The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-10
OH ARL E S TON
MONDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1860.
Northern Mon in the south.


Mr.. John w. Forney oame, saw, and wrote
letter to his two papers-the Washington
Chronicle and Philadelphia Press which |
he related his experience of Charleston and
South Carolina. With his face glued to @
window, he passed through IS much of the
State as is traversed by the Wilmington and
Manchester and Northeastern Railroads,
and was able, Of course, to familiarize him
self with the composition of the soil, the |
peculiarities Of the climate, and the inside |
and outside nature of the people. Twenty
four hours enabled him to do what his com
patriots failed to accomplish in thrice
twenty four years, and, in his own opinion,
Forney is now marvellous proper person
to applaud or abuse the South. With
one hand he pats approval of the fer
tility Of the land and the quiet which every
where prevails. With the other he waves ap-
proval Of political piokpockets and oondem-
nation Of the old slaveholding aristocracy.
Bitter and sweet, truth and falsehood, are
curiously combined in his Charleston letter,
But throughout the whole there is one
strain Of which he never tires-a lugubri-
GUS lament that s'the old residents have no
ssocial intercourse with the Yankees"
1t would be easy enough to give reasons
why there might be an invincible prejudice
etrans .s ~. e zaso asaiRat
be no difficulty in showing that foni-
mouthed Radical, who curHes and ragiles
the South until the hope of eftable Hand
speculation bids him cease Il can never,
enter within the portals oil, an honest South
ern home. But this docs not touok the,
root Of the question, which is that the whole
| subject Of social and personal irtercourse
must be regulated by each man for himself,
and not by his neighbors or the epistolary
Forney. Mr.. A, B or G has NO right to be
the personal friend Of any man or set of
men merely because he was born id this
place, or was not born in that. The new
conner may be active and enterprising, up
right In all his dealings, an excellent per
son to know on the wharf or in the count
ing-room, and yet not one with whom his
business acquaintanoes would desire to have
their wives and children familiar. tits Of
little consequence whether his birth place
'is in Louisiana or Massachusetts,. The
man must prove himself or be proved by
others, and even then it will depend upon
individual tastes whether he will be admit
ted to that social Intercourse which Mr.
Forney Graves. There are very few North
erners, it is true, who become our familiar
friends. This is because of the general
worthlessness Of the Bohemians who seek
to overrun the State. The New ork Times
speaks OF 'the adoentnrers who have gone
'into the South" and Harper's Weekly
says: "One wonders that the South does
''not rebel anew whsn he considers the
miserable vessnin who have been sent down
"there as government offioia.a;" and the
Chicago Tribune, another Radical sheet.
denounces 1the carpet 6qggers-the stroll
"ing, pilfering political 6lacklegs OF the
"North," by whom the South is ssridden
ssand robbed" And it is these ssadyentu-
'rers," these "vermin," and these .black
"legs," whom Mr.. Forney would have us
clasp to our breasts as fit companions for
sister, wife and children. No thank you
Mr.. Forney. f. tsa . Il
AS we said, this is matter which every
man must regulate for himself. Each ono
should and will choose his own companions
and select his own friends There il
free trade in friendship, at least, and, the
principle here shall be to think Of o man as
we find him. ho
And we have no fear that the bugbear Of
''social exclusiveness'' will have any effect
in preventing the influx Of Northern oapi.
tal. If Northern man, or any other man.
comes to South Carolina, IL is because ha
secs chance Of making money. Not one
viii come for the sake Of going into $780,
"ciety." 1t is plain calculation. q simple
question of dollars;and censs--as it ought
to be- The sweetness OF the Southern IRE.
side will not console the stranger for fail
ing trade and consequent loss Of capital
Nor will the absence Of this private inti-
macy rob fortune Of its charms. The
merchant, or the broker or the professional
man who immigrates to this State. does
so because he believes that he will make
more progress hore than ne could do ]
at home; and he will mot, IL ho has any
sense, bs deferred from coming by any |
dread OF being barred Ont from some par |
ticular class Of "sooiety.". AS time rolls on |
the new arrival IL understood and appreci-
ated according to his worth, and, il he is
mot, the loss will be to others rather than
70 himself When he has become, In fast
% well 90 In name, part Of the State, in
terested In Its progress and concerned in
Ito good govsrnnont,, no will have friends
and aoqaaintanees enough, and win have
made for himself ''society" which win bs