Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-01-20

Americans and Irish and Germans in the
| North. a
NO RACE FEELING.
antagonisms, deadly feuds'' or sim
passable gulfs of hate" and the dominance
of force BY fear, as some of the rip-tearing,
fre-eating, bloody-shirt orators are wont so
blatantly to portray. The black and white
races have grown up tegether in the South
for generations, and while the emancipation
proclamation changed their conditions, it
did not provoke the antagonism expected
did not to large extent destroy the loyalty
of servants to their old-time masters; did not
result in hate and bitterness, save where
perhaps it was fomented by carpet-baggers
and freedman's aid missionaries. 1t is ona of
the pleasant memories of the war cherished
by the Aiken people that during the whole
unpleasantness between the North and South
and when Kilpatrick's troopers from Sher-
mans army invaded the town, only one
negro brayed the contempt of his neighbors
BY Joining the Yankees and becoming dis
loyal to the Confederates. All were heart
and hand with their white friends. 1t is
amazing to think that this peaceful little
village was shelled for three days during
Sherman's March to the sea. But so it was.
And that its inhabitants were reduced to
aforementioned of priyations is
shown by the story OF lady that they care
fully gathered up the corn that fell from the
bags of the troopers and ground it up for
little food.
Another bit of testimony to the climate of
Aiken is furnished in the fact that after the
surrender of Lee, officers and men and
horses were here for months TO recover from
the effects of the war.
With ideas of the fre-eating Southrons
formed from 1.-THE FOOLS Errand," by Judge
Tourgee, we were not little surprised to
meet Yankee from New England who has
lived here for nearly quarter of a century
in peace and quietness, and has won the re-
spect of his friends and neighbors. In
little conversation he said that how he came
South first was with sister who had con-
sumption. They went to Florida, but it
failed to benefit her, and she died shortly
after reaching home. With like fate in
view for himself in New England climate,
he determined to settle in the South, and
fixed upon Aiken as the spot. He bought
a handsome estate, upon which was a
spacious residence house of the olden style.
Here he has lived in good health ever
since. He has fertilized his fields. and
raised good crops and managed his affairs
with Yankee energy and thrift. We asked
him if he had ever had any trouble, or SUI
and a "Yank" at that-but he said no,
never. He was never molested or mis-
treated in the slightest degree. But then,
said he in an explanatory way,,I never
wanted an Office. If had gone actively
into politics it might have been different.
The politicians are the fre-eaters-not the
people. North, as we'll as South, the poll
ticians are great on CAB, and are given to
lying and all manner of deviltry. The old
mans eyes twinkled, and anybody could
see that he was smart and cute enough to
get along anywhere.
WOMEN OF THE SOUTH.
We of the Nsrth have been to d that the
women of the South were the most devoted
and heroic upholders OF the Confederacy-
that they sacrificed everything for its sue
cess-that they by courage and bravery
worthy of better cause-encouraged its
defenders in the face OF dire defeat to per-
severe, to try, try again, to perish in the
last ditch rather than surrender, and when
at last the game was lost, the women dis
played the most bitterness, cherished the
warmest resentment, and were full of un-
dying hatred to the North; but certainly,
as yet, we have seen no manifestation
of such feeling. 1t may exist, but
il it does it is closely concealed. 1t is hard
ly in consonance with human nature not to
hate what people deem to be the cause of
inexpressible suffering and privation. But
in the bitter school of experience, and under
the iron hand OF misfortune, they have
learned to love their enemies for revenue
only. as cynic observes, or to forgive them
from business point of view, but we pre-
fer to believe them sincere, and to have
seriously and heroically been led to live up
to the creed they profess by loving their
neighbors as themselves, and by praying for
all such as have despitefully used them by
defeating their champions in the open field.
And talking of living up to religious pro-
fessions and tee thaching and creed of Christ,
we know of no small town on the continent
better provided with the means of grace, or
in which the spiritual interests of tine peo-
pie are more carefully attended to than this
town of Aiken. For population of per-
haps 200 white people, it has an Episcopal.
a Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist and
a Roman Catholic church. These are apart
from the churches of the colored people.
BESSIE BRAMBLE.