The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-03-31
Feeling of The South Toward The
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 Frank Wiikcson $ statement that any political measure that would tend ;o in- lure northern industry will meet with much support at the south is such ! gross pervcrsion et the tr4c sentiment oi the better class of souiherners that feel constrained to reply.
 Your correspondent, see. writes from wha, is known as d backweods section of the state. fact which will account for his error in judging of the entire south by the sentiments of the people ofrhe neigh borhood from which he writes.
 He IS mistaken in saying that the south is wholly in favor of free trade. There is strong sentiment in favor of protection. in this state at least, and feel warranted in asserting that such a sentiment is equally strong in Georgia. We have in- dustries that need protection, and though there are many here who do not under stand the nature of the tariff question, owing to a lamentable amount of Hitter acy, still this class is far from influential, and rarely, if ever, gives expression to any sentiments at all upon the subject. They know too little ofthe matter to care anything at all about 1t.
 Your correspondent goes on to say:
 "There is, too, misty idea that the northern troops carried a great deal of valuable personal property out of the south in their knapsacks.'
 To be candid. there never vas a " misty idea on this subject anywhere, in the south, for it is an undeniable fact that such conhseations were frequent. have myself been sufferer from them. The , amount of personal property stolen by federal troops from my family during the war would be worth nc inconsiderable sum in the aggregate. The stealing was whom would carry of all they could. and express regret that they could not carry more. IL was done when only the wo- men and children were at home. their fathers and brothers having been called from their home. to fill the depleted ranks of the confederacy. make this state ment from no malice, but for the informa- ton of your northern readers, many of whom could. no doubt, certify to its truth fitness.
 There is now no great ill-feeling a, the south toward the north, as your cores pondent would have your readers believe. Take my own case for instance. am d Democrat. lost my father and three uncles by the late war. Everything my family possessed in the way of property went with the war, and we were reduced to poverty. You must acknowledge that such person has grounds. If anybody has, for harbsring malice. One-half the young men of the south have suffered in a like manner. And yet the majority of them will tell you to-day. as do. that we have no complaints to make of the fruits ot the war, and that we expected to suffer when we took up arms. You will hear everywhere among the new generation of the south the opinion expressed that the war of secession was one of the greatest mistakes a people ever made.
 Still, believe our country has been greatly benefited by the war. and that the ties which should bind us together as a common people will eventually be greatly strengthened as result. History proves as much when we recall the civil wars of the mother country. The Wars oi the Roses in England, when brother clashed sabre with brother, ultimately drew together. as no other agency could, the long-contcnding Houses of York and of Lancaster, to the glory of a common country. The hand of the Al mighty was there. And will any one deny that His hand has likewise been with us Let us have peace! Let us have peace