New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-01-22
ruORE AND EATONA.

porter Of q respectable country newspaper We
were sent 10 take notes Of the dOiDgs OF O
Whiq meeting, aud of the speech of a certain
Southern orator who had been sent for to come
over and help US. After he had finished his
nonsense, he approached our humble table,
with the front Of Jupiter. "Sir," said he,
"do You intend TO report my speech -
" Certainly" was the response. "Sir," be
returned, "yOu cannot do it. You might aS
L" well try to report red hot balls" We took him
Mt his word; wrote q respectable speech for him
and printed it; and thereby, we then did iiatter
ourselves, saved for the Wings at tie election
very pretty handful Of votes. We have been
reminded Of this little incident by reading
" Cause and Contrast" which is highy-pep-
pered pamphlet, the parturent panes OF which
were borne by Mr.. Thomas W. Mcmahon,
now Of Richmond, in tho United States Terri
tory of Eastern Virginia, but formerly prI-
yate secretary of the Hon. Fernando WOOD,
and known in this latitude as considerable
sgindlcr of boarding house keepers; gentle
man, also, who.e acquaintance with that rare
work. "I.empriero'a Classical Dictionary" we
can youch for, since he compares the South 10
Niobe and tie North TO Latona, ard since lie
aiso calls plain sea-iaring "sportlng with inc
" Mercedes of The deep" Now, why be should
COMPARE the South 10 Niobe, we do not pre-
ciselg comprehend, unless It is conceded ~ him
to be stone dead and why be should lken
the North 10 Latona We do not any bet
ter comprehend, unless lo expects ~ to
shoot him and tie rest Of Niobcs progeny.
Bat when be is well mounted upon his rhetorical
charger, h. dasbcs ahead, like particularly
Headlcss Uorseman; aud no marineale oi
sense is strong enough 70 stop him. That
which puts him upon bis most perilous PAGES is
the prosperity Of the North. Our grie'Ous
fault, in the character Of Laiona, is not 20
much tlat We have made targets Of Niobe',
babies, "a that We have banks Also, in
surancc ofices.n Likewise, stage coaches,
" railroads and steamboats, Moreover " COM
"merc.al cnporums, prosperous AID magni-
- fccnt." And how have We obtained al these
comfortable things TIE oG.hand answer Of
DOOR. plain man would be that we have banks
because we have capital. aud insurance Offices
for the same rcason-lhlt we have stoge
- coaches" and the other convenient although
criminal ychicularitcs. because we have some
thing or somebody to carry-that our Z" en- |
" porium.' are d" commercial because we
have commerce. But Mr. Thomas w. NJ
Nahon knows better than that-all these things
have come 10 us
T. Pnu. ,Ae Tobacco Plantation. O.! Virginia AID Zen
re..ccH
NJ From lie aovery end ful,'l REGIONS Of oPosu'a'"
H. "Troia ihe sugar lsud' Of Auakapls"
w. from the silver shores Of ,ls Mi's,sirgi Te ed
~ groves Of orsnse I'D esrol."
y. From
But enough OF this. though We leave q
great deal Of excellent fool.ng unquoied. The
truth j. that as
IA o. once spoke OF. lss med men deliver"
20 be ia now speaking again. What on earth
has the Bank of Commerce in this city to do
with " the orange and eitron" the Mssis-
sippi What, in the name of common sense,
or uncommon sense, has the Erie Railroad to !
do with &" the fowery and fruitful regions of
q" Opelousas ?" We are not aware that any
gentleman in this emporium has gone into
business, and much less made money, because
(" the silver shores of the Mississippi are per-
&" tuned " with anything-Orange, citron, or
riyer.mud. If " the picturesque aud beautiful
at. ". Mcmahon" as The Richmond In
guiT0 calls him, had thought more Of sense and
les, OF seniority, he would hardly have fallen
into the Hbernan bluDdef Of enumerating the
nf al fha
either Of her poverty or our wealth; nor would
be have attempted to show that Nobe is poor
because she has bad monopoly Of two of the
most valuable productions Of the world 1t is
dinicult to see bow Latona is to be thus
shrewishly berated, because sho has been
good customer. If we have bought cotton,
have wo not paid for it before spinning and
weaving it If Latona sas been Indebted to NiObe
for obacco. we ask in the name OF Justltia-lor we
also like TO be classical, now and they've
AK in the name Of Justtia and Themis, and
Equtas, and other goddesses and all appropri-
ate gods-we ask if Latona has not paid for
that tobacco, shortcut, long.cut, pig-tail, plug,
Cayendsh. honey dew, before chewing or smok
inc it And as for cotton, the writer OF this
article has every reason to believe that the
shirt which he has on, when IN lis original
conditon-its cOtt0nian cOnditon-was not only
bought upon what Thomas calls Z" the blessed
" seaislanl coasts" bu. was also bought ut
price fixed b. the Blessed ashland Coasters
themselves; that they drew for the money, and
that the bills were cashcd at maturity; so that