The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1870-06-01
The Feeling North and South.


A correspondent who discourses
mainly of the necessity of a general
amnesty for the South-a measure Of
ten advocated in these columns
treats also of a point of more practic-
al and immediate Importance, and we
quote portion of his letter. He
says:
"In your paper of Friday last ap<i
pear 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 say amen, viz. That the great
calamity may serve to soften the as
perities of the last nine years between
the sections. But you say other
things, by way of rebuttal to the re-
mark of the World, On the same sub
ject, to which many good men cannot
respond in like manner. I refer to-
the analysis 1of feeling North and
South. The impression in the North
in RECORD to feeling and to crime in
the South, is very largely like it
would be ifa foreigner should read your
police and criminal reports as daily
appearing in New York and other
public journals, and by them make up
and enunciate his opinions of the.
Northern people as exceedingly de-
praved generally, and especially bes-.'
tailized by that moral pollution called
free love. How very unjust would
be suoh an opinion need not be stated;
but it illustrated most aptly, much of
the oponion still prevailing in ths'
North about feeling in the South.
"Your assumption about the re-
ception 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 soar, to create OF fos--
ter ill feeling-such, for instance, as
dishonest or oppressive action by
some agent of the Freedman's Bureau
which did so much wrong in those
directions, or oppressive military
action, where the civil au-
thority was entirely competent and
willing to punish crime, express the
fullest conviction that Northerners'
travelling through or migrating in
good faith to the South, have not
only treated with uniform kindness,
but for the last three or four years.
Northern immigration has been sfat-
cerely desired by the South. In the
Southern mind the Northern inanai-
grant is regarded as one who comes to-
be fellow-citizen, to help develop
their PROSTATE country, and whose in
forest will be their interest. That
other class, opprobriously designated
as carpet-baggers, are universally re-
garded by real Southerners, as dis
honest, selfish and misunderstanding
adventures, dangerous to the peace
of the whites, and as serpent to the
black. This latter class does much,'
as newspaper correspondents to the
Northern press. to foster and mislead
public opinion North. The South.
naturally, has its corresponding ele-.
ment of discord in fiery, i'll tempered
zealots among the press, and its quo
to of really bad men, left unemployed
and poor after the war, and who
like many we read of in your poliee-
reports, commit occasional deeds of
blood; but oftener among themselves
than upon either the negroes or lm-r
migrants from any other quarrer.-
Their number and evil course are
steadily decreasing as society resumes
control of its affairs. It is plain that,
these evil elements, North and South,
react upon each other, and thus pro-
long the day of heartfelt reconcilia-
ton, greatly to the regret of the gen
eral community.
''To what you say of the kind
treatment of Southerners coming
North, speaking in our own exerience
during three months last year, (the
first time l was ever on Northern
soil, and several weeks now, l en-
dorse it in the most unqualified man.
ner. Without one exception, among
very large number of communions
individually, in social families, 1 have
received the treatment due to a gem
tleman, friend, and in numerous
cases relative.
s'The inhuman remarks quoted by
you as coming from the Lexington
(Mo) Caucasian, in regard TO this i'll
fated Oneida, are simply the express
ions of fiend-such a wicked nature
as occasionally brings shame and dis
grace upon all communities-and will
be reprobated by the Southern people
as much as by yourself. Y. Com
me. .ciaI AdUertiser, and reply Of the Mo-
bale Register.
Out west burglars are called ''moon