Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-07-05
a Canadian Paper on DRr. Russell.

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The Montreal Herald criticies sharply the
letter of Mr.. Russell in which that gentleman
/ describes the ehivalry and their aristocratic
| tendencies.
! RUSSELL OF THE TIMES on THE SouTH.-
! We do not know whether it is that distance
which has lent enchantment to the corresponds
ence Of this gentleman from the other lands,
but certainly bis writing from this side of the
Atlantic, if it is brilliant in execution, does
little in substance to redeem the Times from
that severe criticism which the inaptitude of
its American correspondents have hitherto
brought on it. BY the last English mail we
received some numbers of that journal contain
ing letters from Mr. Russell, written in South
Carolina and Georgia The gist of the first
Of these may be stated in two or three words.
First Of all the Southerncrs are very gen
tlemanly people, whose plantations Mr.. Rus
sell has visited and there enjoyed "that frank,
courteous and graceful intercourse which con-
siitutcs an irresistible charm Of their society,""
lie has in this way learned from them that
they deeply regret the revolution, which sep
arated them from England /; that they long for
nothing so much as IN English Sovereign of
the House Of Victoria; and they hate the
Yankees of New England, because the South
erners are gentlemen and Christians and the
latter are neither Que nor the other. That
the Southerners wJnld b, very glad to have
Queen Victoria, or King Beezsbab, for their
Sovereign, we all know well enough, if-that
is the prominent pOint-if the monarchy Sc
cured them in the power of extracting labor
from their fellow creatures by force, instead Of
payment owning men whom they baptise
to the same God rs themselves and of SCI
ling their own Whitley brown u5hlers to be
outraged and Aogged, as they had previously
outraged and fogged their mothers But,
short Of this compact, they have no more love
for monarchy than for r1pu6licanisn, and least
of all, for the Sovereignty of the humane and
virtuous lady who rules the British nation. -
just as false is the half column Of assump,
tioIs of superiority as gentlemen, given hy
MIR. Russell, as the opinions entertained by
Southerners Of Themselves so given Us TO
lead the uniformed to the idea that, though
plainly exaggerated, they have yet substra |
tum of truth; that, indeed, the South was
settled by noblemcn in disguise, who, we sup
pose, according TO the old mid shpman's say
ing, went TO sea to wear out their old clothes, |
while New England was peopled by such sum
of the earth as God fearing blacksmiths, car
pcnters and so forth. We think that, writing |
for the instruction of his reader Mr.. Russel
might have rectfed these boasts, ~, If he hal |
done so, he would have told that Massachusetts
Bay the original of the New England States,
had more gentlemen o! good family and schol-
arly accomplishments among her early settlers
in proportion to her numb RS, than. perhaps I
all the Southern SQtes together That these
in Massachusetts did credit to their
culture by establishing Colleges, Literature,
and printing presses, at IA ti,ne when the South
could hardly boast Of a drummer School. and
was applauded by the Governm Mt for the
happy state Of Ignorance, which saved her
.ulers from trouble The fruits have been
ike the trees. While Mr.. Russell was thus
writing about the graceful courtcsies which
lie had received on plantations, he might have
that these very gentlcmcrly pco-
Die had only short time before, tarred and
Gathered one of his fellow countrymen. who
lid dot happen to be a corrt<po dcht for the
Times, but only the master of ship.