The Pine and the Palm Greeting: Or the Trip of the Northern Editors to the South in 1871, and the Return Visit of the Southern Editors in 1872 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Pine and the Palm Greeting: Or the Trip of the Northern Editors to the South in 1871, and the Return Visit of the Southern Editors in 1872

When, in 1865, the great civil war was brought to a close, by the sur render Of the Confederate armies, hopeful persons in both sections confidently expected reconciliation. The North regarded the South as necessary to the perpetuation and prosperity Of the Union, or her people would never have submitted to the unprecedented sacrifices they were compelled to make in order to enforce that bond. The South lay helpless, crippled, well nigh ruined. Her people, with an unanimity scarcely exampled in the history Of nations, had given their all to the cause they so fondly cherished and which they believed to be just. Stripped Of her wealth, her fields laid waste, and in'many instances homes that had protected generations desolated, bankrupt and without a currency, she naturally looked to the North for assistance and for the means of recuperation. The South in her then condition was but a barren conquest, and experience told but too surely what would result from the imposition of harsh measures and the prolongation Of those animosities begotten of internecine strife. Americans are by nature generous. The struggle over, the victory won, the prejudices occasioned by untoward events over which neither side had control softened down, the proper thing to manly and magnanimous natures seemed to be reconciliation.

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