Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-05-08
CnurfRSY and Kindness.

How strange the difference between the North
eyn people and the Southern leaders Ill the single
matter OF courtesy and kindness to the men who
fought on different sides during the var! Let
Confederate officer, high or low, visit the old
free States, aud be ia treated like gentleman,
and invited freely and welcomed warmly to the
best circles but, from all I can hear, tho ostrs-
clam Of Union officers and soldiers in this city ia
as severely maintained it WAS directly after
the fell Of Richmond As l heard Governor
Ward say last evening to a company of Copserva-
tive gentlemen at LYnchburg, after he had
frankly assured them that we claimed tho same
equal right TO visit the S0nth and speak our SEN
timents that We generously accorded 10 them,
he did not know a Republican of his acquaintance,
man or woman. IN New jersey or elsewhere, who
did not entertain the utmost kludGess to those
who had supported the Confederate cause.
Until this state of things is altered in the South
genuine or lasting prosperity ia Impossible.
We take tho above extract from letter
of Colonel Eorney to the Washington
time the lalsehood it contains The South
ern people are not outdone in courtesy and
kindness by the people of any part Of the
globe. But Of whatever nationality visi-
tor may be, whether native or foreign, we
demand, before admitting him into the
inequalities of our homes or into the con-
fdence of friendly intercourse, that he
shall present credentials of character; q let
ter of introduction, an honorable record,
genteel bearing, a gentlemanly deport-
ment, a respectable association, or some
thing to recommend him to the considera-
ton of strangers.
Too frequently men who have no social
status at home, as is the case with Forney,
expect when they visit the conquered
South that our best people will hob-nob
around them to win their political favors
or to pay court to the money they repre-
sent. Finding such not to be the case, and
thrown for the most part in association
with the adventures who have squatted
throughout the South, they bear willing
testimony to the exclusiveness of the South
ern people and the prescriptions of North
ern settlers. Northern men who have come
South for the purpose of becoming citi-
zens, and adding to its wealth. do not and
never will experience any social ostracism.
But our people will resolutely ignore the
adventurer who stands out in the clear
light of tool of the tyranny that Cypress
0S bucLQ, GudU udS 1OOOCA UACk4 O4 VIC 4ASul
OF self-government, thrusts aliens into all
of their public offices. and that use their
ill-gotten power to inf1ict unmerciful taxa
ton upon them. So, too, will the social
lll-wlll OF our citizens follow and cling to
those native here" who have made COM
mon cause with the plunderers.
In Wilmington, as there is in every town
and county in the South, there are North.
ern men who, without regard to their DO.
litical creed, are held in high business and
social estimation, and are respected upon all
hands. They have demonstrated their
claim to the proud title of gentleman, and
our people have not been backward in
acknowledging it. .-- - ..-.
Men who come among us strangers, and