The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-17
Unatta nnbIe 40 pure rectttude Isl
1 and N az long continue 70 be, we must
/. keep an eye on the compass which
+ tells us whereabouts II lies Or we
ahaiI otherwise be liable TO 4 Ntander
1 m son,e opposite direction. IL &
iaa 589 Herbert Spencer.
a! Voice from the Tornbs.

AZ Voice from the Tombs.
q if Tn nm article remarkable either for Its
ignorance. or deliberate n1srepreseent'a-
ZION. the Philadelphia North American
delivers Itself OF series Of dis
connected opinions on the Solid South We
say disconnected, for the connection be-
tween these various remarks Is only
Mound In the last paragraph, which en- ';.
ijpialns that the love Of Philadelphia for
5sthe South ana Its desire for Southern
NJ growth ana Improvement Is caused not
only from spirit OF good-fellowship, but
.3 because Southern prosperity means more
trade for Philadelphia. The article is too
long to reproduce In whole, though n IS
worth treasurng and remembering as a
III Judgment which Is as bigoted and as
@ malignant MS anything furnished by the
palmiest days Of the New England aDolt-
y tionists. n,
In part the article says: a
'is The people Of the Southern States are
~ Just the same kind OF, people as Amer
leans Of other regions; and yet by them
4; the line Is drawn between them. and
l,other Americans with strong positive
hess. 49, "A Northern man who goes
to the South, even to find warm greet
Il ing and many friends, is, IN sense, a
n marked man. 8 He 4 is regarded aa an
n alien. II he would have peace, he must,
81 In a. large degree adjust his opinions to
those that rule in the community, and
Y no risks social ostracism unless he can
u,nsent to cast in his lot with the DEM
q Cl.rats. = n Il The talk is the talk Of
John Browns time of the days sot the
appearance OF Uncle 3s ON $ $g5E Cabin
43ssof Il period Of the II Fugitive Slave
5!law a a . .s. The spec tacle Is Afforded Of
ifda high-splrited, bright-witted and ex-
cee1lingly capable people. who do not have
ia chance to Keep up with the national
PROCESSION because they have bound
themselves hand and foot to dead
t!hssues. = = = 3 4
five do not think 1t possible that any
n NORTHERN representative. not matter how
forlorn and debnsed such a man might
II be- could in our time have drawn q
knife and rusher to assault another rep
IRE sentative in debate. as a Southern man
did the other day in the House, That
kind Of thing belongs to a far past
time. It belongs to the time when Brooks
nssniled Sumner, or to the day when
+ John Randolph and men Of his kind
fought as freely ms they ate or gambled
or blasphemed. 1t was n distinctively
g$ Southern performances : - There can
DO no large Roadway whiefthe South Is
n solid for the Democracy and ~ oc-
cupied by fantastic fears OF the
force race equality on the Southern
ers and nobody could do It If such a
purpose were entertained The appre-
tensions OF that catastrophe arc the
III grotesqua and ridiculous Inheritance Of
Fl the times just before and Just after the
war, s4W I'LL M j
The people OF the South. according to
the North American, # are just the same
( kind Of people as other Americans. No
y one can believe that the obsessed writer
on the North American really thinks SO.
His whole mental atmosphere snvors of
one who obstlnately wanders amid for,
gotten tombs. entirely Obvious Of the
throbhing and prosperous life without,
of which only he continues to remain
SIN ignorance
We OF the South. who are going about
our business as American citizens, with
only the fear OF God and love OF country
tbefore our eyes, had Imagined that this
sort Of raving was no longer possible, Wo
arc occupied by no Fantastic fears OF
&P the negro" We have not even any real
& apprehension OF harm to our reputation
or prosperity from such dIsordered mag
Things as the North American nuts forth,
We even believed that the protestations
y ,fof virtue that that paper had hcen SO
yociferously making wero based on SYM
Il, pathetic and Intelligent understanding OF
A the American spirit. North and South
So far as the North American Is con
cerned. We were wrong. But the strabs-
mic vision OF one organ FOR personal ex.
ploitatton is not the voice or View of q
h whole section. The North American is /,
be thanked for its yindictlve. bitter ans
2 ignorantly unjust criticism. because j
shows how hopeessly that journal ia OH
OF touch with the true attitude of tn,
North towards tho South,
The South, as the North American al
leges, may DO backward, but no sectio
@ OF America has made more progress i
wealth. education. commerce or manu-
faciure than TINT some South, "whic
can not keep up With the national pro
cassion because 1t Is bound hand an
foot 70 dead Issues Not even tho TART
protected and bounty-fed millions whic
hays made the North American possibl
have so prospered In the last two dc
cades. ;.. tlt'5
Bat what has been done in the sout
Is In spite OF, and not through Jack Of
Assistance from the Republican, part,
The simple truth Is that the great ma
3orisy OF southeEners have, beer force
to learn MISREPRESENTATION, and therefor
they are Democrats because they, beliai