The native Virginian. [volume] (Orange Court House, Va.) 1867-187?, 1869-04-09

oInce, or removing anu leaving them uncall-
ed for, is PTfpld facte evidence of Intentional
fraud.
People who live in the country and
who read only Southern newspapers.
have no earthly conception of the hatred
of the Northern people towards u.s.
Newspaper men alone, who see and
read numbers of Northern periodicals
and books, can form a correct idea of
this hatred. Language can but feebly
describe it. 1t is as bitter as death, and
deep as the grave. 1t knows no abate-
ment. 1t is, we are sadly forced to be-
lieve, on the increase. How could it be
otherwise? Thirty or more years ago
1t began to poison Northern literature
with lies, and the active men and wo-
men of to-day, reared under the intlu-
ences OF the Northern press and pulpit,
have never for one moment doubted that
the people of the South were demons OF
cruelty, ignorance and depravity. Be-
tore the war, they hated us; now they
despise us. The beliefi s fast gaining
ground in the North that Southerners
are not only brutes but towards. The
literature of to-day encourages the i'm
preston in tine young Northern mind
that the Yankee is the best and bravest
of human beings. And SO long as
Northern youth are educated in this
literature OF hatred, each succeeding
generation must of necessity becomes
more and more bitter against the South.
No marvel then if We discover, as in the
article in Putnam entitled "a Political
Romance" settled, well-defined and
mstured purpose to obIiterate from the
face of the earth the last vestige of
Southern manners, customs and modes
of thought, as displayed in the better
class of Southern society. This is no
dream, To place the Southern States
under the absolute control of the me-
groes and poor whites is decision as
fixed in the Northern mind, as unfeel-
ing and unrelenting, as the law of grav-
ity in nature.
We have been led to make these re-
marks by reading of Putnam aud the
Atlantic for April. Haired and con-
tempt Of the Southern people crop out
in nearly every article. Here sneer,
there an inuendo, everywhere contume-
ly. False accusations, and base insin-
uations against the South are lugged in
unexpectedly, inopportunsly, unneces-
sariy. Is any one Southern man,
-sdamn him !" Is any book of Southern
origin, "damn it !" This is the tone.
Now when we see the whole litera-
tTe of this Northern people saturated
with hate, which time does not dimin-
ish and which revenge the most fright
1ul does not soften; and when we know
that this people have the ear of the en-
lightened world and that their histories
will in ali coming time have weight
and authority which our histories have
not and cannot have: when we see and
know these things, series OF strange
questions thrust themselves upon u.s.
What if all this be true? The odds are
wofully against US. Nine-tenths of edu-
Gated mankind believe and say that we
were wrong in our quarrel, They APP
prove our defeat. They hold that we,
In common with all conquered peoples,
are inferior to our foes. Are all man
Kind deluded, and we alone sand p
What If, like the devils in Swedenborg's
hells, we are devils without knowing it,
and in hell without knowing it? May
1t not lie that we are so blinded and be-
sotted by long years of residence in this
southern social and political Hades that
we cannot perceive the truth? If once
our vile eyes were opened fairly, would
we not discover that the Yankees are
truly wise, and brave, and good, and
pure, and holy; and that, in q word,
tth0y are angels Of light compared to
ourselves? What we call their oppres-
sion, may it not really be infinite ten
derness and lovingness! May not their
laws, of which we complain. SO mach, be
in essence so sublimely just and merci-
fui that our dsrkened intellects cannot
attain unto the comprehension of them?
These are the questions that sicken
Jus as we read the Northern magazines.
We are not gifted with the faculty OF
"discerning spirits" but this much we
do know and none dare dispute-if the
Northern people are angels of heaven,
we OF the South are not. What, then,