The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11
HOME RULE AND 'THE SOL
I'D SOUTH
AS Seen from the Standpoint Of a South
8rn Republican.
10 the Editor Of Tie Tribune.


MARIETTA, Ga. Sept. r. 1t is a
source Of some s0licitudo tomany Of US
in the South that SO large q number Of
our Northern Republicans hesitate in
their approval of the Presidents South
ern policy, and seem to regard the Old
sectional issues as still a party, If not a
national, necessity. The quiet we are
now enjoying after a long series of con-
ficts is SO agreeable and full Of hope,
and the operation Of I0De-Rule 50 sat
isfactory i'll all the most important re-
lations of the Southern people that
aught Which indicates any uncertainty
in its continuance fills us with appre-
honsionS, and / venture to ask brief
space in your columns for a few con-
siderations regarding this before some
opinions recently announced by old
party leaders shall have been accepted
as the party creed.
1t is a moment when the South, if
not the whole country has need of
peace and rest for the Development Of
it's material Interests aHsi ecoyery from
it's long exhaustion, and no go0a citizen
interested in its welfare should decline
at this juncture any effort that may aid
in ayerting the renewal of sectional
controversies, which have been as we
believe, so disastrous in the past, both
to our party and country. We appre-
ciate the generous heart and noble sense
of the duty and responsibility which
render thousands of the Wisest and best
0f our Northern men and women from
Iowa to Maine apprehensiye in regard
to the course President Hayes has ta-
ken with re6pocttO the Southern States
and the future of the freedmen. 1t ap-
pears TO US, however, that our friends
are 1eedlessly alarmed, and that their
approximations arise from certain popu-
lar errors, which some effort should be
made to correct. In default of any
other willing to undertake this, per
haps q residence Of seven years in the
South and daily intercourse in business
with large number Of people of all
classes and both races may have quail
dea me in some degree for this en-
deaTor, and / make it more readily
since I think it is too positively assum-
ed by many that all the Southern Re
publicans must necessarily be opposed
to the policy iii the South of the pres
emit Administration.
First, then, we are convinced that
there is
NOT THE ANTAGONIST BETWEEN THE
Races which our Northern friends ap~
prehend. a large number Of the freed
men live on the plantations Of their
old masters, with them or their sons.
very contentedly, and do
this voluntarily, from year to year. On
theother hand, the majority of the land
owners furnish in advance each wear
the necessary supplies for the families
of those in their employ or Cropping
on their lands, without which they
would often be in absolute destitution.
ANA which, If the employers felt as some
imagine, even self-interest could hard
ly induce them to do. The fact that
the cotton crop is abouC as large as be-
fore the War,-this year it will proba-
bly, be larger, and that it is success
fully cultivated, matured and gathered
III lAiE oj60A51 pOp016lCQO ISbEICbSs even
where in the extent of forest, of lonely
and the absence of law Off
GERS, every opportunity for evil is af-
forded, Is proof Of the general good
feeHngand harmony between the races.
The conflicts at elections are exception
al, and are to be attributed to undue
passions and improper methods of in
fuence employed by both parties.
THE "REBEL ELEMENT
is not as hostile to tie Union men and
Republicans resident among them.
from the North OF native. as
MANY seem to fear. The Southern peo-I
pie in their ordinary relations with
their neighbors are ReOverbially oblio-
ing and kind. While many Union men
md Republicans have been reported as
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