The Orangeburg democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, 1879-06-20
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OHANGEBUnG, S. c., JUNE %, 1879.
lnexcusable Persistency.

YnexcuSdDie FefSlStenCy.
During a recent visit to New York
TO attend the funeral services of DR..
Join L. Da by, Senator Hampton
altered the following to a Tribune
reporter: ''Ir the Northern papers
would t,y 10 get at the true disposi-
diun 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 do not think they have
seen will, impartial eyes. They have
felt constrained to write TO sui the
politics of the papers they represent
ed. I refer as much 10 the cores
pondcnis OF the Democratic press as
of the Republican. At least, they
have mist aiken the true feeling of the
South. 1t did not attempt TO sccedc
for war, and it docs not follow u.nt,
a,cc1nsc it did not succeed in icayina-
the Union, it still wishes TO imjurc it.
This is the only country the Southern
people now have, and they wish to
make MS great and MS prosperous
as possible" 1t is indeed strange
l'ow persistent the Northern papers
are, particularly Republican, in pub
fishing l,ttcrs from correspondents
aSho are pr;judiccd against the South
and The white race. Letters from
such men as Rev. A. Webster, Bishop
Ilarcn and others Of their illl, bitter
lOliIical enemies Of the Southern
while man, only pretended friends Of
the Southern black man and interest
I'D in nobody g welfare hut their own
:suct.ess, arc Willingly published, ca
.gcrly read and strangely believed by
1lc Northern poopie. We venture TO
Say 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 aaay gffde into some lucrative
"'fiice upon the tempest they raise.
These men care but littlc whether the
white man or the SLACK nan sinks SO
they smim. They can glut them
selves upon the spoils from the
wrecks all around them with not
single concern about the sufferers.
!, is equally strange that good men
coming ;Sou,ll will stop with Radical
leaders rather than old friends, or
even conservative Nolsherncrs lising
among us. by sucll men their hearts
nte poisoned and their minds prcju-
diced by tales manufactured for the
purpose and testimony prepared for
just such cases. These gentlemen
return North and corroboratc the
stoties put in circulation by the press
and thus tile Northern m nd nakes
up its judgement on the South after
hearing only one side of the case.
We have knOT Norulerncrs to visit
oar Sec,iOn and return to their homes
ns they came with but little accura'e c
information concerning Southern
character. Their impressions at
least, seem 80 unfavorablc as to make
ihem silent upon the question, whetI-
er the prevailing belief among their
fellow citizens as to Southern life
was correct or erroneous. If they
:,ad taken the pains to obtain their
information from olher sources than
our opEoncnts-pO)itical adventures
and clerical suilrrs---n different course
would certainly bave been adopted.
we admit there have been exceptions
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