Year: 1859

The free States constitute the especial beat of all
noisome sms-socialism, free-loveism, spirituaisn
and the other varieties of ism-spirtualism and |
socialism owning the great Greeley their most |
ilustrious prophet, while he occupies like position
in the ranks of aboitonism. The three iirst-named
isms and of course, the latter, were never able to
cross Mason's and Dixons line-a paralysis striking


their vitality on the very outer border Of the South,
whose society affords no shelter to them and no
food for their propagation, though they thrive and
flourish never 50 greenly amid the bOasted purity
and morality which, we are told, has its special
abiding place among the sanctifed peoples OF the
North. That it does this and does not that, is a
most striking feature in the history of corrupt IA
naticism-it has life and wakes great in the North,
and has no life in the South; and though the thou
sand tongues of public speakers and the thousand
pens of the writers of our Southern press do not
continually vaunt the superior purity OF our socl-
ety. and the of popular morality, as do
they of the North, giving the lie to truth set forth
by every circumstance they do it, the act is not
less patent and oud-spoken to the world, that the
boundary between the North and the South is also
the boundary between conservatism and license in
ethics and politics.


1t is lamentable and very astounding fact that
until within very recent period a great body of





humbugged by the protestations of virtue continu-
ally proclaimed by the North, and its claims to be
considered as the especial haunt Of social decency
and propriety, and have done tact if not active in
Justice to their own section, the South. The judg-
ment of Southerners was continually forestalled by
the garrulous earnestness of Northern special
pleading purists who agnifed their section as the
inner court of the temple of the Union, while we
NOR Sal of the South left only to c.
cupy the outer court and doorways, as though
clingng BY suerancc of our holier brethren to the
skirts of the great Confederation of the North,
which tolerated us though unworthy and unequal.
In this light have we been made to stand in the
eyes of the superficial observers of foreign nations,
and as we said above, even some of our own peo-
pie have been overpersuaded by the specousness OF
the never ending pleas and protestatons advanced.
But happily a new leaf in history is being and Is
well-rgh turned, and the fair sheet soon to be
broadly displayed will show the South properly
and happily yndicated before the world. The
North is at last carrying the thing just little too
far in politics as it has heretofore in sham morals
and materiasm, and the act will strip her of the
false colors which she has been flying and at the
same time let in the sunlight of truth on the South
to gila her with radiance proportioned to the
backness which oversladows the other.


| With the migration which sought the auriferous
shores of the Pacific went also the lsIns OF the
| North: but they have not fourished well there,
| though most prosperous in their mother country,
| for at the same time with them went the element
of their discontinue This was the infusion into
California society of Southern ideas which went
out with the settlers from the South, and by this
| wholesome influence moral poison has found Its
death in California. The new cline was rendered
noxious and the isms unable to survive must
seek another and more propitious-where society
| is vet unorganized and governmental authority Is
| lax and inefficient. Sprituasm, freeoveism and
socialism in that region have organized themselves
into one association, and we learn from the San
| Francisco papers, about to pull up stakes and
| depart to " "colonze themselves where they can
| follow their own inclinaons without bringing upon
! them the opprobrium which would attach to their
names if they remained among the decent people
| in San Francisco" An agent was recently dis
patched to San Salvador, in Central America, to
buy the Society large tract whereon they could
settle undisturbed.


The agent purchased from the San Salvador Gov
| ernment a tract of some fifty thousand acres of
| good arabic land, at twelve and a half cents per
| acre or six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars
in ALL cargo of these abominable colonists have
already sailed to occupy their stamping ground,
and it is presumed that the remainder confessng
to their faith will rid the golden State of their
scandalous and corrupting presence. One of the
emigrants sold property in Alameda county, to
Gov Weller for forty thousand dollars and threw
the price into the common fund of the association
and as all act on the same principle of community
of goods--as well as community of yice-they have
abundant funds for operating.


Had California been settled solely from the North
who can doubt but that the isms would have thri-
ven there as successfully as in the North itself;
but as it was not, who can doubt that it was the
leaven of Southern society in California which led


its society thus to eject with oathing the tant sad
died upon it by Northern migration? This seems
plain to a demonstration. We wish San Salvador
well of its valuable access of population.


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