New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-08-27
II was al little church IN the shadow OF Bald
mountain, one of the immenserange dividing North
Carolfne from Tennessee,

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Carolina from Tennessee.
| The building was simple structure Of logs, with
! a luncheon floor and single opening Tor uoOr,
but without window ora chimney. On bare spot
in ITS center hinge light-wood fire was blazing, ant
| roaring and fGuling and forcing thick volumes OF
smoke into the peoples eyes Gil they wept AZ if
thew were so many watering pots. The eoncrega-
ton WAS seated around this fire on benches OirJugl
/ logs, ard the preacher occupied small platform,
RAISED few steps from the floor, sndiIrnohed WIN
= single block of 7ood which oifcisted as char.
The women had bare heads and feet aid their
only garment at was The month OF Noveml"rl
seemed 10 be coarse cottonade gown, falling
straight from the neck Ia just oelow the
knees. The men had long matted hair and shaggy
boards. and wore sOuched hats they kept Them on
during the services, and li9scy tfowsers and hunt-
Ing shirts so becriu!ed with dirt, and 50 torn end
patched in q thousand places, that scarcely ven
tige OF the original slGera cl ysibio 70 the
auked eye. Many Of them-owipg, no dClbt, 20
their custom OF interm&rylng-VeTo deiormed anu
apparently dio ic, aid they al had stunted 8Euc-
distorted bodies misunderstanding SKINS, small
heads round "a bullet and coarse, why h3lr winch
looked hike shTods Of oakum gathered into iaols,
and dyed with lalnp-black
| The preacher. text, which he credited 10 the
i Apostie DAVID, WAS: "Try the speTe;s;' ana ne
;. showed, to the satisfaction OF lbs scdioTy, that
while Scripture expressly erjons tho 1aSlhS OF : n
little wne'-which, he said, vGs the ancient hdhe
for whisky" Tor the stOmaeh's sake II AS OK,
pressly requires that We shall "uv tho spsIc'r,
Or in other words that shall drink none bd' tis
VEN best whisky We can GET. i!e rcSAohoa INV
Gcch ruin as came from BIO, could be got yer 'iia
I Decker S-oYer the mountain Ter J0nesboio--lut d
eeoD-skin gallon, wes purity tonape sO!, in,,.'
and mo- a-ht do fur white folk but seen 80 Dan VI
gusen stillo6, down thar ter the MIL, VAN ne
wav Fl fur hoss ter drink" lie belaboiea DAD
whisky. for time, With savage yehcmenee, ana
then opeued bis batteries upon tobacco. Nmfk!
was as The Bible airLls good for the stomneh, ana
he TeckODed tbe "oar stun gouidn huT1 40 paT Nv
4 q huuin bein," but tsbaoco VAS vile thug th~1
would kill any living creature but woman; and how
sue could ehGw Il, aud smoke Il, and snun y, ana
din it, - she did ne couldn't see, no Row. its as'
warn't uosay sanctioned by Scrltrr and nary ono
nv the Apostles, Prophetic, or good men on INC oid-
en- time UyeI used it, and while The bihe OFT"
sp,ke Of vine and "speIreb, II nuyer oAst iAeh'
toned tho name Of terbackcI, and that proved u
Soulan'G he good tor take F"
When he had adjourned TIE meeting fora Tort
, lniuht-PEovIDGSCS SsiEn an thar ben Ao l4e.h'
ct on tIe Elouniinc-I Sentsfcd - svrfest IL h'ia
hat II vss possible be hsd misunderstood lbs tAt,
and then learned that he could not read, and ii -
|, peig. boring planter-One Of the cAiValfy-- hsc
! eiyeu niu the tex, outlined bis subject, tod MN
HAT the t4xt refers 20 ardent spints AID that DO
must he .lre 10 ''P Ca powerful sloH5 iA'ef DIi
! Ferguson WhiS6y
rGs of their fellows, arc, as Nc know, capable c.
