Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1867-05-24

t:enI willard Warner, Of hodgofnefy
County-IIis Vicws-The $ Cant Live Ia
the south DIFFERENTIATION ana the
People The FrecIrncn-Confiscat CATION
Toombs Iverson and stevcns-Gencrais
Grant and Dick Taylor.
From the Cincinnati Commercial.
ATLANTA, Ga, April 30, 1867.
The Southern people are collecting their
dead as best they can, and removing their
remains to CITY and town cemeteries. OF |
course the work will not be nearly as COM
piete as that being done at such great ex-
nense and care on behalf of the Union
dead. In my opinion they ought to be as
sisted and encouraged in the enterprise as
one of charity and humanity, if they would
only agree not to make it the occasion OF
the most ill-tempered and injudicous ora
tory, stirring up feelings which 1t IS to their
interest to allay, and reminding spirit OF
sectional hostility which should have been
buried with the last man who fell Ill the
war. The collection and decent interment
at stated points, of all the rebel dead, might
we'll be undertaken by the National Gov
ernment, assisted by the Southern people,
who would readily give the land and labor
necessary to carry it out. 70 prevent It's
conversion into a rebel celebration, the en-
tire work could be placed under the charge
of United States troops and officers. 2 Su2
question like this needs to be made with
great caution, lest it incur the ccnsure OF
that large class of men OF the North to
whom the most convincing evidence OF ie-
turning loyalty i'll the South, would be the
denunciation by Southern people OF the
men who died in Il cause which, though bad,
was theirs. Ashley would think 1t extreme
" disloval to talk of such thing but the
of n WhIln AShE9V
was stealing ''town sights" in the rear, would
see nothing wrong III it. The dead rebel
is not the less fallen cOmrade. Though
killed in fighting against his country, his
memory may still be cherished as kind faith
er. a devoted husband, or loving son.
On my way to Chattanooga [ fell III with
General Willard Warner, of Newark, Ohio,
who told me he was on his way to his plant
alton, near Montgomery, Ala. L asked
him how much truth there was in the re-
port that Il Northern man couldn't 1--we
| down in that section, and he replied there
wasn't a word. He had been there year
and a half-had been known as an ex-Fed-
eral officer, and so far from that operating
against him, it had exactly the opposite
effect, he said, for those especially who had
been in the rebel army liked a Northern
man all the better from his having been 4
Union soldier-and no two men could be
better friends than a rebel and a Yankee
soldier, provided neither is fool. Gen
Warner is no Copperhead, remember. He
has been member of the Republican par
tv ever since it was started, and is now a
Radical State Senator in the Ohio IeglSla-
ture He finds it quite as easy to be de
cent Radical in Montgomery as III Column
bus-uot Il bit more danger OF beng scalp
ed in the one place than in the other. In
fact it is much safer to be among recon
structcd rebels in Alabama, than among
unrcconstructcd Copperheads, such as YOU
are apt to meet every once and IL while IL
Columbus General Warner entered the
service in the Seventy sixth Ohio, and scry
ed with distinction throughout the cntiri
war. About year and Il half ago he
bought fine plantation near Montgomery
which he has since been cultlVat1ng. Las
year his cotton crop failed, and he had hare
work to get out even; but this year liz
' thinks he and others around him will d'
we'll. Land is cheap where he is, and he i
astonished that capital does not find 1t
: way down there in greater quantities than
c it does. The Southern people have 1T
e money, and they offer the greatest induce
0 ments to Northern men who have it and ar
u willing to spend it among them IN some
!, thing that will add to the material prosper
q ity of the South.
n Just here, let me give faint eXplann
ton of some of the cries of can t live L
p the South Question the men who retur
e to the North with that howl upon thei
y tongues, and trace their history while the
were South, and, ten chances to one, yO
will find that they came down here to pl:t
Jeremy Diddler, and were found out to
. soon for their own pecuniary benefit.
1 have been told, by half a dozen Souther
IL men, since [ came South, of such cases.
+ Said one gentleman-the President of on
+ of the railroads running out OF NashVlll
1.-The South has been oyerrun by me
q from the North who came down here
u embark in big business--want to buy Il
q everything they can tind-all the land, a
Il the mines, etc. and when the time come
L for them to pay little money on wht
, they've bought, they haven't id cen
. They find themselves disappointed IN the
e expectations, and then go North, and swes
IT we are all rebels and that Union ma
q can't live among u.s.. This is but san
q pie of many cases L might cite to simils
% purpose OF course when [ speak Of tt
IL South in this connection, [ refer only
that portion of it which has come undo
nv own observation, or about which | hay
~ had good opportunity for acquiring il
10 formation by conversing with trustwortL
L and intelligent gentlemen-some from fl
le North and others from the South-son
d Radical, others Conservative, anything.
IL short, but a Northern Democrat, who's
81 !, oath l would scarcely believe, even if
II Il knew him to be telling the truth l ha'
d. seen enough of the South already howeve
" and heard enough from others, to warra
rs me in recommending as splendid busine
IL enterprise the formation of a Loyal Lii
40 Insurance Company, for the benefit OF fea
X full souls who want to come this way, b
~ don't want to be killed for their "Unic
rs sentiments The premium should
.. graded according to the past and prese
W occupation of the insurer. 4 good 1ank
ne soldier may be insured for three cents {
= a thousand dollars, but on fellows who wa
Vi to steal cotton or engage in some such la
lls dable and patriotic pursuit, the risk won
VI be heavy, and less than fifty per Ger
% wouldn't be likely to pay.
., General Warner related Il little incidel
,, ~ to me which shows the kind of men wi
here, and throughout the South, are ma
w ing mischief with their swagger and fl
u tan He was at a hotel i'll Montgome
us not long ago in half citizen and half mi