Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-02-26
A REPLY.

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A REPLY.
We received the annexed charges of
Col. Higginson from some unknown
source, and reply to them that both views
may be seen. The status of the "Sonth-
ern women" needs no defense here against
the invidious contrast with "Northern
LADIES' ED.
Col. L. w. Higginson, in the Independent,
tells how tie respectable n Norttii, Northern people
who went South to settle, at the close of
the war, were driven away, leaving be-
hind only those whom the people of that
section (the south) called "Carpet-bag-
gers"
The writer for the Independen. "knew
many of the northern men who remained
South after the war, OF went there to
settle. AS q rule there never went a
better class of emigrants. The South
needed in the colonies ideas," an infusion
of new energy, practical education, and
capital, many of the emigrapts had the
requisites, and lost all they had of capital
by coming South Besides this 'thcy
lost health, and time" He knew ssgen-
tlemen of high character and cultivation,
who took Southern plantations, went to
reside OH them. md -L~.l.s.Iy
branded with social ostracism, as if they
had committeda a crime" Ladies with
their husbands were avoided by Southern
women infinitely their interiors in all the
refncments of life, who refused to eat at
the same tables, and drew aside their
skirts to avoid contact" &C., &C., very
insolent.
The fact will go permanently into his
tory that as soon as the war was over
healthy stream of emigration began to
pour from the North into the South.
Those who went. rich or poor, found
themselves socially ostracized, however
carefully they held their tongues about
the issue of the war. Ii they opened their
lips, rs they had q perfect right to. do,
there wns often nh haod rn6 excitement of
the Ku.Klux persecution. A few months
or years of ofthis were enough. The tide
turned and the better part of the North
ern emigration receded, leaving the worst
part behind. No scoundrel was driven
out by this policy; no mean man suffered
Such men lived and throve, like, Shake
spares Shylock, comforting themselves
by cheating their tormentors. "Hnth not
u Jew eyes? Hath not Jew hands?
you wrong us shall we not revenge ?''
The only persons who were banishedwere
those whom the South absolutely needed
TO retain-men of character, cultivation
and public spirit. Itmay have been very
natural in the late secessionists to adopt
this course. know too well-even from
the SORROWS of my own kindred-what
they suffered who risked their all for the
wrong and lost it. But truth is truth;
and only point out that two and two
make four, and that those who allowed
themselves to engage in this work Of So
cial ostracism have thereby made them
selves responsible for the carpet baggers.
For the peace of the two sections, lately
far removed by the hand of bloody war;
Il war brought about by malignant perse-
cution, and jealous prejudices, it would
have been well if Col. Higginson had
suggested a remedy for the ills the South
is enduring by being overrun by Carpet
baggers" rather than pander to the pms.
sions, as he has done with q most "selt
righteous complacency" on his part and
that of his friends, in attempting to infuse
new energy &c, to the South. The South.
ern women, and men, claim no moro
HUMAN NATURE, than that possessed by
the people of the North, and Burns re-
buke "to see ourselves as others see us
is good lotion for the writer SO wrapt in
self, to the exclusion of the natural re-
pugnancc cherished by an oppressed peo.
pie for their opprcssors. We need not
refer to the army Of adventures, specu-