ABSTRACT
The success of the exhibition was signal. People congratulate all the performers upon having given the country a heartier laugh than it has enjoyed for many months. They are quite sure that the spectacle was more ludicrous than the actors themselves conceived, and the Pickwick Club might have learned many a valuable lesson from its Savannah rival. Of all the good jokes perpetrated by the Savannah Pickwickians, none seems to people more purely humorous than the debate upon a "southern literature". Every native African, who absents himself from the slave barracoon, and refuses to undergo the "rude mode of emigration" to America and heaven, deliberately declines salvation, and must, therefore, be saved against his wicked will. The simple truth was stated by Snodgrass. Publishers at the north pay liberally, and therefore, the books that are written at "the south" are not published there.
