Iuka reporter., 1890-07-31
a HEagnanamous Tribute.


ern Christian Advocate. of June %. is
SO magnanimous that we take the ut
most pleasure in transferring it entire
to our columns We confess that we
felt our Blood tingle with delight
when We gead 1t. It is 50 different in
tone and spirit from the ordinary cf-
iusious Of the seetionqa politioiaAs as
TO be worthy Of special notice and per-
,nanent recollection. If all the people,
/ North and South, would talk az one
another in this way. with the honest
desire I'd Bring out whatever Is best
and noblost il the inhabitants o. both
sections, we should soon have an end
Of bitterness and misunderstanding
While we are On this point We wish to
say that, from all VIC have been abe
to learn ia tue past twenty years, the
great body OF our brethren in the
North have jnst and kindly feelings
toward ussof the South. There are
good and bad men on both sides OF the
line Let tho bad men go on their
way, and the good ones come closer
! together mall conflicts with the devil
and his emissaries
Some time since the Atlanta Consti-
tuition made this statement: There
is no more barbarism among the whites
of the South to-day than there is
among the whites of the North, and
there is loss crime of every form and
| shape Knowing that Gen. Brinker-
hoif had made special study Of oar
criminal statistics, we inclosed it with
this request: "If any man can verify
or disprove-a5 case may be--the in
closed, you can. Win you?' His re-
ply is as follows:
The MANSFIELD SAVINGS BANK,
Mansfield. o., June II, 1S9o.-My
Dear Sir: After months absence |
find on my return your letter of May
H. in regard to extract from the At
lantic Constitution in regard to bar
barlsm in the South.
Il agree with the Constitution, but
have natime at present to write an
| artic.e upon the subject: and if | had
could not agg egate the facts neces-
sary to prove the truth of my opinion
The Southern people are the most
American OF Americans. and hence
are more free from the savagery of the
foreign immigration we have at the
North. They are q religious people.
and, in proportion to population,
whether white or black, they have "a
larger membership in Christian
Churches. Atheism, anarchism. So
cialism, and a thousand and one other
isms that prevail in the North are
practically unknown in tae South.
The volume of crimes-at least of
higher crlmes--is less than with lis,
and il we exclude the CO o ed people,
| think there is no question bat life
and property ana person are much
safer in the South than in the North.
"The number Of homiciaes in the
South is probably greater than in the
North; but thes5 hoinieides grew out
OF the old vendetta system which still
prevails in large sections OF the
South, and if the duallo is ranked as a
barbarisn (and possibly It ought to
beg, the South OF course, in this pap
ticular would be anead Of us.
II have known the Southern people
quite intimately, both before and since
the war-and OF course during the
the war--and they haze impressed nus
as q noble race.
~ race that could fight for an idea
as they did, although It was q wrong
idea, have the stuff in them ont OF
which regnant nations are made
I'VE Of the North ought TO be far
enough away from the passions Of the
great struggle to be able to appreciate
the splendid virtues Of the southern
people, and TO be fairly charitable to
their faiiings, which, TO say The least,
are not more numerous than our own.
Nowhere clse in history has master
class dealt 50 generously with its lib
Grated slaves. Take for comparison
BRAZIL, or even Russia, where the
serfs were white instead 81 black, and
it must be q cold heart that does not
glow with admiration at the superior
! ity Of our Southern brethren.
| In short | am glad to believe that
the Southern white people are rs brave
and patriotic. as generous. and as
(hrlstian. as any people upon the