The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-12-04
Despised Southrons.

OeSp1SGu DOuJuTOUSs
The Louisville Courier Journal has
the following under the head of ga
Horrible State of Affairs -
We have before us several private let
ters from southerners settled in north
ern Ohio which leave us no room to
doubt the bitter hostility which exists
in that region against the most we'll
disposed persons of rebel antecedents.
We have long suspected as much. At
length the damning proof reaches us,
and we demand that the first act of the
next congress shall be the total recon
struction of the Cleveland district, that
the whole power of the army and navy
be put forth, if need be, and that sen.
tries be placed, like lamp posts, from
one end of Euclid avenue to the other,
until law, reverence, and order are re-
stored. But to our testimony.
A veteran soldier, who served gallant
y with Morgan's cavalry, writes his old
partner in Lexington, KY, from Cleve-
lard "Things is going on poorly with
me, pard. When I ukered that old fool
out of the land writ you about and
got the distillery thought had struck
lie. Well, did make two or three con-
siderable winnin's. But this is the Gus
sedest country yeu ever see. One night
last spring the boys was haven little
spree-I do'no how it was-but one of
the fellers got knocked on the head, or
something, and I thought it best to
slope; so here am in Cleveland with
out cent, can't go back to the farm,
amt able to raise a stake, and-well,
that's bad enough, and serve me right.
I might have knOw'd that these dam'd
abolition whelps would use me up.
Nothing good can come out of Nazarith.
Send me ten dollars to pay my board
bill and as much more as you can
spare" No one ever read this letter
without burning sense of indignation.
The writer is not politician. He plays
as square game of cards as Dick Par
sons. But he is driven from his home
and finds himself weary wanderer on
the sounding and everlasting shores OF
Lake Erie, unable to raise a stake and
not sure of being able to sustain his
much reduced credit at his boarding
house.
The second letter, among those for
warded to us for perusal and publica-
ton, is more heart-rending because it
is from a lady. She writes to a sister
in Louisville "When the balloon
busted at Cincinnati, Henry thought he
would try his luck in Cleveland, and we
came to this benighted, Gor-forsaken
town. It is perfectly awful. Henry
went in partners with a Chicago man
named McKissick. The saloon did
very well until Henry got into a fight
with one of the local reporters of the
Herald about the White League, and
drew a pistol on the reporter. Since
then people say he is dangerous man,
and custom has dropped Of. But the
worst part remains to be told. The
grand danes on Euclid avenue carry
themselves mighty hauty. Would you
believe it? l have not received single
call. It's all because I was a secesh
girl before my marriage, which heaven
knows was the right cause, and I wish
Harry would try his hand to keno, for
the saloon business don't pay no how"
We might quote fifty letters or more
to the same purport. But enough.
These will show the spiteful temper Of
northern Ohio. The men are bitter and
vengeful. The women are proud and
exclusive. We have tried to think diff
ferently, but We cannot resist such evil
dence as the foregoing.