The
Crackers Conversed With These Children Of Ham, Who
Had Been Stealing Their Hams For So Long A Time,
In The Most Kindly Way, Realizing, Perhaps, That
They Had Various Peculiar Traits Of Their Own, And
Must, After All, Endure Their Neighbors.
A traveller should place facts before his
readers, and leave to them the drawing of the moral.
Northern men
And women who go to the
southern states and reside for even the short space of
a year or two, invariably change their life-long
views and principles regarding the negro as a
moral and social creature. When these people
return to their homes in Maine or Massachusetts
(as did the representatives of the Granges of the
northern states after they had visited South
Carolina in 1875) a new light, derived from contact
with facts, dawns upon them, while their
surprised and untravelled neighbors say: "So you
have become Southern in your views. I never
would have thought that of you."
The railroad has become one of the great
mediums of enlightenment to mankind, and joins in
a social fraternity the disunited elements of a
country. God grant that the resources of the
great South may soon be developed by the
capital and free labor of the North. Our sister states
of the South, exhausted by the struggles of the
late war which resulted in consolidating more
firmly than ever the great Union, are now ready
to receive every honest effort to develop their
wealth or cultivate their territory.
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