Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-06-23
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The number of Southerners living at
the North, particularly in the city of New
York, seems almost fabulous. They are
presiding over boardiBg-houses in the
avenues, on the cross streets and down
town. They are working banking estab-
lishments on Wall street, conducting as
signments for cotton and naval stores on
Pearl and Water streets and Maiden
Lane, selling prints, shoes and groceries
on Broadway, Courtlandt and Canal, fur.
nishing matter for the critical and local
columns of newspapers, clerking in
wholesale and retail houses, and, in a
word, filling every imaginable place OF
business-from candy shop up to the
spacious counters ofthe merchant prince.
Judges and lawyers, who were the orna-
ments of the Southern bench and bar,
brilliant journalists, poets and novelists,
eminent statesmen and distinguished
military leaders, beautiful and accom-.
plshed women, who were the magicians
of society in Charleston, Augusta and
Mobile, and even beardless boys, full Of
the idea of forsaking doomed country,
they are all there by thousands.
Some idea may be formed of the i'm.
mensity of that number, when it is said,
that, in the election Of Mayor Hoffman,
the united Southern. and Irish vote easily
determined the political fortunes of the
city. Let visitor, on any day, take the
cars on University Place on Fourth
avenue, and he will see that, not only
have Southerners gone North, but that
they have carried their home gallantry
and politeness with them. They never
sit In the street cars, and permit ladies to
stand up. thing which the Yankees in
variably do. Even a Northern woman
can tell by intuition when she is to get a
crowded car, by her knowledge of the
difference between the cold, upimpas-
stoned, CALCULATING face of Yankee
merchant, aud the deferential bearing OF
Southern gentleman. Thank God, we
beat them in politeness, if they beat us
in gold.
But what have all these Soutberners
gained by going North2 They ran
away from negro supremacy and the
plantation of poverty, aud what have
they got in exchanged The supremacy
OF cold, heartless, dissipsted, vulgar
social system, and the terrors Of a pow
eriy, such as the South never knew,
which takes more women and children
BY the brain and heart, without warning
or pity, and presses and crushes them
until they are glad to die. There are
hundreds OF fair-browed Southern boys
among the Yankees to-day, who do no,
know where they will get a slice Of bread
for their dinner. No, let our men stand
by their imperiled homesteads; or, if
they are burnt let them stand by the
ruins until the angel Of Gods mercy
shall have come to us again. We SOL
emnly protest against our young men
leaving the places where they we're era
died for the pitiless hesrthstones Of
strangers Ii we must. let us follow the
old Athenian plan, and carry our women
and children to the island Of Salamis,
and TO the ships, but let Us bold every
square inch OF our native soil
The Cleveland Leader says: At the
Bethel Sunday school yesterday a gen
tleman, in addressing the infant scholars,
asked where Christ vas born. A modest
urchin suggested New York. The Others