New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-16
THE MUSES. SOUTH.


invented Patent Office which win be as handy
as the fifth wheel of coach, the Montgomery
Convention, continuing to go through the motions.
has passed an International Copyright Law, which
will no doubt solace extremely Mr.. Dickens and
other manufacturers Of prose fiction. Ii pred
Gated upon any achievements In the field Of let
tiers thus far accomplished by Confederate writees,
we should pronounce this Montgomery measure
uncommonly magnanimous; as the prospect Of
brisk demand for Southern copyrights in Londco.
does not appear 10 Us 10 be painfully brilliant
for various reasons, one of which is that BY tho
eternal laws Of nature rabbit must be caugA
before he can be roasted. London booksellers WI
not be in an agony of haste 10 purchase TIE
new views Of the Confederators, their specsla-
tons in philosophy and their spasms in poetry.
until the MSS. are ready. 1t is bad enough h
buy pig in 8 poke, but to buy possible peea
or an abstract folio and to pay for the same n
present concrete cash is what even Mr.. Edmund
Curl would not have done, if he bad not been
weakened by taking pbysc, when be said to his
| couYOcation OF writers: " Here is half-a-or0wu
apiece for you to drink your own hsalths and
90 confusion TO Mr.. Addison, and oil other suo-
:" cessful writer's" "Authors must be paid BE-
:. forehand," said Mr. Curl, so put them N
" good humor;" and when the Confederstes
have fairy fingered few Of the fifteen millions
we recommend TO them to invite proposals for
furnishing the Confsderacy with sufficient sep
ply OF reading. and thus. BY Of least the prospect
Of payments, stimulate genius, impregnats
fancy, awaken the dormant Southern
intellectuals, and 30 secure whole Libraries u
that which, since the creation of this world o.
| the invention of Cadmus, has bad no existence
a good. sound, solid, ProSayeY literature vita
no nonsense about the rights Of maa, with -
insane praises of freedom, with no naudlin sym
pathies, aud with no lunatic aspirations. II ~
| main, 10 b. seen with what relish the leading
| literary men Of England almost all Of them b.
their publications committed against the ono.
sole, lonesome " institution" Of the South. vii
receive these smisbie 0veEtures; or whether. foe
the profit Of few pounds, they viii pubhaA
books 10 South Carolina which they would net
dare TO publish in England There arc few
writer's abroad, or at least IN Great Britain
hungry or tairsty or ragged enough 70 do that,
and for the poorest Of them all. no matter what
his exigence, tho speculation would not DO
gainful one.
The Georgia Convention. having faded to hsx
of the Montgomery scheme, or perhaps regarding
il with 10 more respect THAI we do. has takss
the extraordinary course of offering reward q
$500 each for Spelling Book, an Arithmetic,
al English Grammar, a Geography and tive
Reading Books. AS there are already supdV
manuals ia print, tho productions OF southern
mind and Southern learning. we eau only under
stand this munifcent offer, BY the reelection that
these existing books are tainted by the fact that
they ara the property Of Northern publishers and.
although within their purified covers 10 hersy
can be found; although the multiplication table
Is given without the least sllusion to human rights
and toe Spelling Books are not in the least inceo
diary, yet the serpent may Turk there unseen b.
our uunterested eyes, though visible enough
to visions sharpened by fear. We are astsnsbed
to notice, in these the high days Of cheap Die
tionores. that the Georgia Convention negleces
to offer any reward fer that most indispensable
Of all books. But then, when we coma to coa.
slider the matter more closely, We find right res.
son for the omission, Your Dictionary, If yos
think well of it, is mighty combustible affair.
a regular fre-pot; package Of words, some d
them harmless. but mary of them exciting and
Eliminating to degree. If wa examine oiosck
our Worcester, we find such inaspumable words
and Illustrations ~ this: gH#1E
LIBERTY, n. Frssdom indspendsnoeI exemption hss
sc..'ais power Of .cns wi.hGe; ,s.,',s o IN
I .s,r ales =, ia. sa .ss ;ss
Swell. lie the bosom Of .et trss,
sAJEsYs. Tae state Of absolute rabieo,iso he ~
va. abolished throughout the British colonies iS
REBELLION :. Violent resistance 10 is~fal authority.
TREASON, brooch Of allegiance os hasiyi di''',ss
FsIow,Alp In sves,o- bed ground coasaesos-B.'ts
THktT. The act or crims Of ons who tssi.
His h5ts were too open-sAGs =, O..
ABoLlToNIsA, y The principles AID m'>so'~
MOBBlSH, q. TumulsuOps yuesr. ,-.,-,,.....
TERRORIST, ~ Ore who rules by insinidHioo.
Thousands hose bell hounds called 'e''''' ss e' ''o
These specimens, the number of which might
be indefinitely increased, show that sos mo
tionary, admirable as We have considered "
hat fitted for free Commonwealths, and tho
same must of course DO true Of any work giving
the words of our Epglsh tongue, and their JUS
definitions. Let the Georgia Convention soeo'
offer a suitable reward for safe Diceenar'
with no nonsense in il about freedom! Inc
spelling. book must be revised to match ~ ono
90 in fact, must al our sacred and proiane Nv
erature. Who would think Dryden dangerous
writer, aod Jet, in one Of As traaas''oo'' ~
saysi 'sH .,''','s
MA.s MAJ slave takes hall ia worth s~sy'