Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-08-23
WREE Col Jacques and Mr.. Gilmore had

through the Notifications into Richmond
q certain rebel Captain Hatch who bad
been reading Northern paper brought
through by the Colonel, looked up from
his paper (be was lying or he grOundl and
observed thus:
r.Do YOU know it mortifes me that
vou don't hate us as We hate you
You kin us as AgsssiE kills Ay-because
you love u.s."
There was much in this expression of
the rebel Captain Russell, the correspon-
dent of the London Tunes, made some-
what similar observation in writing bis
account of the battle of Bull Run, when be
said that the Union troops seemed not to
be sctusted by personal aninosity in their
fighting.
How much of natural difference there IL
in the temperaments Of Northern and
Southern troops-takipg no account at all
of artificial Inflammation by reason OF
their feelings in this War-we leave to
writer's on physiology to determine. That
there ia some such difference we haysa all
heard. Southern men are less cool, more
lmpetuous and altogether more unreason-
ing than Northern men. They have al
ways been more eIacting and desPotic.
They have carried their qualities into the
swar. The young men of the South have
been sedulously taught to feel contempt
for the North; TO look upon them as infe-
riors to desPise their sVOcations, their 30
cial theories, their political aud even their
religious opinions. They have been taught
also TO regard them as their natural foes
as an alien race who were plotting and
msturing in underhended ways the over
throw of Southern institutions and South
ern political power. Whoever has been
in the South knows 70 what a singular
extent these narrow and bitter views of the
North prevail. Just previous TO the war
the mans of Yankee was sort of objur-
CATION, and was applied Unfortunately
to the people of the free States, and the
name was as odious as any term could be
to the South. 1t was a synonym tor Hes
sian. This gross misunderstanding OF the
North was one reason why the Congress
sional politicians OF the South were SO
easily able TO FIRE the hearts of their peo
pie aud precipitste them almost unresisted-
ly into revolution. Vast numbers in the
South had come such conception of the
North and Northern character as the Sun
day school BOY has of the terrible people
who inbabit the Cannibal Islands. At the
last Presidential election there were not
few of them who actually believed that the
"Black Republican" candidates were black
men, for BarnWell Rhett, of South Carroll
ma, had publicly declared in a speech that
Mr.. Hamlin was a mulatto. The ignorance
and prejudice and misconception that pre-
vailed in the South, even among the toll
erably intelligent, was really dense. They
were taught and they believed that base
horde of socialists, iDfdels, free lovers and
other disorganizers, banded together as
negro thieves, were about to over run and
subjugate the South. When the war actual
ly commenced they were still further told
that the motto of this motley horde was
"booty and beauty" and that were they
successful neither age or sex would be
safe in their power.
1t is not strange, under these circum-
stances, that the Southern soldiers fought
with personal animosity. What soldier,
thus deluded, would not2 On the other
hand it is not strange that the Union col
diers, laboring under none of these dig
torted fancies-feeling no sense ofpersonal
hatred-beiDg intelligent and understand
ing how the commonalty of the South
were deluded-should show nothing mali
cious or venomous in their warfare. "Our
misguided Southern brethren" was then,
more than now, common and accepted
expression, and the expression was indica-
tive of popular understanding to that ef.
feet in the minds of the Northern people.
There was too, in some sort, a missionary and
eVangelizipg desire prevalent in the Union
army, and there is still large remnant OF
such feeling. To this day but very few of
our really Influential Union newspapers
initiate the denunciative and extremely
msleVolent tone of the rebel editors. The
fiery, INSCRIPTIONS and goading zeal
with which such papers as the Richmond
Examiner are edited find few counterparts
in the Union press. And this fact is what
the rebel Captain Hatch alluded to, and
what he expressed both his modification
and his seeming wonder at. He. was NOR
tilted to think that we did not, in his own
words, hate the South as the South hates
MS. There was indicated, however, in this
expression, We think, superficial appre.
citation of the real feeling that pervades
true Union men. There is hatred ex.
listing, very bitter hatred-but it is not
narrow, ignorant and unreasOning hatred