The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-05-19

RESPONDENT of the New York Commercial Ad-
vertisr, writes to that journal as follows on the
subject of the feeling North and South:
In your paper of Friday last there appears
certain remarks called forth by the late horri-
BILE loss of life in Richmond, to the chief sentl-
ment of which every pure heart in the nation
must say 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 Whlcn
many good men cannot respond IN IKE manner:
I 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 a 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 opln-
ions of the Northern people as exceedingly de-
praved generally, and especially bestlalized 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 the North
about feeling in the South.
Your assumption 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 Ill feeling-such Tor
instance, as dishonest or oppressive action by
some agent of the Freedmen's Bureau, which
did so much wrong in those directions, or op-
pressive military action where the civil author
ity was entirely competent aud willing to pun
ish crime, I express the fullest conviction that
Northerners travelling through or migrating In
good faith to the South, have been not only
treated with uniform Kindness but for the last
three or four years Northern emigration has
been sincerely desired by the South. In the
Southern mind the Northern immigrant IS re-
garded as one who comes to be fellow-cftlzen,
to help develop their PROSTATE country, and
whose interestwill be their interest. Thatother
class opprobriously designated as carpet-bag-
gers: are universally regarded by real Southern
ers as dishonest selfish, and misunderstanding
adventures, dangerous to the peace OF the
whites, and as serpents to the blacks. This lat
ter class does much, as newspaper correspon-
dents to the Northern press, to foster and mis-
lead public opinion North. The South, natu-
rally, has its corresponding element OF dlscord,
in fiery, ll-tempered zealots among the press,
and it's quota of really bad men left unemploy-
ed and poor after the war, and who, Like many
we read of in your police reports, commit occa-
sional deeds of blood but oftener among them
selves than upon. either the negroes or immi-
grants from any other quarter. Their number
and evil course are steadily decreasing, as So
ciety resumes control of its affairs. 1t is plain
that these elements, North and South, react up
on each other, and thus prolong the day OF heart
felt reconciliation, greatly to the regret OF the
general community.
To what you say of the kind treatment of
Southerners coming North, speaking in our own
experience during three months last year 1.-THE
first time was ever on Northern soil, y and sew
eral weeks now, I endorse it in the most un-
qualified manner. Without one exception,
among a very large number Of communl9ns s IN,
received the treatment due to a gentleman,
friend, and in numerous cases relative.
The inhuman remarks quoted by you as COM
ing from the Lexington Mo- Caucasian, in re-
gard to the ill-fated Oneida, are simply the ex-
pressions of fiend-such wicked nature as
occasionally brings shame and disgrace upon
all communities will be reprobated by the
Southern people as much az by yourself.