Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-07-16
A TIMELY WORK.
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We have several times expressed our senee OF relief
aud ratification ut the prospect of being rid OF the pru-
ent productions Of Northern Literature and their sub
stituton by standard English publications and works Of
our own, embodying purer morality, sounder
philosophy and higher roach of intellect and scholar
shin That such viii be the effect Of banshiog from our
midst the hurtfu offspring Of the morbid and prolific
nress of the North, we have no doubt We have an
agreeable premonon Of this the Forthcoming publiea-
ton BY West Johnston of this city ofa work Of much
interest and value by Mr. T. ". Macmahon, devoted to
historical and philosophical inquiry into and virdcatOn
of the institutions and sociology Of the savehodrg
States The following is a summary Of the contents OF
the forthcoming volume: ~, y
The work opens with comparison Of the conduct Of
Cambyses towards the Egyptians related by herodo-
tns and that Of Lincoln towards the South-trscing
our national diff ,ues TO the Ignorant and senseess an
pathy Of the North to our domestic institutions and
seeks to prove from Holy WRIT the most recent autaen-
dc historical researches the soundest political economy
epce and natural history and facts that are indipr-
nbe aud irreiu,abe that the Southern system OF labor
h the most bentfci, and least Objectionable; the most
humanitarian and Least oppressive, the mes! reneou'
and the least sinful oil any other that ever existed
IL ccmbats the Northeru thesis that slavery arora-
nv and contrary TO the laws of nature. Commencing
with the Egyptians gathered from their herogypt.
IL, and cuneorm writings and passing hence IN rapid
review the history Of the Jews, Ohadeans Syrsns As
sy,iaps Medes Persians Indians, Pf9nicsns, Greeks
Romans Goths, Yisgoths, Franks, Loneirds, sA1ons,
Irish Musselmen AZ, e., it shows that slavery Was the
common law Of the world and the characteristic OF sa-
very With all and EACH down to the sale OF freedom to
their velkius by Henry Will and Elizabeth, and the
opening Of the Africsn slave trade.
Then comes a briei chapter on the system OF white
slavery neither usying or condemnng it but critical
y and phosophicay illustrating that it was The result
Of social economical and humarian policy when per-
ished naturally with the cessation oil the necessity nss
promoted IT, showing that in blood, lineage and intel
lee those slaves we're OF equal generic organism WIN
their lords whose descendants were the bacohs onAk
pe,res and Newtons Of our literature and science
Next We have . chap,er, chapters, upon the negro
race drawn from the writings OF French, herman, span
sh and Portuguese naturalist travellers and misone-
rss showing their degradation misery and semi-oeast-
nsss. their almost irrecaimabe condition their wor-
sho OF beetles and other insects thes subsistence upon
ants and snakes their incapscy for utility or industry
when derived OF the parental Of the white man,
with racy sketch Of their anatomy and organism.
Commencing with TIE opening OF the African slave
trade the following chatter shows how the negro pros
pers thrves happy, useful religious contented, civil
zsd. aeReseasa and afsetioaa.e a the soga; was
lec ted and petishing
view OF their usefulness to civilization and humanity
the cultivation Of the sugar cane, rice, too~eoo snd
the cotton plant Here il is shosn that cotton
can never be successfully cultivated in Africa, India, or
China or il So even that far from njaripg our own
country Il would only work out the civilization OF the
Elst and increase the value OF the plant
The conclusion is devoted to the obligations Of the
North to the Southto the services which the latter
dsred to the former-to the MORAL dissolution Of the
Unon by the North years Since and 10 the hesrtieis
pragmsticsm OF that tyrannicl majority In disturbing
our social and Industrial institutions. The policy OF LII
ccln in plunging the sections into civil war Is novelty
aud roughly handled His policy is shown to be not
oaly in bad TASTE but contrary also to good sense, re-
yiou philanthropy, popular freedom aud prosperity
Upon The evils and inquiy of war, all is said that can
De said-s bsrbarity, inhumanity, devsststons, de-
moraz ltions crue.es and misercs graphically portray
ed From the first the last page OF the book the sa-
cred Justice of the Southern is made clearly mani
fest