The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-11-20


csrned, it would be like casting pearls before
swine to allude to them to the Inter. Ocean.
The southern people in their intelligence,
and especially in their refinement and the
purity of their gentility, are doubtless SO far
removed from and above the comprehension
of the Iuter. Ocean that it is q waste of words
and oftime TO dwell upon the subject There
are Just as good people and as genteel peo-
pie in the north as there are in the south,
and many of this very class Of people have
left their northern home, to find homes with
US in the south. They have always met
with cordial welcomes as they will attest,
and have been accorded that social level they
were fitted for and accustomed to whence they
came, and they will bear witness to what we
say. There are vulgar people in the north
and in the south, and vulgar people will COM
init outrages against good breeding, but
must an entire people be cs,sed as vulgar
and low bred because OF the chatf that is
found here and there? The class Of people
who came south from the north for the first
few years after tho war were not, as general
rule, of q character to recommend themse've
to the southern people. Coming gener-
ally with small grip Jack containing the
whole of their worldly goods, without
standing or responsibility in the commune
ties they had left behind them, they had but
one idea, and that WAS to feather their nests.
They were mere birds of passage, birds of
prey as it were, seeking to gorge
themselves wherever pickings were
to be found. They consorted with
the negroes alone, turning the backs oft heir
hands to the genteel people eff the country.
Would it be proper for the people Of the
south to form their estimate Of the northern
people from the carpet-bag element who for
years robbed them of their substance? Most
assuredly not, and such is not the case.
Judge Tourgee, who wrote book entitled
"a FOOLS Errand," in which he depicts
what he calls southern society and southern
gentility, either wilfully slandered people, or
else he was admitted to the society Of only
the negroes and lower class of whites in
North Carolina--the latter suppositon beiLg
the most probable. Tho Inter OCEAN, with
out information of any kind, but upon IFS
own ipse di1it, assumes to charge the south
ern people with being Doors. They are not
cut.taroats, rebels, political bulldozeIsand ig
noramuses generally, but they are not without
breeding and without gontilIty. 1t is posi-
bl, that the Inter- Ocean has Influence with a
csrtain class of people in the north and that
assertions are taken as the trlth, but it is
great pity if this is the case. Why such ps-
pers should be patronizad is beyond our ken.
They only work harm. They breed feelings
of bitterness; keep up sectional snmositie,;
teach only the gospel Of hate and incite strife
and contention where fraternal confden 20
and good will should exist The Inter Ocean
never speaks of the south but to SANDER its
people, but to utter the bIsest untruths The
people of the north who read this paper and
kindred ee.s, will find this out eventually,
and then there will come better day for the
people of both sections in 50 far rs con-
hience and good will is concerned. This
c,rrespondent who rebukes the Inter-
Ocean, says: "The people depend upon the
pres, for their information on such subjects
and they have right to demand fair and
truthful information. While on this sub
ject, it may not be amiss TO say that have
observed among our people this very prsc-
tice, which the lnterOc assumes to be
prevalent, and essays to condemn, in the peo-
pile of the south. have known OF even
ladies from the south whose unwilling ears
we're assailed by vituporation of the "solid
south" who were compelled to hear them
selves branded as traitors, kukluxers night
riders, niger killers, and haters of the north
aud who listened with patience and calm
ness to such TRADES ofabuse. Let it not BE-
supposed | take the stand of the Inter
Ocean, and affirm such conduct to be genera
among the better classes of the north. know
it is not, as well as know what have sale
regarding the south. 1t occurs sometimes
however, and, As believe, is the Legitimate
fruit of the misrepresentstio concerning the
south so prevalent in the north, and fol
which, l also believe, articles of the nature
referred to afford an unsubstantial founda-
ion" This correspo ldent lives in the north,
but evidently knows something of the south
ern people, and does them justice in his (oi
her) merited rcbuke of the Inter. Ocean in it
wholesale SANDER Of the southern people. A,
we before said, there are vulgar people both
north and south and it is the vulgar class
not the better northern people referred to by
this correspondent in the extract given above
The sou hern ladies and gentlemen alluded to
being genteel themselves knew the vulgari.
Ans Us soon as they opened their mouths, and
therefore, paid no heed to their words. l,
is only the vulgarisns whe are always com.
planning of the southern people.
Banking House OF Adams q Leonard,
DALLAS, Tex, , Nov. Is. 1850.
Messrs Herring 4 Go. 25l and 252 Broadway
New Yors:
DEAR SIRs-0n the night of the Sth inst.