The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-09-09

s. p. Kinard, Newberry
samuel Drouthitt, GrccnvilIc &. II.
-, Vim. Moore, Abbeyiue c. Il.
Julius Pope, Anderson C. II.
j social 'Amenisics Mt the south.
We extract the following from the
New York Wo,.zd::
1t has long been n favorite theme
with radical leaders and newspapers,
to point out the sulky and gloomy
temper of the South, in their social
contact with Northern people. We
have often endeavored to prove the
utter falsity of these pretcnces, and
to show that while our Southern
brethren very naturally dislike and
keep aioof from any one who comes
to them in any inimical and domi-
neering semper, they are, and ever
have been, ready to meet with kind
ness and respect, if not actual
cordiaiity, anybody from tho North,
who approaches them in the same
open and friendly spirit.
- That this is true of the intercourse
between our Northern people and
the men Of the South, nobody can
deny who has lived or travelled among
them, ever since the conclusion Of
the war. Wherever al opposite feel
ing is found, it is almost certain to he
engendered by that aggressive, pro-
paganding, puritanic spirit, which is
ever exnding -unconsciously in some
cases, we really believc-from every
word and act Of your genuine, self
appointed, over-righteous dispenser
of patriotism and civilization from
the North-especially immaculate
New England. These people go
there, like moral .hedge-hogs, rolled
up in their selfshness, one mass of
pointed, bristling, and offensive pre-
judices. and are astounded and anger
ed il the Southern people do not
instinctively hug them to their hearts
rs the dearest friends they have on
earth!
OF the female portion of Southern
society, there can be no doubt that q
different spirit has been hitherto
manifested to that so universally cx-
sIibited by the sterner Sex. But who
that knows anything of human
orstwo forms but a short period in
which to- obhterate and forget griefs
soheart-rending, desolation so ter
rible, as those which Southern wo-
men have endured And let not
Northern women glory in the triumph
a0f better regulated minds, and boast
that they do not reciprocatc the deep
estrangement and unforgivencss
which still seems to animate the wo-
men OF the South. Dreadful as have
been the household desolations in
the North created by the war, they
are literally small in comparison to
what Southern families have witness
ed and endured With rs war was q
thing to shudder and grieve at from
q distance. With Southern women
it was near, palpable, hidcous
reality. While our Northern women
wept over their dreadful bareave-
ments in the paragraphs of news
papers, the Southern'women saw their
love die amid the horrors Of blazing
homes and desolated fields, and now
sit mourning among the ashes of Il
lost kindred, lost fortunes, and a lost
cause. How large should be the in
diligence on the part of those whose
cause has triumphed! How widely
should the gates of conciliation, love,
and mercy be thrown open, and how
tenderly should we juoge Of those
who have passed through so fierce
an ordeal! Time and kindness alone
can heal these deep wounds Of tho
heart; and that man must be hard
hearted. indeed, who, under past and
present circumstances, can malicn CT
nisinterpret fhe Southern people,
because their innermost social sane
itnaries have not been already cordi-
ally opened to him.
But the glorious work of recon
ciliation is going on, 81, .;ly, but
snrely, and we never sec the obstruct
ing cause removed anywhere, but n
corresponding upheaval takes place
of those generous sentiments and in
ssipcts which are ever striving-in
both sections to weld the people of
this great country into ono fraternai
homcgeous unity.