The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11

who will bear testimony to continued
courtesy and kindness. As one Of these,
I should be ungrateful and unjust in
the highest degree to the community
in which / have had pleasant home
for seven years if I did not mention
with grateful appreciation the uniform
courtesy, kindness, and confidence
which I and my family have received
from the Southern people around us,
without exception. 1t is our belief that
for several years past, in nearly all
portions of the South, if not all, any
Northern man who has come to the
South in good faith to make q home
and attend to private business, who has
treated the Southern people with the
courtesy usual among political oppo-
nents in the North, and has preserved
| the same social relations with the ne
gro that is usual in our Northern soci-
ETY., has been cordially received, and
has found his new home safe and agree
able. We are confident that this has
been true Of Northern Georgia at least,
and can see no reason why this section
should be exceptional.
| The peace OF the South and the sectl-
rity of it's citizens have not been for
several years SO dependent on the pres
ence Of the military as to make their
withdrawal a source of real peril. No
doubt military intervention has arrest
ed sudden violence when too late for
other influences to act, and has given
many timid ones confidence. But the
number of soldiers in any one State has
been too small to afford protection had
not other influences aided, and these
influences we have long believed would
/ have been more powerful without
them.
The mutual interest Of the white
man and the negro constitutes in itself
a great security for their mutual coed
1 conduct. IF not we'll treated by one
employer the negro can go to another
Ii the legislation OF one State is unfa-
vorable, he can remove to another
! This freedom in changing his location
4 and the competition between the new
and the old States for labor mark q
! great distinction between the past and
present condition Of the negro, and in
vest him with an efficient and ever
present means of protection more pow
eTful in it's immediate and permanent
influence than o garrison of soldiers al
the county seat or capital can possibly
be.
The Anglo-Saxon and Christian love
Eof law, order, and humanity, which tbs
/ Southern people possess in common
with the Northern, have, after all thai
has been said and written upon the
subject been the most efficient means
of the peace and quiet that have been
attained. There have been, no doubt
many and painful violations Of these
principles, and these have seemed to
our Northern friends to contradict this
statement, yet / am confident that it is
J true. The Southern territory is extern.
sive and sparsely populated. The courts
are held at long intervals, and magis'
trates and peace officers aro few in
J number for the extent of territory over
which they have jurisdiction. The late
war, too, has caused q disturbance in
Southern society of its social clements
ana of the natural action Of its laws
and moral influences, almost without
precedent i'm history. This situation
| has been aggravated by the partisan
ship and mutual wrongs which have
arrayed the two political parties III
some parts of the South in a belliger-
emit attitude, amounting at times almost
to real war. Tt is not perhaps unnat-
ural that great wrongs and ''Outrages"
/ even, should have occurred i'm the con
diti0n in which by these various cir
.cunStances the Southern States have
! been placed. The good citizens have
perhaps not always done all that they
| ought to have done, nor all that they
could have done, to prevent these. But
we know that many have made noble
efforts, that they have done much, and
the results already attained give good
reason to hope that they will finally
accomplish all that patriotic citizens
can desire. Let us hope that the terri
ble Chisholm tragedy shall have closed
forever that long. series of saddest acts
/ in our history, which party strife has
done SO much to engender
| ONE OF THE WORST EFFECTS or MILL
TARY INTERVENTION
in the South has been the discourage
ment it has caused among all good cit
liens in their efforts to control their
own affairs, and consequently the fire.
quent eAgation of 'sthe rough into the
Five and champion of what
all have regarded as the legitimate
rights Of State.
The tendency Of Home Rule" or of
local self-government, is to remove one
cause Of irritation Immediately, and
to place the responsibility on the good
citizens, where it belongs, of controll-
| ing their own bad men. The present
order and quiet prevailing everywhere
in the South very happily confirm the
advantages which are sure to attend
the operation of this principle. 1t is
met to be expected that this alone can
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