Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1866-04-15

Nsw sOu,hern Monthnes.

ment sud taste. The "RcDriniscences Of a
.o3tghern Hospital" concluded in the
=. ApriI number, and written by a Hospital
Natron. are well told. The style is
graphic aud the incidents selected wor-
thv Of being related. We cannot give
the same praise 70 another series Of
sketches. entitled an inside Uis51 Of
four years IN the Rcbel CaptoE " not a
little Of the matter of which lack the
least interest.
The typographical appearance is not
that Of a first class monthly by any
means. And we must say frankly, the
price charged Is too high for the amount
Of matter given; not, assuredly, more
than is furnished in q single number Of
Ticknor and Fields new Electric Weekly
for ten cents.
We earnestly desire the establishment
| Of Southern Magazines and Journals al
proper points, such as Baltimore Rich
mond. Charleston, New Orleans and our
own city We regard them Is essential
elements ia the culture Of our people, to
which end we believe We shah best con
tribute, In our province, by speaking
plainly and sincerely Of the literary
worth or deficiencies Of such as may ap-
near In a field Of letters, from time 10
/ time, snd We shall aim TO do so.
II. THr Crescent MONTHLY, devoted % Lit
elEture, Art Science ana Sogle "a ~
Lys, No. 60 Camp street, New Orleans, April
I 800
Such E the title of another new literary
| candidate for the favor of Southern read
ers, which makes a debut full of promise
Of being worthy Of support. Like the
| Cosmopolitan, the Crescent Monthly, in
lis initial number, resorts to selections
from English magazines, doing so with
excellent critical taste. We approve,
I too, the plan, as calculated to give our
people a higher grade Of literary food,
just at present, than if original matter
were solely relied on. One original article
/ being a review Of DRAPER's work on
| Civil policy in America, by DURANT DA
| PONTE, Of the New Orleans Press, is Of
tsef worth the subscription price Of this
! number, and deserves wide circulation.
The style is easy, the logic rigid, the
knowledge Of the subject exhaustive. No
I part of it can be detached with full justice
/ TO the literary merits Of the paper, but
we cannot refrain from quoting the fol-
/ lowing. in which historical truths are so
clearly and eloquently asserted:
4" In the first place, it Is not true that
Northern races are superior TO Southern
Z races, either ia intellectual vigor or ia
[ physical energy. Il Is only IN recent
Z times that Northern races-meauing by
I Northern races the inhabitants Of the
| Northern countries-have displayed any
! capacity for civilization or any tendencies
toward intellectual progress. The his
/ tory Of silence, of art, Cf literature Is the
{ history Of the triumph of Southern ge-
| Mus. Those wonderful victories over the
! forces Of nature, which have excited the
/ establishment without provoking the imi-
tati0n of modern times, were victories
Z ubvS Southern energy and skill ANthe
! grand and Incompatible monuments Of
/ ancient art were the work Of Southern
hands. The towering pyramids, and the
! solemn sphyuX which for more than
/ thirty centuries have looked upon the
I burning sands CT the African desert,
] NlAHLLALaEA w A4E @AALUlAALH VI aAD IDAA-
/ ing Cont. who now regards them with
/ either ignorance or sUperstitlOus awe.
! When the traveller stands beneath the
! shadows Of the Parthen0n, and in fancy
| replaces it's fallen columns, raises It's bur-
/ nisled roof into the clear AL1eulan sky,
and peoples its inches with the statues Of
gods and heroes, he knows that he is
I having tribute to the genius Of q people
who carried the ancient ctvIllza-
/ ton 70 its highest development,
snd who, in intellect and in en-
eryv, surpassed all the kingdoms
I and p~rincipalities that preceded or have
/ followed them. The illustriOus anne Of
Plato and Aristotle, or PraXlteles and
I Phidias, Of EpaminOndas ami Ferlcles,
( are the usmes which adOTu ana Illustrate
the history Of g purely Southern race.
