Year: 1879

A WASHINGTON LADY LIFTS THE VEIL BEHIND


WHICH WEBSTER DID NOT CARE To LOOK.
To the EDITOR OF The Tribune.


SIR: The extracts you give from the
pamphlet concerning the Lost Cause" etc. do not
prise those who well posted as to the true in
wardness" OF the Southern mind; and think that
Northern people who have lived South long enough to
understand them will be much inclined to dispute
the assertion that in character the Northcrner and
Southemer have little " in common, save a commo,
language" Either slavery has bred different peoph
from that which freedom breeds, there is difference
back OF that-n inheritance The Northern blood
largely from the English the bluest blood Of the
South boasts being the French Huguenot. We all know
that the English and the French loved each other
much and think it will not be many years be-
fore shall all say that North and our South do
not love each other Northern sentimentasts looking
at the South from a distance travelling there for
few weeks seeing only that "exterior" which au
acute observer says that slavery breeds may fancy that
they could love the people, but after the residence
among them which shows the "inside savage" 1t is
possible for the Northerner to love the South
ener.


There trait OF the southerner which is so con-
traTy the Northern habit friendship
up between the after the difference is revealed
Southern man or woman can be polite and gracious
while he she has favor to ask, and rude and scOrn
fu after no more can he obtained of the victim.
Northern man or woman has pride and selfrespect
which make such things impossible. think TINS differ
between the peoples is almost universal more
general even than the difference between the two In the
matter Of labor. AS general thing the Northerner
loves work and the Souhcrner does not Ii the former
sees his family lacking for food and clothing lie will dig
and be ashamed while the latter will take his gun aud
his shng-rod, and what they cannot supply his family
must 60 without quite true that the two races are
unlike and think IL ia equally true thdt they are not
going to love each other. What thcG2 Must We be two
nations


While chsttel slavery existed, patriotism and human
itv answered Better conflict that should END
slavery than perpetual border waIfare caused by
Gaping slaves; but chatel slavery is ended, and two
natOus mi -ht live side by side in for all that
The free navigation Of the Mississippi might bo inter
feIed with II two nations, but canals and rail-
roads might not be much harder TO build than is the
Federal work OF clearing the Mssissippfs mouth. In
the of becoming two nations we DO not think the
South that desires separation would take more than
part the Gulf Sates North Carolina would prefer TO
go with old Union rather than to trust such Con-
iedeTGte financial genius as once ruined her. Texas
with It's large Northern aud German element, would
wish Join hands in some way with tine prosperous
ald successful North, Tennessee and Kentucky would
decline an alliance that promised much trouble and
tJtle profit; and the Southern ContedeTacy would be
couyelled satisfy It's ambition with what 1t might
svl5 Ar audience though fow," while the great North
IN Of alliance that brought little repose or con-
fort. might perhaps say, " 1t is we'll"


Washington, d. O., April 80, 1872