Year: 1873

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From the Richmond Enquirer.


That there should have been for some TIME
after the close Of the war continuance Of
alienations in feeling, of the South from the
North and of the North from the South, was
neither unreasonable or unnatural. The
strife between the sections was fierce on
both sides. The men who were fighting for
the preservation Of the Union believed they
were right, and the men who were fighting
{ Z the preservation Of the rights Of the
s ats were satisfied of the justness Of their
cause. AL argument had been fruitlessly
exhausted on this side and on that; recipro-
cal remonstrances had failed; there was no.
thing left but to determine the great issue,
finally and forever, but an appeal to arms.


In the height and heat Of the conflict
when each party to the struggle is equally
actuatea by IN earnest canyiction Of the
niehtfalness ofi.s cause. it is well that there
should be strong passion, deep feeling, hot
hatred hurled from one to the other, for
otherwise neither can do justice to itself.
War means violence. It means men tight
ing with men as tigers fight with tigers. It
means the retirement Of reason and the let
ting loose of the baser elements in the or.
ganism Of humanity for tie settlemept Of
differenceis hy bodily strength, Which the
mental and moral powers Of the dnputants
have been unable TO settle The asperities
and severitics, the hardships and horrors Of
war. may be, In some degree, ameliorated,
by an exercise Of mercy and generosity on
the part Of the captcf 10 the captured, the
armed 20 the dinfnSd s6ldier; but civilised
warfare b paradox - contradictory con.
nection Of antagpn;stic terms 1go' lse 81


The Sonth was sorely stsicken in our Sec
tional struggle Her gallant soldiery won
impsriyhable hcnors; but the failure of their
cause left thousands Of them who survived
homeless, helpless, and almost hopeless; and
the .brys men still living, who bors the
heat and burden of the day, who were at
the front fighting from first to last, who stood
as long o men could stand between the in
vaders and their own fresides, are not. all
who have suffered, sadly suffered, since the
cessation Of hostilities. All the people of
the South, men, women and children, had
such scenes of desolation- sometimes OF
Observation-Disclosures them when the contest
closed, as made them feel there was wan
tonness of warfare on the part of the Union
armies, made them fear that there would be
no magnanimity extended to them, and
made them bitterly remember their bitter
wrongs. It was in accordance with human
nature that they were not eager TO hold out
the hand of friendship and fellowship TO the
men who had recently borue theas duwu IN
arms upon their own soil and ut thoir own
doors, while in the Northern press they
were still reviled as ''traitors' and "rebels,
and while the Government, to which in good
faith they had sworn allegiance, was treat
ing them as if they were revolving subjects
subdued, instead of citizens Of the. same re.
publican country who had fought fairly and
bravely IN cause that had its origin in prin-
ciples proclaimed by the founders Of tho
Union, and often upheld by some of the wi
sest statesmen of the North as well as Of the
South.


As time has passed away; as the sac, bit
ter and burning memories OF the war have
been chAstened and softened; as the pas
sions of both sides have been calmed and
cooled; as the Northern people and the
Southern people have been bfough ht together
again in business intercourse and social re-
lstions, the feeling of unffiendliness be.
tween the two sections has grown less and
Less. until at last we may hope that soon,
very soon, it will have faded away forever.


ifit DO true, indeed, that there is a more
generous disposition on the part Of the par
~ "a possr, toward the South now than has
Ssre.o Gore been shown, the Administration
has Ony to manifest it in acts and facts, as well
~ words. TO induce the people Of the South
70 accent the assurance Of more magnani-
nous policy toward them, and in turn &C:
cord 20 the Government due degree Of
nraise for its milder temper and Its more
national guardianship Of the interests Of the
country. -


However we may differ, politically, from
the party in possession Of the places and
mower of The Government, We are always
ersti6ed to see any and every indication OF
q return of fraternal feeling between the
North and the South, and always pleased 70
hear intimations Of an improvement ~ the
policy Of the Administration toward TINS
section Of the Union.


FLORIDA IsprASs.-Minor Jones, OF
Suvannee, sends the Jacksonville Union the
following: There is a strange statement