The age-herald., 1902-05-01
Washington Day by Day

Washington, April 30 = Especially = It would astonish very considerable class of well-meaning inhabitants of the South and of the North to know that the pa- tience of Southerners and Northerners of intelligence and thoughtfulness. in gem eral, is quite exhausted by the intermina- ble and intolerable flow of pathos over our reunited" country. Good people all over the country are tired of it, and the cheap balderdash of it all has brought the more enlightened and representative of the South to the point of actual re- sentfulness they are worse than tired of 1t. The subject was, of interest at one time. but it has been so threshed out by types of good men and bad, and played upon by shallow politicians with purposes of their own to serve, that it has been brought to represent now nothing but the mental rubbish of tiresome speeches.
 This "reunited' gabble is offensive to the great mass of Southerners for worthy representatives of the South have never taken any considerable part in 1t. The Southerners have been content to all low their actions to speak for them. By their works have they made themselves known in the. nation-buildng ever since the Federal bayonet was taken from their hearts and they of their own power re- moved the negro and the carpetbagger from the Southern seats of the mighty.
 The southerners at home are justly en- ragged against Crumpacker and Crum- packerlsm, and all persons who adhere to T,,dI nd the and negro-loving patriotism which he so outrageously represents. They are igno- rant of Southern manhood who are blind to the fact that all the Southerners do not bitterly resent Crumpackerism, for Southern manhood and self-respect still are strong in contemptuous resentment. Southerners loathe Crumpacker aIfd all his associate political bandits who have tried and are still striving to betray the good faith of the South and outrage Southern men, women and children by forcing upon them by the Supreme power of the Federal government the domina- tion of the negro and his political leaders.
 One of the Crumpackerites, South erner by birth and a present member Of Congress, declares in private that he 1 rather his daughter would wed negro than a white Southerner. His daughter Is an ideal young woman, physically mentally and graciously, and her family on both sides of the house has been Southern for two hundred and fifty years every drop of her pure blood is Southern gentle blood. Yet her father, having fai- len to the political and immoral level of Crumpackerism declares he'd rather have a negro than a Southerner as son-in-law. The mans name cannot be. given in this place for the reason that it might involve the names and veracity in unholy political controversy-might drag outraged nodes ty and innocence into the presence of Crumpacker and his negro-loving- asso- ciates.
 On the part of the great mass of the Northern people there is no love for the white people of the South. Those of us who are observant and who come into personal contact with considerable num- bers of Northerners are freely aware of this. The chasm has been safely bridged, and at either end of the bridge there are no sentinels. But while the Northerners don't love us of the South, they do in general entertain kind feelings towards us; they do regard Alabama. Mississippi and Tennessee as being as thoroughly in- tegral parts of the union as Iowa, Penn sylvana and Connecticut. They know the civil war is over. and they demand an end of all the gabble about a reunited country" They believe 1t would have been better if the President hadn't allud- ed in his Charleston speech to the worn- out and tiresone subject of the reunited" North and South; they believe that Sec retary Shaw in Pittsburg ought to have talked about something else; they are of the opinion that Crumpacker, Gillett. and all those brigands of buster against the South and sworn adoration of the ne-