When Prof. Draper saws that =" the South
fights for her leaders-the North con-
UItrs for the benefit ofal," he says what
history emphaticslly and fatty contra
diets. If the assertion usaXIOmatlCaly
made means anything, u means that
there Is in the Southern races an innate
tendency 10 Democracy And this, in
deed. Is the general idea which pervades
the work now under consideration.
Il seems 70 be enforced mainly with the
view Of iustifving the u~surPatiOu Of des-
political powers by the majority party in
the Northern States, under the specious
preteXts Of saving the South from the
paralyzing and fatal effect Of her CLIMATE
cal influences. Has Professor Draper for
gotten that ReDubicauism and DemOc-
racy originated in Greece, and were the
invention Of q Southern race ETeu
the very word liberty" which ex-
presses The idea Of enfrauchisemeut, and
Is found only IN a Latin or
Greek form, and has no synonym in
the Northern languages, Freedom
which, 70 some extent, represents the
kindred TeutOnic idea. describes simply,
the 6arbaric license which the Germauic
tribes shared with the Tartars and the
ScvLLians. at q time when the ilustri-
Gus commonwealth OF Greece and Italy
had reached the highest point Of Fplen-
dor, Of enlightenment, Of refinement,
and Of Intelligence that was possible,
under the polytIeisticsl regime. Iii Is As
we have said, a first principle with Pro-
fss-0r Draper, that there Is something
IN the Northern climate which stimu-
lates the intellectual and physical
~euerres Of man. and renders bin capa-
Die o. the highest achievements In var,
and art. and science aud industry; and
OF the other hand, that there D. something
iu Southern climates which e~uervates,
and d@grssses tle f1-ul-ies. aud renders
them Incapable Of either physical or
mental sxertlOn. Hs illustrates tbisprop-
ositiOn BY the statement that In North
ern countries meu think d~Ivcrgently,
and thatin Southern countries men think
alike the condicJOf opinion -beingcaused,
in the one case, by the vieissitudes OF
climate and the hJmogenly Of opinion
being referred, IN the other case, to
equality Of temperature.
1--WE have shown that the facts Of his
tory refute this theory nsOme Of its main
features. As tOthe remaining p0iut-the
supremacy Of Northern nations in war,
history is equally uufavorable to Prof.
DraDer's assumption. II the theory, 10
this respect, IS true, It must accord with
the facts Of history. It should be
nothing more than q generalization
of historical facts expressed la the
form ola controlling law. Otherwise, il
cannot rise above the dignity Of an hy-
pothesis, 70 be accepted or rejected Is the
facts may confirm or contradict IL. II
We accept Il as q provisional hypothesis
We may argue from lt 10 It's logical
sequences. We can then construct a
General history Of the world which must
be true, in the main, If the theory is
true. but which, ii false, inevitably
AL1IfEDaEH TIE AAAAHA w. 1919 AL-r
for Instance, that the Highlanders
have conquered L0wland Scotland, ana
finally made themselves masters Of
Great Britain; that France has over
run and subdued the spanish peninsula
that the Germanic powers have con
Quered and hold possession Of the Italian
States. WesA0ald ind TOO, that all the
great waves Of conquest have come
from the North, and, rolling over the
South, have permanently eKtiuguished
Southern n~atiOnallties. But tbs facts
directly contradict these deductions. Not
only are they untrue 10 detail, but they
are unfsithful rel TO the general fea-
lures Of history. Indeed Professor Ora
per, in one portion Of his work, speaks Of
the remarkable permanency Of the
Saracenic cOnQuests as coustrasted with
the more ephemersl influences Of North
ern invasions. The only approximately
permanent occupation Of Spain by an in
trusive race, impressing its W intel
~lectual and moral character of the cOun-
try, was effected by the energetic races
inhabitating the Arabian peninsula, l
and the Northern provinces OF Africa.
From the eighth century TO the thir-
teenth, they held the larger part Of Spain
IN subsection, and were finally expelled
only toward the close Of the fifteenth,
nearly eight hundred years after their
nrst settlement in the country. Pro
lessor Draupr u1-a that fhaV forced /