The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1883-01-03
Specimens of Yankee "CivIIixa-
tion." Marcn OF the Moral
Idea. Testimonials TO the
"Debasing Influences
of Northern Sla- !.
yerv'

of Northern sIa-
very"
If the majority Of the Southern people
were accustomed to see. day after day.
the way in y hich every item of drunken
rowdyism, or personal difficulty, occurr-
ine at the South, j. caught-up. magni-
fed, and harpcd upon. BY the Northern
newspapers. as Indicative Of southern
Ia slessnes~ and iendishness. : and proof
of a civilization still under the debasing
Influences OF slavery and cx-slave-dri-
vcrs, If our people were aware Of
even one n ten Of the lies told about
m, and the false iniercnces drawn
ON isolated oc, urrence-thcy would
ate the sight OF Yankee, instead Of
aking haste to show him hospitality,
As is the rule where Northern men come
properly introduced as respectable per-
sons at home.
Fortunately not one in fifty Of our peo-
/ pie see Northern paper, and those pa
pcro which are most widely circulated in
f. Inc South are of Democratic leanings.
so that the twenty years incessant show
I er of lies and abuse has not embittered
the masses of Southern readers al
! though the effect upon the North and
Europe has been damaging beyond con-
ception. We have been told by fully
| half dozen ex-Confederate Soldiers.
who went North after the war to do bus
mess that the continual portrayal OF
crime, devilishness, and political malice,
dished up day after day, as true pic
ture Of life at the South by the North
ern Radical journals (and some profess
ing to be Democratic) had almost con-
verted them into Republicans; and
though they felt sure that their friends
and kindred did not used To do any
such deeds. yet tie stories seemed 50
straight. so circmstantial, and so n
cessant, that they found themselves al
most convinced against their will
and actually ashamed to ment on tina,
they were Southern born aad Rebel
! tainted!
As an editor. seeing tncse things yeal
after. year.we often feel Ike ,aliating by
noting the daily deviltry among Ii,
leading classes OF Yankecdom. Itwcul,
be easy to collect list Of ten thousan,
brutal murders. rapcs and other capita
crimes. North of Masons AMI Dixon
Line. during the past year.-a single
year! New York and Chicago alon,
would show above one thousand sLcl
infamics. And if the list included stai.
bings, s.lootings, political rows. socia
scandals, house burning, burglar!cs. etc.
etc, the report Of Il single week would
fill the Tdymer anil Mechanic for IL ful
year.
Happily, for the honor Of mankind
and the name of .t.o.ican civilization
we all know that those crimes enbrac.
but the moicty,-thc ten thousands
part, of our People. North and south
ana WIlIG We ItNOlt lbilSIdbllS dL LIS
lies so necessarily fabricated against u,
by the Yankee iao al press, We mu>i
not forget that I i twenty years nearr
half Of the No; i ru People have rcius
ed to believe them, and have steadla,t.y j.
demanded justice ior Il t South, ana
have zone to thc polls. year after Year,
to vote in favor Of a just. equitable. ant
couciliatory administration ot the Ma
tionai Government doing this not
withstauding The dsheartcniug lntiuopce.
of continual and odious deca,
Let US ho.c The day is approaching
when crime aud law.essucso, wherever
happening, will be set down to lis true
causc-th the mate weakness of human Ma
ture, stimulates 10y assion, greed, q
liquor; and not attributed to pc!itiy.
sectional, nor "civilizational' motives.
Meantime We invite The loud mcuhyG
yowlcrs against the South to pick up IL,
Boston, New York, Philadeirhia, Ch.-
cago, Detroit, Cincinnati. lndlanaro.s
st. Louis, Kansas, Colorado. VI Caifol-
MIA Daily Newspapers and take single
glimpse of the airocious Deyilisnness oi
the past week, tho Holy week, the
week of Peace aud Good Will