The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-10-11
THURSDAY. OCTOBER II. 1900.
-rnE sonE-ulaAI.rED SOUTH

In The Boston Transcript OF Monday
asst is an article on the .tSore-Hearted
SOUTH which contains a curious mixture
of truth and error. Miss Elizabeth Van
Lew IS made the text and the Transcript
says that certain phases of her life do
more than pages Of abstract theory to
explain WHY the political South remained
solid in spite of all these later-day in
hucnces which tend to break It: that the
colored vote has been eliminated from one
State after another. and yet the whites,
assuming undisputed control. do not di-
vide their SURFACES between the parties.
that issues have so changed that a strong
sentiment OF the South to-day. especially
in its cities. is for sound money, protec-
ton and expansion, and still the sections
remain solidly Democratic. Miss Van
Lew's career. it concludes. in Part explains
Why.
The Transcript then reviews Miss Van
Iew's career as a Union sps during the
war between the States. adding: How
cordially a person who performed these
services would be regarded in Richmond
can well be imagined. Any woman who
had acted as a British spy in Boston or
Philadelphia during the dark days of the
Revolution and mad carried TO Lord Howe
iidings of Washinston's army would have
occupied an analogous position in public
estimation, and yet when General Grant
became President he made Mss Van Lew
The postmaster OF Richmond, which was
probably the largest Federal Office in the
State, and throughout the South an office
gives its holder a prestige that is quite
unknowEl ia the North The Transcript
also mentions the fact that although Pres
dent Hayes appointed some one else in
her place she was taken care of in an
other way by the Federal Government.
Arguing from these facts it logically
concludes that the heart Of Virginia is
st!il with the men who died on Southern
battleields in The mistaken cause of
secession that the Southern people ad-
init its utter mistakenness" freely ana
sincerely. but will not ON that account
who risked everything for it; that this is
not in human nature TO be expected. and
that Miss Van Lew, who was picked out
for Rlehmonds most signal honor by the
Republican party, thus appeared as an
enemy 10 the city; that the natural re-
spense of Richmond was to vote against
that party.
General Garfield is then quoted as hay
ing said that some time Virginia would
come TO look upon his Old commander,
George "a. Thomas. as her great military
eaieftain instead of Robert E. Lee, but
the TRANSCRIPT says that il is now appar-
emf that the name of General Thomas will
never be spoken by the native sons of
he Old Dominion in the same breath with
Robert e Lee who personiiled not only
The Lost Cause hui; all the sacred
traditions Of old Virginia. And our Bos-
.oa contemporary might have added that
Nsrginians are proud that such IS the fact.
In concluding its highly interesting arti-
Tie, she Transcript says:
The feelings aroused in war fade slowly
The South is q small part of the Union.
Ii feels its weakness. and realizes that in
a measure i Is Out of the main current of
eii,'snatsonal life From ii no candidates
for President or Siee-President are nov,
selectea and no orators go there 10 work
~ enthusiasm. In these circumstances.
so long as the alignment Of our national
parties bears any close relation 10 the
Arguments of he great struggle OF forty
Years ago, the natural atfisat:en OF the
soa1iA will be viii. tae Democratic party.
3s.si az Virginia idoizes Lee while 81 holds
Thomas on al respectful distance This
As why Il. tlie ultimate aaaisS.s the South
,,e,,sa MS sold. !; IL not the negro: he
has been eliminated. II Is not Federal
interference viii esessions. thai has been
abandoned. II is moi free trade asa State
rights. for those the new South Is fast
forgetting. Il is the dent 'sieatton OF Re-
s,ublIra,.ism with the Northern cause IN
the war. as tyl'aised by Mss Van Lew Y
D fhsf makes the South solid, md this is
sonslhiar that ii VIII take I.I,e. and very