Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-16

A Word with MI. ScntlfL.
Our valued contemporary, the New
York EreRiHg Post, has been at pains 10
furnish US copy of one Of its recent Is
sues containing a marked editorial article
entitled "MOre About Southern hOlhl-
eide" The article is in much better taste
than kindred discussions that have re-
Gently appeared in the same journal.
II betravs evidence. too, that the
distinguished publicIst that presides over
the journal founded by William Cullen
BRYANT. has been impressed to a great
extent with the replies made By the South
ern press to the structures of himself ana
other Northern editors upon the insecure
tv Of human life at the South. For in
stance. the editor Of the Post assures US
that he is impelIed to dwell upon the sub
ject in question out Of pure friendship Tor
this section, and not, as-has been charged
against him in some quarters, from his
..interest in certain land speculations in
the Northwest" Furthermore, he ''ac-
knOwIedges that, as regards crime IN gen.
eraI. the South cuts a very respectable
figure beside any community in the
world"
He then proceeds to descant at length
upon the matter which he complains Of
the readiness Of SOutherners Of intelli-
gence and social standing to resent inju-
ries-fancied or real-at the pistols
mouth. and insists that the practice is
detrimental to Southern progress mas
much as it intimidates many who, if it
were not so common. would gladly cast
their lot with us. We confess that the prac-
tice complained of, while it is not
so prevalent as the editor would
make it appear, is none the less to be de-
plOred. and we are convinced is rapidly
going into desuetude. The best proof Of
this, aside from personal knowledge and
reliable testimony, is the steady growth of
the South i'm population and prosperity,
which of itself fOrbIds us to grant the
sOundness of the premises Of Mr.. schurz
and his able assistants, however inexora-
bic might be his conclusion were the
aforesaid premises conceded.
We have neither the space nor the in
clinatiOn to follow Mr.. SchuTZ, but we
can hardly agree with him that the North
ern communities in RELOCATING the cOrrec-
ton of wrong-dOing to police forces testify
to the security of life and property in that
section, or to the superiority of the people
thereof to those here as a civilized CON-
munity. In proportion to population the
Southern communities are as well, If
not better pOliced, than those at the North.
We might cite the case of Chicago, that
paradise of the thug and the wielder OF
the sand-bag, or the presumably Just
criticism Of the finest the conventional
nickname for the police force of Gotham.
1t might he concluded, too, that, granting
that the prOvOcatiOn be the same, the
quickness Of the SOutherner TO resent such
is evidence of higher type of manhood
than the Indifference of the NOrtherner
would indicate.
But, waving this aspect of the question,
we would submit that Mr.. Schurz's sur
mise that sit ought not to be difficult to
convince the young men Of race that has
produced Washington and Marshall that
the time has come for the South,
too, to takes its place in the
| foremost files of time is a
/ convenient avoidance of historical
| facts. The South Of to-day, is as whole,
| as less predispOsed to the fault complained
I of, as Is the average Southern statesmen
/ of the present compared with the illustri-
Gus persOnages alluded to. George Wash
/ ingtOn would have been prompt enough
! to resent a wrong deserving his notice,
and. were he alive to-day, would wonder
at the progress made in this respect since
the time when he was at the height of his
fame.
The editor of the Post may mean we'll
we trust he does, but he has miscOnceived
/ his mission. If he would really benefit
/ this section, let him speak of its great re-
/ sources, the nobility and pluck of its peO-
pie, its wonderful recuperatiOn from
the waste Of war, the pu-
rity of its wOmanhOOd, and
its love of liberty uneXcelled in the an
mails of our race. Meanwhile, if it affords
him any satisfaction, we can assure him
that, much as we would like to see it post
pOned, the time, we fear, may not be so
very far off, when it may be said of this
section. too, as it can now of his own,
1.-The Jingle of the guinea
Helps the hurt that honor feels"