, 1873-11-06

2A0EkGT 4K0AN Il
aourn CAnoLtNA, October, 1873. i
70 ths Editor Of The Chicago Tribune:
SIN: NY attention has boen drawn to m OK
tract from your paper, commenting upon tho
.n,nentab!o condition Of the South. 10 The op.
pressed md despondont, tho least glimnoring
OF hopo, in whateVor quartor it may
10 detected, Is anxio,aly cherished;
and thia iB especially tho caso when
that quarter is the Groat Weat. Whom the
1Yost comes fairly and thoroughly to grnHp the
natr1ro r Of those conditions on tho unquoston-
iug accoptauco aud fulailmont Of which tho
South iB told to rely for tho working out hor fu-
ture doBtiuy, tho. hope that Ia now foeblo will
become O motive power under tho action of
which deliverance from mfBrule, and sound
p.ogrogsion, moral and material, may DO COLI
fldently expected
But 1t Is beyond dispute that any voice from
tho South TINT Ia not pitched In unison with tho
popular dogmata Of tho day, utterly falls to OBJ
tain respectful hearing. Indignant romon.
strarco, oven calm oxpostutation,-a and oy-
cry attempt to attract attention to political de-
moralization mud material suffe1pg,-all arc
credited in ono sum to petulant complaint md
sn1otAered animoHity ; md the writer's OF such
animadverslons aro-not without lttio COM
passion, perhaps-toru1ed would-bo roHurroc'
t1On1htB o1 :" OGnu lb2ueb.
Whom will the North and Wost learn that
that exceeding bitter cry" which IN intolora-
bio oppression oxtortH from tho South iB wrung,
not from tho victim Of Republican rule, but
from the tortured cripple Of al organization
Republican only in name, mud tyrannous iii every
featuro In. administration Is 1t nothing to tho
'higlI-minded aud intelligent men Of the North
| that mon of their own country and their own
! raco should DO condomnel to hopeless subsorv-
ioncy to party Ct which tho very pith and af
q taco OF which tho animal instincts
| dominate all in, it of moral nnl intol-
lectual Development that century Of
compulsory aervitudo-waiving tho disputed
manifeatly crude aud foeble9 Is IT,: indeed to
| bo regarded as pasHing strange TINT, IN tho most
| courteous language Of ;rononBtrnnce, thore
| should be found indication Of an irrepressbo
| desire to record in words Of bitterness protoas
against the bitter cilalicB which RAdlcaliam, In
| tho garb of Republcanism commonda to South
| cru manhood and Southern intelligence?
| Is 1t not underatood that the so-oalled Iopub.
licanism OF tho South is parody OF thai
party-organization Of the North, 30 repnl
Intelligent man dare endanger, his
reputation by acknowledging hi1nsor to be I
Republican, as, to become ntllliatod with thai
party az represented in tho Sotth, is to become {
liation? 10 be- q Republican 1t tho South is te
which negatives virtue md Intelligence, ant
claims to be aoundly progressive whilst exaltme
to eminent position men to whom virtuo is nj
exploded myth, and Intelligence MI eonaowmen
valuable ouly 80 for III It eau be made subsorv
lent to personal aggrandizemont.
1 respectfully submit, hLr. Editor, that tht
press OF the North aud West Gun perform noblt
and patriotic work only by forming .publis
opinion in other nlo1ds than those provided b.
tho uo-called Republican preAB OF the South
The South courts-lay, pleada-for tile truth
Fallen among thieves, WHO have stripped ho
md loft her IN object for worlds pity shall sh'
not tind, III the intelligence and honor Of tht
North, protest 80 strong against the torture aht
is enduring under Republican ~ reconstructiot
US to induce the hope that, however distant tll
day Of deliyerance may be, its dawn ultinaatcl
is assured in the indignant condemnation b
houest Ropublicanlam Of that Radical misrul
which Ia foisted upon her as tho legitimate All
benoacent guardian of her rights and hbertios
| II, Z.