New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-11
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New York Tribune and the Chicago Repubh-
can constantly declare that Northern men are
not safe In the South that freedom Of opinion
and of discussion is not tolerated; that the
people of these States retain, in time of peace,
all the antagonisms and animosities of time
of war, combined with a pervading and always
latent opposition to the Union, which OK
presses itself in acts of outrage upon the So
called " loyalists, and of cruelty toward the
negroes. These assertions are vigorously
backed up by the swift and cheerful testimony
Of class Of people who think themselves
never so well employed as when engaged in
slandering their fellow citizens, and who illus
trate their claim to the title of Southerners by
assuming an attitude of bitter and unrelent-
ing hostility toward everything Southern.
The Times is not willing to take the testi-
mony Of such persons as conclusive in regard
to the sentiment prevailing in Southern COM
munities. That paper does not see the pro-
priety of the radical plan of arriving at q
mans views to-wit, by questioning his enc
mics, and refusing to interrogate him. 1t has
generally been supposed that the best way of
finding out5what person thinks is simply to
ask him what he thinks; and it is good rule
to take his answer as conclusive on that point,
unless there should be some salient and ire
concileable antagonism between his words
and his acts. Now, while the radical papers
have been accusing the Southern people Of d
blind rage against their Northern fellow-eiti-
zens; of an inextinguishable and exhaustless
hate which vents itself indiseriminatingly on
Northern visitors; of perennial fury which
seeks as victims the industrious immigrant
from abroad, and the innocent sfloyalist" at
home. The Times sees that the Southern
newspapers have been filed with appeals to
the Northern people to come to the South
with their labor, their capital and their intelli
gence. IL sees in the columns of Southern
journals tempting descriptions Of the fertility
of our soil and the salubrity of our climate.
1t daily reads of the inducements which agri-
cultural and mechanical industry offer to the
enterprising farmer and mechanic, and the
many ways in which capital can be probably
employed in the South.
Thence the Times very naturally arrives at
the conclusion that the Southern people have
been cruelty misrepresented by their radical
enemies And such must be the case, unless
it be supposed that we have formed the pro-
jeet of alluring large number of Northern
people within our limits, merely for the sake
of depressing, insulting and numbering them
But Of course such superstition is too absurd
for argument; and it is just as absurd to be-
heye that we do not know our own mind any
better, than to want to drive away people one
day, and earnestly invite them to come among
us the next.
The truth is just what we have often stated
it to be in these columns that not only do
we treat Northern men with courtesy and re-
speet the courtesy and respect to which
every good citizen is entitled but we are ex-
tremely anxious that they should come to the
South by scores, by hundreds, by thousands,
10 aid in the reorganization Of our industry
md the development of our resources.
We want population sadly want it. Yves
NOV that in numbers Intelligent and
Energetic numbers-consists communitys
trength and influence because strength and
influence are the natural sequence of the ma
erial prosperity which flows from the efforts
t an industrious population. Nor do we
nake political opinion bar to the immigra-
ion which we desire. We welcome all, with
ut question as to their views on the po-
tieal issues Of the day, provided they be
onest and industrious ; and if they be enter
rising and intelligent, So much the better.
ii that we REQUIRE is that they come as
lends and not as enemies; that their wish
! to further their own fortunes by furthering
be prosperias of the community into which
hey come, Instead Of consigning us, like
Thaddeus stevens, to the lowest deeps Of
rartarus, or. like Brownlow, 10 the gibbet and
he stake. We can tolerate the widest range
# discussion which does not take the form of
iolent revolution because We believe that
We are sufficiently strong in the truth and
ustice Of our cause to achieve success in the
Drum of reason. We are satisfied that any
nan who comes to the South to engage in an
honorable career of industry will very soon
ind that his true interests must identity him
With the opposition to the party which seeks
@ convert the government into an engine of
oppression, and which Is wiling, for the sake
y gratllyins us ylndletlYe passions, to hamper
and destroy The industry Of the country, and,
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