The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-05-19
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North and sOuth-Let us Understand.

from tfe Tribune.
There is at present general and laudable de-
sire among the better portion of the Southern
whites to be fully and fairly comprehended at
the North. Instead of the old formulas-"If
you don't stop talking that way, we will with.
draw our trade and starye you,p or, "If we can
ever catch you on our soil, we will hang you,"
Southerners say, Hear and understand US at
the North Had this spirit prevailed six to ten
years ago, it would have saved the blood and
desolation of terrible war. Let it be upheld
and encouraged, and we shall never have an
other such calamity
The Christian Inder Atlanta Georgia insists
that the South is not understood at the NORTH
and, in order that 1t may be, sets forth what it
deems the real sentiment of the South in an
article which we here copy by request to render
1t as conspicuous as we may. 1t is as tollows:-
FOUR MISTAKES.
The grand obstacle to reconstruction In Church
and State, in fact and in feeling, lies in mutual mis-
understanding of the acts to each other by
wero known of the North as to what is saiu and
done, thought and felt these Southern Statess
we be isve that controlling number OF the people
there would be inclined extend to us such treat
ment as desire and a. we think deserve. There
are four leading particulars in winch we think their
judgments OF entirely wrong and If they could
be correctly informed on these points, we believe
that vast stride would be MADE towards real peace
With D sincere desire TO do good to our feow-men,
Snd to gorlfY our Father IN Heaven, we proceed to
mentIonl these four things and to put record our
solemn testimony IN regard to them.
First 1t is believed at the North that the people
here consider the late dispute still unsetted that
they anxious for another opportunity to resort
to arms; and that they are ready and ripe 10 avail
themselves of the first occasion to make another
effort for independence
In all THIS our Northern friends are entirely mis-
taken. There IS not a word OF truth in 1T. There
NAV be individuals OF whom 1t is true; course we
cannot say that there are none but we can and do
say that we know of none and have heard OF none.
The people here are not thinking about arms nor
about independence; the ideas tor which the war
was fought are considered obsolete and are seldom
spoken Of The great idea with almost every one is
to take care of himself and improve his own condi-
ton. Revolution is, of all things, the turthest from
| their wishes or thoughts. .. 81.
Second 1t is believed at the North that there is
here general disposition TO oppress and persecute
the negro race and il possible, 10 re-ensave them.
y Nothing cOud be further from the truth. Dur.
= ing the the slaves loI the most parr stood by
their masters, labored for them without
thousands of instances, and sympatnlzed with them
and sustained them in every possible way to the last
4 Since he war they have conducted themselves with
1 degree OF proprlety which, under the cIrcum.
l stances, Is wonder to the world These things
have increased the kindness of feelings which were
1 kind before, and the negro is held 1 higher
destination at the South tins day than it ever has
been. 1he rights OF suffrage OF hoidlng office, and
| OF sitting on juries are denied them by laws,
but in all other respects they are I'm Georgia) pre-
cisely on footing with the white people, and
think in most of the other States The peo pie
OF thu North have been so often told that the oppo-
to believe what we Tell themj but tue facts as
| W. ate. . r. ....
Th I'd 1t is believed at the North, that the moment
the Southern people are clothed With political
power, they will use their influence for the repudia
| uo oil the national debt
We have never heard this scheme proposed by a
| Southern man, and it probably would never have
been thought of here if lad received the IDEA
| from Northern news Japers. We ave Aever heard It
| spoken of exceuL with condem uauon Most of us
enough to know that it is to interest TO
| sustain the Government under which we expect to
| live.
Fourth It is believed at the North that the South.
ern people, II invested with political power, would
ON fha
| ton OF the debt OF the late Confederacy.
We do not believe tnat this idea ever entered into
these southern States. We have never heard the
subject mentioned, except with ridcule and, as in
a. ws Go Seen
| upon our attention by the Northern press.
| If the people at the North coula only know the
truth in regard to the four p0lnls above spoken Of
we believe that there would be an immense change
In public opinion, and in the state OF public feeling
there, and that the result would be restoration OF
friendly relations and of material prosperity. Few
them, perhaps, will see THESE lines; of those who
see them. some, we have no Goubt, will be!ieve ali
we have said, for of them know that testi-
| mony can be relied on; some, we fear, will say that
we Niuly falsify and others Will probably say that
treat those who doubt evidence to tell us what
evidence would be satisfaetory and If they demand
evidence, which the nature OIL the case admits OF,
we think we can pledge ourselves, IN advance, to
| produce it.
pers aid it is just possible that OF their readers
would ike to obtain full information from the
same s0uTce II So let them address q letter TO the
editor of the Christian Ader Atlanta Ga and they
| shall be promptly responded to, publicly or pri-
| vately as they may desire.
Comments by Tie "7r1bune."
/. We are quite sure that the Index is right in
| disclalming tor the South any desire or purpose
| to relight the flames of civil war. The expert
| ence OF the late war is too recent and terrible.
| Yet we see that the South is constantly and pow
erfully melted to do tnat very thing in different
| way but in the same spirit. She is openly urged
| by Northern Copperheads to send Senators and
| Representatives TO Congress, who will take seats
| by force and violence in defiance OF the law OF
| the land, and thus constitute an opposition or
| second Congress, which will involve the country
| aresh in the horrors oil intestine conyulsion
| and war We entreat the Inder to watch and
| warn against this project. 1t Is certain, II
pressed to realization, to deluge the land in fra
| ternal blood, to no good end whatever.
| ii. We quite agree with the Inder that the
| better portion of the Southern whites DO not
| mean or wish to oppress The blacks. Yet this
| rather negative good feeling does not shield nor
| save the blacks from intolerable wrongs and
| expressions, as we have lateiy seen at Mem
| phis and other points. The low-bred Southrons
| do love to oppress and abuse the blacks; and
the better class do not actively interfere to pro-
tect them and they never VIII, so long as the
| laws OF the South are not just and equal. So
| long as the South allows the most ignorant
| and vicious white foreigner to become u citizen
| and voter after few years residence, and
/ denies those same privileges to intelligent ex-
/ emplary blacSs born on the soil, she never
| will and never can be, Just to tgo-hiths OF her
/ people, That blacks have no rights that whites
| are bound TO respect" is an axiom lngrained in
1 the very core Of Southern society and jurispru-
| dence. The Irde1 doubtless thinks the blacks
| except those of voting, holding office,
| and sitting on iuries (rather importan