The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-08-09
The Feeling MT the sou.n.

The Feeling ae the South.
A travelling correspondent of the
New York Herald, having made a tour
OF the Southern States. concludes M,
letter as follows:
i cannot conceal the fact that there
IS danger to the country, in longer
withholding recognition of the South
ern States. Not danger of an omen
outbreak. but danger Of something
else, which in the end may prove
even worse-danger of resurrection
OF sectional hatred. When the war
ended, all the barriers builtup between
the two sections, North and South.
by long years of opposing systems o!
civilization, were laid as fiat as the
walls of Jericho. Every United
States officer have met, who was IN
the South at the time of Lee and
johnston s surrender, has testified to
me that the people threw open tlleir
doors to the Union soldiers, and vel
coined them almost as reeonciled
friends from whom they had been
long estranged. Gov. Wise stated in
my presence that, had the two armic.,
been allowed to settle matters at AID.
pomattox Court House, peace would
have been established on a basis that
would have endured as long as Ame
rica remained nation. believe he
is right. The course was clear then
for conclliation and concession. Bu,
as Tune went on, and as the purpose
OF the radicals to retain power il
their hands by holding the Southern
States as conquered provinces became
fully apparent, some of the old hard
feeling towards the North revived
the people looking upon the radical
congress as an embodiment of the
views Of the entire North. Disloyal
articles appeared in the newspapers.
and the people, without fully endors
ing these productions, read them
with a grim kind of satisfaction. A
feeling, not of active hostility, but OF
sullen apathy toward the North,
sprung up III the under strata OF
Southern society. Every act of the
radical Congress helped to rebuild
the old walls of sectional antaeonism
on new foundation. This process
Of rebuilding the old party wall of
distinction is still slowly but surely
going on. You see indications of It
on every hand. 1t sticks out in the
spasmodlc movements set on foot
within the last few months for rem
derlng homage to the rebel dead. 1t
IS plainly apparent in the portraits of
Lee and Stonewall Jackson which arc
now conspicuously displayed in every
Southern hotel and almost in every
house. The Southern States, denied
equality with the other States of the
Union, are retiring within themselves
and feeding on the unwholesome me
mories OF their lost struggle. The
approaching elections must decide
whether this kind of thing is to 90
on, and whether the reunited States
are again to be separated into two
sections, estranged in heart and SEN
timent. Restore the Southern States
to the privileges Of citizenship, and
am satisfied they viii discharge their
duties honestly and in good faith.
Deny them this right, and the risk
and the loss will be ours as we'll a..
theirs. Iwent into the South, con
fess it, imbued with radical proclivi-
ties. come back strongly convinced
that the policy inaugurated by Presi
dent Johnson can alone restore har-
mony and prosperity to the country.
The wife Of the French Consul
was seriously wounded by stray