The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-09
GRoUNDLEss HOPES.

In the course Of his inaugural address q
Frankfort, August 81, Gov. McCreary, O
Kentucky, said:
"a restoration of fraternal feeling should
be the earnest wish of every patriotic heart
and we will have accomplished our grandest
national triumph when, forgetful of the sor.
row and strife Of the past, we resume in every
section of the Union an onward career as a
free, prosperous, and united people. ]
desire an era Of honesty, economy, and
State and Federal governments, and peace
and prosperity and progress not only in Ken
lucky, but in every part of the Union.
wish to see the records of secession, coercion,
and reconstruction filed away forever, and the
people of the whole country earnestly advo-
eating peace and reconciliation, and all look
ing to the Constitution as the guarantee of
our liberties and the safeguards Of every citi-
zen."
1t is the wish Of a patriot, but one not likely
to be realized SO far away from the millennium.
The sectional feeling, intense before the war
of secession, was so fixed by that war in the
hearts and memories Of the survivors as to
make its eradication an impossibility. The
feeling existed in colonial ltimes, and
even the necessity of united action did not
produce cordial feeling in or out of the patriot
armies. We need not be deceived by the
sentimentality shown here and there by
spasms on the eve of q completed century in
the life of the Republic; it is not rooted in
the hearts Of the people.
Winnebago affords fairer average of North
ern feeling than Boston. A second and
third centennial will pass before the heredi-
larry dislike and prejudice Of the people of the
North will be obliterated. It is in their
nature, and they can not do otherwise than
vet, talk, write, vote and teach as that in
grained prejudice prompts. It saturates the
entire mass of the people. The leaven of
late is limited to no party or creed. In def
nee of all the teachings of religion and
morality, it divides church associations as
With trench of flaming birthstone.
Those who feel this prejudice are not all
'ad men either. One can enter New Eng
and home where purity, honor and intelli-
ence prevail, be received Hospitality and en-
ertained kindly, and yet as soon as the South
J spoken of, in spite of culture and polite
ess, the Unborn prejudice will at once show
self
The people of this Republic are not i'm
rowing in morals. II the masses had been
thoroughly honest the wickedness Of rulers
ould come speedily to an end. All manner
crimes are increasing in frequency in spite
inn oood viz o.a Tn, 1a4,, &c
larry laws and all the influence of temper
ice associations the vice of drunkenness
rows visibly.. The number of those whose
m is to live without labor grows at fearful
tie. The vice of avarice was perhaps in no
me or land SO generally or SO wickedly dis
aged as in this boosted home of enlighten-
ent. {
The days Of honesty in government after
9 conspicuous exhibition of its opposite by F.,
o Radical party are not likely soon to re-
IN. Economy in government is still fur {
er of, for the people themselves have al |
ost forgotten that homeiy virtue and have
come as extravagant as their means and ,
edit will allow. AS for returning justice in t
vernment, we have only to remember how '
different the American people have been
lille the grossest injustice was inflicted upon y
is State through series of years, scarcely t
tering murmur of remonstrance, to dis q
LIST hope SO fattering. !.
When the people at large are honest, eco =
mical and JUST, heir government will be like 4
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