: Nowhere but in TIE Slave States is there class
Of titee 90 ignorant and 20 ce5-adod "a are tlcsc
people. In every otaor county We pcesahuy -
\ Dor are the principal proccuceis TIE 1esiif MOl'
= ponsable par OF tho community; but he " ncei
white" Of the South docs not tNo~ kos W labor h'
\ produces nothing; Ge isl ftnGons grow II On Vi
" body 81 society. absorbing re stIenglh sId NE o
: IL. cher pats Ind nc would not oXs- II TIC sour
!. err system were in healthy state. And 3e IL IN
: natural lroduct Of slavery, foft!a'ey E.ueh make
!, the slave The planters Laokfmih no waee. "1ig1;
= and carpenter, and srssaa o. All work, ohuis apo.
y upoB the mean white nsn every avehIe al hoits
toll aud drives him ~ TO Sae DdfTSA SHhc Lib =
!, s.0rye aao 20 die.
4 estees the deer from The planters forests, Ok
:, hams from his smeke-hogsos and tDc eMckti
. from ms hen-roosv, and he vcnJs ccruiuoI
oad bad whisky among me hegiocs. 0at l"'
. PLANTER tOleIates him foT us VOC. 1 nave seen
. planter march twonty OF these wre.ehe0 ca1caIlrs
y of humanity Up to toe poles, aud Nhca they b-'
y voted II his bidding have had him 'srn TO Ano 81
ssy. with a sneer Ga has lips:
'.Tnisis Your bosstad democracy ihis tTash gov
~ a-us this country; JticrOn rave them toe night q
"A suffrage ard hey suppose they sfe voting ioT Je
q leISon s0s."
d. "Dut." said 10 him, "why DO ycu not Yet theI
- think why nOs giSe them schools and work.
I'd - because, be replied, al We did, they n'gn
=" not Fcto FOR JelersonF'
;" ton appropriately sFplief, and il applies 0nly
Them Thc great Insss Of poor whites, as have sod
N are a very different people. The t00r white ma
ir labor, the rgCas white man does not labor an
q labor marks the stinction between Acm. iAbo
a makes one hardy, industrious, and eLterp1snc,
10 abiding and useful citizen; ldlenesS makes Oh
v other thiuying vicious iav-bIo0kinc, aud Of -
= sOu Of accOunt' - himself or Socieiy.
u Igs I1tor,Ns whites comprises tsc-thiris 81 %
> free popuiatioh Of the South and they have doa
q more for its mgtorel progress than oil lts c.iVa
II n" and al It's LaTes They have done more, bt
is cause they have sOiAod puaer The stimulus OF froe
- dom and because they vastly 0ufRuH'0er the otr
70 classes. The shows mat OF TIE rsi Of June
II 1860 here wore II the 4ourteeh Save t2te+ e1cu
= siye ~ Delaware, ore Uilhon bree hundred an
d Gfty-riue thousand hundred Snd bfty-iVe hlt
b Daios engaged in agricultural and othbr out-doo
II empl0ymeAts. OF this number, nine hundred an
10 one thousand one hundred ana Two are cih~sel b
: " farmers men who I'LL their own land two hun
10 drei and thirty thousand one huDdTod aud forty
T. SIX aye classod as fafss-l4bDIors inch WHO "a
or the lind If others; and Two hundred and twenty
r. oigbt thousand four hundrcd and eveu sfe e.assc
v as iulOrors Iaen engaged IN outdoor work chc
v taan the tisgeo Of land. lie "iarmers are not 70
- COMPOUNDED with tho paHters-men whe work lsrg
h. tracts og land and barge bodies Of slaves but DO no
> work themsoiYestOT tso census 'aEcs distinct 40
le count Of tie latter. I>y number only cgil'y-ig
a Thousand FIVE hundr5o and ffty-c gbt, but-suc
Ia has been the working Of the peculiar Institution
they own pesllY three-tcurths or tie nog1Ocs su
landed property Of the South. These one million
a three hundred aid odd thousand Ct labOrDg whit
A mcn represent . population Of about Blk millions
N and II We sid 10 tbom tAe fopr hundred thOusan
4 represented by the planters and the million NJ
by EeniD trade manufactures aud the pro
LESSONS, there can hardly remsin IN total p0pui.
" ton of iess than eight millions, " i've millions Of b.
MAJ BEINGS who exc out = sfotchcd subsistence b.
I hunting, by Sshing, by shining themselves out 70
occasional Jobs, and by plusder." Half million
D tho nulabox betcrs s-stS4-ss vastly Dearer -
t1lth.
I Little is know at tie North Of hs largo vorSn
population ior tie reason Lhst thoy remote rom IN