The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1894-03-01
FAIRLY FLAYED.
FAIRBROTHER EXCORIATED BY
A NEW ENGLAND'R.

The Mask Torn off and the True In
wardness of His Wild VapOrings
Completely ExpOScd-A Massachu-
setts Editor Comes Bravely to the
Defense of the South and Refutes
the Base ISLANDERS of the Radical
Renegade.
Worcester (Mass.) Spy.
From time to time during the past
three years many Republican news
papers have quoted the editorials of
a Durham, N. c., newspaper as proofs
of the hatred, malice and all un-
charitableness' alleged to exist in the
South toward the North, and especially
toward the Union veterans and the
Republican party. In doing this they
either overlooked or purposely ignored
the fact that the Democratic editors
of North Carolina, at meeting held
at Raleigh in 1892, passed resolutions
rebuking the editor of the Durham
paper for msrepresenting the senti-
ments of the people of that State. 1t
was said at that meeting, and was SO
published at the time, that "Al' Fair
brother, the editor aforesaid, was a
recent conner from a Northwestern
State, in which he had been Repub
| lican editor, and that IN his zeal as
a young convert to Democracy, and
new conner to the South, he was
ventilating opinions that he had as
cribed to the South before he became
one of its citizens.
There are in North Carolina some
sagacious men who thought that there
was more method in Fairhrother's
madness than his brother editors un-
derstood, and that he was ranting as
he did for the purpose of securing free
advertising for his paper and himself
in the North. A column article from
his pen, published in the New York
Sunday Ad0ertiser, seems to justify
their view. In it tie writer makes no
attack upon the North, but, instead
he gives some pretty sharp thrusts at
the South, its politicians and their
practices. He does this on the pre-
text that it is duty, having lived three
years in North Carolina, and " closely
observed' what was going on there,
"to corret some of the fallaces and
foolish notions entertained and be
lieved by the North" These 8: foolish
notions are that sthe South hates
the North," and that it still holds to
the tradition that "cotton is king"
and continues to shout, " long live the
king" OF the first of these, Mr..
Fairbrother says: Collectively, this
part Of the South hates Northern
man about as bad, believe, as we
have informed the devil has anlipathy
to holy .'ater."
But the collective South must not
be tile South. 1t was true the South
hated the North during the war, and
many of its citizens continue to hate
it, but there is " minority which loves
the North, and which is growing, and
which will some day become the ma
jority."
1t is unnecessary to follow this de-
famer of North Carolina by repeating
his attacks on the judiciary of that
State or on the intelligent, conserva-
tive and thrifty people who are in a
large majority in that prosperous com
monwealth. But justice to the excel
lent people of that State and to the
several thousand families of Northern
people who have made their homes
there since the war, requires that the
SANDER contained in the sentence
"collectively this part OF the South
hates Northern man," should be re-
futed, for it is utterly false.
Some eight or nine years ago many
Northern settlers in that State united
in a call for convention to be held
at Raleigh, in which they said, be.
cause the lines have fallen to US IN
pleasant places, and we wish our
friends at the North to know it and
to come and share with US this goodly
hcritagc,' therefore let all Northerners
in this State send representatives tc
! Raleigh to tell their experience to each
other for the information and guldano {
of their Northern friends.' Arrange
ments were made by which maan)
Northern newspapers sent their rerre
, senta,ives to the convention, which
t was in session three days. Severa
> hundred citizens of Northern birth at
tended the convention as delegate:
from the Northern settlers of thei
respective counties. The statistic
compiled from their reports showed
that they represented more than 81.
thousand families Of Northern O
Western origin. Two days were giver
to experience meetings." and The
testimonies were without exception
that they had been received mos
courteously, that their relations wit
the native-born citizens were mos
kindly and pleasant, that there wa
no interference with their polltica
freedom of thought or act and tina
they were prosperous. Inc presloeh
I OF the convention, Hon. George I
{ French, OF Wilmington, was a Main
man, who first went there with Gen
eral Terry's command, aud rename
: there after the war closed. TheI
were score or more of ex-ofticers {
tn. Union army, who had campaigne
in the State, and were so charme
with it that they removed there wit
their families after the war, and the:
were merchants, mechanics, profe
sional men and farmers, who all tol
the same story.
There has been no change for Il
worse in North Carolina since the
:" Yet this renegade Northern Repu5lica
~ who, during the three years he h
re been in that State, has been mlsrepr
as as senting lis people by extreme pr
Ii Co.kho~o D1nxLoo ol,tov;alc that