Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1879-10-30
THE STOLID NORTH.
II and the Solid South.
II and the Solid South.
THEIR MORAL CONDITION CRITICISED
1.-THE PHILOSOPHY OF MURDER
WHAT NORTHERN PAPERS TELL
AND WHAT THEY SUPPRESS
CRIME IN ITS DIFFERENT
PHASES-CHARLATAN 3
AND MOUNTEBANKs.=a

The wrong perpetrated by North>
ern writer's, who, like the truly
good Richard Smith, devote them
selves to invectives against lawless-
ness at the South, consists IN a
mistaken notion that murder is not
merely the greatest, but the only
crime which merits persistent pub
lie reprobation.
Taking the life of our fellow
man is assuredly an awful crime.
But it is one which is to be judged
by the circumstances of each par
ticular case. There is no pretense,
we believe, that there are as many
violent deaths in the North, con
sidered numerically, according to
the ratio of population, as in the
South. The claim is that homicide
in the South is of an exceptional
character and differs essentially
from its twin-5rother in the North.
This is not SO but, granting that it
is SO for the sake Of the argument,
are there not vices exclusively
Northern in thcir origin and pre-
valence, which drive deeper into
the mortal fiber of society than
murder 2
Then comes time when mur-
der, after certain fashion Of its
own, correets Itself. The rude
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amplcs going to show that, in spite
Of the horrors and SORROWS which
are ever consequent upon blood
shed, the. grief and the guilt of it
are not always unmixed with ele-
mcnts of good, purifying as by fire,
yet purifying, and tending to the
reorganization of the community
upon sound principles of peace and
order, and ultimately developing
the spirit of brave and gentle
manhood. A quarrel, an insult, q
blow, the simultaneous flash Of
weapons--one or two, or dozer
dead men !-most matter-of-fact
most melancholy. Yet no worse
in results than q street riot, or al
affray in a saloon, or the murder Q
family by one of it's inmates, o.
murder for money-no worse, il
short, than the many forms Of kill
ing which are reported by tn
Northern newspapers every day
Murder is murder, Norti, an,
South. Killing is killing. Coin;
ia search of mortal truth, We mus
, look behind the outer manifestation
!. for the inner cause, and in order t
reach an intelligent estimate of til
real danger to society therein EN-
bodied, consider concealed fonn
!, tain which pours its poison stealth
lily through the various vein
channels, arteries of the bod
polite.
The North is older than I'll
South. More thickiy populou
Moro conglomeratc. Less homo
5. geneous. Less simple in its taste
and less simpie-minded. tt
North is rich and complex. I'll
h. South is poor. Its education
sr, IS, primitive. 1t is provincial. 1t
ignorant of worldly ways. In
Id diet, plain. A good digestion. /
blood unmixed and pure mongre
ism appearing only at interval
~ By consequence, the class of vic
which have a hidecus predominant
in the North are unknown to Il
South. Take the press of Chica.
Cd Cd and Cincinnati; the two, typic
e, Northern cities having press til
ali tells the whole story and hid
re- nothing perdse the columns of t
es, newspapers Of these cities, and &
lor how it is. ao.t =.
AS to murder there is dire,
nd lurid overthrow; the waves
ur- blood surging from the palace
fa- the hovel. from the counting roc
, is to. the workshop, bearing up
70 their crest all classes and snbmer