Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1879-07-16
Our Washington Letter.

THE NORTH AND SOUTH
during the war, than anything that has occurred
since 65. This is fact to be regretted by the
whole country and is especially state Of things
that must be deprecated by the South, rs that
section must, In the end be the sufferer by such
n revival. The North, and particularly New
England, had made up liz mind to bury the dead
past In oblivion to let the feelings engendered
by the war die natural death; to meet the South
and Southern people on the broad and liberal
plane Of national brotherhood. This they had
shown. But what Is the result2 The
North Is met with the same spirit with which the
conciliatory measures Of President Hayes have
been treated. The extra session has not only de-
veloped this feeling, but the spirit continues to
pervade the length and breadth OF the South
This condition Of affairs is well and plainly set
forth in speech made by Representative Horr
Of Michigan during the extra session. This par
ticular speech has been heretofore referred to in
this correspondence as decidedly the most humor-
Gus made in congress during the session. Outside
Of the broad humor Of the effort there is such
solid sense in his remarks upon this sectional
question that we cannot refrain from reproducing
them here ave Of the North" said Mr.. Horr,
do not seek sectional strife, all we ask Is that
the laws shall be respected and executed all over
the United States, North and South alike. Did
1t ever occur to you gentlemen TO ask the ques-
ton why 1t is that the North is filling up so with
immigration while the South lags behind? Have
you ever studied this question any2 While can
wasting my district last fall my attention was
called especially to this fact. Way up in the
northernmost part Of the lower peninsula Of my
state found n new country filling up with as
tonishiDg rapidity. In three counties Of my dis
trict there have been opened up and put in Guilt
walton during the last year over forty-6ve thou
sand acres OF wild land, and from what can
learn there has been In that district alone during
the past three years more immigration than into
any entire Southern state, except Texas. Now,
why is it9 When was up in that country |
asked men there why 1t was that they sought
homes In such cold climate when the South was
full of unoccupied lands? One gentleman told
me that he had tried to live in the South, but
that, having been Union soldier and having
settled in Mississippi near where Chisholm and
his family were murdered on account of their
politics. he was compelled to flee for his life. lie
claimed that II these people had not been Repub-
licans they would be alive to-day gentleman
now in the city, who lived right there at the time,
tells me the same story. Now, the first man
left all he had in this world and took up home
stead in the wilds Of northern Michigan, with
nothing to rely on but his own two hands, rather
than risk his life at the South. Another very
intelgent-appearing gentleman stated to me that
he had tried the South; that while he lived there
he was under fear for his life, but he claimed
that the people treated him with so much indiff
erence account Of his political opinions that h,
would not stay. He said that the habit il
that country was to ostracise men from all good
society, and this
SOCIAL osTRACIsM AT THE SOUTH
was practiced upon all unless they yielded ODE
dience to the notions Of the party in power. II,
said further that he would not have staid Their,
for the entire state Of South Carolina such wa
| the bitterness and hatred there toward stranger
| from the North who settled among them. /
such the case? Do you thus ostracse men VIII,
settle among you because they differ from yol
in politics? II so, why do you wonder that mel
refuse to live with you? Why wonder that you
lands lie unimproved and that emigrants tur
from your shores with hasty tread9 | do no
wonder that your rivers, which contain power +
run the machinery Of the world yet go on uu
used to the ocean, no hum of industry on thei
banks, and without turning a spindle. The rea
son for ii IL plain. 1t Is because OF your hatre
Of Northern men; because Of your intoeranc
toward the opinion OF others; because of you
social ostracism exercised toward the stranger
who do not share your notions about the 81
periority Of the Southern chivalry, or agre
with you as to the destiny of the colored rae,
An initiation Of the currency will not save I'll
South. What you really need is to 90 to worl
You should have more schools, more enterpris
and thrift, and less recklessness of life, lie,
hatred OF what you call carpet-baggers. Yol
business enterprises should be conducted mol
with piety and less with pistols. What Missi
sipp needs to-day is more corn and cotton an
less cussedness; more mills, more mannes
less murders, less moonshiners What wou
improve South Carolina is more hams and lie
IIamburghs. She should raise horses and hol
more and hell less"
These humorous illusions to the South Great,
great laughter, and the speech being entirely in
, promptu and delivered in SOBER matter-of-fa
way, without any pretenson toward oratory,
was greatly enjoyed. 1t must be acknowledge
too that it reads well. Proceeding, Mr. IIo
said A dozen gentlemen on the other side
have kept the tally have been continually ma
ing the charge against us on this side OF Il
chamber that we sectionalsts, that we a
continually trying to create sectional strife, Al
they ask lis II we are never going to stop
WAVING THE BLOODY SHIRT
want to talk for moment about this bloc,
a shirt business. find from careful examin
ton Of the list that there are among the MAORI
members OF this house about seventy men w
served in the confederate army. Now you &c
= tlemen complain bitterly about us il we in al
= way refer to the late war, and you seem to Ia
t delight in haunting us with this waving OF I
a bloody shirt But how is it down there amo
=, yourselves? 1t would seem that you do not he
tate to hoist your own bloody garments, so mu
: 80 that am told that man in the South W
did not serve in your own army stands no sh,
for political preferment. 1t is said that in yo
+. conventions, at the hastings, everywhere up
the stump, you gentlemen are wont to boast
having worn the gray, and that 1t is the comm
y custom among you at all times, in season and O
y OF season, to unfold and call attention to yo
= confederate uniforms. Is my information C,
a rect? II so, then 1t would follow that il is not
=. much the blood that you object to as it is t
kind OF blood 1t is the talk about Union bio
only that so much exasperates You! Here a
II some seventy Of you who have tnyersed the G
tire South, holding up your own bloody garner
q at every precinct in that broad land, and yet
one of us happens to incidentally mention t
= lessons of the war you set up howl about 0
!, waving the bloody shirt and grow red in the IA
n denouncing such sectional strife. All we ella
p at the North is simply the right to choose q
q our emblems. You should not be too notion
~ about the matter because we prefer the GARNER
OF our own boys in blue, though some Of tn,
may be armless, some OF them rdded by bulle
" and sineared, 1t may be, with the life-bood
g dying soldiers. You may honor your fallen
roes II you will, but you may not dictate to
#, with what feelings OF affection we shall cher
- ours"
u PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
d is now authortativey stated that Gene
"a Grant has decided to prolong his tour abroad
/, Ill the early part of June next, or up to about
time when the next Republican National c.
o vention meets. It is given out that this chan
he has been made because Of his aversion to the
d, elements Of the threatened public reception VIII
in was to be rendered him. and To escape the ofiic
IN intentions OF ofiice-seekers and political bumm'
=. He intends to go to Australia and points along
coast OF South America
DIR. Jed. H. Baxter and wife leave next VI
II for a three weeks vacation in Vermont
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