, 1869-06-29
sou THERN IBToLERABcE.

Tee Mobile Register, though claiming ths,
the Southern people have NO stronger de-
SIRE than the restoration OF {.aterna]
relations with the North, &nd, as q means
os attaining that end, urges tho migration
to the South Of Rorthan peoduous and
Northern capital, cannot rise nboye the
contemplate slang of the past whenever
it has occasion to speak Of politics. This
and other Northern cities have been visited
by gentlemen from Mobile aud other South
ern towns, who have urged the establish
mont Of close commercial intercourse and
haze pointed ont to US the mutual I'D.
vahsa8es to follow the migration there Of
Northern men with money, whether they
60 as manufacturers, agriculturists or n,er-
chants- The Southern papers, and especially
the Mobile Register, have repeated articles
upon this subject But Northern men ore
reading men. They aro very apt to form
m opinion as to the temper, tastes and
feelings Of the people Of city OF State by
the general tone Of the newspaper press.
II they find the leading press devoted to
slang, to lndlscriminate abuse, to The en-
courngement of vulgar projudices, and
otherwise Of very low tone, they are aot
fasorably impressed with the locality.
When they arc invited To settle IN
city or State, and to invest
their money. and generally to aid the local
inhabitants to rebuild prostrated and help
leas industry, they have right to expect
that they shall be treated with ordinary de-
cency. They, as matter Of business aud
as natte1 OF education, consult the local
press, and what do such persons find in tho
Mobile Rcgtsstrs Every Republican,
whether he be native Alaba1nian or mau
OF Northern birth, il denounced Oh q "blnc1
and tan," with whom association on The
part Of the poverty-stticken and Ignorant
white trash Of tho Bouth is impossible.
Al white Republicans are rated by the lead
ing paper Of Mobile as lower in tho scale Of
morality than the negroes, and, therefore, fit
persons to be denied all respectable treat
ment. Il merchants, such persons should
find no customers among Alabamians; if
manufacturers, they should be compelled to
an exclusive association with their negro
wormen; il farmers, they should know
TINT the soil OF Alabama is not adapted to
their support. Apart from the extreme sil-
liness Of TINT style Of writing, and the very
poor taste exhibited in publishing it in
what processes to bo leading paper, it
no desirable end. I: con-
vinces no one that the Republican party is
wrong. It is too tame to suit tho old
negro-driving and negrolilling fraternity,
end it repels and disgusts the very class Of
population who nre the most essential to
The reconstruction of Southern prosperity.
1t is putting very low estiuate upon the
intelligence of the Democratic party Of
Mobile to assume that they expect by Tint
kind Of rulgarity to crush out al differ
ence of opinion upon political questiona
serving, therefore, no good end, either to
Thites, blacks: Democrats, Republicans,
North or South, bnt tending to keep alive
whatever i'll feeling and prejudice may have
existed, the omission Of that
sind Of low abuse would probably in tine
convince these Southern journalists that
heir papers can be just as Interesting and
lar mora potential when conducted with a
proper respect toward pohtical opponents.