Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-23
The Snnth and the NORTH.

down IN the South they are maui
Testing desire that the President, when
he gets well, shall pay them visit ana
give them achance to see him personally
Southern hospitality is never usec as
mask, and when we hear such invita-
tons we may feel sure that the pest o.
feeling toward the North must oe pre-
vailing. "-P1ilddelphid Record.
We are happy to see our Pnlsoeipnia
contemporary, with its wonteo mann
ness. do Justice to the conduct OF the
South at this time. The rabid party
organ, whose policy it is to keep the
sections apart and paint the Southern
people in as disparaging light as posi-
bic, clearly has an object in misrepre-
senting their character, but the Record
is a journal which has built itself up by
its manly treatment of affairs, and It's
utterances, above quoted are those OF
friend, and are appreciated accordingly.
If any proof were needed Of the good
feeling of the South to the North and It's
devotion to the General Government the
conduct of its people within the past
fortnight more than supplied it.
Our Northern contemporaries knew
full well. however, long before the crack
of Guiteau's pistol made the nation as
one man, that resentment and repining
had died in the Southern heart. Even
in the darkest days of the republic
when father fIonted son and brother
faced brother on the field of carnage,
the American people, though divided,
were one; and could the leaders OF both
sections have been brought to obey the
wishes of the masses, that strife would
have ended with the people united IN
r,.---.,;4 &c aor,,v ~, 0hjante
At the close of the struggle, had the
Radical Congress abided in good faith
by the terms of the surrender. and wei
coined the South back to the Union,
from which it had maintained no State
could depart. the years of sorrow, suf-
fering and disaster would have wit
messed good feeling, gladness and
prosperity. But the past, stained
with the enormities perpetrated by a
ruthless faction upon defenseless peo-
pie, the splendor of whose courage and
the grandeur of whose endurance should
have commanded justice, has gone
forever. We of to-day are happily mas
tiers of ourselves and ask only to be
treated as American citizens, and that
all laws framed for the government OF
the republic be enforced alike in every
section of it. In return for that the
support of the government by the South
will be constant and devoted.
For the people of the North those Of
the South have no resentment and moth
ing but good wishes. They do not envy
them their advantages or stores of
capital. Indeed, since security came to
dwell within our borders we have
striven to emulate the push of the
North, and the omens of encourage
ment grow brighter from day to-day.
The Northern man that comes among
US, IN good faith, to build home or to
win position, and not to foment strife,
is welcome, and will be treated precisely
as the Southern man who goes North
for similar objects. This thing of sec
tional Misrepresentation has gone far
enough. The people are tired of it.
While the people of the South will ever
suspect the Republican party and never
respectit, they have nothing against the
Northern people as people, collectively
or individually.
Should President Garfield recover and
come among US, he would be received
with the Difference due his station and
with the cordially characteristic of the
South. If that cordially should be
particularly marked in his case, it would
be because the Southern people have
formed the belief that President Garfield
has determined to be the President of a
country, and not of a party. For that
belief he has given fair grounds before
and since the attack on his life, and in
that belief good citizens everywhere
iOin.