The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-23
THE NORTH AND SOUTH.

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THE ERA OF GOOD FEELING IN THE OLD DO
MuNuoN-BENEFIoIAL EFFECT OF THE BOSTON
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES 70 YANKEE
VISITORS.
RICHMOND July 2l, 1875.
The advance In pubic sentiment In Virginia
during the last rev months toward a real hearty
reconciliation with the North has been marked.
! The great respect shown in Boston TO the Norfolk
Artillery, General Fitz Lee and Colonel Walter
! TAYLOR, General Lees Adjutant General, and to
the Richmond MasOns was generally appreciated
as testimony TO Virginia and regard for her great
est sons one, Robert e. Lee for the Virginian
! OF to-day ranks Washington and Lee together
| Tie reception OF their representatives pro-
foundly anected ard grati1ed all classes, except a
few irreconcables, and the whole State reused
up at once into feeling OF cordially as warm as
IL was spon aneous The speech Of General Bart.
lett at Lexington las. april claiming for the
whole country snare in the glory OF Lee and
Jackson, OF Stuart and Ashby, because he, and, as
he said. all Amencans were proud OF them,
touched chord OF sentiment among these grave,
undemonstraiive Virgihians, ana they welcomed
Bartlett on his return to his temporary residence
In II chmond with enusion. But they have always
been TOO proud to make advances. Tney had
given their word of honor that they intended
| hereafter to obey the laws Of the Union ana every
| enactment OF hostile legislation aflerw rds they
felt, ana stll iee as insulting and as attempts to
degrade them. Therefore they would make no
advances; these, they thought, ought 10 come
! from the victors
The Boston demonstr atons and the universal
comment OF the Northern press have re-
ceived as such advances, and really believe the
heart OF Virginia is profoundly moved. They are
glad TO have an honorable settlement and peace
nencelorth. That Is the custom OF the people-a
lalr fight, iull settlement and no harDoring OF
grudges. This eelIng Is rather expanded ron
the personnel OF some OF the Virginians who were
! specially marked by Northern attentions and
Compliments. Inc cava.ry were the pets OF tn
| Conederacy, ana aIJer the leather of deb Stuart
| 1oated no longer In the van, when that dashlng
cavalier was aid low, Fltz Lee the colors OF
Virginia, her heart and priGe, the point OF his
sabre and around the dancing feathers OF his
superb horseman, q sa6reur sans pared
young, gay, handsome, tne picture OF "a cavalier,
''Our fltz" might have stepped rom Vandy Re's
canvas 10 bring into TINS proSalc nineteenth Gen.
| tury the registering humor tine rolicking blades
| VINO followed Rupert and fought at Edge Hill.
Short, muscular, OF prodiglous activity and
strength, with animal spirits unfagglng, with
enterprise original and never-ending ne mad
wnen = boy fresh lron West Point distinguished
| himself In hand.to-hand combat u po1tr0nce
/ Win Comancne Chief on the Plains, in which
killed him, though trans1xed with mis- adversary's
| arrows. Everybody in Virginia knows FItz Lee
ana everybody is proud OF hin and respects HIM
ana loves MIN. When, therefore, tile universal
New Highlander, under the very shadow Of
Bunker Hill, went into ecstacies and threw up his
hat to hurrah lor the Virginia Lee all Virginia i'm
mediately began 10 banker after baked beans
and to feel tender inclination toward
generally believed 10 be the usual and Preferred
"YanKee delcacles" The whole thing was con-
sidered all rgnt and Ire hunt alter Yankees in
some parts OF the state has been vigorous to re-
cIprocate the hOspitaiitleS given to their people
in ton, and almost any not day you can see
| TWO or three Virglnians ut Zetheps or Sneng's
| Gaze standing guard over O Northern brother,
whose nose they Keep stuck INTO grove Of mint
SONS Fraternizaton IS frequent and brother-
hood buoong ever, and 1t Is now dangerous for
/ m a a lGnI
trust himself in the rural districts any OF the
court houses. he Is waylaid, seized upon and ear
! RED of To houses and Kept and stuffed ana nlIed
and put through course or mint julep 1.-THE min5
crop Is peculiarly fine his summer owing TO the
| and johnnycake and fried chicken, and
mush and old ham and cabbage and Pow
tobacco IN tue world, That he is ruined for lie
less ne comes here TO live. Some lew OF these
they came out they tell SUCH marvellous stories of
waat has been done to them, and what they have
| hopeless Aunchausens. The Virginia pilgrims
northward suffer somewhat in tue same way
| here. They tell OF the Dig organ ana OF Ben But
! Ter riding sway-back old sorrel mare, looking
| two ways for sunday as II he was In the middle
oil the week, ana then go OF into a mudde about
a cambake, and small tables and bottles of fzz
and pretty girls ana all that and they are borne
! with as harmless emDroderers OF the truth, dec
orators OF the plain web Of fact; but wnen they
discourse OF pig pen, the corner stone OF which
nelghbors ana friends either wink privately to
themselves or shake their neads with sad gravity
! at the condition TO which much travail has reduced
! their former truthful, sober, stald compatrots.
No such pig pens have ever been heard DIN Hem
rico, nor known IN Chesterfield, neither did Car
| ter, OF Shirley, nor Harrison, OF Brandon, nor
Colonel Ruffin ever nave such pig pens ana there
| fore-but why pursue the painful subject The
stories told by the ieturned travellers OF the
| splendors of Boston ana the generosity of the
Yankees will remain for generations q my tn ike
/ the voyage oil the Argonauts IL is positively as
serted and generally believed that wooden nut
meg was not seen during the trip, nor did any one
receive an offer TO swap jackknIves. Now, II
credence all over the State then the Virglnian is
| prepared TO go into the Centennial with rush,
and nencefOrth to forgive and forget all the SINS
OF his errlng but repenGant Northern brother, and
! to receive him back into the family.