New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-09
THE uUmANnTGRs SOUTH.

Arms have it all their own way Ia tue regions
of renegade revolt throughout which the toga Is
unceremoniously discarded. Even the kt. Kew
Father.in- God Polk of Louisiana, has. as our
readers already know, discarded godly lawn for
golden lace. ald the Lives of the Saints for
SCOTS Tactics. But now sadder news comes to
U.s. The Southern Colleges and Universities are
giving up their erudite ghosts in every direction
Upon the authority of The Nen.Ortedns True
FITNESS, q religious sheet, we state, with pam,
that Oakland College, celebrated Haunt OF the
Muses.. ia 10 more-that La Grange College,
renowned Seat Of Learning in Tennessee IL also
dcfunct-that Stewart College, an Academic
Grove in Tennessee, also has been cut down in
the full foliage Of its usefulneSs-that the Uni
versity of Mississippi, at Oxford, is sitting like
a widowed Alma Mater, with nobody at Der
generous breast; aud that the Centenary Cot
lepe, Jackson, La, no longer dspenses crumbs
Of culture in that part OF the world. These
venerable pile, are all deserted; no more their
ancient rafters ring to the song of
"P.gria gSs mq,i.u. had a i.tl. dogs
C-sd eas wa BIZ name
and sucking Soutbrons have ceased with totter-
ing steps there solcmnly to cross the Pons Ash
HorHn. The ardent youth have oil gone to the
wars; and tho no less ardent Faculties have
thrown away their spectacles and followed suit.
Now, this is a classical collapse and a matbe-
zeal mischance and sad stroke TO Sacred Theolo-
W. and especially to that part of the latter upon
which the Divine Institution of Slavery is builded
Heretofore, it must be confessed, the Pstrarcbs
have leaned upon learning TO the extent of their
acquirements. They have logged, aud begotten
yellow bastards and then sold them not with eau
ton covert, but in market overt without q mis-
giving; and they have done this upon strict
Abrahamic principles partly, and partly because
the Greeks aud Romans did so, To say nothing of
the Barbarans. But now Ethnology, Chronicle
~, PhilOcgy and Archaeology have oil come to
grief in those dcmesncs which they once did 40
lustratc; and DIR. Fuller, If he really does want
10 serve the cause, should at once convert his
useless lexcons and chrestoma HES into ear
tridges, aud Impress his whole stack Of ancient
sermons into the same service. What is a elias
seal point 10 a Colts pistol a text to n trum-
/ pc; The Sacred Canon to the Rifled Cannon
Philemon to fighting Why bother about Ham
when you have chance to hammer the heads of
the coptoundedly illiteraie Yankee Doodlos
10 be sure, it may be urged, that whereas
I, Southern neophytes aud other students, have
heretofore resOrted for polish and illumination TO
Northern Institutions. il is not wise, now that
they can no longer do so, TO permit their own
rills OF learning however threadlike, 10 be
chokcd. We take different ground The South
is Lighting for the sweet satisfaction of remaining
IN a semi-barbaric condition. Ii is attempting
10 found Republic not upon knowledge but
upon kuayory. 1t means to ignore the Law of
God, and why should it study theology II in
tends to tramplc upon the rights of man, and
what has il to do with Law Natural, Civil, or
Common Ii has surrendered itself to q coarse
aud be.tial inhumanity, aud why should it care
ior the sweet influences Of philosophy and of
poetry IL needs to study but one science
the science of oppresson-and the hard
human heart in that branch Of learning, has in
a ages been its own best teacher. 1t SCOTS at
cultured child vi the ages past, and the hopeful
mother of the ages TO come; and of what value
70 such nation will be tho record Of human
trinmphs or of human reverscsl Why should it
waste it, time and treasure in the erection OF
stately colleges and academic cOisters, when to
the brutal eye of its best citizens the finest archi
lecture il to be found in slave huts and barra.
coonsl Why should it gather together Libraries,
when there is not one printed book of value in
this world, which is not an immortal reproach of
that hideous social system, and an irrefutable
argument against its possible perpetuityl No
in a slayehoding Republic ignorance is bliss, aud
enlightenment must bring the torture Of remorse
and tho trembling Of fear. The prototype Of the
Southern Shareholder, is the African King, who
cleaning with palm oil and glorious in painted
of shvering captives, and sells them TO the mis-
siOnary Of civilization, whose pirate bark is
anchored in tho ofiDg. The Monarch of Da-
honey is the real founder Of the Confederate
States of America. Their enlightenment, their |
theology, their civilization, their political econ
omy, have all been learned of that hideous and |
bowling savage; and all they are, and all they |
pretend to be, and all they care to be, the bar
barians of the Slave Coast have been before
them. They do well to give up their Colleges;
they will give up their Churches next-and
knows i--perhaps their clothes Given /
tho independence of the Southern Confederacy, |
and who can assure us that within century |
the Governor Of South Carolina will not kneel |
upon his naked knees, in all tie splendOr Of |
q tattced skin to adore some dirty little fetinh |
,1nl1 Nafiobs that b.va haen civiltzad md