The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1869-12-17
NEW YORK JOURNALISM.

We have received, with n request to no.
tice, copy of Theodore Tilton's celebrated
paper "The Indepcadenf-a taken alto
gether it is specimen of Northern Journal
ism that deserves to be noticed. The con-
tributors comprise such names as Charles
Sumner, Rev. Lyman Abbott and others of
that class, who claim TO represent the lad
vanced IDEAS" of the time and nation. 1t
claims also to be religious Journal and the
major part of its original contributions are
furnished by authors with the prefix of Rev.
before their names, and holds to Tie com
prehensiye creed of the equal civil and pc.
litical rights of all American citizens, without
distinction of color or sex" according to its
own declaration of principles. Beyond any
doubt its circulation is immense, and its it,
fiuence, proportionate thereto, firmly estab-
lished in moulding, to some extent public
opinion at the North. By the fact of our re-
ceiyihg this number, we presume it is also
endeavoring to extend southwark its crcula-
ton, and it becomes lis to scan the features
and appearance of the newcomer, and listen
to the peculiar doctrines he processes to teach
The contents of this number are of varied
style and composition, but in the main are
simply changes rung upon the one idea of
the superiority of the North over the South
and the keeping up of sectional distinctions
based upon the assertion of superior civili-
cation and culture. AS specimen of its
claims upon our people, we give few ex-
tracts from ''privatc letter to friend,' by
the "wifc of q naval officer visiting Rich
mond, Va, which is published on the first
page The lady is first attracted, of course
by 'fne-looking fellow" a mulatto, who
had never been in slavery, it is true, but
nevertheless had seen hard time generally,
from the fact of his residence in the South
After noticing his musical talent" and that he
is 'wide-awake student she leaves him, first
proposing to defray the expenses ofh edu-
cation and giving him the opportunity to
study music, and proceeds to "do" Richmond.
We cannot, of course, describe the many OBJ
jects of interest that met her notice there, but
refer to one in particular, which was the
famous Libby Prison-"no longer, according
to our fair correspondent, FUSED rs SUCH but
as mill for grinding sumac. 1t was filled
with yellow dust-but l waded through it
up the stairs into that fearful room where our
poor boys dragged through their months of
agony. told my husband it would be some
relief to my feelings to knock dozen the one
aohtte man on the premises; but diTntd0 it,"
81 have picture of the wicked old den"-
The italics In the aforegoing are ours. We
only fear that that "naval officer" unless he is
an extremely "jolly tar" indeed, must have
serious time with Il better.half who speaks
so composedly of knowing people down.
Again says the lady, in reference to this
wicked city of the South, "eyery body chews
tobacco, from the small boys up,"-and she
was in mortal dread every where of being
used as spittoon." But the closing remarks
of the letter strike us Us the most extraordi-
nary. One would naturally suppose that she
fled in horror the accused spot and from such
uncouth people, and REQUIRED with gloomy re-
collections to theperiod other visit there Not
so. "On the whole" she concludes 81 hace
hat q pleasant tme'-but am less Il patriot
for the journey, fear, for have made up
my mind that our country south of Pennsyl-
vania is hardly worth Dragging about. These
people have nothing in common with us, not
even the language" at is too much trouble
to hate them"
Here is specimen of what is daily pub
lished and circulated broadcast among the
masses at the North, by journal of twenty
one years standing, under the patronage
and support of Senator Sumner and lead
ing men of that class, whose gathering
cry at the last election was, "Let lis have
peace" 1t strikes us that it was a queer
copy, containing the above letter, to send rs q
specimen South of Pennsylvania which is
all the comment we have to make.
Henry Ward Beecher was at one time the
editor of this paper. The public may have
been shocked, to some extent, but we scarce
ly think surprised, at the latest exhibition,
on the part of this gentleman, at the bedside
and on the occasion of the funeral of Rich
ardson, in New York-a man overtaken in
his infamy, and slain c,imine delicto as it were,
by an outraged husband, whose peace he had
forever destroyed; but, as avowcd by the Rev.
gentleman himself, in his funeral Grafton over
his remains, because he had been loyal dur
ing the war, his sins in this regard were not to
be remembered. Loyalty is more than chart
ty, if it can cover up crime of this revolving
character. We do not believe our people
South of Pennsylvania" wish to learn of
men such as these, and, as our fair corrcspon-
dent above noticed remarks that our "people
have nothing in common" with them, we are
sure we can agree with her, to this extent, at
least, that there are many pcculiarities and
notions existing thare, which we hope we
shall never have in common with them or
anybody else.
THE NEWS.