The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-08-30
ISLANDERS on the SOuth-The Design and OBJ
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The Springfield, (Mass J republican in an
ariicle-"False Reports from the South -
denounces that calumnious spirit which 10
now SO busy inveniing and propagating
ISLANDERS against the Southern people. II
says: "We can conceive of nothing more
cruely wicked than deliberate misrepresenta.
ton OF the people OF the South, from what
ever motive. 1t is difficult 10 believe North
era men and correspondents of Northern
newspapers capable of such injustice. Yet
we regret 10 say the offence is by no means
an unusual one. Indeed, it has become so
common as 10 look like systematic effort
Tor political purposes" The Republican
then goes on to state what il has learned
from reliable sources as TO the feeling of
the Southern people. Its information is
tha: 'the intelligent and influential classes
comprehend the real situation of affairs, and
are disposed 10 conform 10 it, and willing 10
submit in silence TO many wrongs ard in,
disnities rather than obs.ruct in any way the
process of reorganization that there is no
desire 10 perpelua,e slavery eiheain form
do much better if they could be relieved of
the influence of some of their impulsive
and fanaticai advisers from the North, such
as the EnglishmaE Redpath and mis- associ-
ates'n
The 81. Louis Republican, referring to the
apparently systematic efforts that are made
in The direction reprobaied by lie Massachu-
sets namesake, says:
Such stories as these about the South
were rife while the compromise negotia.
| tons, which might have saved ihe country
from the disasters of our civil war, were
pending. Then similar horrors were con-
iured up. Frank Lestes illustrated publish.
ed cartoon, showing the hanging al ST.
Charles, Missouri, OF Rev. Mr.. White by a
pro-slavery mob. No snch hanging took
place there-and no Rev. Mr.lWhite lived
there al that lime, nor, so far as we could
learn, ever did live there. AT the same
time The N. Y. Tribune published story of
horrible enormiiy committed at Friar's
Point, Mississippi; The enormi,y consisting
Of the seizure OF a Northern man and head
died inlo the river. No such outrage occur
red there, as was satisfactorily shown upon
The statements of the bsst citizens Of that
place, who published a card utterly denying
The truth of the story. Shortly after this
publication another outrage precisely like il
was, upon The authority of a statement in
The Tribune, perpersted on creek bank in
Alabama. There was much truth in this
story as in its fellow. The wonder is, that
genious inventive enough for the produce
ton of the first lie could not have varied his
second one, but choose rather 10 repeat him.
self. Did he suppose that bis readers were
ready 10 believe anything, and would swal-
low the self-same tale OF outrage when null
iiplied by ,le easy tick of shifting the ven.
ue to fiiE tiierent localities The design
and Q -> Of such stories. were apparent.
They Wess IKE that legion which the fertile|
brain oil the Redpath mentioned above coir-
ed, when he played The part of Kansas cor
respondent for New York and other Eastern
prints. They were intended TO perform for
the Northern mind what Yancy proposed
IT..
The object al that lime was to rouse against|
the Southern psople thread, which would
make The Northern people refuse TO listen
TO any terms of compromise with the,South.
To any man out of the "r;ng"-to anyI
man who is not bent on forcing on the SOUTH
negro suffrage and negro equality, social as|
well as poliIical-i. is evident that the [
Southern people are doing all that could be
expected, and all that could be asked oil
them. They have submined-they have
relinquished all thought of restoring slavery.
| They desire only TO live under those ST ale
organizations, which are in accord with the
Constitution of the United States. They are
willing 10 obey and support every law oa
the Union, and in shat respect are as loyal
as any people in our broad land. Can We
ask more! No. 1t is foul injustice and out
rage 10 ask more; nobody is asking more
except these ploilers against the peace aIt=
best interests of the country which we have
siigmalised with much less force OF repro-
baton than they deserve.
So far as concerns thess reports o. wrona
and outrage and all SORTS of violence and
hostility 10 the Union aud government, a
are being SO busily circulated in certain
the Northern papers, it becomes the South
ern editors and all her people TO be on til
alert and TO trace up every one of these dis
ParasinG stories. Where they are as in 8
many instances they are naked lies or NOR
or less artful misrepresentation, sxposss
the fraud and let the homes, and well
intending Pscple Of the North see that the
are slandered. In this way they may pre-
/ vent much and perhaps :rfeparable mi