New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-01-14
Edsrrtut' kfrke on tho Southern Whites.
Iha aidhor nf % Arnnnn tho Pinne Xhosa an.


nd met with very marked approval delivered his
lkure on 1.-THE Social and Political characteristics Of
No Southern Whites before the Jersey City Literary
Association at the Tabernacle. last evening. MI.
"Kirke" has n graceful delivery his style is pure and
easy and his lecture is characterized by that blending
Of humorous and pathetic which have made his books
| q popular He heard by the large audience OF
hAies and gentlemen as.Inhcd on The occasion with
rar aed interest accompanied by frequent expressions
| IL pleasure and applause.
| Passing over tie trading, gambling. and clerical
Aliases OF Southern whites (wh0 all told, number less
Than niOn) the speaker confined his attention Ia the
tbr,e beading classes The Mean Whites" the small
SrnoYs 81 Nooucn and the large planters OF "Chiy-
slry'-gynr their characteristics and their relations
| 70 each other and 20 the fnture OF the Union.
1t WAS difficult he said 70 estimate the number Of the
W about d million. In rho mountain districts Of Vir-
rnia Upper Georgia Alabama, and Mississippi and
IN the saudhls OF North Carolina and the barTcns Of
Tennessee these pe"pi, h"rC together IN sparse cOu-
mites and CLEAN sorry subsistence from hunting. fish
ng and poachng hut elsewhere throughout the South
,ley hover around the borders Of large plantations aud
smarter Themselves upon the "chivalry.' stealing
i ne deer flcm Their forests and the hams
| nom their smoke-hous but they are
toerated by the planters Tor the 100000 votes they give
20 Slavery They l below the slaves in morals and
civilization Thoy cdocnt, shiiilcSS, thieyng, ~
inc; giving TO whisky-drinking. snuff dipping clay
eating incest and all manner Of social vices. Not one
IN thousand Of them read. and not one in lOoOO
yrite and the speaker he'd met many who had never
zen book or a newspaper aud soinc>Nho had never
hesId o. a Bible, OF spelling book some NJ ms auec-
does, illustrating The P.cuiiariues ot tls eMss were
jDast amusing and showed ~ viva Coors the enecfS OF
slavery IL crushing ont all traces oi ua9y character
These people an essential outgroWih oithe save
l,ys.er for Slury which makes the slave The planters
blach smith and wheerih end carpenter snd ait2aD
Of al work shuts cyers avenue of honest toni upon TIE
poor white uau and drives linn 10 The barren sand bills
70 stagye and die. $50,
Mir Eirko spoke IN high ferns OF the great middle
Ieass snail farmers and some statistics. ana
made some statements in regard 70 them. which we're
new and stiking and " True Qnd they no donbt are
for no who has read his books can question ills
lsentleman's kuowiege OF The South. must he a
Nghty influence in determining The future OF the rebel
lErns States.
This class the speaker believed to be the true hope OF
the South and the UHon One great result of the War
would be 10 elevate them and 70 cmaIcpate them from
INe control of The Chiyary" aud thus make them the
real political South of the future. They numbered nhy
I've millions ns'tUtine. contrary 10 the popular no
lson tvOihrds ~ the White population Of the slave
ssetes This statement ihs lecturer fortified by the
census Of 1850 which showed that million ana nlne-
een thousand white males above the age Of fifteen then
performed outdoor agricultural labor in the South
returns for 1860 incomplete, but at that time
The number Of males OF this class shove fifteen must
Dove been AZ least 100000 and they would represent
Population of over 100000 These men ore brave in
rsirous and loyal 10 Liberty but ignorant and preu-
kiced and the blind oUpes OF the sisvehpld.
lhs asjstoersey The lecturer gaze o vivid
peture Of this class by porrayng one of s represent
stive mcn-elOsephat Or Bible Suit, he. for short.
