New-York tribune., 1889-12-23
"SOUTHERN FEELING"
TOWARD THE LOST CAUSE THE RACE
PROBLEM AND PORK.


Ashevllle, y. c., Dec. 10 (speciaD.-The southern
fceling7 in this of Buncombe County Is intense
although the enterprise displayed here of late years
has been in large part, the result Of Northern brains
and capital An expression Of this feeling was ds
played upon receipt Of the news Of the death o 'eu
Davis. The citizens held a mass-mectms 10 ldAe
action on this event. 1t was an enthusiastic gather
ing. The stars-and- bars graccd the speakers pat
form and lent enthusiasm TO many minds, which were
wondrously checred by the sight Of the " dear ou
flag as they expressed it. The adoption OF volume
of eulogisc res ,utiOns the business OF inc meet.
ing They were adopted with a hearty good Will
Further than this a suitable epitaph was proposed
and seconded. And a remarkable eptaph 1t was TOO
one paragraph Of this eptaph reads:
In his loyalty sublime The Rebel nag noa'eu
from the newspaper Office OF the town. Banks ana
stores were heavily draped, but the postomce bore
no sign # mourning a vigorous appeal was maze
to the women of the place to wear mourning oaoge
for thirty days. and the 1OcT1 newspaper prln'eu
bloadsde editorials trying to prove that Mr.. Davis
was "reviled without reviling." The bowng down to
the stars andbars. do many Of the people here at
this time, causes a stranger some wOnderment.
The collection of taxes in the South is more of
difficult problem perhaps than II IS in the North
large number of negroes included in the tax list
The careIessness of many of these to call at the
captains Cce and settle leads to arrest and mprison
ment if TIE delquent does not produce the reduise
cash The queer part Of this procedure Is that Willie
large number Of negroes arrested for n0nayment
OF taxes white man seldom if ever, appears IN tile
tolls Of the active taX-collector
Nothing pleascs the officers Of the law better than
TO arrest crow-brds,7 negro offenders are called
They can browbeat "A negro shamefully without cen
sure from white officials. The taXdellnquents afford
the arms Of the law plentiful opportunities to make
arrests Official authority is exercised caIelessy
enough. Negro boys who are under age, ana there
fore exempt from taxation, have repeatedly submitted
to arrest by brutal deputy sherlls spent the hist
in dismal jail suffering keen disgrace Dl beihs EhGh
from their occupations as walters or other work. Only
10 be released Tie next day WIN a Srun lou may
gO,7 proof that they were minors having cOnNlnced
the hasty officials Of their errors. In the North
negro would have redress for such wrong. IN the
south he dare not open his mouth. The instance
Of false Imprisonment cited was recently observed by
The Northerner in the south reads essays from tho
pens Of such learned men As the Hon lienry W.
Grady and others, in which he IS informed mat ne
south is best suited 10 settle the differences which
NAV arise Between the blacks aud whites. 1hals
the opuon In Asheville. This is the way they settle
il: They erect a heavy wooden partition IN public
fOOm If whites and blacks patrOnzc II. Inc whites
are allowed on one side OF this wall. and the blacks
On the other side. The railroads tIy TO keep the
blacks in cars by themselves. At the Knoxville
stetion blacks are allowed only in the waitincroom
marked with gilt sign. reading "ColOred waiting
Room" If the blacks attempt 10 assert their rights as
citizens Of the Tilted states they are forciby re
strained This Is the simple truth of the matter
But millions Of white Southern people continue 10
think that the North and the world at large viii
fair treatment Even casual observer can see that
the negro is not fairly treated and, in many ways IS
as much of a slave day ne before the war.
solid partition dividing whites from blacks in mat
tiers of social political religious and commercial in
terest is the Southern solution Of the race ques
t0n up 10 date.
A comparison between the Northern and Southern
WAYS Of living forces itself upon the mind OF the
Northern visitor. lie finds that the Western
North Carolinian Will live month in and month out on
pork heavy wheat and corn bread and occasionally
dried fried chicken. They prefer however - all
the chickens market. where the fowls sell for
cents each alive. Pork is what they swear by. Pork
is what they die by. Pork means dead razor back
hogs These hogs not reared by hand. When
weaned from their mamnas they are given 10 under
stand that II they want any grub they must hustle
around and get IL Themselves Naturally newly |
Weaned pig does not take kindly 10 the proposition
ike MANY human being In these mountains the hog
Is law The stomach tells the pOrkcT that IL |
k a case Of root hog die 20 the hog roots and /
ranges along the mountain ridges. picking up nuts and
-aisns II he find any, and driving away this /
grizzly spectre Of hunger until the arrives for
rOundng up the hogs. Ry this time piggy II at all
industrious during his outing has fattened mp sufi-
GENTLY 10 have his throat cut a. the farmer
yets him home. This ndiscrminate diet in the woods.
not Of nuts then perhaps dead bear or varmlnt,'
gives the regulation razOTb back hog favor, which
ind after several attempts tO eat IL in woodlands
,abin the average Yankee can't stand, even II he Is
hungry. Why SirOnei