The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-04-02

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corpshe asssiled, itwoIld not have been any con-
adorable advantage 10 his cause. Hefought with
much foros and wasted great deal Of strength
merely 70 drive Grants lines few hundred
yards, and when he had driven them and won
dered what TO do next they in turn advanced
and drove him, and even wrested from him the
ground that he held at the commencement Of
the battle. II Lee has not yet seenshis error
he may try this advance again in still greater
force, drawing for that force ON the troops he
had left in the Petersburg lines; and then we
may hear something from the heavy force that
remains in our works near Petersburg.
While these stirring operations are in pro.
gress in Virginia, and while Sherman once
more gathers up his force for another advance,
we receive tho news Of the activity of the
Union forces near Mobile. Maury proclaims,
and the Governor Of Alabama proclaims, too
but our lron-clads, nevertheless, pound away
at the enemy's positions, and on the Esd ult.
the Thirteenth and Sixteenth corps were within
twenty miles Of Mobile, an rosss to take part in
the operations against IL II will take some
thing moro substantial than preclamations to
stop those fellows We may at any moment
hear very lively news from that quarter.
The Tone and Temper or the North and
south.
This war will abolish all sectional ideas.
Hereafter we shall be but one people, instead
of two different people under one government
When the war ID over we shall be ell Ameri-
cans, instead Of being divided into Northerners
and Southerners. Hard fighting has made us
much better acquainted with each other than
we ever were before. The mistakes and mis-
representations which have prevailed in the
TIVE sections have been washed away in blood
and burned out in the camp fires. There can
be no interpretation Of each others character
In future.
Forty years ago John Randolph, of Roanoke,
began to impress upon the Southern mind the
idea that the Northern people were an inferior
race. He persistently called them "pedlers
and pedagogues," and as the Southern people
saw only Yankee pedlers and pedagogues in
their midst, they were soon induced to believe
that all Northerners were Of the same classes.
When the Southern mind was once set in that
direction, the Southern politicians pandered to
1t continually. From "pedlers and peda-
g0gues" we came to be called mudsllls and
greasy mechanics" Those lordly Southerners,
who were accustomed to bully their slaves,
thought that they could bully all the rest OF
mankind in pretty much the same style. In
the opinion of the Southern extremists there
were four races In this country-the negro, the
Indian, the Yankee and the Southerner-and the
Southerner was, Of course, the highest, the
noblest, the most civilized and the most
chivalric.
During all this time the Northerners went on
about their business quietly and without bear
ing malice. They did not like the Southern
braggadocio, and they did not Ike the Southern
slavedriving; but they remembered the glories
Of l776, they respected the compromises Of the
constitution, and they fought gallantly, shoulder
to shoulder, with Southernen in the war with
Mexico. Through the old democratic party,
the Southern politicians exclusively controlled
the government of the country. They held all
the Offices, or If Northern man held an Office
it was by their kind indulgence and permission.
The NATIONAL treasury supported the South.
Just as Northern boys were trained TO become
carpenters or masons, Southern boys were
trained to become politicians and ofAceholders.
At the South to labor was disgracsfuL The
harder man worked the nearer he resembled
q niger. So the North did the work and the
South did the governing, and, on the whole, the
country rolled along very smoothly.
But in 1856, after several spasmodic attempts
of the same kind, the North resolved to try it,
hand at government, and the result was an inn
mense amount Of indignation on the part
Of our Southern brethren. Had Fremont been
elected at that time the South would have un-
doubleday rebelled, although few persons then
suspected it. Such rebellion, however, would
have been as easily crushed as the notification
riot In South Carolina. Buchanan was chosen,
by the aid of the Northern democracy, and the
danger was over for the time. Nevertheless
1t was only for the time. The Southern lead
ers were shrewd enough to know that the "mud-
sills and greasy mechanics" chung obstinately
to their favorite ideas. These leaders saw from
the strong republican vote that the power Of the
democratic party was on the wane. They sur
missed and expected that q republican President
would be elected in 1850. Consequently they