Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-04-14
From the Hnrsl Kew YorkeTl
SHALL WE GO SOUTH
A Reply by Young Georgian TO the
Articles on this Subject, which have
Appealed in the Rural.

Articles on this Subject, which hnv
Appealed in the Rural.
! am constrained by a desire t
have justice done the South, T.
offer this, a reply to articles bead
ed as above, that have appeared il
your paper. Being personally an,
well acquainted with you, ] am no
disposed TO believe that you woulC
do an injustice to the South. Thil
being true, you will willingly allow
her to refute, in your columns, that
which has appeared therein to hel
disparagement
You were frank to admit that
your knowledge of the South was
superficial. What you wrote was
the impressions formed partly by
hurried observation, partly from
hear.say, perhaps. But by this in
formation Judging, You counsel the
people of the North against going
South, ,-intimating that life and
personal property are insecure, and
that those who go will enjoy no So
cial immunities or pleasures. The
latter needs to be qualified, the
former to be refuted in full.
I Ipresume You do not look for a
paradise any more on earth, and |
am free to say that we have not
one even in the South; for men
quarrel and fight there as men do
everywhere. You have much
more of these performances North
than we have, for your population
is more numerous. Our quarrels
and hghtings, however, are more
than mere misdemeanors or crimes,
before the news of them reaches
you. They are political outrages.
That there have been instances Of
violence at the hands of rash men,
/ do not deny; but do affirm that
for the larger number of so called
"outrages" reported, are exagger,
ated in extent, and distorted as to
cause, for political effect l call
in strong proof of this affirmation,
the fact that whenever Congress
has been on the eve of action on
some state-Georgia, for example
the news disbursers of "Ku Klux
outrages, are just then most vigi-
liant.
Since 1865, political parties and
partisans in the South have wrang-
led. as political parties and parti-
sans do in all countries. And vet
history does not furnish a parallel
for the order and observance of
law in any overpowered country of
the same extent.
Personal property is as safe, the
rights of citizenship as fully res
pected, and the man who conducts
himselfin an orderly manner, and
attends to his own business, is as
sure to die Of old age in Georgia,
as in New York State.
No man will be mistreated by
the Southern people simply on ac-
count Of his having been born
North, and those who have stated
the contrary to you, mistake them
selves. There are Northern fami-
lies from vorious sections in Geor-
gia who are received cordially as
citizens, neighbors and friends of
the people whom others of the
North attempt to traduce with re-
ports of inhospitality and NAL
treatment. If we had a dislike to
.you simply on account of birth,
would not one fare just as another
at our hands? If unsafe for one
Yankee to come South, would it
not be unsafe for all
There is a great "hue and cry"
on the part of some of the North.
ern papers, because we of the
South do not receive every new
conner to our midst, into our conf
dence and association.
Are you surprised at this ? Does
any sane man expect to go into a
community to which he is an en-
tire stranger, and be welcomed into
society? Do you do this at the
North? What would be the state
of society in any community if the
gates were thrown open to every
adventurer passing2
With 1865-the year terminating
the hostility at arms between the
sections-there began sliding into
the Southern States a class Of ad-
venturers from the North. In &
great measure they were a class
whom you do not respect at home,
and whose presence you were no
doubt much better to be relieved
of. On the supposed ruin and hu-
initiation of the Southern people.
they anticipated a feast and fortune
for themselves. They came with
tauntin gs Of defeat, which only a
coward would offer, WHICH a brave
man will not bear unresented. ]
affirm what I here write to be facts,
and l will give instances. There
was loud mouthed NJ, D., from
New York State, who presented
his card in a pompous manner to
the writer. He was kindly greet
ed. A brief time after thus intro
ducing himselfto me, he was in
conversation in my Office with a
to whom l had introduced
him. The gentleman made Incl
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