The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-04-27

CONPARA1 VI MOkAiilhs
Ever since the close of the civil war
the spirit of reconciliation between tie
sections has been advanced by all patri
otto and sensible men for it is the
fact OF the situation that the
cause of quarrel being removed,
and the people recognizing this, of
course interest, as well as sentiment
set the sign-posts OF new regine under
which the agricultural people Of the
South should amalgamate with the mer-
camille ways of the North But while
this practical idea has been growing the
malign spirits Of the North-happily
however. in the minority-have delight
ed TO taunt the Southern people with q
recognized and accepted rule of acknowl-
edged criminal freedom
when moonshiners or mouniaincers
chose to institute apicnic Of murder or
when negro was lynched for the un
mentionable atrociiy of assassinating a
woman's honor Immediately the pious
hypocriies of the North, with au air of
superiority, proceeded TO criticise the
barbarians and the lack of civilization
in the South as if few isolated crimes
in the South were indicative of the gen
eral character of the people
There is a spirit of wanton injustice
and prejudice in all this that is de-
liberatcly Infamous, for the men who
perpetrate that policy, having infor
nation of crimes in the South, have
also information Of crimes in the North, /
and they know AS well and even better
than others, that they are engaged in a
knayish scheme of sensational lying and /
SANDER. Our readers viii find in another
column the remarks Of Northern editors
on certain performances of prominent
politicians, notably those of Dudley and |
the New York Legislature
The Northern papers have been full of /
reports Of CHASTITY crimes and the indie
cent details of divorce cases, the Carter
case, for instance, and all these records t
pass 10 the credit of the criminal classes
without any insinuation that they are
representative of the character of tie
Northern people
The Oklahoma settlers may shoot and |
steal, and the government agents may
disgrace the public service just as much /.
as they choose and whether the Grim
inals are brought to justice OF not,
the majority of their crimes rests
on the shoulders OF the criminals, as it
should do But the very moment there
is murder or an outraged ballot box.
or fight, or a piece of criminal gossip
in a Southern State, at once il is re-
corded and blazoned as a specimen of
Southern barbarsm.
wiz our Northern brethren condo
scend so far from the lofty perch Of af-
fecied superiority M to take one glance
at the comparative morality OF the two
branches OF the great Anglo-American
family. and if they look the comparison
square in The face, they will perceive
that there are more women murdered in
the Northern and Western States In a
given time than there are crimes of all I
SORTS in the Southern Siates one Of The l
shrewdest Republicans has said publicly
that the Northern politicians might call
the Southcrncrs Rebels AMI slaye-drivers, ,
but they never could call their repre- ,
sentatiyes by the names that applied
every day TO the members OF the New
York Legislature and to the memorable
thieves who daily disgraced the Govern {
ment service as did Bill Chandler the ,
the Dudleys, the Quays, the c
and the horde OF deputy
eraekmen ,