The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-05-10
CHI A r l. E S T ON.
MONDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1860.


Northern Mem I'm tho South.
Mr.. John w. Forney came, saw, and wrote
letter to his two papers-the Washington
Chronicle and Philadelphia Press in which
he related HE experience of Charleston and
South Carolina. With his face glued to
window, he passed through as much of the
State as is traversed by the Wilmington and
Manchester and Northeastern Railroads,
and was able, of course, to familiarze 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 pickpockets and condem-
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 sthe old residents have no
''social intercourse with the Yankees"
1t would be easy enough to give reasons
why there might be an invincible prejudice
against s'1ans~.s . NJ 2&sg5a"f6}Ga Gfsa agHaRat
be no difficulty in showing that's xsa foul
mouthed Radical, who curses and reyiies
the South until the hope Of profitable land
speculation bids him cease, can never.
enter within the portals Of an honest South
ern home. But this does not touch the
root Of the question, which is that the whole
subject Of social and personal intercourse
must be regulated by each man for himself,
and not by his neighbors or the epistolary
Forney. Mr.. A, or G has no right to be
the personal friend Of any man or set of
men merely because he was born in this
place, or was not born in that. The new
conner may be active and enterprisinp, up
right in all bis dealings, an excellent per-
son to know on the wharf or in the count
lng-room, and yet not one with whom his
business acquaintance would desire to have
their wives and children familiar. It is of
little consequence whether his birth place
Is In Louisiana or Massachusetts. The
man must prove himself or be proved bv
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.
ernere, 1t 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 York Times
speaks OF "the adventurers who have pone
INTO the South" and Harper's Weekly
says: zone wonders that the South does
"not rebel anew when he considers the
miserable Uermin who have been sent down
"there as government oficials;" and the
Chlcago Tribune, another Radical sheet.
oenounces "the carpet-6aggers-the stroll
"ing, pilfering political 6lacklegs of the
"North," by whom the South is "ridden
"and robbed" And it is these "adventu-
"rers," these "vermin," and these .black-
"egs," whom Mr. Forney would have us
clasp to our breasts as fit companions for
sister, wife and children. No thank Won /
Mr.. Forney.
AS we said, this is o matter which every
man must regulate for himself. Each ono
should and will choose his own companions
and select his own friends. There ia
free trade in friendship, at least, and. the
principle hero shall be to think Of O man as
we find him.
And we have no fear that the bugbear of
"social exclusiveness' will have any effect
III preventing the Influx Of Northern oapi.
tai. If Northern man, or any other man.
comes to South Carolina, it is because ba
sees chance Of making money Not one
will come for the sake Of going into $50
"ciety." 1t is plain calculation, simple |
question of dollars and cents-as II ouobt |
to be. The sweetness Of the Southern ara.
side will not console the stranger for fail
ing trade and consequent loss of capital.
Nor will the absence Of this private init
macy rob fortune Of its charms. Tho
merchant, or the broker or the professional
man who immigrates to this State. does
so because he believes that he will make
more progress here than he could do
ct home; and he will mot, il he has any
sense, be deferred from coming by anv
dread Of being barred out from some par
ticular class Of "society.". AS time rolls on
the new arrival is understood and appreoi-
ated according to his worth, and, il he 10
not, the loss will be to others rather than
TO himself. When he has become. in .gso.
Do well 90 in name, q part OF the State. in
terested in its progress and concerned in
ts good government, he will have friends
Ind aoquaintanoes enough, and win have
made for himself o ''society" which win ba