The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1866-08-29
Northern Men In the South.


= South. We fondly thought when the
. war was over, we should hear no
longer of prescription and abuse OF
Northern men, simply on account of
their birth. After our brave soldiers
, had marched over it and conquered a
peace, it was hoped that a citizen of
) the United States henceforth would
be as free to visit or reside in the
South as at the North. But it is not
so. The wholesome fear inspired By
their terrible punishment in the re-
bellion has lasted but for time, and
now the fre-eaters of Me South are
again growing as rampant as ever.
We have within the last few days
conversed with old citizens Of the
North, just returned from twelve
months residence in the Southern
States, and their uniform testimony
Is that there is the same hatred and
contempt for people of Northern
birth as existed before the war;
that a Northern man cannot
gain admittance into Southern
society except by such fawning and
remuneration of principles as no man
of honesty and self respect can make;
that they are regarded as intruders
and public enemies, and the terms
Yankee and Radical is sneefingly APP
/ piled to all such The treatment
which the negroes receive is bad
enough and disgraceful to the nation,
but it is of more vital and personal
Importance to the people of the North
to claim the right of free and unre-
stricted residence and transit in those
States, whose return to the Union has
cost SO much blood and treasure.
The spirit Of the loyal people of the
great North will not long tolerate
such state of affairs as now exist
there. They will vindicate at the
polls, in October, the position as
sumed by Congress, that these people !
still require the attention of the |
'Government, and that they should |
not yet be freed from its control. /
There can be no question that such
a state of affairs does exist. It is the
testimony of all true Southern loyal
lists. These men are driven to a
Northern city to hold peaceful Con-
vention, and the National INTELLIGENT I
GER, one of the Presidents organs,
boasts that there is no city In the
South where it would be safe, to hold
such a meeting. We are rapidlydr
ing back into the state of mob law
and intolerance which 4 G 7. existed
before, and was in part the cause of
the bloody war. That we do not over
draw the picture, we publish again
extracts from the official dispatches of
Maj. Gen. SHERIDAN, commanding the
of the South-a man who II
has always been conservative in
politics, and who has no party aims to
serve3 In his dispatches to General /:
dRANT relative to the New Orleans
,iots, he says: t@ie5h HAoa-
The more information 1 obtain of the
lffair in this city, the more revolving it be- !
comes. 1t was no riot; it was an absolute
massacre by the police, which was not5ex- ! +
'eeded in murderous cruelty by that of
sort Pillow. 1t was murder which the =
Mayor and police of the city perpetrated
Without shadow of necessity. -y7 !
Furthermore, l believe it was premedita-
ed and prearranged. 1 recommend the :.
'emoving of this bad man; believe it l
you'd be hailed with the sincerest gratifi- 7
alton by two-thirds of the population of !
ne CITY There has been a feeling of in II
ecurity on the part of the people here on
ccount of this man, which is now so much
increased that the safety of life and pro-
erty does not rest with the civil authors
y. but with the military.
In another dispatch he says: /
There will be an exodus of the Northern 1 :
capitalists and Union men, which win be Z
'jurious to the city and whole country. c
In his official dispatch to the Presi- Il
ent, he uses this plain language: 5
1t is useless to attempt to disguise the I'll
ostility that exists on the part of a great or
ANY towards Northern men; and this un-
'rtunate affair so precipitated matters, VI
nat there is now a test of what shall be %
le status of Northern men; whether they 4,
In live here without being in constant a
oubt whether they can be projected in u
re and property, and have Justice in the OF
ourts- If this matter is permitted TO pass "
yer without a thorough and determined ::
sosecntion of those engaged in it, we may q
'ok out for terrific scenes of the same RI
ma, not only here, but in other places re
o steps have, as yet, been taken by the -
VII authorities to arrest the citizens en- ~
lgeo In the massacre, or the policemen I'll
no perpetrated such cruelty. B
And ha odds AZ - II