Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-04-08
sOUTmEnE MORALS.

The civil war in America is giyingus some
free lessons on II variety of subjects Many
of these are outside the enclosure of politics
and commerce We are learning what, but
for this occasion, We might never have
known so we'll; something of the tone Of
morality, prevalent in the Kingdom of Cot.
ton. For years past the people of the free
North have been too willing to PROSTATE
themselves at the shrine OF Southern man
ners and fashion, This seryle disposition
has cropped out in divers ways, AT north
ern waterng-places it has been customary
TO do homage to these Southern lords and
ladies, to ape their manners court their at
tention and fatter their vanity. To hail
from the sunny South was always free
passport to the "best society" and to be
noticed by Southern planter or his
qneenly lady was almost pledge of immor-
tai renown. We have seen the very persons
whose sons husbands and brothers are now
falling before the cold steel and balls Of
Southern rebels, gaze upon these lorlly aris.
tocrats of Charleston and New Orleans as
if they We're some demi-gods, aud land them
a. If THEY ONLY had reached the climax of
all real gentility. All this fine phrenzy of
delnsion "a dissipate'l, We sincerely hope
the days of such humiiating obsequiousness
are past forever
Nothing has been more clearly brought to
the surface by this satanic rebellion, than the
utter emptiness of Southern morals and the
purely artificial quality Of slave. driving gen.
tility and manners.
ne Norlhern admrer who IN former days
was too glad to dof his hat and catch
smile from the hroad-brmned naboh nn his
summer tour little dreaming that some
day, some magnate might use his admirers
scnll as a drinking emp or twH il on the
point of his stolen bayouet We are surely
learning some things which We did nat know
or ut least would not believe before The
word barbarous fails to express the state Of
morals exhibited by Southern rebels during
this war Savage ferocity scarcely ever
equalled in tue history Of any warfare, has
been praeticed under the eye and with the
inelt or expressed approval of their leaders.
by Southern soldiery. A tierceness, yindc-
tiYene5s and hate almost consuming, show
themselves everywhere among the people, if
we are to credit their news journals South
ern women mot to speak Of their silly echoes
in the north) have shamelully yuusexed them.
selves, and shown the malice and malignitv
which only an infamed and misguided wo-
man can show. There has been but one
spirit animating the papers Of the South,
" breathing ont threatenings and slaughter
against the " Yankees" whom they teach
The very children to regard with absolutely
hendish hate. And this is Southern moral
ity and mauuers This is the quality of
people whose supremacy we are required to
acknowledge, who for half a century have
ruled This nation. And we are to remember
that Tins state Of universal Generalization,
IS not of sudden growth. 1t is the natural
and inevitable fruit Of the system of slave
ry which has inwronght itself with every |
hbre Of the civil and domestic constitution.
which has abridged the gospel, prostituted
the pulpit, corrupted the church and dehu-
menl4ed the masses Of the people J