The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1862-08-21
[From the Wisconsin state Journal1
A Curious Picture of Southern Life
and Manners.

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The annexed extract is from letter
written by DR.. e. Read, Surgeon Of the
2lst Indiana Regiment, to his brother.
Prof Read, of the State University
At our request, Prof r. has permitted
US to copy it. tits proper TO add that
the writer, DR.. Read, has been a promi
nent member Of the Democratic party
in Indiana, and was Douglas delegate
from that State to the Democratic Con.
vention at Charleston, 10 1860. lie
gives strange and startling picture of
Southern life. Let those who are in
the habit of charging "negro equality"
and "amalgamation" as consequences
likely to suit from the ascendancy of
the Republican party, read this lot.
ter, and see whata state of things has
grown up under policy opposed to the
Republicans. The italics are in the
original letter, and not ours
BATON ROUGE, La, July 18th, 1862.
There is majority Of the people
here who are, and always have been
for the Union. They are the men of
property and wealth, who desire peace.
The rank rebels are the rowdies and
scoundrels who have nothing tn lose
and all to gain by every revolution and
turn of affairs.
To certain extent this is true of
New Orleans, but they are the most
easily subjugated people / have ever
seen or read Of, and they bear their
suhjugation with much patience al d
docility for proud, high-toned, chival-
'ou' people. They all look and act like
dogs which you catch stealing, and
whip.
There is no danger of their ever ris O..
ing up in rebellion again. They are
very tired of this, as they are all bro.
ken up and suffering for the necessa. .
ries Of life.
There is too much mixture of the
niger blood with the white here, to
permit the people to be brave, or pa
triotic, or great.
The white woman here is socially de-
graded, and no man is ever estimated
by his family, nor does any one ever
inquire who his family is, where they
live, or how.
You can see that the wench, here,
feels her superiority over the white
woman, because the white man, by his
acts and choice, gives her the superiori
ty. The wench puts on airs, in the
streets and elsewhere, aud the white
woman feels degraded, and is degraded
Is this the way to rear brave sons ?
This amalgamation exists to a most
wonderful and alarming extent; and
all the great merchants, bankers, and
attorneys, whose names excite your
admiration, are the keepers and sup
porters of sinking, disgusting negro
wenches, whose Ethiopian lips hang to
their chin, and whose Congo odor
ought to drive a gentleman from tn
streets wherein she walks.
Il is no fiction.
l have loved to tell them of it, and of
their practical amalgamation. They
admit it, but don't like to hear it.
God deliver ME from Southern chiv.
airy from Southern people, from South
era habits and customs, aud above all
from Southern amalgamation.
There is another class Of chivalry
here, who may be found every day at
the hotels, with gold, headed canes, and
who are loafers, who have married some
poor shop-girl, who tolls to support
them, or who ara living with some
Ethiopian wench, and are supported
by her, from her market or street sale.
of wares or fruits. They drink at sa,
, looms, promptly, every day, from 10 A
NJ to meridian, talk largely of AbOli
tionists, Yankees, &C., and of the right.
of the South. They even dine at tn,
rate of SO to S5, at hotels, which il
paid by the tolls ofwomeo, and to ,
stranger have the appearance of grea
importance-men of weight and char
aoter.
AN ANGELIC "SLAvE CATCHER