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10 THE TOP OF THEIR BENT.

] heard tie original conversation between q North
orner and a So1therner which w. Shakespeare has
travested by premeditsou IN TIE following converse
ton between Hamlet and Polonins:
HarDO you yoDdsr cloud that. aao. IA the hsPs Of
ToJcaias-By n, mss and I'll, IKE camel. Indeed
Ii0s--5ie Li1Aa It 8. lac vel-el
Pc3-Nery iise whale
If THE int a verbally correct quotation, Mr.. Knight
viii pardon. ". Slakeepeares works 10 not figure
much at Newport except in fesb-and-blOod editions
am quite sure that the said w. :. wrote the above
amer eayeslropping across two and hslf centuries,
and hearing these two Wel-diossed gentlemen, whose
NAMES ii not give, since they are too we known.
Tie Hamlet ia tLis case Was wealthy seini-Souih'
With Secession sympathes thiuy dissuseI under
some Union rases; the compliant Polonius was from
Boston, village where the largest and The smallest
things are said and done Of any place this continent
If you want a man who will give all Tor truth ard
justice, 90 10 Bos on if you want man who VIII
touch glasses with tie assassin OF bis own Senator
within two squares Of the latter PROSTATE form, 60 10
Boston. do not mean to give ycu the conversation
which heard tits morning; that, assure You i
faithfully given in the extract from Hamlet ncoVe
TIE Bot4nian atoncd for saying that he favored tie
Union C,inj soul By al owing every noble name ana
idea Of Ameica and especially Of his own STATE, TO be
yiliihed IN bis presence.
Wien l. this coutenp,ible and cowariy abase-
ment 10 end Has dapFeruess, then, actually become
the CHEF Yankee characteristic whenever the Yankee
gets out Of a wOTksbop
When Inst set foot 10 New-England, fresh from
the Slave States IL HIGH ] was BON and reared,
met at table IA Boston the IlOa. Mr.. w. Hearing
that was from toe South, he Instantly turned his a.
niion 10 me and began seFies Of Gduatols OF Sodth-
EN- people and Southern instiiutons; aroiogHing for
bis own regiOui sroering Rt the liberals OF NeW-En-
gland 30 a rery snail bsRd Of crazy folk hope he
viii never know tie chi that upon rue o. he
spoke Through how misty tolls and struggles had l
come TO rest upon the freedom Of New-Eusiand
! through what weary paihs came TO rcgsrd TIE men
he was sneerrg at - the her4lds ofs Nations Prom
ised Iani turned and told hm plainly end IN a sin-
! gle sentence that he lad mistaken NY opinions.
which were not those common at h. South; bat
could help thinking that ii re and Others had shown
themselves bryer and tueT 20 their institutions H.
stead Of apologss for Slavery, such opinions would
! have been much more common 81 tho South.
have in my mind oase Of very different kind. 1t
Wa, belle e. about eight years ago, tlat wa con-
suited by a committee ~ New-Hayen Ms 70 whether
| knew any gentleman ia the South who would be VII
ling TO delivers lecture in eWIIavsn, in defCnse Of
the institution OF Slavery. by mind fixed upon Geo.
| Fiizhu-b, Of King George County, Va, who bad
written works on the " Failure Of Free Getty" sud
Tie Sociology Of tie South" SIR. Fiubugh went 10
New-Ilayen, and gave, the evening u BIS arrival
lecture entitled, &" Free Society Failure Wen
DELI Philips was presen. and heard tie lecture, sad
! Mr.. h. evidently took pleasure in seeing bin FiI-
bulA's method Of proving Free Society failure was
by iheOries and specula,ons which rad got into the
creyices aud under the q bis brain, like the bats
In The rckoly Old mansion situated the f4seud Of
Cnce noble estate. This spo. of " the sacred soil, re
! had never ler for q month, AID Of Free Sociey Of
oOurse knew nothing AZ New-Hsyen be le!i, | an
happy TO ear into very different hnds hiu tb,se Of
tie Hon. Sir. W Of Boston or Of Po0u.s a. NeuPori.
lie tho guest Of that honeE ard noble man, II God
| ever made one, the laio Mr. Samuel FyJte. On
| tie next morning after the lecture, hr. Fooie
/ too Mr.. L. IN buggy, and drove thpoasb-
/ ont the beautiful Town Of New-Eaven aud
/ It's environs; showed him houses and cottages
which w0ud BE- alsryels Of elegance In Virginia, aud
informed him. without any alusiOn " og-cabn6 that
many Of these mansions belonged 20 mechanics. aud
/ some, even 70 dsy-aJorcrs. Fiizhugh thunder
stricken. lie had proved Free Society failure with
ont even leaving hi, State; nobody replied % hin, bnt
be wen. home answered. lie always preteyed 60
omnons silence about the yii!; but he Acknowledged
hif mistake about Nolosn Society, and though before
tba, be had invariably printed a pamphlet every Elk
mouths 10 favor tho Sociology 81 the South" be-
Heve be Lac not Ienned line Of tie hind ,nee. The
grave and impressive rebnke II Samuel Foo'e, who
simply said that ho won,i take him Fizhugb ont 70
see how Free Society had failed wasnever lost. hr.
Fooe via gentleman in old sense which lie come.
tinef forgotten in Scholastic Boston, tbs, s he
| was gentle but always men.
II Northern men would cfrener refrain fron'ehne-
eating their manhood and snndsring their coun-
try did they &C. tLir manly and gentle pant toward
Sou,icrn men, | can imagine many benefits which
piuet flow from such a eOuTse. The South would re-
spect the North and the sentiment Of the North with.
out having 20 be cudgeled Gr,t. TIE Sorth always
believed that the North would cringe 70 tho last be
bad been doing for fifty ye-rs. What say you, gen.
| tlemtn aso done cnugiug! Or is Mr.. Nalnndig-
ham and bis posture 10 be frft endured then piiied,
then emblecd--Or, according to The poet is DE way
with moral monsters 81 DO not trult him, said
Rehelicu Of the soldier, " he sOops TOO low" Ham
lei never dtsyes Polonins than when The latter
fools him 10 the top OF lie bent Had tbe North been
determined, outspolen. aud faithful TO herself she
must have been faithful also TO the South, and might
have averted tho which cate into South
ern brothers hear, having, instead, fot,ered that
tumor until dolrium has superseded It must now res
cue tlat brother If be DO rescued, BY the painful
surgical way. AEco5.
Her1oyf, r. l., Jaly 70, 1851.
STATEMENT or TIE CONDITION OF
THINGS IN ALABAMA.
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