The Press., 1884-03-27
(Toledo Blade.) MASSEY IN THE SOUTH.
MINeLINe OF THE BLUE AND GRAY.

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 MINGLING OF THE BLUE AND GRAY.
 The war is over in Chattanooga, and has been for a great many years. The most prominent business men of the city are northern men who served in the federal armies and southerners who fought on the confederate side, and they mix and mingle just the same as though they had not once stood face to facewith arms in their hands,. They discuss the events of tho war fairly and without bitterness The events that led to 1t are avoided by common consent
 It Is a sad thing for the party that was beaten to joke over the beating, but they manage to do it in Chattanooga and with tolerable grace. It is related of one rabid secessionist that, in his speeches, urging secession, he asserted that the south could whip the north with pop-guns. A veteran who had enlisted under his fervid oratory, recalled the point after the surrender at Appomattox Court House. s.s..-ss s.-..-s .-E
 "You said we could whip them with pop guns P t
 'sSo we could, but d-d 'em, they wouldn't come at us with guns. ? 4'-.ss
 The same orator assured his hearers that the Tanks couldn't shoot-they didn' tknow how. in fact. .|< @~
 The very first encounter his recruits were i'll there was a very remarkable eXhi- bition of marksmanship on thepaIt of the federal forces, so good indeed as to demor. alize the confederate opposedsto them.
 'Look here, Gap, remarked one who was stanching the blood from severe wound, "you said the Yankee couldn't shoot."f tFs3HEE Ergf{bgEEt$E
 "Yes, possibly they couldn'twhen they started, but they've learned d-d fast.'a ia xr7br oo41 for <rl4 and bled and sacrificed everything, are the most pleasant to meet. They never set up the assertion that the confederacy was beaten by foreigners, and overpowered by numbers and money and all that sort of thing. On the contrary, they admit the fighting qualities of their; old-time ene- mics, and are as loud in praise of their gal lantry on the field as the most gallant sol dier who opposed them could wish And why shouldn't they? Would it be any credit to them to go about bowling about towards in the federal armies What kind of people would they be considered had they been beaten on a fair field by a rae of towards ? Only the non-combatants talk that way. Those who faced the north like men know better.
 MORALS OF THE NEGROES.
 The complaint is universal that negro laborers will steal. Said one farmer to me 't'You give your nigger corn with which tc feed your hogs, aud you notice your hogs don't get any better. Where does the corn go to? He don't give tito the hogs at all he sells it, and if he doesn't stea half the hogs you are lucky. And they won't inform upon each other, so there is no way of catching them. If nigger tell; upon another nigger he is tabooed at once | |o,, oc4F +1a1,s f,r
 It is very probable that this complaint il we'll founded, but what else should be ex pected When the negro was slave hs did the labor and his white master feasteC upon the proceeds. It would be singulal if the negro did not try to vary his fare O corn meal and bacon occasionally with fat pig or plump bullet. As matter O course he stole from his master.
 Since his liberation he has been working for four bits day and living in cabins an6 all that sort of thing, and it is not singulaa ' that he still uses the tactics of the old sla very days to better his fare. And then i is possible that he does not steal all tn, corn that is stolen. He Is eonvenien scape- goat but 1t should be remembered that there are men whose skins are no black who have not all the virtues. Away back ill the years that are foreve fled there resided negro in village il 3 Ohio who was accused of stealing wood o 3 prosperous citizen. Why he was accuse' no one exactly knew, except that he was
 negro, but wood disappeared regularly
 The loser laid a most ingenious trap t
 fasten the crime upon the negro. H
 bored hole in 8 stick of wood, file
 it with an enormous charge of powder all
 placed it where the thief on his next visi Q could not help but take it. And havin z done this he watched the humble dwellin 4 of the suspected negro carefully, calml 0 certain that the thief would be detected. !. Sure enough the next morning the 'stic 4 was gone, aud he waited, expecting to Sc 5 the inside of the negros house torn ou ? with an explosion. Q He heard an explosion, but it was not i Q the house of the negro. His brother-i il < law, pure Caucasian, built fire under 5 stick of wood, that exploded, and derange l the internal economy of his dwelling terr 8 bly,.
 [ The negro who knew that he had bee . suspected merely remarked to his whit Q neighbor: i
 ssBoss, de 'splosion was in de wron
 house, wasn't 1t ?"
 It is possible that great deal of tI
 thieving charged to the negro might | y traced, if sufficient care were used, to otl U CT men, but the race has been compelle
 to bear the sins of the whole people ft
 many generations, and it is not to be e I Dected that if would establish ifs inteorit