Manners Of The Slavocracy--horse Racing

As it is now well established that the nation is to be ruled by the Slavocraey until the principies of the liberty party shall prevail, we propose to make the citizens of our State acquainted, as far as possible, with the manners and customs of their Maaiers. As the late races have excited considerable attention, we sha'l comrnence with Horse-racing. Our readers ure already acquainted with some recent facis on this subject. Last year our President honored the Jockey Club at Washington, by dining with them, and he attended the recent races in that city, and hisofficials downwards,were also present. Several Southern members of Congress attendeti the races on Long Islahd, and one or two presided as judees. It is said Mr. Botts has lalely lost large sums by betting on horses. This amusement preváils universally at the South, "Twice a year," says Morse in his Universal Geography, p. 747," a classofsportive gentlemen, in South Carolina and the neighboring States, have their horsê races. - Bets of ten or fifteen hundred guineas have been sometimes laid on these occasions." Says Theodore Weid : "Every slave State has its race course, and in the okler States, almost every county has one on a smaller scale. There is hardly a day in the year, the wéather permitting, in which crowds do not assemble at the South to witness this barbarouis sport. Horrible cruelty is absolutely inseperable frorn It. Hardly a race occurs of any celebrity in which some one of the coursers iï riot lamed, 'broken down,' or in some way seriously injured, ofcen for life, and notunfrequently they are killed by-the rupture of some vital part in the struggie. Wheri Ihê heats are closely contestcd, the blood of the tortured animal drips from the lash, and flies at every leap from he stroke of the rowel. - From the breaking of girths and other accidente, their riders, (mostly slaves,) are often thrown and killed. Yet these atnüsements are attended by thousands in every part of the slave States. The wealth and fashion, the gentlemen and ladies of the 'highest circles' at the South, throng the race ctmrsé. Perhaps we ehall be told that there are thronged race courses at the North. True, therfi are a few, and they are thronged chiefly by Southerners, and "northern men wilh southern principies," and süpported mainly by the patronage of slaveholders who summer at the North. Cock-fighting and horse-racing are soulhern institutiöns. The idleness, contempt of labor, dissipation, sensiiality, brutality, cruelty, and meanness engendered by the habit of making men and women work without pay, and flogging them if they demur at it, constitutes a congenial soil out of which cock-fighting and horse racing are the spontaneous growth." We shall treat of cock-fightïng next week.