St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1885-09-10

intOXlcatlOn telephone the SneflH OF
Essex county and in two hours he is in
his keeping. The law may take care
of drunken men / won't"
This is about what | saw and heard
in one days experience among the
lumbermen of Essex county. c. Ms.
What Northern Man Found at
the South.
The BrattlebOrO PheniX thus sum-
marizes and comments on an impOr-
tant paper which is creating a good
deal of interest just now:
One of the most valuable cOntribu-
lions which has been made to the lit
erature describing the present temper
of the Southern people is found in an
article contributed by Charles Dudley
Warner to the September number of
Harper's Magazine. 1t is valuable be-
cause it comes from the pen of a North
ern man who is a trained and sagaciOus
observer, a republican in politics, and
one not likely to allow the good feel
ing of the moment to run away with
his sober judgment. Mr.. Warner en-
titles his article impressions of the
South" and i'll it he tells the unembel-
lished story of what he gathered re-
garding the spirit now animating the
Southern people during a visit tO the
Gulf states last winter. A month of
this time was spent at the New Or
leans Exposition and Mr.. Warner tells
us that "these impressions are mainly
of Louisiana"
His first impression is that "the war
is over ia spirit as well as in deed"
The thoughts of the people are not up
on the war, nor upon their past, but
"upOn the future, upon business, a re-
vival of trade, upon education, and adj
ucatiOn, and al justment to the new or
der of things" Nor are their thoughts
upon politics more than are those of
the people of the North. A few pOlit-
zeal managers talk politics, grumble,
and cOnnive to get into office, but the
mass of the people have other and more
important work in hand, just as have
the masses at the North. Along with
this impression Mr.. Warner became
convinced of the loyalty of the South
ern people, of II growing feeling among
them of attachment tn the Union Gas
the common possession of all sections"
II Itel sure, lie says,
THAT Louisiana, for instance, was
never in its whole history, from the
day of the jefferson purchase, so con
sciously loyal to the United States as
it is to-day. | have believed that for
the past ten years there has been
growing in this country a stronger
feeling of nationality distinct Amer
lean historic consciousness no
where else has it developed so rapidly
of late as at the South. | am cOnvinc-
ed that this is IA genuine development
of attachment to the Union and of
pride in the ..atiOn, and not in any re-
spect a political movement for unwOr-
thy purposes"
One of Mr.. Warmers strongest i'm
pTessiOns was of the extent to which
the South suffered in the war, of the
way in which personal property and
means of livelihood were wiped ont, of
the completeness with which this work
of ruin and disaster was wrought
Northern people, until they have seen
this on the ground do not realize it,
and, in the reverse, the Southern peo-
pie do not appreciate the sacrifices the
North made for the Union. They do
not realize how the North put into the
war its best blood, and how every bat
tie brought bereavement and woe to
Northern homes. Least of all do they
understand "the fearful enthusiasm for
the Union and the flag, and the unset
fish devotion that underlay all the self
sacrifice"
But the South lost not only its faith
ers, sons and brothers till there was
scarcely "A household unbroken it lost
not only the cause which it blindly be-
lieved Ia be right and suffered for it
the bitterness of defeat but, more
than this, il came out of the war strip
ped, with scarcely home for it's peO-
pie, and the whole life had to be begun
over again. Remembering this, the
wonder is, when one looks for remain
ing bitterness, that so little of resent
ment and bitter feeling is left. History
has no parallel for this, and in the spir-
it thus shown Mr.. Warner finds cause
for tInest American pride ''that
Americans have SO risen superior to
circumstances, and come out of trials
that thoroughly threshed and winnow-
ed soul aud body in a temper so gentle
and a spirit so noble. 1t is good stuff
that eau endure a test of this kind
But it must he distinctly understood
that under this admirable and manly
spirit there is no pretence of apology
for the part taken in the war there is
no confession that they were in the
wrong, nor any denunciation of the
leaders which they followed to their
sorrow. "They simply put the past
behind them," fashion, and look
forward and not back.
Along with the anxiety of the South
for the development of its resources
and the rehabilitation of its affairs
there naturally grows up the same in
terest in the general prosperity of the
country that exists at the NOrth-anx-
iety that the country should prosper,
acquit itself well, and stand well with
other nations. On this point Mr..
Warner bluntly says
"There is, of course, a sectional feel
ing-as to tariff, as to Internal i'm
do not think the
Southern states are any more anxious
to get things for themselves out of the |
Federal government than the Northern
states are. That the most extreme of
Southern politicians have any sinister |
purpose (any more than any of the |