The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1859-04-06
From the New York Ledger.
THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH.


What wild apprehensions prevail at the
North respecting the ways and character Of
the southern people Not less i'll formed
are southerners in regard to the state Of
things at the North. And as considerable
number of those who have access to the pub
lie ear have an interest in keeping the two
sections of the Union in ignorance of one
another, it seems to be the duty Of every one
who has an opportunity Of knowing the truth,
to do what in him lies to correct errors, and
diminish the mutual ignorance.
/ Ii hundred thousand Southerners, Sc
lected from all parts Of the Southern States,
were compelled to live year at the North
and the same number Of Northerners were
obliged to spend year in the South, and
every man Of them, on returning home, were
required TO give the people Of his county an
account of what he had experienced and OBJ.
served, and those accounts were for the most
| part faithful and full, it would do more to
re-unite the two sections in feeling, and pre-.
pare the way for a really national and fra
ternal union, than any other measure that
could be devised, Neither party might
change its opinion on the one dividing sub
Iject; but how surprised and delighted all
would be to discover that the two portions
of the Union, like estranged and long-sepa-
rated brothers, love one another infinitely
more than they hate the ill.ieeling being a
/ thing of yesterday but the love dating far
back, beyong the recollection Of either. A
state of feeling might then be expected 10
arise which would make it possible for the
brothers TO confer frankly and friendly upon
the points of difference between them.
! We should be glad to see the tour Of Eu.
rope going out OF fashion. We venture to
declare that New Yorker Or a New Eng
lander, intelligent enough 10 get any good
from travel. would see more novelty, have
more curious adventures. experience great.
j er rush of new ideas, and come back with
more food for reflection and more material
i for conversation, from a three months tour
i in the South, than he would from six months
travel in Europe. To Southerner, VIII,
has passed his life on plantation, far from
any large town, every object IN the North !,
novel and interesting. The Northern mar
who goes South makes journey into th'
Past. The Southern man who cames Norll
beholds the living, realized Future. Go five
hundred miles South, aud then get ten mile
from the railroad, and YOU have arrived a
Fifty Years Ago. The old-fashioned Gus
toms and implements, the oId-fashioned cas-
of character, simple. innocent, curdiai
healthy, are before you, for the entire Sou'
is rural aud agricultural, and the manner .
the people. their feelings and character, ar
those OF men who derive their all from ID
soil; and who pass half tlrir lives cut d
doors.
Brethren nc the North aEd Of the South
visit one another DO not believe these VIII
tell you that either is unprepared or unwl
ling TO give the other cordial welcome
The Northern man thinks, the Southern ma
feels. And that i precisely the reason @h'
] when the two meet ID proper and congfnli
circumstances, they are 80 pleasing and Der
eEeial 10 one another. There l. diferenc
between them, We admit. But u there an
man foolish enough 10 believe that The I,
:; mosal Of that difference is FASTENED hy II
!. tuperation, by bad blood, by the hatred III;
il engendered BY ignorance Of one another
real uDIuiOn. desires aud character