The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-01
SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER i. 1900.
THE NEW YORK sun RETURNS TO
THE ATTACK.

The New York Sun continues TO discuss
lconditions in the South and especially as
represented by this piper 1t has an
elaborate and very carefully prepared
article in its issue of last Thursday upon
the subject Its writer is utterly without
proper information concerning conditions
here, or else, If properly Informed. he
unalic.ously misrepresents them. We are
disposed 10 concede sincerity to him, and
We reply to his article, therefore. without
any approach to either heat or i'll humor,
The Sun takes The Times to task because
partial to Southern people," and also -.in-
i1ensely yirginian.'' The Suns thinks it
provincial to- be Intensely Virg:nian,'
Because citizen of the United States
should be proud of his citizenship Of the
United States and of that alone.
We cnnnot help thinking this a very mar
row way of viewing this subject We have
never heard of any section Of opinion,
whatever, that sneers at the home lover
because he loves his home. Upon the
contrary, moralists in every country and
cline have united in praise of those who
dove their homes, and they everywhere
toeautify the characters of such people
md hold them up 10 mankind as typical
of what is best in human nature. To
dove ones State in this Union of States
5s but an enlargement Of the sentiments
that attach the individual to the home in
(which he was born and reared. and love
dor his native State is just as natural as
love for his home. There is no sort of in
consistency between this love for ones
native State and the most exalted pa
trotism in national sense We believe
the Sun would admit that the United
States never had a son who loved the
Union more intensely than Robert E. Lee
did before Virginia seeded from the
Union, md YET General Lee loved Vir-
Einia with a passionate devotion that
OVERRIDE every other consideration of
every sort. virgin!ans may. therefore.
love Virginia, and We pray that they al
ways will love her. and yet Virginians are
MS periodically devoted to this Union of
States as any other citizens of the United
States, wherever they may dwell.
The Sun next quotes from an edi-
forial of The Times the following para
graph: when a Republican has come for
the purpose Of casting MS lot among us.
md when he has shown no disposition
TO NEEDLE with locnl politics, he has been
treated with Kindness and consideration.
# settlers from other sections come
here, and If they refrain from meddling
in local politics. they may be sure of en-
5oying to the fullest extent our truest
and best Southern hospitality" The Sun
says this shows that We will not allow
strangers to haze their own opinions, and
for that reason We have no settlers COM
ing amongst US. Il contrasts with this the
way strangers so to the front in New
York instancing Mayor Van Myck and
Roger a. Pryor. both Southern men, New
York, and the rest of the North cheer
fully accepting the Constitution OF the
United States and living up to It in spirit
and letter.
Candor coTpes US 10 admit MI that the
Sun charges against us here. We of the
South do not live up TO that part of the
Constitution of the United States that at
tempis to force The negro upon us as our
rulers and our social equals. We do not
I've up TO 1t. we never will Awe up to it.
and We will suffer determination before
ne Will submit TO it. The North may nut
s us through another period Of reconstruc-
ton and rule the Southern States with
arms as military districts. But we viii.
never submit TO negro rule or permit
their entry to our houses and homes as
our social equals. The Sun and those who
think With Il may snash their teeth
and hurl snathemas at " FROM this time
on. but they hAA - sReli make up their