The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-14
NORTHERN CIVILIZATION AND RE
TINEMBNT.

Ever since the beginning Of The anti-slavery
agitation In the North, the pretended snpe-
,ieritv of Northern 10 Southern civilization
has been O favoritn theme Of discussion with
the writer's Of the press OF that self-righteous
element Of our national population. The
papers Of Boston, New York and Philadel-
phia, and Of almost every village Of New
England. taemed with envenomed phillipics
against The 'harbafous customs and brutal
manners" Of the South, and these libellous
utteianres were applied with 30 much skill
and such malignant intensity Of purpose
that the btterest hatred and pfeiu-
dice Of which the human heart is capable were
aroused IN the breasts Of the people living
north VI Masen and Dixon'a line towards
the inhabitants Of the slave AtateH
The authors of these calumnies were not
the Northern gentlemen and ladies' who came
as visitors 10 enjoy the genial climate Of the
Southern States or those who, after brief 80
iourn determined 10 cast their lot with us for
better OF for worse, but low bred newspaper
correspondence and adventures, whose native
vtlsafity debarred them from admission to
respectable society, and the polemical aboli-
tionists of The North, whose dearest object In
life was 10 fan the anti-slavery feeling into q
fame that nothing could extinsuish but the
destruction Of the object II fed upon.
Well. slavery was abolished at sacrifice In
blood and treasure greater than its abolition
was worth. and one would have supposed that
me- wrath Of these saints Of the earth had be-
come appcased, but the experience OF latter
years shows that their malignity has grown
all the stronger from excessive Indulgence.
We have little expectation Of witnessing
truthful accounts Of Southern life and man
ners In Northern papers, and this fact has
prompted uH TO keep close watch upon our
wputdabe censora and 10 determine hereafter
not to beg for Justice and fair treatment at
the hands of these people. but, when
need be. TO carry the war into Africa
We had occasiorJhc other day 10 comment
upon certain recent deeds in Northern States
the disgusting and bcstial brutality of which
was such IA TO cause every Southern man to
shudder with horror, and we defied any one
to contrast with these heinous crimes the so
called outrages that occur In the South and
cause the dainty schoolmarms of the North TO
raise their hands in holy indignation, and dare
To deny that The comparison pointed to u
lower tone of morality and a more question
able civilization among those who pirate 50
loudly Of their social virtues, than among the
people upon whom thoy pour out with such
Christian delight the walls OF their mex
haustible venom. SO much for comparative
civilization. But there is another point upon
which our Northern fellow-ctizcns plume
themselves with offensive iteration, and that
is the refinement of their manners and tastes.
We have before us a singular example of this
refinement IN an editorial of tho New
York World, journal which parades be-
fore It's readers sort Of noli me tan
se,e, maidenish prudery of department,
The subject of the Worlds discussion in
tho article referred to IL the ''spicy" and 'ele-
giant correspondents between Ben Butler and
WAYNE Mcveigh, with full reports of which
the telegraph was burdened a week or so ago.
In commenting upon. this interchange Of
blackguardism we supposed and still sup
pose that we reflected the sentiments of our
Southern readers In charactoriaing it rs a
most indecent exhibition OF scurrility.
But the dainty and fastidious World seems
to gloat over and roll under its tongue, as q
most toothsome morsel the gross and brutal