The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-01-11

0WUTWERN
LlTE0ATURR.
: THE GREAT SOUTHkkN DOUK.
IT0 CONTINUED AND ESrABLISHID
SUCCESS.
OVER 5000 SOLD In ONE WEEK.
CA U Sc
AND NTRAS
AN ESSAY UN THE AMERICAN CRISIS
BY +. w. Mao MAHON."
Oven 5000 SOLD IN ONE WEEK,

The great success Of this r0maYkahlv brit
liant work Is without parallel in ths history
Christmas eve ANA We have already sold over
Tires thousand COPIES Of 1t, while the demand T.
Largely On the Increase. Those who have read
1t, high and low, are Load and unqualified In
ruse delight ful book, characterized BY se.
MUS and beauty, should procure Csxss and
Csxtrass.
Read what the newspaper press says Of Il,
From The Richmond Exemin<r.
"Ihe philosophical design Of this work ana
It's tne literary execution not only recon.
mend it 20 the favor OF the many readers i.
will doubtless secure. but promise II a piace
In the standard literature OF the South The
author treats alt the su bjec Is GROWING ont Of
the slavery. dispute with an acuteness Of
analysis and grace Of style that etys a
wonderful freshness TO subjects which have
been hackreysd by other writer's, aAd has
produced in the whole a popular and grace
full sx position Of Southern political philoso.
ply"
From the Richmond EiiS.
VThe author lay his lou ndalone deep and
broad-giving rapid aud lucid history Of
slavery, asst existed from very remote ages
to the presen time-sho wing that Ii 'eon.
stitnted an intee rel element In the progress
and greatness Of the most remarkable gov.
ernments that ever existed. His history OF
races and comparison Of their capacities for
progress and empire will strike every in tell
gent T0d0er
il is remarkable in research and varied learn.
ing. He conveys In small com pass the Pc
cuIiar traits of the negro race, ply steal,
moral. and m entail and makes apparent the
impossible gulf which Hod has placed be.
sween him and the white man forever pre-
venting the equality Of the two races-tke
negro doomed to inferiority throughout all
ages, past, present, and future.
eth. .uthor,s style is easy and graceful,
combining many beauties Of composition,
and yet it is vigorous and sufficiently con.
densed In short, few authors present more
to please and less obnoxious 10 a Just critic
cism. We rise from the perusal of bis book
with a more enlightened, warmer and
more genial love for our Southern brothers,
their happy homes, their sunny CLINE, and
their wise instisntions."
From the Richmond DispatcA.
"Wehave read with treat p easurs this able
and brilliant vindcat ton OF the Southern
cause. Although the object has been often
discussed, the authors style and mode Of
treatment give 1t new attractions. "he bis
torical statement in-the concluding pages, OF
the conduct of the North, since the beginning
Of the sectional trou nles, and especially of the
Federal Adm Illustration, towards the South,
Is mastery. 1t IS simple record OF facts,
and less ornate than auy other part of ,hs
pu oiicatiOn; bat he must be man OF Ice
whose blood that unvarnished story does not
cause 70 boil In every VEIN"
From the Pss1sburg Erpress
"TO defend the instttu ton OF slavery upon
I'LL the points on which it has been assail-d
to show the Psychological and intellectual
inferiority of the negro to the Caucasian
race and the elevating influences upon the
former Of n state of servitusie to expose the
real authorship and nature Of the war Into
which the two sections of the late Union
have been plunged, and thus lay the foun-
dation for its correct history-these are The
objects OF the publication before Ds, and the
writer has by the very clever manner In
which he has performed his labors, rendered
valuable service not only to the cause OF
Southern literature but to the cause of truth
and justice. His sta ements are iucid--his
logic no less vigorous than accurate his re
nections judicious, and his style pleasing
From. the Richmond Enquirer.
The WORK IN question is NOT vindicaton
Of Southern political life or philosophy. IL Is
an exposition of both, howeva-, in their pub
lie, moral, aud rational aspects. But the
au thor las taken 1. WIDE and com prehsEsivs
view of the sutjact, handling II so as 10 rem.
der his theme deserving tue warmsst conside-
rations of accomplished scholars, yet C 9th.
ing 1t with such poetic charms as 10 make It's
per usaI felicity to the hum bless reader.
From the Charleston Courier
West l. Johnston, the enterpr'siek fich.
mond publ she rs, have just issued Mr Mac.
eiahon's iorg expressed work, 'Csuse and
Contrast" From g rarid survey of its pssss,
am Inclined TO regard ii ms one OF the most
remarkable books contributed to Southern
literature The dictiou is splendid. The
book treats of the present crisis, and gets ont
of the hacneyed way of writers upon the
slavery question. MIR. MacM ahou is knoWn
Ms the THOR of a letter to thomas Francis
Mesgh.r, which was widely copied through.
out the South several months ago.
PRIZE, 81.