The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-10-21

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However respectable and intelligent he
may appear his invitations 10 social gather
ings will be limited to church festivals and
temperance meetings, and his opportunities
TO become acquainted with the estimable
young ladies Of that burg will depend upon
how watohful their mommas are more than
anything else. No one with whom he is
thrown in business transactions will try to
encourage him and make him feel at home,
and no one will try to take him where
homelike influences, 80 sweet to young
man far from home, will be thrown around
him to entertain and cheer him.
In the South on the contrary, every
gentleman seems to consider it O duty to do
his share in making the stay Of q stranger
pleasant, and if q few days acquaintance
are satisfactory the stranger is as welcome
in the parlor as in the counting-room or
workshop And yet southern society is
more free from worthless snobs aud crafty
adventures than that of the North with all
its eXclusiveness. The sum and substance
Of this matter is that when the southern
people recognize brains and natures gem
tleman," they do not waste time in looking
up his pedigree and going through useless
oonventionalities, but they become at once
friends.
These comparisons are not hattering b
the North must admit, but all who have
"been there" will admit their truthfulness,
and trust Join me in wishing, if not in
hoping to see the day when things in this
respect will be improved-in the North.
much dislike to use the words North"
and South, but they are almost absolutely
necessary in this article. No one more
sincerely desires to sec this nation ''Eo
North-No South-but America" than 1.
and 1 claim that it is the clear duty Of
every patriot to aid in cultvating that fra
ternnl feeling with our brethren down here
80 necessary to a union that shall be one in
heart as we'll as in name. No one believes
more sincerely than that the North was
right and the South wrong in the grert
questions that led and kept up the great
war, and no one could now fight under the
star-spangled banner with a clearer con-
science or more willingness we're those
same questions and troubles to arise at this
date. But I have been long enough among
the people Of the new South to learn that
they realize as q class, that twas best that
the war turned out as it did, and that the
differences which caused it are dead forever.
OF course there are always some grum-
blers in everything. Once in q while some
old relic of other days will harp upon the
good old days" and prophesy another war
that will bring them back their slaves, but
such people are not encouraged by the
masses, and in the words of a native "the
worst kiCkers are those who never owned a
niger" Neither can it be Doubted that
the Copiah county Outrages occurred in
Mississippi, as even some Democratic
papers not remarkable for their liberality
thought it useless to deny it, but it was in
the backwOods country, where civilization
is yet in its infancy, and was discounte-
nanced and deplored by all the intelligent
people of the State, regardless Of party.
Some Of my warmest personal friends are
ex-confederate soldiers have been enter,
tanned by them for hours with stories OF
the fighting around Vicksburg and of the
seige Of Chicamauga and of the Wilderness,
and would consider it sacrilege to doubt
for moment the depth of their friendship
or the sincerity of their many fraternaI
kindnesses to me. Six months among the
people who for weeks and months battled
not only Grants brave boys but famine ant
disease as we'll before the "Gibralter of the
i West" was surrendered to the besiegers
have not made me doubt the righteousneBl
of the victors but have made me respec
the valor and sincerity Of the vanquished
knowledge works wonders. Under tn,
old slave system the great mass Of human
beings in the South were uneducated
Even Of the whites, it is said but a small
per cent. were shareholders, and they o.
course possessed the wealth Of the land
These favored few could indulge in Univer
sity eduoations and kindred accomplish
ments, but the mass Of the white popula
tion had no education to speak about
p With the reformation has come more libera
school laws. knowledge is the great civil
, izer. In her train come Hberality and tol
: eranoe, and the new South is now reapinC
> their benefits To show how the Hbera
, spirit is growing in the South will roIat
one incident
. During my connection with prOminen
Southern daily paper, in the metropolis o
, JeG Davis native State, that individua
o paid the city a visit. was then youni
and ambitious, 80 hustled around and in
I terviewed him. found him q very pleas
ant old gentleman to converse with, and lef
= very favorably impressed with him person
r. ally. gave him q very prominent "place
on "my page" while my boss, who by tn
4 way is an ex-Confederate soldier, gave tn
, aged seoessionist quite a turning over" il
4 the editorial columns Of the same issue
+ After the days work was done and th
T mail list was finished we sat in the count
, ing.room, when the editor remarked "Yor
may not think the South is becoming libera
T and civilized" Cor words to that effect