The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-04-12
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HARPER & BROTHERS.
The New York Round Table of April 6t]

The New York Round Table of April 9th
says:
We have seen very sad stuff eulogized by South
ern papers for NO other apparent reason than that
it was of Southern authorship, and the impression
seems universal among the editors OF the region
that all unfavorable criticism OF st. Elmo is due to
"Yankce hatred" The Richmond Christian OBJ
Gle" the demoralzing influences of the press and
of the greater part Of the literature OF the North
sent broadcast over the land for quarter OF CEN
tury" and periodically there is an htorla crusade
inuugurated against tsthose wretched Harpers,
and all who read their publications. The pueri!e
folly of this state of mind and all who foment it is
simply contemplate. It is mean in the extreme
for Northern journals and publishers, who In
various ways have the odds largely in their favor
to avail themselves of their advantages to taunt
those who are less favored and thwart their efforts
in their own behalf. It shows q lamentable want
Of pluck for Southern editors to whine at Northern
attacks instead ofrepaying them mantuliy: the
satire Of Harpers Weekly Is too keen and IS some
times extravagantly partisan and unjust, the rem
edy lies not in denunciation OF it but in making
retort in kind. For every severe cartoon that New
York finds material for in the South, Charleston
and New Orleans, if their eyes were open could
is not surprising that much of our literature in
spires resentment because much OF it ls dlsgrace-
full and libellous but the South will find it no
easy matter to suppress it, and had much better
begin to make compromising literature OF IFS
own.
Now there is in oil this, undoubtedly, o great
deal of truth; and we can assure the Rouud
7aJte, that our sseyes are open," and that we
can see the beam in our brothers eye, rs we'll
as the mote in our own. We have at divers
times in very mild and modest way attempted
to hold the mirror up to nature in the manner
indicated in the above paragraph; and imme-
diately there was a hue and cry, both at home
and abroad, that we were keeping up strife,
generating bad blood, and doing mischief gen
orally; and that o peaceful reconstruction
could not be accomplished by any such pro-
cess. AS we desired peace and harmony above
everything else, we promptly ceased our efforts
in that direction, and can only regret that our
Northern cotemporaries should not be actuated
by like impulse, bury the hatchet, and with a
manly and Christian spirit, give us, if not
positive aid, at least the benefit of neutral ac-
quiescene, and not retard the good work by
their malevolent papers and pictorials.
View it from what stand point we may, the con-
duct of the HARpERs is mean beyond all ex-
preston. This house owes its immense wealth
and influence in q very large measure TO the
South These States, for many years before
the war, were their chief market; and no firm
in the North was more solicitous of pleasing
their Southern brethren, more anxious in ex-
cludng every possible trace and faint OF "abo-
litionism'' from their publications than llAR-
PER & BROTHERS; and this was the case up to
the commencement Of tie late war.
We recolcct dinner at DELMoNIcO's, given
by one of the elder members Of the firm, in the
fall Of 1860, to distinguished Southern Meth
odist Minister Cergymen of different denom-
nations were invited, but they were all good
Democrats; opposed, tooth and nail, to the
revolutionary innovations, then gaining more
and more ground in all the Northern churches.
Mr. HARPER took great pains to assure the
gentlemen from the South, that they |the DEM
ocrats in the church would rout The Abol-