Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-02-28
Glimpses at the secesh.

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A member of the Both Ohio Regiment
writing to the Cincinnati Commercial from
South West Missouri describes as follows
"HIGH-sTRUNG" FEMALE REBEL.
"We camped four miles from Columbia or
the grounds Of the wcalthiest man in the cou n
ty, DIR. Jacobs. He owns five hundred ne
grOes, and large number of farms We
thought we would accept a half invitation to
sup with him, and eight of US repaired to his
plantation and enjoyed his hospitality. Ii
has been very strong sGcesh, but is very anx-
/ ious to have the war close; and like thousands
of others here, thinks the South has made a
failure this time. But not so with Mrs. Dr.
Jacobs: she sailed into the dlning-room when
supper Was announced, and took her place at
the head of the table, remarking, gentlemen,
| l shall give you rye coffee, it is the only kind
| use since the blockade"
have seen goodly number of blnoded
secysh fenlinincs, but Mrs Jacoks was the tar
far cnaefic of the lot. She gioried in being
: born South, and thanked the Lord that her
! foot had never been taime{by Northern dust"
( Says she, II never have, and never will associ-
ate with Iiis Missouri trash, have nothing
to do with them" I changed the subject By
reularking That the coffee was good. Yes"
says she, we make good coffee, oEr fathers in
the Revolution drank it. and reckon we can;
blessed are they which are prosecuted for
Righteousness sake, for theirs is the Kingdom
of Heaven The ald lady tFicd her hand
boldly OD Scripture during the evening, and
openly declared that our government was
worse than Queen Yictoria's or NapOlcon's.''
Suffice it TO say, we left her in better condi-
tion Of mind than we iound her The next
morning we heaprq GOALS upon her head by
sending her large package of pure Java
She appeared dumhlcuud;d at the present aud
insisted upon returning the compliment by
return of presents. The poor woman had
never before held conversation with North
cru man, and from this possibly may date
new era in her very LigQtea aud aristQGratic
life"
THE "roQR WHITES" OF soUT4-EAsrERN vIR-
GINA
Are thus described by the Fortress Monroe
correspondent of the New York Evening
Posts
"In consequence of the peculiar state OF
things now existing only few miles from
Fortress Monroe and Newpart News, it is diff
ficult to get at all the rX4ct facts with regard
to the white laborers Of Southern and Eastern
Virginia. Enough has been ascertained, how
ever, to show the follOEiag things to be true:
I he white laborcrs Of Southern and Eastern
Virginia are generally dissatisfied with the re-
bellion. 1t is Il fact that the whole eastern
shore of Virginia has been fqg long time
eOntrlAlei by the representatives of not more
than twenty families. There is not one puny |
little tO%n on all that shore of the South
region where some of the richest soils is to be
found the numkcr of laboring whites is |
only few hundred. Vle most Of these are
employed in the lowest kind Of drudgery. The |
laFk b4dge of slavery extends its shadow over
them-lcgruding their labor, chilling their mo-
tivcs to industry, cutting down their wages TO
the lowest fgEFes, and discouraging their NOR
al, social and intellectual elevation. l have
ncvcr knO%fn more utterly wrctcEcd people |
take them as class. 1t is Lo woEder we
hear 50 little from them in this great national
struggle, To browse, to fish, to hunt, to botch
us carpenters, to cobbe as shoemakers, to ddub !
as painters, TO impoverish the soil as farmers,
to be sovenly as hnusekcepers, to be ignorant |
in letters and super stitinus in rcligion-these |
are the cOncomitunts of the vast majority of
the sea coast poor white aborers of Southern |
and Eastern Virginia. What marvel that men.
women and children i'll the valley OF The shad- !
ow IF death should give but small Signs oflife?
Who would be free, tIemsev strike the blow
But what if they had no strength to strike
it?"