Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-08-22
The South Must Stop BulldOsipg.

Inc South must Stop bulloo2lng'
Harper'S Weekly is " glad to see by
telegram in the papers that Senator
Hill and Representative A. II. Stephens
of Georgia, are expected soon at old
Orchard Beach, in Maine" 1t thinks
that "social intercourse among intelli-
gent persons of the Northern and
Southern States would be very service
able in promoting good understand
ing" We have no objection to the
freest q" social intercourse" between in
telligent Northerners and SOutherners.
Indeed, such intercourse has always eX-
listed, except during the short period of
the late war, but it appears to have had
no perceptible effect upon the political
opinions of the Southern people. So
cial intercourse amounts to little more
than an exchange of little politenesses
and conversational nothings. The bank
er is very urbane when he meets his
neighbor in friends drawing room.
He expresses, perhaps, the most gen
erous sentiments, and adopts the air
and manners of humanitarian and
philanthropist. But, if the neighbor
call upon him next day to request the
favor of loan, he will find him hedged
about with a panoply of cold reserve
and his talk will be of collaterals! Polite
society does not settle questions of in
difference in public affairs-at least not
in the United States. There was a time
when the salons contributed powerfully
to the Government of France, but that
time is long since passed even there.
| The Northern merchant, professional
gentlemen, or politician who travels in
the South finds the women charming.
A cordial hospitality is gracefully
extended, and, if the subject of politics
is broached, it is treated with velvety
touch of pretended loyalty to the
stGtU Quo-the Nation. But JEFF Davis
AYERS that he has never met one
woman at the South who is not at heart
a traitorl Political questions must be
settled in Congress and the State AS
semblies, not in the drawing room. II
| is of little consequence to know what
Ben Hill and Alexander H. Stephens
think and say in the retirement of Old
Orchard Beach what they think and
say at Atlanta and Washington is of
infinite consequence. 1t is easy to play
the role of Jesuitism in the social circle;
it is not so easy in Legislative and Con-
gressional halls. The politics of the
social circle is of no more consequence
than it's other chit-chat and gossip. 1t
is no sooner uttered than it is forgotten;
it binds nobody. Not so of the debates
and acts in Congress and the State AS
sembly. These constitute the record
upon which the intents and purposes of
politicians and political parties must be
| judged. In their social intercourse
with the North the Southrons have en-
tirely changed their tactics. The
Wee6ll' says: We have seen a single
Southern Senator browbeat an entire
dinner table at Newport with his inso-
lent swagger ABOUT slavery. Inere
were timid smiles and deprecating
stares, but no guest dared to call his
soul his own" All this is changed,
thanks to the War, which proved, if it
proved nothing else, that one Southern
er could not whip five Yankees. The
Southerner no longer swaggers socially!
he reserves all his braggadocio for
politics. His political platforms and
his speeches are as full of swagger as
they were in ante-bellum times. How
is the Southerner to be cured of this
offensive habitP The Weekly says
Slavery has vanished irrevocably.
Immense sectional suspicion and dis
like doubtless remain, but it is obvious
that the first common duty of good citi
zens is not an endless and aggravating
bravado and defiance, but a manly anC
honorable effort at good understand
ing" If "slavery has vanished ire
vocably" it is not by virtue of the will
of the Southern people that it has SC
vanished. No student of events anC
utterances at the South can for mo-
ment doubt that Southern opinion, un-
restrained by outside influences, would
promptly re-enslave every negro fount
south of Mason and DiXon's line. Th,
persistent persecution and political os
traciSm of the negro, by force through
out the South demonstrates the truth o
this proposition. And the attempt o.
the late Democratic Congress to throw
down all the guards placed about thu
ballot-box is conclusive evidence tina
the Southern leaders propose to keel
the negro in state of virtual servitude
For no demonstration in mathematic
can be clearer than that a majority of
given population, consisting of a de
spised and hated race long de
prived of the right of suffrage b.
the minority, must sink into stat
of serfdom equivalent to slavery.
follows that slavery has not vanishe
irrevocably. 1t exists to-day at tn
South to all intents and purposes;
has been abolished only in name. Call
ing attention to this fact, is not, then
aggravating bravado and defiance.
1t is a protest against a degree of ba
faith on the part of the South, not onl
destructive of its own well-being, but
menace to the very existence of the Ma
, ton; for the Nation cannot tolerate a
injustice so gross, so outrageous, an
live. 1t is no part of the duty of tn
. Northern people to make an " effort q
> good understanding" with men OF tn
: type of Ben Hill and Alexander b
Stephens. They have outlawed then
selves from the confidence OF those VIII
> believe that this is a Nation, to be pre-
5 tected from disruption and dismembel
ment at every hazard. When SOuther
. statesmen (P) come North, whether fC
y business or pleasure, they should
> told frankly that the people of the
l section are unworthy to be treated 4
I equals, and that they will continue
be unworthy of such treatment so lon
as they tolerate such brutal displays (
II barbarism as that of the Yazoo Count,
J Miss, mob. The only proper way
n n conciliate bully who threatens to ki
u you is to disarm him and knock hi
down. Men who use only argumen
8 cannot treat with men who use knive
pistols, and clubs. When the Sou
l. ceases TO swagger, ceases TO BULLDOG
l. and ceases to kill like band of sa
ages, it can come to "good unde
. standing" with the North, and not Il
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