Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1867-03-08
From our New York Correspondent
Southern Chivalry.

,urbed. Yet sometimes you can t
help it. There are various forms OF Il
belief, and there is state or a place r
called Heaven, where some of US hope +
to 90. All can say is, it couldn't c
very we'll be place of unmixed, I'M S
alleged happiness, if some people we /
hear of were there, or anywhere With Z
in reach. can't imagine them In
place where people are either holy or
happy.
"Who are they You shall hear.
Ihave been listening to some ex-
periences in more southern latitude (
than this, and the conclusion is, don't
think we've done with them yet.
The emancipation proclamation was
glorious, and l thought the work was
done, but a proclamation does not re,
form the world nor educate people.
And now a man whom can trust has
told me facts. And such cold-blooded
cruelty, villainy, imposition, cheating,
oppression, / never dreamed Of
Those people at the South talk of
yankees" with a sneer. Cheating
Yankees" sharpness, cunning. Why,
the veriest knave that ever sold wood
en-nutmegs or shoe-peg oats, is a mira
Gle of love and honesty beside many
| know OF.
And the negro "will not work" they
saw. Who would, when he had been
ali his life cheated of himself and his
wages? Even of his wife and bis
children, his very manhood. And now
here are men who since they were
b, free have worked hard on a plantation,
! raising cotton, and have been regu-
e larly cheated each year out of every
e bale they have raised. A man whom
:, they thought they could trust was to
e sell it for them; he took it and sold it,
e but not for them, and they had no
;, redress, 1t is pitiful, and makes your
V heart ache,
Or in another case they piled up
;. their cotton ready to ship, and men
n whom they knew, came armed and with
J. wagons carried it away bale by bale
D. and they had to stand by and see it
n They must not fight, if they kill man
r thew will be tried and executed; they
it must not resist, but simply endure
1t No wonder they will not work. Who
s. would if all his wages were stolen?
D. And then these men talk of "1an
~ KEGS" and cheating" Employ ;
ID man at certain wages and charge
u him such sums for his supplies anC
to clothing, that he is in debt at the emf
v of the season, instead of having dol
ne lar for the winter before him.
it. O the curse Of slavery How
IN lasts, and fingers, and clings to al
III whom it ever reached. What but thl
could ever induce men to 60 and shoe
d. men in cold blood, who were not eve
es enemies, and where there was no
even the motive of plundcr? Mer
spite and vengeance; no, not ven
geance, cool hate.
Our reconstruction Is very SLOW
Whatever we may do or feel, thos
~ people hate US and hate the negro
~ ~ and the indulgence of this temper an
- feeling Is not converting them. !
O. man don't grow better in this worlC
! and | fear it may be so in the next, b
continued indulgence in bad passions
and by associating with those who ar
like himself. Where is there even a
he entering wedge for anything good ?
if. That is to me one Of the most hope
less things; where are you going
make a beginning of Improvement
H. Will the children do any better if W
OF wait for them? They draw in tn
same'spirit with their earliest breath
> We all agree that almost everythin
an a in the world depends upon education
ne and they are educated into this spiri
of lawless recklessneSs, of self-esteen
I'D and of contempt for those whom trol
g very ignorance they consider belo
, them. Therefore, unless some chang
tx occurs, there is no reason why til
IT, children should know more or bette
a than the parents.
Some change may occur, the pre-
d cess of education may be now goin
fe- on, and in time these things may memo
to The education of a nation is a slo
* process. We thought so during tn
war and were impatient; now that
ri, is over, the war seems not a long on
en- So some day we may find (let us hop
it, that process of amelioration ha
TX, been going on i'll that part of th
m country which was century benin
he. us in ideas and in progress.
. We heard the other day from
on State which was one Of the earlies
I'd, to shake itselffr from slavery. TIL
it'll next step was to establish schools, an
we were told the people were ha
ie. crazy on the subject Of learning. TIL
he children were making wonderful pr,
on gress. The people as proud of th
schools and the knowledge as if the
IF were some new thing, which indee
" they were to them. And with educ;
in ton and general intelligence peopl
10 must improve. In this land the churc
On and the schoolhouse generally 90 sid
ID by side. So the moral training wi
~. not be neglected, and that NAV wor
~ a change. 1t must be so. You can
es have one part of body living and tn
oh other dead, or one-half paralized an
be the other active and living, without
~ very painful one-sidedness in all it
no movements, which utterly destroys a
~ harmony.
at takes a long time to educate
people,
This saying has been repeated dun
a Inn tha yuor ~ a14