St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-28

ameliorating influences of the current liberal
ity of the day,as an interpreter of the temper
OF the American people rather than to the
stump speeches of political partisaus and the
spiteful editorials of the partisan press. The
southern patriotic sentiment, overlooking
the malicious buster and disloyal spite oil IL
liberal party men, Is looking with cheerful
hope to better aud more wholesome spirit
in the newly revived interest in the literary
work of Southern writers which is manifested
throughout the Northern states.
Harps's AagGzins and the Century are
looked upon especially as having taken the
lea in the liberalization of the tone of the
non partisan press, and the new South, the
real South is beginning to get federal hear
ing in spite of the luminosity of political
leaders for its cause-not "the lost cause,''
but the cause of the renationa lization of the
Southern States. The Century for February
denounces what it characterizes as "the
narrow, sectional and embittered tone of
towards which still fingers in certain quar-
tiers of the North,n and continuing says:
That this tone is less frequent than i. was a
few years ago is token or the mellowlng or
feeling which takes place as the civil war, with
its animosties, moves farther and farther back
into history; it is sign, also OF the improved
condition and spirit of the South, and Of the new
era of common interests and mutual sympathy
and respect
1t is something worthy of remark that, at the
present moment, whenever the old note OF sec
tional hatred is struck, it has Earring and
unwelcome sound in the North itself. The true
lover of the whole country-undivided and in
divisible-is shocked and panied when this note
| is sounded-a note that was not sounded by
| Lincoln or by Grant even in the thick OF the
fight 1t is further noticeable that it is to 1.-THE
fury of the noncombatant'' that we generally
owe this note of discord, while the men who did
| the fighting did it with malice toward none,
with charity for ALL" Our men of war have
proved indeed the tr1e friends of peace, and not
| its enemies. both read the same Bible" said
Lincoln, sand pray to to same God
Let Judge not that we be not judged" 1t
was Grant who stipulated that not one sword
| should be handed to the conQnerors at Apo
| mattox
! While the question of slavery and secession
are forever settled there still to be approach
| ed grave and delicate problems growing out of
! changed social and political relations. These
| require the most conscientious, cool, wise, and
! brave consideration This is the time not for
! the demagogue. not for the reckless asitator,
but for the philanthropist and statesman. In
! our day the politician who wears the "bloody
| shirt!' will be buried with it.
That is just and manly utterance, loyal
to the peace and good order of the country,
and OF the whole country, and is such as
will pervade the North in due time in spite
of the selfish spirit and unpatriotic planning
and plottings of dishonest demagogues.
Blaine may nurse his bitterness against the
South, Evarts may sneer at Southern Briga-
diers, Sherman may vapor about the alleged,
contemplated despotsm of jeff Davis, but
they may be sure that the days of bloody
shirt waving are fast receding, and in the
language of the Century, ''the politician who
wears the bloody shirt will be buried with
! it.n