New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-01-20
THE POLITICAL CRISIS.
NORTHERN MEN IN THE SOUTH.


INJUSTICE OF THE SPIRIT WHICH CALLS THEM
CARpET-BAGGERs "-RIGHTs OF AN AMERICAN
TO LIVE IN ANY STATEHOOD RESULTS LOST TO
THE SOUTH
70 the Edttor of Ths Tribune.
SIR have from the first been puzzled TO
understand why emrants the Southern States should
be treated necessarily unworthy advonirerS wmie
the class going to the Western States are respcc
fully treated and gladly received as useful accessons
to the population And must confess That am sun
more puzzled to SEQ why Northern newspapers should
unite with an unworthy class OF tho South In heapng
opprobrium upon such emigrants calling them by the
slang term "carpet-bagger" and speaking OF them as
intruders npon part of the country where they have
neither right business TO be- cannot understand
why emigrants and especially active and entcrprsing
men, should be made unwecone In the South when
every other section of the country receives them 80
freely.
a young man from the South thinks he can better his
fortune In the North and Is made at Homeland
our cities full Of themand Is given every encourage
ment business wise socially and politically We do not
call him by reproachu term, nor shut him out OF our
social circles We take him for what he is worth-and
that very often at his own esiimate-and give him
chance with the rest Of us. Why should our young men
who 60 to the South with their experience, their TALENT
their education their agricultural or mechanical SKILL
proposing TO settle and help in the general Improvement
be treated intruders What they travel on Ioot OF
come with their carpatbags in hand Are they less
worthy or respectable on that accountf They nave
probably paid their way, and propose to pay t as
they 60 They propose to pursue some useful bust
ness and earn what they get Why should they mott
Are they not as American citizens entitled to settle any
where in the country where they can carry on useiu
businessi What there about the Southern states mat
they should held sacred from the Intrusion OF an ID
dIsrious immigrants IL Is true that IN Inc stream Oh
emigration there will float much worthless stuh aud
l.tra iir NyaNf
ern states But not these the exceptonsI IN tne
very nature OF things there was tendency among our
adventurous Young men To 30 10 e oSu.g[m va c,
vatc there work for them 30 do III every dpaTImth
Of active life; their industry, skill, ana eapta weie
rcss-of supply and demand. II they had bcen piOPerY
received the awoud have made IL good country before
But the old hatred Of the North remained with South
erners and they treated Northern men ~ Their c'is
when they should have received them AS friends. Twas
that Northern armies had suDducd the LseDein
but Northern men, individuals, had no q"frei WIN
ndiy duas OF the South. They went INTO thoso HtItes
to friends aud to help repair the injuries OF me war
But how have they been treatcdi Ihty nave Deen 70
cially D,tracised their families have becn stunned,
often By social interiors II there was cont Eloh about
nr9esn GSTn Ts tty er they w"nt|a wI3nt
reference to The men OF thor character, their great
Oifese being that tiey were Northerners-t Ii5tOas
gers Honest men not ashamed TO work ana Wiling 20
Eel Themselves. Like other American citizens, thcy
have claimed the right 10 take part III governing I'E
selves, and perhaps this is the head ana iioht OF thr
olirnding." ,,,,,,,.,
we may pander 20 the pejadces and the l0eallty OF
the old Sontherners, and call Northern men carietDlB
gers for them, and may talk ~ we like about ther
rigt 10 regulate their affairs but We shall lave no
correct relations with them TIL we have H. wen estaD
shcd as principle that the citizen OF each state sna
have the same privileges and immunties in one state
that belong to him in an0ther-and this III splt as wen
az In ettertil the cmrant shall have the full priv
egc secured 40 Inn Of settling. doing laWiuI DtslDess
and exercising the rights Ot citizen wherever no can
az his way and behave upfiehy This IS TIE point we
have TO labor for and this shall not promote ny cal
ing tho emigrant Southern state carpet-Daggef,
when be goes West he is u Dc known as an eloI P'g
sritler great object should be to Lno" no Es 40
North no west, South, but regard the american citi
zen as the rgntul inhaDant Oi any part vi the natlo
territory. lie W. y
OhiO, jan 49, 1877.