The War Upon Society—Socialism [pp. 633-636]

THE WAR UPON SOCIETY-SOCIALISM.
Boston, who will not believe these facts, but let them come
and see, and if they will do neither, let them take the jay
bird's Friday flight and see their relations. I am indeed sorry
for the poor deluded fanatics whose hearts are bleeding for a
people who laugh to scorn their mock sympathies. It is a
custom with many planters to give to their negroes annual
and some semi-annual jubilees, fine barbecues, &c. On one
of these occasions I happened at the house of Mr. V. G. Pruit,
of Madison county, Alabama. Mutton, kid, beef,t; shoat, and
roast turkeys were the meats; besides these there was several
kinds of firuit, pies, and tarts, preserves, jellies, jams, &c., and
at each plate a tumbler of wine and a goblet of cordial; ice
and ice water in abundance; water-melons; musk-melons and
cantaloupes in profusion, and a breakfast plate of ice cream for
each of theforty sable diners. The dinner was prepared exclusively for negroes, and no attempt at display, as there was
no visitors except myself, Mr. Pruit's brother, his family
physician, and two female cousins who live very near him.
H ow many New Yorkers and Bostonians are there, whose
hearts are bleeding for the "poor slaves of the South," and
whose lips never tasted, whose eyes never beheld in all their
life time, such luxuries as these slaves are accustomed to
having at least once or twice a year!
THE WAR UPON SOCIETY-SOCIALISM.
We congratulate you Mr. Reviewer, and we hope we shall
soon have cause to congratulate our whole country, that you
are devoting your Review, in part, to the cause of conservatisrnm-to the defence of our old and established institutions of
the North and the South, now all equally assailed by the Black
Republicans, or Socialists, of the North, under the lead of
Seward, Greely, Garrison, Gerrit Smith, and others. Never
have a people been so prosperous or so happy as the people of
this Union, whether we look to the North or the South. What
affords still stronger grounds for pride, gratulation, and conservatism, is, that we are not only happy and prosperous ourselves, but the great promoters of the well-being and happiness of all christendom. The South does much to feed and
clothe mankind. The North is the great portal through which
passes the mighty exodus of the starving and oppressed millions of Europe, on their way to happier climes in the West.
The two, combined, are continually annexing and opening up
new regions to furnish homes and competency to this great
and increasing stream of immigration. Evils, there are, no
doubt, in the social forms of each section, but none such as to
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