The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-03-29
OUR NORTRERN FRIENDS.

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comfortable, whether we look back or for
ward, it is not unreasonable that we should
be out of humor, and take suggestions, what
ever be the motive, badly; and it is not un-
common to see expressions of as much bitter.
ness toward the News, The World, The Day
Book, and other journals in New York and
elsewhere, exhibiting concern about our con-
dition and our course of action, as against
other journals there, the most persistently
and unquestionahly hostile. 1t is said Of
them that, without real feeling in the matter,
they are using the South for whatever profit
they may make of them, and Of those people
at the North who are still so simple as to
have sympathy for fallen cause. Their
suggestions are regarded as oficious, their
advice injudicious; and there are many who
repudiate their services, ard ask of them but
the charity of their silence.
In this there is some reason. Before the
war it was often said that we had no friends
at the North, and it was true. There wore
some who respected the rights of the South ;
and if at liberty to do SO, would have spared
them; but, while the South constituted dis
tinct section, the conflict was, in fact, ire
preasible. Every man in the North was of
the North. He gave his capital, energies
and business to sustain it. He participated,
whether willingly or not in its course of &C.
ton. 1t was said of CUSHING, DICKINSON,
SEYMOUR, BANCROFT, and the rest, that when
the tide of feeling should rise they would
fall before it, and they did fall. And when
the crisis came, our friends were as fatal as
our enemies. And 80 new. There is the
feeling that utterances favorable to the South
are inspired less by aregard for us than from
the necessity of party action. They are tho
negative as opposed to the positive forces of
their society. Each are necessary expressions
of one and the same system, and the peo-
pie of this country are not pleased to be made
the convenient implement of party contest.
We have the feeling, however, that this is
not fully just The South is no longer q sec-
ton; it has been section SO long that people
North or South are not clearly conscious that
it is not-a ! traditional opinion and tradi-
tional feeling fingers. But the fact of Sec
tionalism disappears NTH the principle which
caused it. The Norta, however it may desire
it, can antagonize the South no longer. There
are no bllwarks of distinct institution to
act against The Radical party, selling the
Government, may desire to hold the South as
tributary provinces, and does offer the plum
der of the South as the principle of party
cohesion; and if that party shall succeed, it
will 80 oppress the South that it can make
little difference whether it be section or not.
But the government established by that party,
whether it be an oligarchy or monarchy,
will leave to other sections of the country as
little to choose whether they be of the one
section or the other.
Of the evils of our present state, one good,
at least, results. Our fate can no longer be
peculiar Whether the faction or the con-
federacy triumph, the country must take other
bearings. 1t can no longer run under the
resolution of those hitherto opposing forces,
the one of which has ceased to exist A homo
genous sooiety will come to homogeneity of
fortune or of fate, and it is in this conviction
that we accept, with better feeling, the sug-
geStion of the journals at the North. They
urge not our cause, but their own. They ex-
tend to US not the cold hand of charity, but
the grasp of fellowship tightened by the
of o common interest. While
seotionalisrn was On existing fact, their friend
ship was sentiment-it is now an Interest.
The say, truly, that our common liberties are
at stake in that rupture of our system which
results from the subjugation of part, and to
that utterance We respond without the mis-
givings we have felt in the offers of kindness
from an adversary section. With nothing
peculiar to contend for, we can join them in
the formation of party broad enough to
comprehend our common rights; and to the
NcrS, therefore, whose article has occasioned
this, and to those other journals as consist
emily in the assertion of our common cause,
and to the men who find liberty more attrac-
tive than power, We tender kind acknowl-
edgment of the service, and we hope Just
appreciation of the motive which inspires it.
ITINERANT LIBELLERS.
We wonder who does the New York Tri-