The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-03-09
ANIMUS OF The NORTH
Seek to Undermine the Wall That
Holds Back Pollution.
THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. DlNNtR
Let Our Southern Patriotic Societies Sever
Their Northern Connections. Nothing
Would Crafty More Our
Patriot People,


Thirty-seven years ago this spring we
lowered and furled at Appomattox the
southern standards and sheathed in good
faith the sword. Since then we have
been loyal citizens-I might say sub
1eets-of the United States For a whole
generation We have stopped little short of
cravenness in our acquiescence in North
ern opinions, and in a desperate and
wholly undignified effort to see the ques-
lions involved in the war through North
ern eyes. Defying the promptings of
reason and experience, we have to the
verge of qualification striven to convince
ourselves that our former attitude on
these questions was not only visionary
bu. harmful in its bearings Even when
noU the iron logic of events has refuted
oul present arguments against our for
mel selves by proving that the principles
Tor which we drew the sword were vital
and external, an eager desire for peace
and harmony has made us slow to accept
its findings
Meanwhile what is the animus of the
Northern people?
Although their historians and jurists
have been constrained to declare that
secession was not treason, the men whom
Northern defiance of the Constitution
drove to resort to it as the last and only
remedy, are still declared to be traitors.
The Federal Government in all it's utter
ances still knows no name for the war
other than that of the rebellion. The
race question, so long to us a matter of
more than life and death, for it involved
the purity and integrity of our blood and
our ultimate destiny, has been their
plaything-a hobby for quack moralist
and politicians to air their vaporings on.
The North has evinced no spirit of
brotherhood in this matter; no DISPOSE
tion to acknowledge the far reaching
wrong and error for which the two Sec
tions are jointly esponsible-though the
North more so than the South-cf bring
ing the black man hither nor any desire
to solve the problem of his presence here
with least harm to both races.
The wholesome instincts of the South
ern people. backed by their ripest wis
dom, have firmly convinced them that in
only one way can miscegenation and their
ultimate complete destruction as a race
be averted That way is by never for an
instant lowering the adamatine barriers
that socially sever the white man from
the black. The North, beginning in the
distant past, has exhausted the resources
of Federal legislation in the endeavor to
force upon the South social equality with
it's damning train of evils. We had fiat
tered ourselves that this spirit was dead
or dying. But can we longer believe so
in the face of the Roosevelt Washington
affair? Has not the whole North in the
person of its chosen and highest repre-
sentative by this act sought to under
mine the social wall that holds back this
time of pollution? Did not The Presi-
dents action find quick and countless
echoes at the North, and that in it's high
est places? Has not President Roosevelt
capped this outrage by another in which
he classes with anarchists the Southern
men who as Confederate soldiers strove
herocally to avert the twin evils of CEN
tralism and of social degradation,
through amalgamation? Evidences to
which we cannot shut our eyes prove that
the spirit which actuated him is still
strong at the North.
Now it seems to me that the time has
come for us to protest against all this as
emphatically and energetically as we
know how One very emphatic mode of
protest would be for our Southern pa
triotic societies to sever their Northern
connections. l have reason to believe
that among the North Carolina Daugh-
ters of the Revolution there is strong
sentiment in favor of secession from the
general order 1t is probably as strong
among the Daughters of the American
Revolution. Nor would 1 SANDER our
other patriotic orders by intimating that
it is weak with them. However, / am
sure that nothing would be more grateful
to our people than to see the Southern
members of the two above named North
ern organizations-for Northern in spirit
they most essentially are-sever their
present affiliations and uniting form
society which would cherish Southern
ideals and do full justice to Southern
history
This secession will not be to keep alive
sectional strife but to inculcate high and
broad principles which alone can ulti-
mately heal it, AS people we justly re-
gard the war for Southern independence
as more patriotic than the revolution
principles involved were not dissimilar,
though far more was involved in the later
than in thS earlier struggle. Both were
struggles 9or commercial rights as
against centralism, Imperialism. The
latter was, in that it carried also the
element of social supremacy. which in IT'S
finality, is really social integrity, we hold.
and the future will hold, to have been IN
finitely the more momentous of the two.
The first we won in the field. The god of
battle having decided against us in the
latter. all that is left to us is by an in
flexible adherence to the principles. for
the time defeated. to further their peace
full triumph
Therefore let's form our town associa
tions which can look back with pride
upon our history whole; which can
see in Davis and Lee the logical success
sors, the lineal descendants in patriotism.
of jefferson and of Washington; who can
see in the earnest, ragged Confederates