Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-24
THE NORTH AND SOUTH.
A Southern Editor Tells of His Visit to
st. Paul.

[Col. Seals in the Sunny South, Sept. III
In our recent grand tour through the
Northwest we met great many excel
lent people of different nationalities, and
strange to say, almost every one used the
above language as his first expression
upon learning that we were from the
South. And the idea seemed to tickle
him and he was really pleased at meeting
man from this section and was ready to
talk over the old times in social and
jovial manner When we registered our
| name in the queens domin-
ions the same salutation greeted
us and we finally came to
the very natural conclusion that every
body in that country and the ''balance of
| mankind" were with Mr.. Sherman in his
| "Grand March to the Sea- When we
stepped into the splendid Windsor hotel
of St. Paul one Sunday noon from church,
a tall, but well proportioned and royal
looking gentleman approached us and
said he had just left his card with mes
sage that he would call again, and after
giving his name added that he was with
Gen. Sherman as far as Missionary Ridge.
| We found him to be not only royal
person in physique but genuine ''prince
of the realm'' so to speak, in heart, soul
culture, and generous impulses, and that
he had been q ge1Stdble general under
General Sherman. And this man was no
less person than distinguished and
most worthy brother of our distinguished
and most worthy DR.. Jno. M. johnson OF
Atlanta And just as all our people
know and love DR.. Jno. M. johnson so
in the splendid city of st. Paul, they all
know and love General Richard w. John
| son. And just as he took this Georgia
| boy' by the hand, and led him to his
| palatial home, and feasted him with
sumptuous elegance, in the same manner
would he be pleased to take any visitor
from Atlanta, or from Georgia, or any
portion of the South into the bosom OF
his hospital and cultivated home and treat
| him as friend and brother. We shall
have more to say of this princely gentle
man and of the beautiful city of st. Paul
But the main point and great beauty OF
| these personal experiences consisted in
the fact that there is not
a single harsh or unkind ex-
preston uttered against the South, nor
do we believe that the slightest unkind-
| ness towards this section exists in the
bosom of single man in all that vast
wastern world. They had heard of our
recuperation, of our prosperity, and ex-
pressed unfeigned pleasure over it, and
we know whereof we speak when we
say they are all warm and abiding
friends Of the South, and we reiterate,
in the language of northern journal,
that "the feeling of estrangement be-
tween the North and the South
is virtually thing of the past,
and the people of the two sections, fo1
the first time in the history of the nation,
are beginning to understand each other u
1t is true that the Puritans of Massachu-
setts and the Churchmen of Virginia,
fought side by side in the war of the
revolution, and after the oppression OF
the mother country had been overcome,
united their wisdom and their strength
| to form the American republic; but the
civilization of the South and the civiliza-
tion of the North were not alike, and al
though the people were bound
together by the bonds of mutual
protection and the most enthusias-
tic patriotism, affiliate and intermingle
they never did. Who ever heard of sys.
tematic emigration from the north to the
south until within a very few years
People of Numerically opposite ideas Of
life were never intended to live together
and emigration has only been made pos
sible by the fact that the people of the
two sections have learned to think alike
and entertain similar ambitions. Manu-.
factories are springlng up throughout
the South, and the great plantations are
being divided up into small farms, which
insure comfortable and independen
homes.