St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-19

strength and spreading among all classes of
society, even those whose feelings against the
Union were bitterest during and Immediately
after the war, that has made the new South
as we see it to-day.
Discussing the condition of the Southern
negroes, Mr.. SCIURz says that, while a, few
of them have become comparatively wealthy
and among them are great many skillful
mechanics, as class there is a disinclina-
ton to work, particularly by the younger
people who have grown up since the aboli-
ton of slavery, and that large portion of
the colored country population is still la
mentally ignorant. He learned that there
was notion spreading among them that it
is the aim and end OF education to enable
people to get along without work, and for
this reason the older and more industrious
negroes discourage education. He tells of
a prosperous negro farmer in Alabama, own
ing well-stocked farm of 500 acres, worked
by him with his children, who refuses to
send his boys to school because learning
would spoil them for farm work, and who
permitted only one of his girls to learn
reading and writing, so that she might be
able to keep his accounts. Under the in
fluenceS of the new social forces and new
energies which have been called into activ-
ity, in the opinion of Mr. SCHURz, will COM
pei the relations between the colored laborer
and white employer to develop themselves
upon bona-fide free-labor basis.
Mr.. ScHURz finds no ground for distrust
among Northern people as to the revival of
loyal sentiments in the South, and thinks
that such feelings are cultivated for politi-
cal purposes. To candid inquirers who ask,
why, If they are loyal, do they select as
their representatives men who were promi-
nent in the Rebellion, he gives this simple
answer:
In the confederate states" a few districts
excepted, nearly all white male adults en-
tered the military service They were all
''rebel soldiers When after the war the
Southern people had to choose public officers
from among themselves, they were in many
places literally confined to choice between
rebel soldiers and negroes In other places
they were not so confined. But they followed
the natural impulse of preferring as their
agents and representatives men who really
represented them, who had been with them
foul. This companionship in good and ill for
tune has in all ages and in all countries been
a strong bond to 'pind men together. One
rebel soldier could hardly be expected to say
that another rebel soldier was unworthy of
public trust because of his service in the
rebel army, for he would thus have disquali-
fed himself. Nor was there necessarily any
disloyalty in this-not even a remnant of it;
for q Taha1 ,xubo of artb bod ton.
cepted the situation in perfectly good faith
and sincerely resolved to accommodate HIM
self to the new order of things, might natur-
ally prefer as his representative another rebel
soldier who had accepted the situation with
equal sincerity, for the representation would
then be more honest and, probably, more
efficient.
He gives the following pen picture of
that terrific figure in partisan politics known
as the ''rebel brigadier:"
He belonged in the South, originally, to the
same class to which the Union brigadiers be-
lOnged in the North. After the close of the
war he found himself as poor as the rest of
his people. At first he moped and growled a
little, and then went to work to make living
as farmer, or lawyer, or a railroad en-
ploye, or an insurance man. OF a book agent.
Being a man of intelligence, he was among
the first to open his eyes to the fact that the
war had been-perhaps very foolish ven
ture for the South, because it was undertaken
against overwhelming odds-and certainly a
very disastrous one, because it left nothing
but wreck and ruin behind it; one of those
enterprises which a man of sense may delude
himself into once, but never again. He is
now very busy repairing his fortunes in the
civil walks of life, and the better he succeeds
the more conservative he grows, for the more
clearly he perceives that his own fortunes
are closely linked to the general prosperity of
the country, and that everything hurtful to
the country hurts him. He is in many in
stances drawn into public life by the choice
of his neighbors. His views on questions of
public policy may frequently be mistaken
they probably are. He may also be always
ready to jump up in defense of his record
and the record aud character of his associates
in the war. He shows pride of his and their
gallantry in the field, as every soldier will do,
and he is unwilling to have it said that his
motives were fnfamous-a thing which but
few men, and those not the best, are willing to
hear or admit.
In concluding his able and impartial re-
view of the Southern situation, Mr.. SCHURz
thinks it safe to affirm that to-day, twenty
years after the close of the war, the South
ern people are as loyal to the Union as the
people of any part of the country, that they
fully understand and profoundly feel the
value of their being part of it, and that
disunion movement would find no more adj
herents in South Carolina than in Massa-
chusetts. He thinks it also safe to say that,
whatever atrocities may have happened
during that terrible period Of sudden transit
ton from one social order to another, the
relations between the white and black races
are now IN progress of peaceful and friend
ly adjustment, and that the disappearance
of race antagonism on the political field will
do more for the safety of the Negroes rights
and the improvement of his position in hui
man society than could be done by any in
tervention of mere power.
THE IOWA MARSHALSHIP.
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