Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1881-11-16
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The Washington EreaiHg Star gives
currency toarumor that The Hon, JAS
G. Blaine is contemplating tour
through the Southern States during
the coming Winter We have always
regarded it as q matter Tor regret that
our prominent public men do not seek
to learn more, by personal observation,
of the people OF the various sections
ofour widely extended country. Moth.
ing so surely dispels erroneous opin.
ions and sofens prcjudices, as personal
contact, and if leading public men of
the North and the South would emu.
late tho example of our Judges in
many States, and Exchange circuits, ,"
they would, by contact with the people
of both sections at their homes, learn
many things OF which they are now
profoundly ignorant. Let us suppose,
for instance, that men like Mr.. Conk.
ling, Mr., Edmunds, and Mr. Blaine,
should spend couple Of months or so,
in travelling through the Southern
States, making personal acquaintance
with the people, observing their habits
of life, manner ofthought, and learning
something of the vast agricultural and
commercial advantages they possess.
We do not doubt they would return
wiser, abler statesmen, sni better pa.
triots than ever before. They would
learn that "nonc are all evil" that the
Southern States constitute a great and
valuable portion of this Union, and
that It's broad and fertile acres, bloom.
ing with the most absolutely valuable
products known to commerce, are
practically inexhausuble; that their
rivers are capable of floating the ma.
tives of the world, and that last, but
not least, they will meet a people hos.
pltable to excess and generous to
fault.
II the gentlemen we have named
will travel leisurely through the coun.
try, mingle with the people at the
principal points, and spend from five
to ten days each at Richmond, Charles.
ton, Savannah, Mobile, and New Or.
leans, and then take passage on one of
their palatial boats and steam up the
Father of Waters, pausing at Natchez
and Nicksburg, in Mississippi and
Memphis, in Tennessee, to minge
with and partake Of the hospitality OF
the people, we feel an abiding conf
dence that they will be all the happier
when they return to their Northern
homes.
After week spent upon the bosom
OF the Mississippi, looking out upon
the vast agricultural wealth and the
boundless possibilities of the States of
Louisiana, and Arkansas, Mississippi,
and Tennessee, they will return with
moro expanded minds and broader
views than they were ever conscious
of before.
In reciprocatiou, let some of our.
leading Southern men visit the North
and the East; let them learn some
thing Of the practical workings of
their splendid industrial and manuiac.
turing enterprises, their schools, their
colleges, and, above all, the home life
of the people.
If this were done, we feel assured
that the day of the demagoguo would
soon be over, and iora a contamination
so devoutly to be wished, il strikes us
that almost any personal sacrifice
should be cheerfully made Let our
leading men think of this suggestion,
and act upon it. 1t will bury sectional
animosity, still political discord to a
great extent, and tend to make us
once more a fratcrnal and harmonious
people. Southern and Northern sol.
diers who met in deadly conflict on an
hundred fields, have long since frater.
nized, clasped hands across the bloody
chasm, and become friends. Are the
people and the politicians who stayed
at home when each section called its
best and bravcst sons to the battle.
field, prepared to keep the fires of hate
burning forever? We sincerely hope
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