Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-04-28
THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH.

the Southern people! Not less flll-fnformed
are. SouthernersIin regard to, the state of
things at the North. Apd as a considera-
BILE number of those wLo have access to the
public ear have an interest in keeping thetwo
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
diminished the mutural ignorance.
Fla hundred thousand Southerners, selec-
ted from all parts of the Southern States,
were compelled to live year at the North,
and the same number of Northernets were
obliged to spend year in the South, and
every man Of them, on returning home, were
required to give the people of his section an
account of what he had experienced and OBJ
served, and those accounts for the most part
faithful and full, it would do more to re-unite
the two sections in feeling, and prepare the
way for really national and fraternal union,
than any other measure that could be de-
vised Neither party might change its opin.
ion on the dividing subject; but how sur
prised and delighted all would be to dis:
cover that the two portions ofthe Union, like
estranged and long separated brothers, love
one another infinitely more than they hate !;
the ill-feeling being thing of yesterday but
the love dating far back, beyond the recol-
lection Of either. A state of feeling might
then be expected to arise which would make
it possible for the brothers to confer frankly
and friendly upon the. points of difference
between them. 4,
We should be glad to see the tour of Eu-
rope going out of fashion. We venture to
declare that.a New Yorker or a New Englan.
der, intelligent enough toget any good from
travel, would see more, novelty, have more
curious adventures, experience agreater rush
of new ideas, and come back with hemore food
for reflection and material for conversation,
from three months tour in the South, than
he would from six months travel in Europe.
To "a Southerner, who has passed bis life on
a plantation, far from any large teWp, every
object in the North is novel and interesting.
The Northern man who goes South. makes Q
Journey into the past. The Southern man
who comes North beholds the living, realized
Future. Go FIVE hundred miles Solth, and
then get ten miles from the railroad, and you
have arrived at fifty years ago. Ths old.
fashioned customs and implements, the old;
fashioned cast of. character, simple, innocent,
cordial, healthy, are before you, for the entire
South is rural and agricultural, and the man
pers of the people, their feelings and charac-
ter, are those of men who derive their all
from the soil; and who pass half their lives
out of.doors. - s.
Brethren of the North and CT the sSouth,
visit one another. Do not believe those who
tell you that either is unrrepared or unwill-
ing to give the other cordial Welcome
The Northern man thinks, the Southern man
feels. Andthat is precisely the reason why,
when the two meet in proper and congeniaf
circumstances, they are SO pleasing and ben
e6cial to one another. There is difference
between them, we admit. But is there any
man foolish enough to believe that the re-
moval of that difference is hastened by Vi
tuperatiou, by the bad blood, by the hatred
that is engendered>by ignorance of one an
others real opinions desires and character
.. Northern Paper.
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