The Asheville citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1885-1889, 1886-11-16
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editor ofa ToWanda (Pa.,) Repabli-
lean paper. Most of the editors who
visited Raleigh during the Northern
Settler ConYention were of the Res
publican persuasion. We were glad
of it; Democratic editors had already
been convinced. The other side
had been very stubborn in its be-
lief. All we saw protested to have
had their eyes opened. IF they go
to work now on that admission
they will do much to break down
sectimalism which has a very strong
hold in Pennsylvania Mr.. Dodge's
letter Is more valuable because it
was written by Republican 70 a
Republican with little purpose that
it would meet a southern eve there
fore with no suspicion of bfaFaey-or
insinceritY.
! We clip the following Writing
from Ru theffordton. Mr. D. says:
Here the country is broken by
mountain ranges and streams, and
in many places the scenery is grand
in towering cliffs and tumbiing
waterfalls. Spurs of the Blue Ridge
| jut out in all directions, and the
scenery is ever changing, and pre-
senting new objects. We Yankees
from hilly country feel more at
home here than in the monotonous
level of the Eastern country cover
ed with the white everlasting (if
not ever proftable) cotton. Getting
west of Charlotte no malaria insid>
iously Turks in the air, and I hear
of no local disease, in particular. At
this altitude the air is sharp and
dry-the glass standing at % deg.
at sunrise. To me, a Yankee it
seems very mild and my summer
fiannels are comfortable. First of
all you will ask, what about the
people? Well you know 1 am q
timld, difhdent, retiring creature,
and if there were any symptoms of
Ku klux and shot gun policy in the
air, l would have fed in terror for
home long ere this. I have been
every where, there was ne one to in
troduce me, I have introduced my
self as Yankee from Boston, spying
about the country. As for hospi~
talitv, no man ever had more show
cred on him, than / have had; and
I am not here to scatter dollars eth
er. Personally, have met with no
rebuff, and it is a pleasant change
from our cold blooded country, to
mingle with a people who don't
want to handle your pocket book
before they are introduced.
have talked very freely with all,
high and low, ,Sand SO far I fail to
find any bloody shirt business, but
only desire to know us better and
to see us oftner. As TO the social
question and the treatment OF the
negro, I think your eyes were pretty
well opened ever before you reached
Charlotte, as to some of the false
impressions you had labored under
up in radical Towanda, Penn. The
colored brother and sister look just
as fat and contented up here in the
hillY country; though only about
one quarter of the population is black
in this county. went to the polls
on election day and the colored re-
publican appeared to vote Just as
freely and untramelled as the white
democrat, and, judging from the re-
suit, should say his vote was fully
caunted. In local matters this peo-
pie claim the right, as the tax pay
ers If for no other reason to COY
ern themselves and I think you see
thejustice of their claim. But time,
non interference by meddlesome
outsiders, and plenty of railroad
communication with the balance of
this country viii work the whole
question out correctly. But I am.
no politician an am not here to
do any political striking. About
the soil-1 can only say, that it is
as represented Dyl lnO puDuSneO
statements of its residents both
fertile and productive though not
one half filled and MT manured at
all. Every kind of provision is
abundant and cheap. Our table
here is loaded with all kinds of exs
ceIlent meats, vegetables and fruits !;
and enough is put before Us at each
meal to make three of our Northern
meals. And this is the case all
through this section. The prices Of
provisions are SO ridiculously low,
that I will not quote them for fear
you would disbelieYe me.
l find northern spectators all over
the country and they are doing well
for themselves, if not for the native
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