New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-05-18
NORTH AND sOUTH-LRT Us UNDER.
STAND.

STAND.
There ia at present general and laudable desire
among the better portion Of the Southern Whites to
be fully and fairly comprehended at the North. In
stead d the old formulas" If you don't stop talking
that way will withdraw trade and starve you"
or If we ever catch you 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 dcsolation Of
terrible war Let it be upheld and encouraged, aud
we shall never have another such calamity.
Tn, Christian Indey, Atlanta, Georgia insists that
the South ia not understood at the North, and, in
order that il may be. sets forth what it deems the real
sentiment Of the South in an article which here
copy By request. to render it as conspicuous we
may. 1t is as follows:
FOUR MISTAKES
The great obstacle to reconstruction in Church and
State fact and feeling lies In mutual Misunderstanding
Of the regard to cach other BY the Northern and
what done and thought and felt In these Southern
States believe that controlling number Of tho people
desire and think deserve There four leading
particulars In which think their judgments Of entire
points We believe that vast stride would be made toward
real peace Ms eeie to 90 gooa 70 cur e" sn
on these four hing aud to put on record our solemn 'es
Fa II is believed a, the North that the people here con.
slider the late dispute still unsettled that they anxious for
nS n. Of % % .ua ' ss aaa
Their effort for Independence
word OF truth in There may advduals
Of whom it is rue Of course We cannot that there
none bu, and do that know OF
heard Of The people here thinking about arms
about independence the ideas for which the
fought considered obsolete and seldom spoken or The
great idea every take Of himself and
improve condition Revolution u.s. Of all things tho
furthest from their wishes or thonghts
Second II Is believed at the North that there IL hero
disposition oppes. and persecue the aud
Nothing coad be further from the truth During the war
the slaves for the part stood by their bored for
without Thousands OF
zed with them and sustained them In every possible TO
the last Since the they have conducted themselves with
degree OF proprety which, under the circumstance Is
wonder to world These things have increased the kind
he'd in higher estimation at the South this day than ever
been The rights o. suffrage OF holding office and Of sitting
they Qn Georgia. prsci,siy footing lhe people
and Hk II In most Of the other States The people
OF the North have been often told that the opposite Of all
this that they 6ud 1t hard to believe what tell
them, but the fact, are as we state
Third 1t Is beeved at the North that the moment the
Southern people are clothed with political power they will
their influence FOR the reputation Of the National debt
man and probably would never have been OF here
we had not received the idea FROM Northern newspaper
Most Of wise enough know thar 1t is ineres
to sustain the Goyernment oodsr which We expect to live
invested with political power would endeavor TO force upon
Government the assumption Of the debt Of the late Con
We do not believe that this idea ever entered ntshe widest
dream Of the most visionary 10 these Southern States
We have heard the subject mentoi except with rd.
cule and In the preceding believe would
have beeu mentioned at a Tit had not been thus. upon COR
attention By the Northern press.
II the people the coud only Enor the truth in re-
gard TO the four points above spoken Of believe that there
would be an immense change IN public opinion and In
state OF public feeling there and that the result would be
restoration Of friendly relations and Of material prosperity
OF them perhaps will these lines; Of those who
them some have doubt viii believe oil we have said
some We fear will aythat wlfuly fay; and others
win probably say that mistaken to the facts We
enrea those who doubt evidence tell what
evidence would be satisfactory and they demand evidence
which the the admits o. think pledge
l ourselves, In advance. to produce 1t.
IL last possible that some OF would like to obtain
moro full Information from the same sources let them
address editor OF TAe Chrfstian Id Atlanta
Ca they shall be promptly responded to- publicly pr
vatsy. as they may desire
Comments By The Tribune
l. We are quite sure that The indsz is right in dis.
claiming for the South any desire purpose to re
light the flames Of Civil War. The experience Of the
late War is too recent aud terrible. Yet we that
the South is constantly and powerfully melted to do
that 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 tho
law ofthe land and thus constitute an opposition or
second Congress, which will involve the country