The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-05-20


as follows on the subject of the feeling
North and South: ,ss 5::;t s., l n =
In your paper of Friday last there
appears certain remarks called forth by
the late horrible loss Of life in Rich.
mond. to the chief sentiment of which
every pure heart in the nation must sa1
amen, viz: That the great calamity may
serve to soften the asperities of the last
nine years between the sections. But
you say other things. by way of rebuttal
to the remarks of the World, on the
same subject, to which many good men
cannot respond in like manner. refer
to the analysis of feeling, North and
South. The impression in the North. in
regard to feeling and to crime in the
South, is very largely like it would be if
o foreigner would take your police and
criminal reports as daily appearing in
New York and other city journals, and
by them make up and enunciate his
opinions of the Northern people as ex-
ceedingly depraved generally, aud espe-
olelly bestialized by that moral pollution
called free love. How very unjust would
be such an opinion, need not be stated;
but it illustrates, most aptly, much of the
opinions still prevailing in tho North
about feeling in the South.
Your sumption about the reception
of Northern gentlemen and ladies in the
South, as fair test of just opinion, is
far from correct. Wherever there has
arisen no local cause, since the war, to
create or foster i'll feeling-such, for in
stance, as dishonest or oppressive action
by come agent of the Freedmen's Bureau,
which did 30 much wrong in those di-
rections. or oppressive military action
where the civil authority was entirely
competent and willing to punish crime,
L express the fullest conviction that
Northerners travelling through or migrat-
ing In good faith to the South, have
been not only treated with uniform kind
ness, but for the last three or four wears
Northern emigration has been sincerely
desired by the South. In the Southern
mind the Northern immigrant is regard
ed as one who comes to be felow-citi-
zen, to help develop their PROSTATE coun-
try, and whose interest will be their in
terest. ThAt other class, opprobiously
designated as carpet -baggers, are univer-
sally regarded by real Southerners as
dishonest, selfish, and mischief making
adventurers, dangerous to the pence OF
the whites, and as serpents to tho blacks.
This latter class does much, rs newspa-
per correspondents to the Northern press.
to foster and mislead public opinion
North.
The South. naturally, has its cores
pondlng element of discord, in fiery.
!ii-tempered zealots among the press, and
It's quota of really bad men left unem-
ployed and poor after the war, and who.
like many We read of in your police re-
ports, commit occasional deeds of blood:
but oftener among themselves than upon
either the negroes or immigrants from
any other quarter. Their number and
evil course are steadily decreasing, as
society resumes control of it's affairs. 1t
IS plain that these elements, North and
South, react upon each other, and thus
prolong the day of heartfelt reconcilia-
tion, greatly to the regret of the general
community.
10 what you say Of the kind treatment
OF Southerners coming North, speaking
In our own experience during three
months last year (the first time ever
was on Northern soiD and several weeks
now, endorse it in the most UNQUALIFIED
manner. Without one exception, among
very large number of communions in
dividually. in social circles and families,
have received the treatment due to n
gentleman, friend and, in Numerous
cases, q relative.
The inhuman remarks quoted by you
as coming from the Lexington Mo }
Caucasian, in regard to the ill-fated
Oneida, are simply the expressions of a
hend-such wicked nature as OCCASION
ally brings shame and disgrace upon sll
communlties-and will be reprobated by
the Southern people as much as by your
self.
THE ARCADE RAILROAD BILL VETOED.