The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-24
CaHantry In tho South.

ODOQ Tile WuOlc u C8uuOt NC JuOuku tu8t
the Southern gentleman out in Missouri
honors his claims to be considered a man Of
the gallant and chivalric type. If Mrs.
Langtry had been treated 50 ~coarsely in
any Eastern city as she has been in st.
Louis If there had been such an indul-
gence Of a mere brutal mob spirit toward
a lady-the Soulherner who believes HIM
self the true cavalier of the time might
have contemplated with scorn and horror
the plebeian spirit of Yankee rougues
But, alas! the Southern gallant is very
like a rufian Ne1c York Herald Edi-
tOrldl.
The editor of the Farmer md Ne
chanic. on seeing the above, and similar
sneers in all in the Northern papers, not
excepting the World, and others pro-
Tossing to be Democratic" and friend
ly to the South,-at once wrote to the
Herald denouncing such shameless Sec
tionali.m. 1t happens to serve our
purpose (and stop the DEVILS de-
mand for more copy") to use a por-
ton of that letter az follows =
The Herald could not but have known
that the ~disgraceful treatment of Mrs.
Langtry was not typical of Southern
men nor manners nor customs in any
respect. 1t did not even occur in the
South. st. Louis is not a Southern city
in either location, population nor senti-
ment. Il has fewer Southern gentle
men, than New York herself. Settled
by the Germans. and bound by railway
and commercial ties with the Black Re-
publican, Abolition, North West, st.
Louis was even before the war a Yam
kee rendezvous. During the war the
city was intensely Loyal even when
New York was resisting the Drafts"
and mobbing negroes. It was the head
quarters of such a~bolitionists as FIRE.
mont. Lyon, Frank Blair, Butcher
O'Neil, and others.
The leading business men, and jour-
nalists of to-day, are Northern men and
foreigners. Moreover, the Globe, in
which the ~disgraceful publications were
made, is a Republican paper of the stall
wart type, edited and owned by North
ern men and the bulk of its reader.
are Northern Republicans residing in
Northwestern States, Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, etc. Its editor recently killed
Col. Slayback who was attempting to
resent al insult yet the Northern press
justified his slayer, and therein justified
the insult. As for the Globe reporter,
the Colonel Cunningham whereat so
many sneers have been hurled, he was
not a Southern gentleman, nor any 9th
er kind of gentleman" Southern gen.
tlemen do not have fists shaken under
the nose, accompanied by such epithets
as ''liar'' and ''scoundrel," without
striking The insnlter instantly, unless he
be drunk OF crazy or crippled. No
Southern gentleman yer forced his way
into the private apartment of a lady,
and pestered her with impertinent ques-
tons, as this sO.called ''colonel'' say.
he did. No Southern newspaper ever
permitted such conduct on the part of
its employees. Oscar Wilde, who
made a guy of himself, and seemed
to court notoriety. traversed the entire
South without meeting a single offensive
remark.
But suppose, for hypothesis sake
that st. Louis were really a Southern
town, and the Globe a Southern journal,
and Cunningham a pretended Southern
gentleman. have you any right to
fling stones? IL it fair to condemn by
wholesale? Did the conduct of your
foremost preachers, in the Beecher
scandal, exemplify Northern Religion ?
Did the gang of New York Legislators
with step-ladders, peering over the tram
som at your United States Senator
galanting with a female companion, ex-
emplify New York society? Are the
men who tarred. feathered, and drowned
that half-witted boy at Huntingdon.
Long Island,-or the wealthy youths
who ravished Jennie Cramer, fair types
of Northern sci, ilization ?" Is Legis-
lator Dukes, who took a girls virtue,
and then her fathers life, a type of
Northern gentlemen? Were the Yale
boys who guyed Oscar Wilde, or the
Long Branch ladies who followed him
into the bar-roOm to stare at him, fair
specimens of your society? Is it true,
as stated in the Herald. that large
crowds Of Northerners, joked and jeercd
at the naked bodies taken from the Mil
waukee ruins? Did not Mrs. Langtry,
and her beau, (who is no true gentle
man, else he would not subject her TO
evil suspicion by closely accompanying
her from city to city, and haunting her
rooms day and night have to take re-
fuge from the mob, in your own city, in
an Artists gallery?