Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1871-06-02
Southern sen.imeat-Norsns Testimony


| Northern r4ucor has been arouset
against the South by maligneIs of th'
| Southern people, who have had u dir c
personal interest in strife and commotio1
in this section. Not one disinteres el
| witness, without reg ard to his Ii caiily. pol
itics or color, has ever testified If South
I arm laulesaness and ourages. The pro
motors OF s!rlfo and III VIII, Who have Ot-p,
| such swift and convenient Witnesses aeaius
the Southern people, have been b ,se anG
unworthy natives, or eql4lIy bas, and u1-
| worthy Northern men, who have drifted
Southward-and plhnder. cffice, or prof
| of some sort have been the direct aud pal
pable moving causes. Those Northern PEI .
| pie who have visited the South 10 search
OF health, recreation or investment, and
those who have, bona tide, become in.ius.
| trious citizens. and not meud:cant poll
ticians, have Invariably given willing test:
mony OF the good faith, the patriotism
the peacefulness AMI Industry Of our reo
PIE
A member OF the Bes1her family has
just returned from visit to thu South,
and she frankly gives to the Church Union
an account of what she has seen aud
heard. She declares, she says, IL all tru, b
fulness, that frcra tho time she left home
until her return to it, she, aud tue female
friend who was With her, though travelling
by themselves, "met everywhere, and
" from all classes, only kindness IN 4 ut-
" tention. Everything that courtesy
could do to make their journesing PIE as
ant and com Portable was done Two
women-one an iuvaiid-were regarded as
having SIP sciaI caim upon peoples
aud poilteness, Warmed by thu Sc pers nal
experiences, she p1rtluentl9 asks uh4th
"it is W, II to talk Of the Continuance Of
" Southern bitterness, and animosity. and
I" secret enmity. when two Lnproteetei
Northern women Can pass through the
estates just emerging from years of war,
" and through those PLACES where the
&c deadly strife was fercest, not only with
'' out mole station, but with sympathy and
assistance at every step?"
An intelligent Southern gentleman"
in abiding to these shameless fabrications,
and the base uses to which they were pat,
earnestly protested against the course of
the Northern papers, as tending to stir up
strife by publishing "fearfol stories of the
" Ku-Klux, and of Southern violence and
Ct inhumanity." Why. be said. should
those crimes and outrages which occur at
the South, even when Lot exaggerated, be |
taken as fair Interpretation of the real |
character of the Southern people 2 An
other spoke of the fearful record of crimes |
p erpetrated in Northern communities ard |
,hronicled in the Northern papers, and
'sked whether it were not quite as unjust
20 judge the people of the South by the
lots of iawlessness that confessedIy do oc-
'ur in their midst, "as it would be to
prepare list of all the murders. ell the
drunken fights. sd the aulacions aud
startling robberies and murders among Il
the Northern people. aud cry, Look at
the North! Here you muy see her in
her true colors /! Take he said, the
VIII ole South through. Will you find a
larger proportion of bloodshed, violence,
and bigh-handed dishonesty, than ia j
constantly recorded in your two great
Nor them cities 2, Is murder any less a
crime at the North than at the South