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The Views Of Experience

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Day
10
Month
June
Year
1870
Copyright
Public Domain
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The Washinjlou correspondent of thö Interior, a Prenbytirian jourcal publisb fd at Chicago, writea as follows : "A few dajs sime tiie wriier met on ihe oirs a Nui thern womnn, who from the bvgifining of the ar lili tha presen ti in e bas beeu engaued titlier in min tering unto our soldier or assUting tbe Greedmen. She craa one of tho lieroii.es of tbe war; her various exploits u btuinÏDg tappliea for our surteiin;.' soldierara amoiig tho roinnntic incidtnts of the struggle. Uor opinión-, thun, are not likelj to be liased by Southern tympnthy or pivjndice. 8ho ia i.ow ugat-d iu e.-tabÜBiiiig au industrial Kchool for tho blaoks in cue of the rfouthcru States not jet quito reconstiucted. She detiounced i severo terms wliat muy be Jitllod ihe extieroe r.idieal views óf tlie Nortb, as tendiug ooly to injare tinnegro, to porp.Hua'e ill-feeüug, andh indor the progresa of the Souib. She deelarcd that ihe presepoe of lbo soldiers as a benefit to no Ooe, but au idJui-v U "' far ' ote reecived uo prutecu'on from tho military power n her work aud abe needed nouo What the Degniea nccd, she said, ia not politieal teaching, ftspwationa, nor offic s, butsleady nduetry, wlnch wil] ereatu y capital aud un ediioatiou which vul] fit tliom at lergh tor Jifo and higber duties She said that the class of Nerthern men who bave goi.e South Lare in too uii.uy instatices, brouglit discicdi upon tho wh..]c Norili bociiuse tlioy went, not to aid in buildïug up tlie country, but to oblain office tlncugh thu negro vote, or specuhitc and gather what they oould, aod tbeo re luro. It was. sho declaied, not au uncominon tfaiog for these raen to bire a plmUtii.u, get what ihey could, aud theii depart, und pay neither tbe rent tho laborurs. Tliis testimony is given, as it a- received, froiu one ho at least his hd abuodant nieans of obsei vation. It may perhaps lead to otie conclusión, hat the soouer we ceiise to shape a Souihern pnlicy solely in in i terests of a poliücal pa'riy, tho better it i will be for tho cilored peoplo as woll as í tho whitcs." i There is much food for reflexión io the above. We have tio doubt tnat the poliuy of recoustructiou adopted and oarritid out at WwhingtOD, ouimot bul woi k uiischief, ue t was not fouuded on justice, but bate, and party fear, snd deaire for plunder. The wMe renonstructicu policy has b(;eu solely in tb interest of the repiibliean p;irty and ■ t..r purtJy p:irty purpi.ces. The Sou:hern penple wejc . ,,_ Q for t)j0 benefit of the n arty, and the neyro was to bo pat 01 tb kuuib social and politioiil plan wih the white for the lenefit of the republicau party If i( had been supposed that reeonetruetion would not have belped the repul.liean ' party, we should have had none of it. ' Thuugh it bentfits nciiher the wliites ' jor tlu bia-.ka :inywhere, it s of ue to ' hepa-ty, puts owr ioitM hands, and ' aves it from .lenth. That is about tbc 1 ffholeofit. ' jaggeis glve the party its eharaoter, yet ' veu a bad charuoter is considered ' 'erable to yielding up th ghost.

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