Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-05-12
NEW YOR
Ths Mind Of the North -. .%usd Against
the South by the amnablo
lteratloa" Of ~ sho0d.
A Sample Of How It Is ne In the lil'Famed
New York Tribune.
NEWYoR
NEW YORK, May 6, 1871.

Wv AaaH
NEW York, Nay g, 1871.
Editors ADDsal-Whether we are to
E have another deluge for this island 1
E ana uncertain, but the windows Of
+ heaven have certainly been opened
+ lust over this locality, and the waters
+ of the food still come pouring down.
+ 1t viii take a pretty thorough wash
( ing to cleanse out the city Of Its abom-
( nations, and I suppose it is all right.
As it is all water overhead, so far up
/ as I know, it strikes me as an excel
lent time ior a flying experiment,
and sailing through the upper regions,
/ commonly known as the air. It is re-
markable that a people who can see
so many notes in other eyes should
4 be so unable to see the beams in their /
own. The best friends ofthe Southern
1 people hereabouts wholly miscOnceive /
/. the situation and facts as they exist, |
and so they Join in an eXhOrtatiOn to /
the white people Of the South TO be- /
have themselves, and take great pains !
10 support the laws, and give no eX-
cuse to General Grant for pouring in
upon them a food Of troops. Tex
cuse me for sticking to the food sub |
ject, though it may be slightly sppa- |
rent that by the time Uncle Sam has |
his troops equally distributed over
" certain localities, lately the theatre |
of insurrectiOn and military con-
fict," the residents of any particu
lar county viii say, as the
chap did about Noah's food, "they
don't think it will be much Of q storm
no how" Think Of an army Of
thirty thousand men CARR isOning
a thousand counties, and exc
cutting the laws for the courts and
sherifis, and constsbles and posses
But it is this food of troops our |
friends deprecate in our behalf. And
so they pray Us to be very circum-
sDeCt. and stand on our good behavior. |
il does not occur 70 them that the |
facts can be otherwise than as so per
sistently asserted by the Republican |
Journals. They do not see that Ku- /
KluEism on the part Of the whites, 1
and a. distinguished from ordinary /
cases of crime, is a myth in the South. /
They have no notion that the whole 1
BODY Of ex-COnfeder8tes and white 4
citizens Of the South, exclusive Of the i
caTpet-bagger5, are as anxious for
good order, snd as determined to en-
force it, as they Of the North are to
arrest and punish their Nathan and
Putnam murderers. So the best
friends the South has here, presume
20 counsel and instruct, and remOn-
strste and eXhOrt SOUtherners as if
they were so many heather on a par
with the new citizens Grant desires
to bring in, the deniZens Of Saint Do
mingO. The Herald is particularly in
this sort Of friendly advice. Now the
APPEAL may with the same pr0priety
urge the GOth8mites to suppress their
murders and burglaries and rObberies,
and shut up their gambling and drink
ing hells and brOthels, and prOfane
and disappearing churches. The good
people 4 both sections are willing and /
right-minded enough, and the bad
VIII take no advice. 1t would be just
as sensible, and is just as much called
for, that honest men should be eX-
hgrted not to steal, and honest women
TO remain chaste. But just az in for
mar DAYS the AbOlItiOuists, by lies
well stuck to, succeeded in leavening
the public mind with the belief that
the slaves were cruelty used, so now |
the Radicals gather up cases OF out
rage. false and true, as they can get
oran hnNfNTH1rr n ]
an aggregate of five years collections
throughout the South, they charge all /
To the credit Of a State or even q /
county, and deceive the most candid,
well meaning and friendly of men.
This sort Of rapscalliOnism is wholly 1
misleading the puDlic mind, which is
easily Influenced to believe anything
evil Of the late " rebels" And it is
certainly a matter of no little diff
Guilty TO meet the necessities Of such
situation, so that truth may presently
prevail The lies travel their thou
sand miles, while truth is almost too
desuairiug Of fairness to think OF
" putting on its boots" This criminal
partyism is the greatest bane and
curse Of this land. 1t is creating a
sense Of wrong and he2rtbUrnings
which may never be forgotten even If
fl IS possible they should ever be
ouelled. AS q specimen Of unfair de-
sign and purpose, take the Tribune of
this morning. It contains a letter
from North Carolina, denying utterly
the KU-kIuE reports for the portion
OF the State west Of the Blue Ridge.
The writer chose to vOuch only for his
own portion Of the State, leaving
Others to do the same for their own
portions. The Tribune heads his COM
muuicatiOn. 4" Sections of North Gar
olina free from KU-KluX," with the
evident design Of making it only the
more strongly appear that other sec
tiOns are Overrun by them. such
practices are not without their parti-
san purpose, and there is generalship
and force in il for the service Of par /
fv. But the true interests Of the
country can only be served by truth
and fair dealing. II it IS desirable
in q republic to harmonic the
people, and produce mutual good
will, and TO some extent union Of
heart, without which ''the Union" is
weakened, then 1 submit it is time to
stop lying about them. deny that
any enc can justify the means. The
assassin Of the good name Of whole
people, upon whose honor not their
ssrebeliOn" has placed a stain, is an
assassin Of public liberty.
Imprudences OF utterance are as
signed by some as a chief reason Of
miscouception Of the Southern situa-
fi0n. ] am convinced, so far IS the
press is concerned. that twenty times
the mischief has been done by the 4
accomplished fsct' papers, in charg-
inc intentions on their neighbOrs
which they know to be false. Thus
Northern men judge the South out OF /
Its own mouth, and are confirmed IN
their many false conceptions Of the
situation by what they take for our /
own confessions. Adieu. Il.