The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-04

grafton will 20 there: the mass OF the peo-
pie tell them with blunt frankness that
they do not want them. do not welcome
them, have no use for them The shrewd
boomers of Southern cites who seek TO
sell mines and real estate feel differently,
but tie average Southern small farmer,
who makes up che bono and sinew OF the
South, is sincerely stupid in his honest
aversion to Northern capital and civilisa-
ton; he doesu't care about our money:
he is content With the old ways of his
fathers. and in his impuIsive ignorance
and universal illiteracy he is natural
paradise for fools. . natural breeding place
for cranks, natural stamping ground Tor
able and arsful demagogues.
No better element will go South. because
it Is not welcome, and SO the South must
be left 10 the slow evolution of better
things from its present Bourbon condition.
This will take many years TO accomplish.
and for this reason the North, despite its
inferior natural resources. is likely to con-
tinue TO absorb all that il valuable of
foreign immigration and the vast mass Of
Northern capital.
Passionate sentimentalism in politics
rather than business brains seem to be
destined TO rule the South for another
generation. The Democratic party at the
North today is doomed TO defeat because
of the stupid conduct of the South, for
which the Democratic party of the North
has endured years of defeat and exclu-
sion from power. The South has i'm
posed the odium of the income tax
on the Democratic party of the North.
In doing this the South has not only
wrecked the Northern Democracy. but it
has diverted from the South the Northern
capital and enterprise it so greatly needs
Capitalists fairly say that they are afraid
of region in which the sentiment pre-
walls that wealth should be subjected to
class taxation and to special and repres-
sive penalties.
So, in the matter of needlessly insulting
and estranging the Union veterans of the
North from all sympathy with the South,
the action OF the Southern members of
congress has been most stupid and short
sighted. Congressman Savers. of Texas,
boasts to his constituents on the stump
that at the last session of congress the
Union veterans were docked sll. 00O, 600.
and that they will be locked another
$1i. 90, 600 when congress meets in Deem
Der.
This stupid crusade against the Union
veterans Is in line with the stupid and
lying teaching of their children that in the
civil war the South was wholly right and
the Federal government wholly wrong;
that the Northern armies were made up of
''mercenares, mostly Germans;" that
Northern volunteers were not moved by
patriotic impulses but wholly by bounties;
that there was no courage in the Northern
armies; that the defeat of the South was
achieved by force of overwhelming num-
bers; that heroic qualities were exhibited
by Southern soldiers alone.
That this is all utterly false history is
proved by the utterances of Lee. Long
street, Joe Johnston. Bragg and Beaure-
gard. These able soldiers. with the excep-
ton of Beauregard. never were secession
lists or justified secession. and all of them
scorned to admit that an army of mercen-
aries prevailed over the South.
AS a mere matter of sentiment these
historical lies are of no consequence. but
as q practical matter il is to be regretted
that the generation that has reached matur-
ity Mt the South since the civil war should
have been taught that only mereenaries
fought for the Union; should understand
nothing of the motives that inspired hum
dreds of thousands of high-minded men to
spring to arms when Sumter fell. Until
after the battle year of 1868 was completed.
Lincoln obtained all his soldiers by the
volunteer system. The draft was ordered
in 1863, but the men it produced swelled
the armies of 1854