The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-08-24
Are Nor rthern People Welcome atS the

Old prejudices are hard to conquer :
In spite Of the urgent invitations, or more
properly solicitations, to come South,
from Southern people themselves, there
are, many at the North yh are eontin-
tuali3 askiig ibis question. III the ear
nest language means what it says, no
Northern man can have any doubts. No
one evenifor political effect will venture
to say that the Southern people are mere,
Z ly talking to the Northern people like,
the spider; to the fly in order to get them
down South with the intention to- then
murder them.eo Among all the accounts
in the South of late thathave
been published, there appear none to
have been committed on, Northern men
on account of any revengefnl feelings
toward thpa Crime stalks in every
section of the country. From the
beautiful New England villages come
daily accounts of midnight burglaries.-
In the coal regions of Pennsylvania the
Molly Maguires are terror to the in
-habitantsy ~eEn-New ~Jersey-con
are formed and plots put into execution
to blow up tunnels Alltheserthings
occur, and yet no one stays away from
these States for fear their lives are in
danger. Why should any one fear to go
and iyesamong the Southern people,
who have been subdued in war, humbled
and stripped of their all, and whose sal
walton depends upon the filing up of the
country with settlers?
During the existence of slavery it was
not so very unnatural that persons who
openly expressed their desire 10 deprive
the Southern people of property recog-
nized as such by the constitution of the
United States, and denounced them as
inhuman monsters, should not be over
welcome by them. 1t is very unnatural
that carpet.baggers, adyenturers,. and
meddlers should be loved with very
strong affection by the Southern people,
-InoEethaa they would by the Northern
people. under similar. circumstances. > If
Ii Southern family shohM .goland settle
in New England village, and take
every opportunity to make the residents
feel that they despised the whole Yankee
race, they would not meet very cordial
treatment; and if'the manifestations be-
come insulting there might follow some
| expression of resentment that would; be
felt. So if Northern people 60 to a
Southern town, where nearly every fami-
" has, to mourn the loss of some loved
one ii the war, and take it upon them.
selves 5o9denounce the Southern people
.as brutes, upbraid them for the rebellion,
and taunt them with their poverty, such
newcomers would not find o. warm :wel-
conaeansthe hearts Of Southerhers Or, in
the hearts of any other people whom they
treated similarly. fyBut if on the other
hand Northern people go to the South
and conduct themselves properly, they
will find that the Southern people will
welcome them, not in mere words, but in
deeds. They do not ask that the new
comers shall approve Of slavery and
justify the rebellion; all they ask is that
they shall not try to force them to be-
lieve they were wicked in owning slaves
and :in%fgbting for the fighttoown them.
1t is hardly within the range of possibil-
tiles that any one who wishes to go. South
can entertain any such feelings towards
the Southern people or would act so fool
ishly. And that at this day there should