Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-14
BOSTON AND NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
or THE TWO CITIES TO ONE AN

II or THE TWO CITIES TO ONE AN
OTHER.
BOston's calamity appeals to sympa-
thies having no relation to sectional o.
partisan passions of the hour. The suf.
ferers are our countrymen, and the most
intelligent, philanthropic and generous
of our countrymen. Not elsewhere in
the Union, among the educated classes,
is there such hberality Of opinion in all
matters affecting Church and State as in
Boston, and not elsewhere is the mum
Der Of thoroughly educated people rela-
lively greater. Among these in Boston
no one is offended because Of any politi-
cal opinion entertained, and it never Oc-
eurs TO a BostOnian gentleman to ques-
ton ones patriotism or personal integri-
ty or worth for any conviction touching
matters Of Church or State. 1t is only
to be regretted that Boston has been ed
ueated through a half century to differ
wholly from US, and we from Boston, in
reference to many questions which,
whatever ones opinions, make men
neither better o worse, nor more nor
less capable Of moral and intellectual
excellence. Sectional passion and local
prejudices, among educated men Of tru-
ly civilized countries, are never suffered
TO affect personal relations or the esti-
mate in which individuals are held in
social or business life. Whenever one
pronounces the name Of another with a
sheer, because of his faith, political or
religious, or because of the locality of
his birth, an educated listener, who has
seen or read Of the world, at one pro-
nOunces the critic an unlettered or IN
travelled fool. In proportion to the
whole number Of people there are as
many knaves political and social
born in one as in another coun
try, and that country achieves
the highest standard Of morals
and intelligence, and its people become
more liberal in opinions that adopt and
enforce more perfect systems of intellec-
tual and moral training. If too much
learning have made Boston, on some
questions, mad, it is not to be denied
too little supplies other lands
abundantly with worse than idiocy. 1t
stated by Boston gentlemen that the
South formed conceptions of Boston
character from the worst specimens of
Boston's animal products. Sharpers
rom down East peddled clocks
md shows throughout the South,
md the Southern backwoodsman
eiigiOusly believes the term yankee"
he synonym Of sharper. So it was in
ne Gulf States, who had seen the words
Tennessee House" in glaring capitals,
pom the soOty walls of the meanest tav-
IN in every interior village. These peo-
lie Of cotton and sugar-felds thought
very Tennessean, when the late war
egan, a horsejOckey and bacon-vender
f the "hardest sort" There came an
dmixture of populations of all these
tates, and local prejudiees were up :
)Oted and destroyed. They who :
ave studied Boston in Boston
'hOols and by Boston firesides will :
ever deny to Boston people the !
'ftiest moral and intellectual attributes
lat adorn the American character.
oston, when the late war ended, gave j..
lost to the unfortunate and poor of the !
Duth and Of Tennessee, and when the {
som Of desolation swept away the
.Ost vigorous city of the West, it was Z
oston that gave, without stint, to the :
oe-stricken. Let it never be said that
-emphis, hardly less generous to Chicago J
ian Boston, is wholly forgetfuI of
oes that have befallen our fellow l
,untrymen of the East. Memphis sells r
ore Of Boston manufactures than any
Of the South, and Boston consumes +
ost of Memphis agricultural products.
ct it never be said that the prejudiees R
ignorance closed the avenues of SYM
thy which should ever be concurrent y
it'll those Of enlightened commercial .,
tercOurse. n