The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1879-06-20

lnexcusable Persistenoy.
During a recent visit to New York
to attend the funeral services Of DR..
JOHN L. Da by, Senator Hampton
altered the following to Tribune
reporter: "If the Northern papers
would tly 10 get at the true disposi-
dion Of the Southern people it would
promote reconciliation. know they
have sent able correspondents through
the South, many of whom have met
and whose correspondence l have
read. But l do not think they have
seen with impartial eyes. They have
felt constrained to write TO suit the
politics Of the papers they represent
ed. refer as much TO the corrcs-
pondcnts OF the Democratic press as
of the Republican. At least, they
have mis-, aiken the true feeling of the
South. It did not attempt TO seccdc
for war, and it docs not follow that, :,
accausc it did not succeed in ieayina
the Union, it still wissftlessat 70 ihjure it..
This is the only country the Southern
people now have, and they wish to
make it rs great and rs prosperous
.as possible" 1t is indeed strange
l'ow persistent the Northern papers
are, particularly Republican, in pub
fishing letters from correspondents
aSho are prtjudiccd against the South
and The white race. Letters from
surl, men as Rev. A. Webster, Bishop
Ilarcn and Others Of their ilI, bitter
l,olirical enemies Of the Southern
white man, only pretended friends Of
iic Southern black man and interest
ed In nCbody's welfare hut their own
sucteas, arc willingly published, ca
gcrly read and strangely believed by
ahe Northern poopic. We venture to
hay ninestcnths of the reports, put in
circulation in their midst by such
men, are absolute and palpablc false
hoods, gotten up for political capital
TO excite the bascr passions Of the
Northern people against the Southern
whites. and with the hope that the
writer's a'ay glide into some lucrative
office upon the tempest they raise.
These men care but littlc whether the
white man or tlLc slack man sinks SO
they smim. They can glut them
selves upon the spoils from the
" wrecks all around them with not n
single concern about the sufferers.
II is equally strange that good men
coming .Sou,L will stop with Radical
leaders rather than old friends, or
even conservative Noislerners lising
among us. by such men their hearts
nre poisoned and their minds Drcju-
diced by tales manufactured for the
purpose and testimony prepared for
just such cases. These gentlemen
return North and corroboratc the
stofies put in circulation by the press
and thus the Northern m nd makes
up its judgement on the South after
hearing only one side of the case.
We have knoSn Noruerncrs to visit
oar sec,ion and return to their homes
ns they came with but little accura c
information concerning Southern
character. Their impressions at
least, seem 80 unfavorablc as to make
ahem silent upon the question, whetL-
or the prevailing belief among their
fellow ciLizens as to Southern life
was correct or erroneous. If they
had taken the pains to obtain their
information from other sources than
our opEoncnts-pojiLical adventures
and clerical sutlcrs---n different course
would certainly have been adopted.
We almit there have been exceptions
10 lhe rule. Gentlemen have thrown