New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-10

which even the too modest deniais Of overaenstiye
Shareholders have failed to invalidste.
But, in the sphere of business, as wei a' OF
Government, we are happy to recognise evidences
of high civilization such as might d, honor to the
most advanced of English or Northern 6nanciers.
We mentioned some time ago case Of Southern
banking, which occurred in Cbcothe in Missouri
mot in Ohio, we would beg to distinguish, so that
honor may be paid where it is due), where mis-
crtant from the town Of Hannibal, in the same
State, who had the cffrontery to demand specie at
the counter of bank for certain OF its bills, was
driven ignominiously forth Of it's limits, at the
mouth of the revolver and the point Of the bowie
knife, with significant intimatous that repetition
of the offense would be expiated BY bis death.
This example we commended to the imitation Of
our Wall street bankers, as Of the most efficient
virtue TO check any announcement run upon them
for CON- 1t u.s. indeed, step far in advance Of
the point at which our slower civilization has
balted, and Iebukes to this extent the inputation
of baIbarism which Mr.. Sumner seems to think
rherept in the system of Slavery, and proceeding
thence to infect the whole body polite which cher
ishes it.
But we are not left without further witness Of
the falsity of this sweeping charge. Financlering
of high order is not confined to the Banking Sys-
tenn of the South. The Railways there can boast
Of their Schuylers and their Tuckermans as well
as those of the North. And the fnanciers them
selves, We should judge, receive much higher
need Of admiration and esteem than the less ad-
vanced Northern hOrdes to their fiscal heroes.
For instance, correspondent of newspaper
writing from Richmond, Va, under date of juno
20, informs the osel North that Edwin Robinson,
esq.,, the President of the Washington and Rich-
mOnd Railroad, having become involved, "vOlun-
6 ariy declared the fact that ne had squandered
" the personal property of the Company, to whom
/" be said be was defauter to considerable
" amount. He awaits an investigation. His con-
duet in the affair is highly honorable, and he is
e" much respected" Of course, though it is not
mentioned, this excellent person is patriarch
owning men.seryants ard maid servants, born in
his house or bought with his money (or that of the
Railroad), and unquestionably savory professor
of religion. And such a man Mr.. Sumner would
stirmatize with the brand of barbarism
Now, in this instance, We see the superiority OF
Southern civilization over Northern. Hereabouts
if it il very true that we are too well bred 20 annoy
seriously the eminent gentlemen who relieve US
of our spare cash-Or cash that we can Ill spare
provided it be done on sufficiently handsome
and liberal scale we are not hghminded enough
to regard their conduct as highly honorable or to
respect them much for it. Mr.. Schuyler ended his
active and valuable life in the retirement of villa
on the Lake of Como, in oil tranquility and peace.
Mr. Tuckerman who had helped himself to two or
three hundred thousand dollars of Massachusetts,
Railway. was mercifully entreated, and would
probably have escaped all public punishment had
be not had the imprudepce to insinuste his furtve
fingers into the breeches pocket of Uncle Sam.
But neither of these distinguished persons, however
much they might be admired and envied, was held
in very high esteem by their neishbors, or regarded
o. highly honorable. Mr. Sbepard of Boston, who
absorbed more than half the earnings of the de-
positors Of Five Cent Savings Bank, thinking, as
he is an eminenty pious person, that the Scripture
should be fulfilled which SAITH I" from him that
"hntb not shall be taken even that which he hath"
even he, though not unlikely to escape the peniten-
tiary, is so little esteemed in that backward CON-
munity that Governor Banks has degraded him
from the lofty post of Major in his Militia.
We think we have thus put the question at rest
ss to the Civilization of the South. Its claim to
higher Civilization than our own We think we have
fully made out. The only reason, We apPrehend.
why We do not hear oftener of brilliant trausac-
tions like that of Mr. Robinson, and of the respect
and esteem they excite, is to be found in the
paucity of accumulated capital there, and not 10
want Of skill or inclination to manipulate edyan-
tageously. We should Judge that if there be an
Elysium of Treasurers on earth, an Eden OF
Cashiers Paradise OF Presidents it is this, it is
this. We would most afectionately commend to
all epterpHsiDg and adventurous spirits who sigh
for Others goods, to hasten to exchange these
nho spitable regions for those happier shores.