Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-06-18
Northern Teachers.

When the sources from which the great
mass of the people of the North derive their
Information of Southern institutions, meu
and manners, are considered, it is not greatly
to be wondered at that the most erroneous
Impressions are prevalent. As a matter Of
course, the people must rely to very great
extent upon the statements made through
the Northern press They have no means oil
knowing the character of the writers or oil
the truth or falsity of the statements made
When, therefore, the journals of the North
give place in their columns to the most ma
licious falsehoods concerning the South and
Southern men, the people, in the absence OF
rebutting testimony, cannot do otherwise
than accept as true what they read. If, how
ever, they could obtain an insight into the
character and motives of the sIaDderers OF
the South, their feelings in many instances
would undergo a great change. Could they
know that the statements, So solemnly put
forth, are in many Cases concocted by men
who having been guilty of some crime against
the law oil the State in which they We're tenn
porarIly residing, had left the community tU
escape the just penalty of a violated law,
their feelings toward them and the section
they misrepresent would be different. 1t is
not TO be expected that unprineipleu adven-
turers, who come among US in various capa-
cities, having incurred the penalties of The
pie from whom they made their escape, for
''No rogue e'er felt the halter draw,
With good opinion of the law"
We have had occasion heretofore to expose
the character of some of these scoundrelly
adveRturers, who use whatever position they
may obtain to SANDER and falsi.y the South
Many of these individuals have been kindly
received in the South, taken into Southern
homes, and tres ted with confidence and re-
spect. In return for this confidence, they
have gone to their homes North, and are
pouring into the ears of the people of that
section the yilest abuse of Southern men and
Southern institutions. Within the past few
weeks We have had two OF these creatures in
Montgomery: 5. r. Glenn, correspondent of
the New York Herald, and Mr. Davis, an at
tachee of Harper's Weekly. Glenn, though
protesting while here 10 be thorough seces-
siOnist, has, since his return North, taxed his
powers to the utmost in classifying the record
Of what he saw in the South. During his
stay in Montgomery, he was never once en-
tirely sober.
He passed the most of his time in the va
rious drinking saloons in this city, and final
ly sneaked out OF Montgomery without pay
ing his hotel bill. Yet The statements of this
lying, drunken scoundrel are accepted as
truth by the people of the North. Davis was
SnrcWQ enough 10 aLtacn nlmSeI 10 tue stan
of Mr.. Russell, the correspondent OF the Lon
don Tunes, and to represent himself as being
engaged in taking sketches for the London
Illustrated Neaos, He denied that he had any
connection with the Northern press but to
offset that denial we have seen u statement
made by this same Davis to the editors of the
Cincinnati papers, in which he narrates incl
dents of Southern life in a manner worthy of
a Munchausen, and since his return to New
York, Harpers Weekly has published sketch
drawn by Davis, purporting to give recruit
ing scene in Montgomery.
These men are only representatives of a
class who have long preyed upon and misre-
presented the South. The Northern people
have obtained their knowledge OF the South
through the medium of escaped convicts, dis
graced teachers, fugitive defaulters, and
drunken, lying newspaper correspondents. -
Is it any wonder SO many simple people be-
lieye the South is inhabited by race of bar
barians? Thank God, the day when these
vile creatures can traverse the South with
impunity is at an end. They will henceforth
be Obliged to draw exclusively fIOm their
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