The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1880-11-20
" CAUSES AND EFFECTS. e"
The Relations Between the North
and thc south.
what They Are. and what They
should He.

Tics, we are WILING W Hlctb IL Ilull
way, and that's all we can do. Any
thing more than that would be per-
version of nature, degradation and
hypocrisy. The most unfortunate and
unmagnanimous and untimely eX-
preston of the last canvass fell from
the lips OF the President elect, Gen.
Garfield, when he declared that before
he could shake hands across the
bloody chasm, or any chasm, the
South must acknowledge that the
cause she fought for was forever
wrong"
This is II condition precedent which
is Il constant irritant to Southern
peace, and Il constant feeder to South
ern soidity, against the sentiment
which demands it.
And, pray, what is the use of it?
Who are benefited by it? Not the
| North, nor the South. 1t would not
lend anything to the eclat OF North
ern arms to have those who were COM
PEELED to succumb to their power and
prowcss debase themselves by repeat
ing in express terms an acknowledge
ment that they virtually and practi-
cally made ut AppomatoX. 1t would
not elevate Southern men in their
own OF foreign esteem to voluntarily
renew their assent to debasement
which fixes a stigma upon hundred of
who gave up their heroic lives with as
| full and complete love of country as
ever stimulated the stoutest and truest
Roman heart. Why ask it? And
why be surprised if its demand is met
with the most intense and outspoken
Indignation
Let it be understood, once for all,
that the South laid down her arms be-
cause she was exhausted and overcome
by forces she could no longer resist.
She did not surrender because she was
convinced that her foes We're "eter-
nalIy right" She did not give her
parole and re-affirm her allegiance to
the United States government because
she felt that she was ''iorever wrong"
She did both, however, in good faith,
which she has steadfastly kept, be-
cause it was the logic of war and the
inevitability of a great fact accom-
plished.
To all practical intents and pur-
purposes, and in every moral, senti-
mental and proper sense, the South
has acknowledged her failure to set
up confedercy of her own, and her
willingness to discard all ambition in
that direction forever, and to resume
her allegiance to the former govern
ment.
Is it the part of craftsmanship to
make this restoration genuine, hearty
and enduring. or to keep up an aliena-
tan and bitterness, begetting an ale
glance like Lord SANKEY'S to Richard
the Third, which seizes the first oppor-
tunity to throw of?
With the example Of Great Britain
before US, is it wise to build up Il
chronic Vesuvius in our confines,
when with the touch of the magical
wand Of fraternity and justice perfect
reconciliation and honorable satisfac-
ton would abound everywhere?
The Southern white people are
blooded Anglo Saxon stock. They
are not towards they cannot be era
vens. If it were possible to make them
so it would be to nobody's interest in
this world to do it. Destroy their alb
solute peerage with their Anglo-Saxon
brethren of other sections of the
union, and to the extent of that des-
tructiOn would the power and the
glory of America fall. If man in
sound health unnecessarily paralyzed
half his body, expecting by that means
to give renewed strength to the other
half, he would be justly set down as
an idiot. Let the dominant and all
powerful northern section of this
union take care that it is not guilty of
this supreme idiOcy!
We do not hesitate to express it as
our sincere belief that the Southern
people, by immense majorities, have
sought and yearned for
true reconciliation with the northern
section, frankly acknowledging all
the results of the war. Their flag is
furled forever. Nobody wants to try t
another experiment at separation
What then prevents n true and salts I
factory restoration of the Union? !
Alas, candOr forces the answer. 1t is, |
the lingering bitterness and !
lemagogy of northern politicians Q
he inability to be great in forgetfu- !
less and forgiveness unwilling t
less for the Southern States to take !
back their equal places without the d
tigma of inferiOrity-a disposition to I
eed on insignificant abnormal details I
# Southern conduct, and to forget a
ssentials. Suppose bulldozer rises h
Ip here and there, does that effect the d
reat material point that the South is II
lithful to her allegiance? ;,
The writer of the article in the News n
has a very correct idea of a
southern needs and desires when he 20 :,
(ys "the South hungers and thirsts b
lr both capital and labor to develop 81 $,
er r&sOurces," but he is altogether e
1rOng as to the causes which prevent y
The idea seems to be il
eneraily accepted in the North that n
are scared away because ii
hey cannot vote rs they choose and -
ecause there is tendency to lawIess- "
ess ia the south. This notion has cC
,ken such root and gone on 80 long u
contradiction tbat ~ may 10