The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1865-07-12
Friendship and Trade between
the North and South.

Friendship and Trade between
the North and South.
The Lynchburg (Va.) Republican,
referring to complaints by Federal
officers Of unsociability in the inter
course between themselves and South
erners, proceeds to show why:
We regret this state Of things as.
much as any one, but the present sta
tus of the South, no less than the oc-
currences Of the war, furnish ready
reason for its existence. "a severe
rod of chastisement is now impend.
ing over the heads Of the people
South, By rulers elected and selected
alone by the people Of the North.
Standing armies are IN our midst
Scarcely a family among us is notin
weeds or mourning for some dear rel
alive or friend stricken down in a
cause which they regard as supreme
~ sacred. Our leading men are in
irons and prisons. All our men and
women of the South feel this state of
things most acutely. &
Even the humblest citizen or spri-
vate in the army, who may not be in
peril of person or property, deeply
sympathize with those who are, and
partakes as sensibly Of the. dark
pail of gloom which overshadoWs his
country as if he himself was to be
the recipient Of the rod ofscorrection.
The female sex whose husbands,
fathers and brothers are involved in
the destiny of the dark future, being
more sensitive, feel more sharply than
the men, the past as well as the pres
ent condition of affairs. Although
all the Federaloficers with whom we
have come in contact, havesacted so
far as we know, with great delicacy
and urbanity towards the people Of
the South, yet, they must see that it
is impossible for sincere social inter-
course and good fellowship to revive
and flourish at once in the present at
titude Of affairs.
We are fully aware that nearly all
the Federal officers and privates Of
the army, and q great many magnan-I
imous and generous men North, are.
strongly opposed to treating the peo.t
pie of the South cruelty and barba-
rously. But how can friendly feeling
revive and exist when a harsh and
unnecessary rod is suspended over
us, as if we were The most AFFECT of
slaves? If we cannot associate with
our Northern friends on a footing of
equally can we do SO at all? The
magnanimous Northern man who will
exchange position with us for q mo
ment, will fully appreciate our feet
ings aud condition, and must have
much more respect for those who
treat him with kind, though distant
courtesy, than for those who forget.
ting in a moment all the sacred mem
cries which belong to the dead, and
the honor and respect due the living,
and regarding only their own selfish
ends, "bend the supple hinges Of the
knee that favor may follow fawning.n
q Ii is impossible that either the in
diligence of social and friendlNinter.
course can exist and flourish, or trade
revive to any great extent, under the
existing attitue Of affairs. Our ru,
lers, elected by the North and North
,rn people, have itin their power, by
he aid Of the softening hand Of time,
o renew a sincere friendship, and
,augurate prosperous trade with the
South in a few weeks. But il, the
harsh measures be persisted in, fore
Swallowed in the Presidents procla.
nation, which we sincerely trust will
not be the case, we shall probably
continue two people, as to friendship
and trade, for generations to come.
Our children's children will not forget
the unnecessarily harsh treatment
their fathers receivedat the hands Of
the people Of the North. Nations,
like individuals, can be whipped into
subsection, but never can be goaded
intofriendship. The Southern people
are fully prepared to renew their SO.
clal and commercial intercourse with
the North, and are only anxious that
all hindrances may be at once. re.
moved. w. have done for this pur-
pose all that lay in our power and
our Northern friends must do the
balance. He who gives quickly
gives twice.
10 The Worlds correspondent
writing from Charlotte, North Caro-
lima, says the gold mines ia thatyicin.
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