Year: 1879

tics and business Judge of the Superior
Court OF the State and an active practising
lawyer of Raleigh, and has contributed sew
eral widely known volumes to the law ltera-
ture of the State, enjoying all the while as
much OF the confidence of his neighbors and
coworkers as any Northern man can expect,
| he has determined TO leave tho South,
because he finds it impossible for a Northern
man OF independence of mind to live there
with comfort. A TRIBUNE reporter called upon
him to get some statement of the difficulties
of such position as he has occupied. Mr..
Tourgee talked freely on the subject, the fol-
lowing being the substance of his remarks.
Mr.. TOURGEE'S EXPERIENCE.


These difficulties are very hard to explain to
one who does not understand them. They arise
from the inherent differences of character between
the two sections, upon which political diff
ferences are based. newspaper corrcspon-
| dent is disbelieved because he is supposed
to be unable, during brief visit, to get
at the facts; and Northern man residing South is
regarded al liar by virtue of being 'carpet-bag
ger all of whom are considered to be rascas and
baters of the South. The Southern man is by habit
and training intolerant. Excluded by slavery from
the rest of the world, he learned TO regard all who
| differed with him any topic necessarily
inimIcal. Evidences of good will, sympathy, iden-


tty of interest, are all dsregarded as as the
outsider expresses difference OF opinion He at
once becomes the object Of the hostility which was
formerly visited upon the abolitionis and which Is
now transferred to all who represent 20 them the
idea of the North. He is not 'bulldozed at pres
ent; that is, he is not in danger Of life or
limb in the daily pursuit of his business.
At the same time he is distinguished against
4 fborn In rxyhi iala fa Of
fectually prevents his taking root and feeling that
| he has home. No matter what his cXertiOns, posi-
tion or sentiments he remains alien in the regard
| Of those by whom he Is surrounded. He may over
| come individual enmities and win individual
friends. but tho collective sentiment of the commu-
nifty Is against him. What he gets he must win
against the greatest odds. Every presumption is
made against him."


"Is it directed against his business 7" was asked.
"YesD was the reply. He feels it there at once.
| To illustrate: A friend of mine, having a case In
court, overheard a juryman say he would never
give verdict in favor of man who employed q
carpet-bagger' for lawyer. In any business he
meets this prejudice and is obliged to carry weight.
business with capital to invest, as in store;
would be we'll patronlzed so long as he held his
| tongue but after he had spoken freely or showed
| any inclination toward independence of thought,
| not even the cheapness of his would savo
him from losing tho custom of all grades. He is an
object of constant suspicion. and every act is liable
10 misconstructon. This feeling Is universal and
| ingraiDed. 1t only he compared with what We
would feel toward a stranger who should differ
with to the propriety of marriage. Every
| Northern man represents TO the Southern man the
historical foe whom he honestly believes 10 como
| with some sinister motive against the South"
RESPONSIBILITY OF THE NORTH.


no Won than hold the North resuOusbe for this
sentiment |"


81 hold the North responsible for not recognizing


il as an element that must enter into all it's dealings
with the South. 1t is there, and must be allowed
for. Instead the North at the close of tho war;
| sumed that the South what the North
would have been under similar circumstances.
and blundered into o scheme of reconstruction
| from which they expected tho settlement of the
differences between the whites and the blacks. and,
after that, q reconciliation and EZRA of good feel
| ng' between North and South. They did not
know that the training and character Of all South
erners made 1t impossible either that they should
ever regard the negro as political element.
enemy or aly or the North as anything but
hostile forever; and blame them for not knowing
and blame myself for not knowing. l thought
could live South In 1865 there less bitterness
| than now The rebel soldiers yet alive, who
| respected their late foes and remembered the
earlier days. But since then new generation has
grown up, nurtured in hostility. have
hundreds of the best kind of friends at
the South, and have received countless
| hospitalities there, and AIN now receiving
expressions of regret at my departure But behind
| ii all Is the ineradcable prejudice against the
Northerner and, except among the most intelligent
classes such as the BAR 1t never be worn out by
personal relations.


$50 far as this is serious National difficulty,
how would you have it met +"


"Icannot say The result of the policy for tho
past fourteen years. which ignored the sentiment
speak of and hoped for a change of feeling
| more miraculous than the orthodox change
of heart. has been to make the
! South more united anti-Northern, more
| determined to dictate in the Government moro
powerful To do so than ever. Southern whites con-
troll the former slave population, not by means OF
its vote but by finding means to prevent Its voting
OF TO prevent it's votes being counted; they have
gained in representative power. and they aim,
with certainty of success, believe, at the control
of the Government. Years ago they seeded TO pre-
serve slavery. Now they no longer wish
10 dissolre but TO rule The whole Is
| better than the part, ana they mean To
have the whole and will either drive the North into
rebellion or force violent measures 10 prevent their
ascendancy In all except the actual result of the
physical struggle consider the South to have been
| the real victors in the war. am filled with admir-
ration aud anazement at the mastery way In which
| they have brought about these results The way IN
which they have neutralzed the results OF the war
and reversed the verdict of Appomatox the grand
est thing in American politics"


| wr.prrn WITH THE STRUGGLE.