Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-07-30
From the St Louis Missouri Republican of July
Is, 1867.
Young's Letters from Brazil
NUMBER vi.
Correspondence of the Republican.

MORETTES, PARANA, April ~, 1901.
| have to thank you for your favor of March
10th, and numerous extracts from st. Louis
papers, specimens as you say, s'of the artlc-
les that fill, or give spiciness to American news
papers under the Abolition Government. y
| They are shocking collection, sure enough
| murders, suicides swindles, rapes, .parricldes,
| infanticides, Freedmen Bureau and Congress
| sional doings! In Heavens name what are
| the United States coming to? At this distance
one would imagine that the Devil-who seems
| to have entire possession of the country-would
soon be driven away, disguised and appalled, at
his own work. And yet / thank you for these
articles, terrible as the reading of them is, for
| they make the more apparent, and the brighter,
the blesslngs-peace, prosperity and happiness
which surround us here-like the air we
| breathe-and as they once surrounded us in
Missouri, in the good old days of Constitution
al Government now dead and gone. Peace to
| its ashes sEs5-z-
| thank you especially for ''Mr. R. E. Pleas
| publican" But it startled me little to find
one of the pestiferous race of canting Pharisees
| so near me, in the next Province of Sac Paulo.
[ felt as Missouri farmer would on finding a
| skunk in his smoke house. What brought him
to this ''benighted land as he is pleased to call
| it? And where did this second Joseph"
come from? One thing seems certain about
| him-that he is decidedly fast, = for, although
he had been in the country only five months, =
his operations among both men and women
| were so extensive, as to enable him to pro-
| a virtuous woman in Brazil / am very de-
sirous to know something of Mr.. Peasants an
tecedents. In the absence of facts will take
the liberty Of his supposed countrymen and
guess that he came from Boston, and was a
member of the Rev. Mr.. Kalloch's church
that sweet-scented male vestal-or if from St.
Louis, that he was brought up under the teach
ings Of that preacher who dared to degrade
white ladies into acting as serving women for
to applaud recitals of bloodshed and rapine, and
who closed his discourses by whistling cyan
kee-doodle, OF that other pious and worthy
one who compared John the Baptist to ''roll
of greenbacks, y and the blessed Saviour to a
horse and carriage.
| Mr.. r. b. Peasants is, from his own account,
| in bad place for the growth Of that piety he
Learned from his reverend and evangelical
/ teachers. l hope his friends in the United
States have taken measures to remove him from
the midst of so much pollution. IF not, they
will probably be spared the trouble. I handed
his letter to my friend Santiago Bruce-who
by the way is married to Brazilian lady, and
who is going to have it republished in the Sac
Paulo papers The city of Sac Paulo DOS
essed an enlightened white population at time
when the site of st. Louis was hunting ground
for Indians. And it has steadily grown in pop.
ulatlon, and refinement ever since until now
when it has University unsurpassed by any
in the United States, the law class of which
alone numbers more than FIVE hundred students
Now, as students-the world over-are paltic
ularly sensitive about the good name of theil
4 fair country women, the effect of the publica
II ton OF Peasants letter among them may be
imagined. He will probably leave the Province
in double-quick time, and in condition of both
mind and body that, will insure female chastity
In future, and everywhere, against damage az
far as he is concerned.
Excuse my devoting SO much time and space
to the base creature who probably courts the
notorlety that | am giving him. But / mus
write what | feel, and it is difficult to express
what my feelings are on finding so near me one
of the accursed brood of vipers which Southern
States have ever been too ready to warm into
life only to be in turn stung to death. His
SANDER on my adopted country-BraZil-
minds me forcibly of the similar ones invented
and published against the Southern States O
your country, with what effect may be seen il
the green graves of half million brave men
in the charred remains of thousands of cities
towns and once happy homes, and heard il
myriad voices of starving, perishing women and
children, whose anguished tones are appealing
now to Heaven for relief and to mankind fol-
vengeance.
i I have to confess that we all felt a little dis
contented and ''homesick" some time ago. No
with the country, for it is as beautiful, fertile
and healthy as one could desire; nor with thu
people, for they have treated us with the ut
most iberality and kindness; nor with our flu
ture prospects of making money, for we fee
sure Of having fortune in our purchase. Thu
cause of our discomfort was entirely in the fac
that we found only two persons In the country
who could speak English, and of these, ont
never did know much of the language, and tht
other had nearly forgotten this mothe
tongue. The situation bore with especial Sc
verify on Mrs. Young, who has hardly seen g
woman that she can talk to since she left the
United States-a state of peculiar hardship, yor
will allow, for woman to be placed in. Blu
things are becoming more tolerable in this res
pect. Mr.. S. j. Bruce is acquiring the Eng
llsh very fast, and we-my sons particularly
are learning Portuguese. So we are perfectly
contented to remain, and hope ere long, tt
have near us some American neighbOrs who
will relieve little the loneliness of our situa
ton.
! I have, as I believe, told you before, some
eight thousand acres of land, five thousand O.
which is covered with fine timber. About foul
hundred had been cleared, half of which i
now grown up with bushes (corporia) The
mode of clearing land here is to cut down
the trees or corporia-second growth-in the
dry season, and let it dry two or three months
when it is burnt off, all that will burn 1t il
then planted-among the logs-with sugar
cane, corn, rice, mandioca, beans, &C., the only
implement used being the hoe and strange az
it may seem, very fair crops raised What
may not be expected then, when the land is
thoroughly cleared and cultivated with Ameri
can plows and skill? The level land. of which
there is an abundance, is as easily cleared and
cultivated as most of the new land in Missouri.
There is no great amount of roots, and they are
very tender. [ have tried blowing here and
find no difficulty except in not having the right
kind of plows. If had a few .Peoria's 81 OF
''Peacock's' s. [ could have done much better
As it was | had but one a poor one, that /
bought with the place, and three that l made
myself with the aid of blacksmith, clumsiy
enough as you may suppose.
There is, Of course, much billy and mountain
land that cannot be cultivated with the pillow.
But even this can be, when cleared turned into
coffee plantations; for, as general thing, the
mountains have soil enough to their very tops
to support vegetation. [ cannot help thinking
that vineyards too could be made on these
mountain slopes that would pay well-as they
do everywhere else, even in the bleak regions
of the United States, in Ohio and Missouri
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