Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-05-21
NASHVILLE, TENN. WEDNESDAY, MAY 81, 1862
The Ladies in the captured CitIes.

she Ladies In the Captured CITIES.
An article with this caption appears
in the Richmond Dispatch of May 9th,
which is certainly the most whitening
rebuke to a certain class Of females
which we have sometimes had occasion
to speak ofin our columns, that has yet
come TO our notice. The Richmond ed
itor has read frequent accounts of in
suits offered wantonly by rebel women
TO Union Objects and soldiers, and so in
dignant is he that women should so far
diyest themselves of their,native modesty
that he declares these accounts must
be fabricated by their enemies. Could
more scathing censure be uttered
against female insolence?
From the Richmond Dispatch May g.
Nothing has disguised us in the letter
writing denominations of the Northern
scribes more than their absurd stories Of
the department of the ladies in Nashville
and other captured Southern cities TO
the Yankee invaders. The accounts they
publish of vulgar cOarseness to them, on
the part of well-bred Southern women,
are evidently the carnations Of their
own coarse and vulgar minds We do
not believe that Southern ladies would
cOndescend TO make SRde}icate and tnladlI-
| like manifestations of their detestation of
the invaders. They would not put them
| selves on level with such creatures, nor
unnecessarily expose themselves TO in
suit. Their adherence of them is too in
tense and profound TO babble like shall
low brook. II is too aacred and digni-
fed to fret away its force in idle words.
There are some things so holy, that il is
saCrilege even to discuss them, and some
wretches SO vile, that the denunciation Of
the good and pure, instead of acting as a
reprooG only elevates their self-esteem.
The deepest feeling are always the less
| demOnstrative, and passion that vents
itself in words is rarely deep seated and
long lived. We do not believe the gross
Yankee libels upon our country women,
not only because they are ladies, but be-
cause they hate and scorn the invaders
! of their country with depth and inten-
| sity which can only be expressed by the
most frigid reserve and scrupulous
avoidance of all communication with
them.
And now let the poor delicate crea-
lures who have been in the habit OF
growing when they meet Union officer
"Lincoln shoulder strap" and "Lincoln
dog "look in this mirror held up by a
rebel friend and "see themselves as 9th
ers see them" Unlukily, however, for
the Richmond paper it records with great
satisfaction the following conversation
which took place at Norfolk between q
soldier and a she-rebel, which exhibits q
coarsencss in the latter almost unparal.
leled.
One of the Federal soldiers went into
a millinery store, when the following
cOlloquy ensued:
Yankee-Have you any Grape?
Lady-Yes; what do you want with
it?
Yankee-To use it for a mourning
badge.
Lady-Who is dead--one Of our sol
diers
Yankee--No; one of ours.
Lady-Then you can't have the Grape
So the Yankee had to do his mourning
for his dead companion without the show
Of Grape.
Think Of a woman displaying the fe
rocity Of hyena which digs up th
bodies Of the dead, aud violates the sane
tity Of the grave