The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-12-02
COLUMBIA.
wednesday Morning Dec, 2, 1858.
The south openIlto tn. north

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The South Openlto the North.
A letter to the Richmond Enquirer
and Eruminer, from a Boston mer-
chant, who, processes to express 8
prevailing sentiment among the com
mercial classes of New England, con-
tains these noteworthy passages:
SNOW that Grant is elected, all the
fears the North may have entertained
about the South vanish, and pur-
pose will develop itself wholly friend
ly and Of an encouraging nature.
The North now means business
South, by tho Infusion of capital and
emigration. The West must divide
it's claims to surplus population of
the Atlantic cities with the South.
The signs of the times are favorable
to the South. Now that the struggle
for Presidentiis over, let by-gones be
by-gones. We believe that is pro-
minent feeling here in New England.
We shall be disappointed very much
If Ine Grant administration acts
otherwise than generously towards
the entire South. We believe that
will be a strong feature in it, and are
quite snre New England will back up
that feeling with actions correspond
ing thereto. -. a- ..,,
Let Us TRUST that the writer is not
mistaken in supposing that the cleo
ton Of Grant has dissipated what
ever fears may have existed at the
South; of q nature prejudicial to the
interests of either section or of both.
But there has been no real founde-
ton for such fears at any time here
tofore. They could have been only
ignorantly deduced from the slander-
GUS cry, SO long kept up by radical
journalists and orators, fhat there is
no toleration at the South for men
adhering to the Republican party, or
cherishing loyal and Union senti-
ment; and that, indeed, Northern
man going to the South is in deadly
peril from the simple fact of being q
Northern man. It is certainly to be
hoped that those who were so as
siduous in disseminating this nefari-
GUS falsehood as an electioneering
expedient in the late campaign, will
now not only drop it, but take some
pains to represent the true state of
feeling at the South in relation to
Northern visitors and settlers. They
could do so with perfect consistency !;
it would be a logical sequence to one
of their favorite arguments for the
election of Grant, namely: that this
event would be the signal for peace
and order everywhere, and the an
nouncement that a Northern man,
whatever his political opinions, would
be as secure in person and property,
as free in speech and action, in South
Carolina or Louisiana, in Mississippi
or Georgia, as in Massachusetts or
New York. The letter from the Bos-
ton merchant, above quoted, would
seem to indicate that the election of
Grant has, in some degree, opened
many thousand minds in the North,
heretofore darkened by prejudice and
suspicion, to more trustful and
cheerful view of the position and es-
timation of Northern men iii the
South. Let us, then, by all proper
means, take advantage of this hope
full change. There can hardly be q
question that Northern opinion in
general possesses now more receptive
ty to truth about the South than it
possessed during the heat of the Pre-
siden tial contest. The time is pro-
pitious for the work of extricating all
minds at the North, not wilfully
blind, from the confusion which the
radical press has labored to create.
SMALL FARMS IN THE South. The