New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-12
LITERARY.

Mr.. Olmsteds recent volume, A Journey in
the Back Country" meets with favorable recep.
ton in London, where its suggestive views and
graphic narrative are well adapted to excite at
teption. The Ahenoua remarks Of it: Taken
altogether this the ablest and the most useful and
interesting Of those books Of travel which the
author has yet Published. The scenes Of Negro life
are quite "a humorous as those the author has al
ready depicted without the exaggerated and iarcical
tone which marred now aud then some OF his most
graphically described incidents. He has gone into
an examination Of the great slave question like
passionless and discriminating judge. Inc evil
dencs he extort5 from slaves overseefs and owners
be Sits with impar,ialtyi and, adding thereto
his own experiences, he arrives at conclusion
which all parties should respect though neither party
viii accept Il o. a solution The peculiar instu-
lion" is not TO be swept away in day but that an
end must come s manifest to all mem that end will
be all the safer for society, and perhaps the more
remote If the slave be considered little essas prop
erty, and little more as person. He will be the
more contented 10 remain where be is IL be be not
kept a, be ia. Give him an interest in and reward
for HE abors let justice administer those penalties
which are now awarded by caprice, let him have
human sympathy andenoouragomenta asa slave, while
he is being impercepbly but surely educated FOR lib
erty, aud the bond now existing may be maintained,
with certain differences, till the hour arrives when
II may be broken with mutual advantage. Some
thing like this we take 70 be tie view VI the case
adon,ad nv III. oinstod. The blgos on ether side
will, probably, only the one curse, and the other
sheer At him. Meanwhile, the letters OF the slave
may be made to drop from him by other bands. His
value has been increased and Abolition rendered less
probable as well as possible by the continually usng
demand for, and the increasing value Of, the cotton
CROP II we ever realize, what ought long since to
have been accomplished, orr own dreams and small
beginning. toward the rising Of cotton crops on land
belonging to our own Empire, tho knel Of American
Slavery will have struck. II, ere that, the swelling
populations Of the South have not destroyed the
white, the latter will hold very different sentiments
Of the Institution from those which now possess
and sometimes sgitste his breast
"A fippant, superficial, and illsPelled book on the
american Crisis" by q writer named Lempriere,
and rejoicing in the title Of ID. C.. L. from Oxford,
has recently been published in London. The
Spectator treats it with unceremonious candor.
The volume, we must premise, consists OF TWO
portions; much ste-and-scssors work, and small
quantity Of original natter chiefly declamatory, in
behalf Of Southern rights and against Northern ag'
gressop." About 100 Of the 22i pages of text con-
list Of extracts add to these 20 odd pages Of appen-
diees and that q note to the single chapter Of 10
pages Ill containing really instructive matter, tells
ns that for almost the whole details Of this subject
The author il indebted "to the Kindness Of j. Z. Ket-
tell. ESQ.,. author Of Southern Wealth and Northern
4 hos ia no
rortion Of the volume The contents Of the chapter
referred to excepted the extracts are generally such
IA could be cut out from any American, and many
English. newspapeB-such as Gov. Jackson's Proc
lsmsticn to the People Of Missouri NEARLY pagesi
The Times on the Negro e pages) and pdsSiD'
Presiden, Lincolns Inaugural Address (l6 pages OF
sppendixl; President Dayiss Ditto ~; with slips
from the appendix to TIE Congressional GiObe, &c,
The only two original works that we can discover
referred TO are "Helper' and Ellison" the titles to
neither being given, though after repeated quotations
il appears that Mr.. Helper is author Of the Land OF
Gold The Constitution Of the United States is
construed e1 catLedrd without more than single
mention of Story and none of any other constitu-
tona writer, while not the least reference is made to
Benton's "Thirty Years visw," 0lmsteds invalu-
able y0lumeb, or III snort, any sIluhru WoTh "has
soever Almost all the facts and figures quoted are
on the Southern eide while almost all the declama-
ton reproduced is carefully culled from Northern
sources, cschewing the far plentiful supplies OF
the South. Whether bis witnesses be good, bad, or
Indifferent appears to trouble the writer but little.
person whose personal honesty he mpugns by insinua
ton Mr. Helper, sput repeatedly asa sufficient
RI representative of Northern views A Times leader
is quoted az very late authority for asserting that
tho tariff question and not Slavery is the of dis
rrption. Proclamation Of President Pierce, the
notorious imbecty Of whose administration and bis
interruptions partisanship for the ProSavery party
in Kansas were only surpassed by those of his sue
cessor, Mr.. Buchanan, is quoted as "an authority
which cannot be impugned.'
The Royal Society Of Northern AntquarieS Of
Copenhagen a, their last anniversary, the King oil
Denmark in the Chair report that Mr.. Niels Arm
zen of Fall River in the County Of Bristol and State
of Massachusetts, had transmitted TO the Society
warranty deed, by which in consideration of his
esteem for the editor of the Antiquities Amerl-
can,," and the author Of the Memoir on the dis
coyery Of America by the Eorthmen,' Professor Z.
| C. Rain, and tho Royal Society OF Northern Anti