The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1875-05-21
Social Conditions at the South.

IL 10 bDttI uOLdGD1G W lANkG Vi Allt AttA-
ing of the native people of the South by
public ovatons made to distinguish men
perambulating the South in quest Of
pleasure. The venerable and respected
Bryant, of the New York Post, about
two years since, was as badly fooled by
Southern attention as any man alive, He
wrote from there in glowing colors of the
warmth of friendship displayed and the
entire absence of sectional bitterness.
The SoutherneIs knew what they were
about, and they manipulated Bryant
most successfully.
Senator Anthony has made aSeutheFn
trip, but did so as a private gentleman
not on exhibition, and he reports as fol-
lows:
We mingled with the old native peo-
pie, and they assured us that everything
was joyful except the arpet-baggers.
The Northern people resident there al
ways said that except for the military
they had no security for life or property.
We could not reconcile such opposite
statements, and went to the officers of
the garrisons of the regular army, who
are neither pet-baggers nor natives.
These we inquired of at Charleston, At
lanta, and other points. They told us,
without passion or complaint, that their
wives and families we're never visited so
cially by the Southern ladies', nor did
they receive any nf the courtesies of their
intercourse common 10 civilization and
always made the especial boast of South
erners. 1 therefore made up my mind
that the feeling of the people of the
South, at bottom, wasresentful and their
professions unsound.
How can this bitterness towards the
families Of army officers be accounted
for except that the native Southerners
hate the old fag9 Army officere are sup
posed to have no poloiics, and, as arnle,
they show no political bias. They go to
the South as ordered, and in mere dis
charge of official duty. But it is a fact
that the ladies of Federal officers fami-
lies do not receive social recognition at
the South from the ante-bellum resi-
dents
We could fill column with incidents
personally detailed to us by officers now
stationed at the South proving that as
sertion. The officers themselves are
treated by the business men with all
courtesy and kindness, but the female
Southerners will not call upon the wife
of an officer. Even are the Southern
boys taught to insult every "Yankee" as
we of the North are termed. On in
quiry, on that famous Bull street in Sa-
vannah, two years since, as to the loca-
ton of the garrison, white boy replied
"garrison? garrison9" but using the
word army soldiers, "Oh," said the
young rebel, "you mean the Yankee bar
racks" And little children are taught
to call out yankee, Yankee, to officers
children as they walk the streets with
their nurses. We know of an instance
in one of the largest and finest cities of
the South where Southern lady who
had received courtesies at the North
from the family of an officers wife and
who wished to reciprocate in kind, apol-
ogized to that officers wife for not in
Guiding her in the guests at party, on
the score that the officers wife would
receive insults direct or indirect from
certain Of her guests. In another q
1 young lady having accepted the escort
of a young officer to an excursion, after
wards by note requested him not to
wear his uniform, as it would cost hel
the friendship of her female friends tc
be seen with Federal officer in uni
form. The officer begged leave to re-
call his invitation to escort the young
woman who was ashamed of the oldfag
Now these facts as to the treatment Of
the families of our officers can be proved
at every garrison in the South, except
perhaps, st. Augustine, and that town
has become thoroughly Northernized
Perhaps all Florida should be excepted
though we know not about Western
Florida. Leader.