The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-05-14
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se The Ladies and ths sopsh.
A Yankee scribe in the Baltimore American
delivers hi~sslf Of disqaisition upon the
question, Why the Southern ladies have al
ways been against Lincoln, and even GOOD
many Northern ladies are on the Southern
side He admits that the facts are 70, and
can only lind this reason for the mystsry--
that the ladies are fond Of aristocracy and op-
posed to svsrythiny Of republican char
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: Such . solution - this 10 worthy the pro.
found philosopher from whom It smanates -
That ladies' have an irrsconcilabls antipsthy
to that which b low and coarse, 10 true enough,
and that in this may b found one reason for
their aversion to Lineolndom 10 undsniabls-
Nothing could well b more intensely vulgar
than the man whom the people of the North
have deliberately chosen Is their representa-
tive and ruler, though he is less nsussating in
his undisguised blackgaardisms than his prime
minister, Seward: . creature even more de-
praved in his morals, whose elaborate imita.
ton Of the habits and manners Of good socisty
cannot conceal from the world that he is ia
no respect well bred man; and, what ia far
worse, hes none of the instincts of gentle
man. Liks the master ID his following, and
never, We suppose, since the world begun,
were q many blackguards collected together
under the banners of civilization az the scra.
pings of all Christendom, the maltitudinous
/" lewd fellows of the baser sort"-who have
undertaken to subjugate this beautiful land
That there are gentlemen among their military
leaders, no one doubts. Mcclellan has that
reputation; but it has been q serious draw
back to him with his party. The genuine Re-
publican journals abuse him all the time, and
indeed it is impossible that any public senti-
ment and public taste, of which Horace Gree
Icy is the recognized exponent, should pardon
any man who is suspected of the double
crimes of humanity and good manners.
In taking such trouble to explain why the
ladies are 80 universally with the South, the
A~ericam evidently feels the moral weight in
our favor of this undeniable fact; but its so.
luton of it is preposterous. The ladies are
NO doubt on the side of good manners and
clean faces and hands, and it may be admitted
that they do not admire people who utter
through their noses all manner of rudeness
ard bad English; but these are the mere out
ward signs of an inward offsnsiveness that is
the real cause of the antipathy that the Amerl-
can finds such difficulty in explaining. So far
as aristocracy is concerned, they have at the
North al aristoeraey of its sort-that is, an
aristocracy of wealth, made up of people who
had their origin in the low places Of the earth,
have brought up with them all the essential vul
garity oftheir unclean beginnings, and are the
most pretentious, ridiculous, and disgusting
aristocracy ON the face of the earth If to
dress in purple and fine linen, to live in splen
did houses, and shine in fine carriages and
liveried servants, make an aristocracy, the
North has more than its share of it, whilst on
the other hand, none Of these things have
ever distinguished to any great extent the
Southern community. The maoners Of the
Southern gentlemen are in general remarkable
for their plainness; their style Of living is Sim
pie, snd the vulgar love of show and ostsn-
tation thing unknown. Genuine sristocracy
there may be; and when we can be shown a
country which has not an aristocracy of some
kind, whether it be Republican or Monarch
cal country, it will have to be pointed out to
us in some other planet than that which we
inhabit. In every country the enlightened
and refined portion must and ought to have
the ascendancy ,andths time has gone by when
to admit that self evident fact could be de-
nounced as high treason against republicanism
Intelligence, moral worth, and interests in the
promotion of good order, must be the controll-
ing influences in every social system that is
not destined speedily to relapse into chaos
Demagogues may inveigh a. much as they
choose against aristocracy, but it il only that
they may become aristocrsts themselves
Whatever may be said against the hereditary
nobility Of England, we believe that it 10 the
best part of that kingdom, morally, intellec
tuslay, and even physically. But to say that
the ladies Of the South and those generous
Northern ladies who sympathise with Us, are
actuated in their sympathies by love Of aris-
tocraey, unless it be conceded that aristocracy
is q synonyms for all that is good and beauti-
ful in politics and morals, is as great piece Of
nonsense as the Baltimore american ever ut
tered.
The mothers, wives, and daughters of the
South have deeper and purer motives than
their enemies can comprehend. They may not
comprehend the mysteries Of politics: they
may not be able to harmoni2s the independence
of State and Federal sovereigntiee; but they
instinctively recoil from injustice, oppression,
and from what is worse than all, contact with
evil Woman il the custodian Of the virtue
of the world. She is the fountain either OF
sweet or bitter influences to the whole human
race The Southern women, refined, p;ous,
and high-toned to degree never surpassed by
the women of any other race, have long dread.
ed the evil effects of Northern morals and
manners upon Southern society. They have
shrunk appalled, from that ssething aood OF
infdslity, fanaticism, licentiousness, and false
hood, which eompoees at this day the elements
Of Northern socisty, and have prayed Heaven
that wall of separation might bs bailt up
high az Heaven itself between this bottomless
abyss of corruption and their own happy
homes. This is one reason why the women of
the South sympathise with secession, and rsa-
son enough, without seeking another in that
dislike of vulgar and coarse people which the
American snsers ct ~ "aristoeracy," but which