The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1858-07-14
The North and the South rhe
Real Feeling.

The visit of the New York 9TH Regiment, t.
Richmond has been the occasion for numerous ed
sotias, North and South. on the good.resulting
from sEcb unions Of the people OF both sections
One of theai containing great deal of ruth, very
we'll written, take from the Nex York Ex
press
Tie reciprocal kinduess between the citizens of
New York aud The citizeus OF Virginia OF which
the recent removal tf the ashes Of the late Presi
doot Monroe has been the occasion. is one Of the
most agreeable incidents Of the times II will do
good. 1t viii teach the people of the North
tLat southern gratitude. Southern Kindness ard
eou'hern chisgify, are things which have al ex
istcuce beyond buncombe speeches in Congress
a"d editorial essays in uUilIfication jaurnals.--
ia the other hand. IL will teach our C.untry-
men of the Old Dominion. aud of the whole
south, that, outside the ''scurvy politicians
circle. the people of New York, aud the people of
Tie North. are animated by patriotic affection
ana traternai regard for them, which recog
pizea no lines Of latitude or longitude Ours Is
such vast conntry-so vide Ia territorial ex
teut--that II Is wonder SO many OF us are
strangers to each other-no wCader that the
dwclier Oh the Hudson. the Connecticut. or the
Merrimac, should experience only conventional
sympathy, and conventional affection, fer his
brethren. on the Chesapeake, the Alabama. or the
Gnif We need TO kauw more Of each other. We
know good deal of each other already it ID true
but the bulk of that knowledge is filtered through
the medium of abolition aud uuliItIcaon speeches
I'D IpuEFtHs. ahu upon me stuHlp--Of through the
murky rays OF a partizan newspaper press. Book
or spaper knowledge oi a remote people. even
when derived from unqUestODabie Authorities, is
at best but poor substitute for ones own person
ai experience aud observation We live Ia an age
If electric telegTaps, which transmit thought aud
sentiment as qaick Us lightung-but ligh thicg, if
il can anElbilate space cannot move the feelings
like a warm grasp OF tho bandit cannot stir the
uober impulses Of our nature as do words eZ
changed by afiectOU, face to tace--nOr il kin
tip those FipFrYIr fires which light the Of
friendship aui leave their impression long IN the
future, deep aud indeiibie-superior TO all the
circumstances OF separati0n-aud the obit-
Grating Of era:ious Of time. The real people Of
this Countrywide masses, we mean,-reaiy know
hrt very little Of Que another ard it is uuquts-
IonGuiy in ;iis want Of familiarity and inter
course, that the professional d5maaogue fluids 1t
oo easy TO excite the lrejuG.ces OF one section
against another, III order TO promote the sinister
| purpose If "a e'fish ambition stranger coming
! among Us, and listening, say, to the defamation
Of the sectional agitatOrs in the Senate, or House
OF Representatives. to the uukud eptthets applied
| By the gentleman from Virginia to the gentleman
| from New YOrk-anh. riSG rsrsd-uiisht be par
dODed the niereuce that the Two sovereign states
| thus represented ali the while at -wOris
points, and could tertaiu but sentiment TO-
wards each other, that of cordial resentment and
| hate. But If that stranger had beea in Kichnond
oHe day last week. few hours journey from the
FEDERAL Capitol Land behcd the genuine hrother'y
affection which distinguished thing that took
| pace mere ne would naturally inter that the
politicians at Washington constitute clsss of hu-
manity wholly distinct from the MASSES of the
| citizens mt large. lie would that are al.
friends, not enjmees: brothers, not strangers; one
| people, not t~arn. lie wou! see,-end ourselves
| may see,-that, Whenever there is opportunity IL
| roach The hearts of the people of these opposite
seUtlOus,-as III the OF this visit Of QUE Sew
cath Regiment to Richmond individual beat
| ing Of that heart ali Tor unity, and friendship
and peace. aud good will, irrespective Of geogl aphi
cal lines, the peculiar local distinctions VI diff
| ferent social iustIturioaS