ness was called whom Mr. birke encountered thirteen
years ago, and again me. last Spring "a captain Of
socuts IN Rosecranss amy. In delineatDg this char
ster. the speaker used the poor.white yernaeular,
demonstrating to the uproarous satisfaction OF his
tienee, that 10 can talk as well write Suthun Ike
10 native"
These yeomen work in the fields, own FIVE or six
pavcs and have only TO be better informed 10 that
Their real interests demand not only their loyalty but
hoir opposition TO the slavehoding power They are
The small landed proprietoIs OF Tennessee, Ken
tocky, North Carolina Georgia, and the other
have Statee; the bone and sinew OF the South
Independent in thought, and though misled by
ignorance, forming lesyen which even now
working the ruin Of The Rebellion and Fastening The
Union on & firm and lasting foundation The lecturer
nreed the importance OF engteung this class on the
kreat questions that now shaking the country To
DO ths we should scatter loya publications. broadcast
bver the conquered districts; We should Wherever We
hold foot Of Southern soil start loyal newspaper,
snd thus behind the fire OF our armies.
kaise . Hgh that shall eDliglten the whole
South. Ii the men away in the Rebel
bsnks the women will be at home, will read these
publications and bring their sons and husbands back
10 hyalty. The southern women lad been the main
spring Of the Rebellion. This wee work which the
seaes Of the North should take hold Of They should
hold out the olive branch their Southern sisters They
bbould make a combined and organized effort in this
direction; and every dollar that thus planted in the
kouth would spring up MANN tattered hat and rag
rei butter nuts might be, but still man. hardy.
Earnest brave who. for what he thought was right.
w0nld march straight mp 10 the cannon IL
nouth. and meet deeth as the old Romans
jypet IL with lis back TO fear and his face
te tto face. No white men on this planet except
Ing our Own Northern farmers possess So much OF the
lraw material Of manhood the Southern yeomen.
when once the heel OF the slsyeioding sIstocrat Is
snkeu from their NJ cks when they are given schools
land chance TO rise they will make tho South with il
prolific soil and it, mineral wealth, such country
ss The sun has vet looked npon Tben-and from
op the smoke and the gloom Of this that day must
soon dawnthen the North must look 70 it the South
" IN outstrip il in the race Of civilization.
OF this third class OF Southern whites the speaker
spoke with great severity and completely the
absurd CLAIM Of Southern civalry large Shareholders
lro honorable lineage and descent These the mon
who constituted the leaders OF this Rebellion compiis
srg only 900 OF the population and In no way 10 be
cOnpa red in manly qualities with the hardy yeonanry
In sketchng the characteristics OF the chivary the
ksurer said that by birth By education. and by every
by graphic Illustrations and then said II could be easily
conceived how country governed by snch men, each
one having unlimited control OF his Immediate reaners
would become-if it, rulers banded together by
come great common in.erest-a despotism. That was
What the South had been for fifty years and the great
bonmon interest which had bound the Southern ariso
rats together slavery Ever since the invention Of
zhe cotton gin made Slavery profitable aud the Boston
boonists first attacked the divine institution, the
soathern erisocracy had acted together as one rna
Rnd the result had been thst in this country which
boasts that here nothing j. troddcn on but The negro
land the paving stones there has grown up dos poiism
(which Ia. reduced GOO 900 OF free white menof our
Ewn blood end rece-to condition no better than
be-fdom And to pcrpetuate this despotsmto disfran
bhise the yoOman when they had gotten him into the
blutches Of military rule and 10 prevent nus ever over
threwing negro Slavery ne main reason the cbiv
lslry began this And they would have succeeded
I'm this design-they would have established despo
kism which neither We, nor the Southern yeonan
lcould ever have overturned, had not baf dozen
peaceful mel, and two dozen hberty-loving women,
WHOM we and all the world dcspised thirty years ago
DIT Oh Boston Common smal bonfire. whose ascending
ltames traced the sky with the finger OF God the
words Freedom for all men, black and white" The
tupeaker traced the spread Of the Abolition move
Isnt nnder the figure II this bonfire, which, after
terminating the whole North had lcaped the borders in
10 the dominons of tho chvairy. To stay the further
lproress OF that fire SoGihwerd tho ohiyry Ike tho