Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-12-06

Gen. Bsauregard, writing from New
Orleans says that if any Northerner
goes south on business and to as
sist in developing the commerce and
industries of the country, they will be
cordially welcome. cat this time, Is
years after the war. only the worst
class Of pOlitians, North and South,
are inclined to keep alive the bad feel
ings engendered by that war. The
peoUle of the South, especially of Lou
isana, want the capital and enterprise
of the north to come here and assist in
rebuilding our ruined homes and res
tore prosperity among us.-[ tx.
No doubt every ex-union soldier
will feel profoundly thankful to Gen.
Beauregard for the above kind invita-
ton to come south and spend their
money and as he puts it, go south on
business and assist in developing the
commerce and industries of the coun-
try and be cordially welcomed. But
how about it if these men should hap
pen to feel an interest in politics and
not fall in with the prevailing senti-
ment what are we to infer? It seems
to us that one of the things that led to
the late unpleasantness was DISPOSE
ton dictate how men should think and
act politically, and that about the same
spirit is shown by the General that
was rife before the war. Then q
northern man would be allowed in
the south provided he was willing to
acknowledge the supremacy, and di-
vine appointment Of slavery and help
mob every man that dared to question
either. Now we are told by this ex-
confederate chief that we can come
and be welcome, providing that we
come on business and not have any
thing to do with politics, for only the
worst elements will question the right
of the bourbons to rule, and ii they do
then they are not promised amenity
from what he would term unweicome.
on the contrary are we not 10 infer
that they are liz BILE to regard any little
deviation that said northerner might
make from strict attention to business
| by leaning toward an interest in poll
| ties, as being lnanifestinga disposition
| to keep up the animosities Of til.
war, and thus abSolie these people
from their duty to extend the cordial
welcome" Twenty years ago this
same General Beauregard stood at the
| gateway of the South ready to welcome
those who went there to maintain the
supremacy of free institutions, "with
bloody hands to inhospitable gpaves.''
Then armed by military power of the
South, he was unable to hold the
ground. We went there against his
will, and he was forced to an unwilling
allegiance to the Government he had
sought to destroy.
So now all the questions growing out
of that struggle will not be settled until
the Northern man, no matter what his
business is, can go there and attend to
business, or politics, or pleasure, or
what not, so long as he is a law abid-
ing citizen, and be protected in every
right, no matter whether these ex-con-
fedeTates are willing or not. We are
not one of those who wish TO see the
animosities of the war kept alive in any
part of our broad lands, bat we do hold
that until any law abiding citizen can
be protected in the exercise of all his
rights IN all parts of the country wheth-
er they are political or business. the
subject of their denial will be antagon-
lzed, and the reasons why they are de-
MED or questioned will be discussed
even should it lead away back to the
days we ali would like to forget.
There is just one way out and that is
forgetting TO harbOr the spirit of intol-
erance that has always been the bane
of the south. If you want the war for
gotten forget it yourselves and act ac-
cordingly.