New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-07-18
REFUGEES AND YANKREs.
Ssuthsrners and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Ancestors-Thc Dogeneraey Of the For
ner-Its Cause-The Culture Of Fruit
vermin-The Children-The Nsgre-
New-Engiandcrs Being Kxserminated-
Few Racfs.

New.Enginnders Being Rxserminased-
Anew Facts.
From Our Special Correspondent
DoXooLA. UNION Co.. Ill. June 90 1855.
The large number of Southern people who
have come from the South enables one who knew them
there fully to describe them here. One also having
knowledge of the New.England people can compare
the two The readers may be surprised to learn that
the same destiny awaits both. The study Of the human
race Is deeply interesting It high duty
A part of the Southern people have descended nom
English criminals who their arrival were sold to the
planters for term long enough pay for their passage
Many Of the defects of their moral character have been
transmitted TO their children No high object governs
them They conteted TO raise and hogst hunt
and to fish, They traded property stolen by the slaves
Rarely do they become Of land even where land
is cheap They do not seek to educate their children
they know nothing the resources OF the country or it's
extent; hundred Is the same as thousand miles. In
city; they see nothing to admire in an educated man
nothing initiate in civilization nothing that they
value. They without ambition. without curiosity.
without capacity. Their number is fully one half OF the
whole white population.
Another class descended from Hessan prisoners who
early removed from Pennsylvania and Maryland. 10
North Carolina afterward they were joined by emf.
grants from their native land They have lived remote
from cities and progressive society; they speak the
English language not II spoken at the time OF the
Revolution but it spoken long before. for they
from whom they learned II country people. who
had progressed little They are industrious and re-
igious bat they make no improvements; their minds
are dull they are contened with little pieces Of land on
which they earn poor living what they lay up they
never spend
Another class descended from the English aristoc.
racy such az the younger sons Of the nobility many
having emigrated during the times OF Cromwell. They
retained something OF the character of their ancestors
In their houses enc often books and furniture
which came from England
A larger class descended from the English yeomanry.
also from Irish Proestants and from tie Scotch They
have formed the valuable part OF the population
and 20 them tho south must have been indebted for
what learning and skill in the arts she has possessed
Among these have been the eat majority Of the Union
men.
Tho descendants OF the French and Spsniares. In
South Carolina Florida and Louisiana have made very
little impression on the character OF the whole people
Instead OF guiding they have been led most o! item
have been absorbed.
Slavery prevented progress in all classes The Grim
nal class was elevated the higher class was degraded;
in morals in arts and in education the tendency was
toward a common level which was no, midway bat be-
low IL.
The main cause OF the degeneracy o. the middle class
who did no. own slaves and who always and naiuFay
were opposed to the system but who resisted less De-
cause some day they hoped TO become Shareholders
themselves, Was tho deficiency OF schools The large
plantations separated the people that schools were
impossible In al countries where the farms are large
the people wi. De ignorant Large landed estates are
prejulcial II not opposed 20 Republican GoVernmen's'
A free country tolerate q monopoly o. manGfac'
lures OF moneyed and other nsii,utions- cannot sur
vivs monopoly OF the soil Roman grandeur and great
ness bad for their foundation small farms. which were
TILED By her wsesi ani best men. and often In company
with their slaves. When the farms became large Rome
fell In one sense IL makes no difference whetlsr
savory be with large farms or not-ihe re.ui
In either case Will be the same.
The die, OF the Southern people h,s contributed much
10 their dcgeneraey. In warm climates horc Is 'enD.
ency to soorbuiic diseases Their food Of corn orend
and pork has degenera,ed their blood and weakened
their constitutions I, might be said that their brains
are half pork Acids and fruits are what they need
and crave They greatly need and seldom have VINE
gar Fye-yvhere fruits nbundantr can 10 grown. and
moro successfully than a. the North. Grapes ana
n.aoh., should blush aud shine every hill Children
eagerly deyoured the coarsest fruit. The persmmon Is
40 hitter and coarse that hogs!hardy eat IT, II they Will
at all and yet /, is fyore among the people 80 are
bsv, and raw paws which the common tasis REJECTS
with disgust.
A distressed and poor people never raise frut The
,tory In the Arabian Nights Of the man who went sew
era days journey 20 get apple for his wife, and at
last Obtained it in ,he garden Of the Calf illustrates the
sesrcy of fruit In a region well adapted TO fruit The
Ben Davis apple ia unequaed for oil laudes up 10 I'D
diauspoli, aud /. originated among tho yeomanry Of
North Carolina Twas introduced into Kentucky. In
diana and Illinois no, by grating but by suckers The
Catawba our best grape. which does not rot came
from Arkau,,s the celebrated Indian peach from Ala
bama One Fall Travelled hundreds OF miles through
Tennessee and scarcely saw an orchard ! Know dio
not see an apple do no, deny but they have apples
The vay they have apples good 10 eat Is to pok them
and Law them away when they taste OF old clothes
Thers is no chance for them TO hang the tree and
r,nen. unle,. in tho garden OF soma modern Calii
watched. IL not BY Eunuchs. by dogs. Nowhere vii
YOU see budded peaches; they have heard tha' th'
mach can be GRATED but do not believe in any kind
unsro Ia what they have Our soldiers talk OF hndina
GOOD peaches / have heard tell how good crust d
bread tasted Children will eat the little. hard. greer
peaches with the relish eat ripe ones andit Is coz
mon for young mon when digging Irish potatoes 81
they stop to rest pare and eat them as one does "P
ples The children OF oil classes prefer milk whsi
soured and IL il common TO SEQ little ones eat II 81
thick that they crowd it into their mouths with the
fingers They will eat raw sweet potatoes and thini
nothing better The next step Is to eat grass-the ma
one to eat clay This gives them palc' CHASTITY look
and bloats their stomachs and bellies Dust to dust.
Another cause OF their degeneracy has arisen from
the destruction OF portion OF their nervous sensbiity