has become an illustrationsdf vaiiis delu-
sion and hopeless folly. But AIRS. Par
wise andprudent, ID oonpars
lson with those wholexpect tile corserva-
tive element of Black RepuBlicanism to-
to- be capable Of steallaGii,g the turbulent
tide Of Aboltionism. p ended by extray-
agant estimates Of their stseesagth and
Importance, they have failed recognize
of the only element which
vitalizes their party (which imparts to It
all7its energy, inspires all its enthusi-