The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1863-05-12

THE EXCEPTION Acr.-The late Act of Con.
gress to amend the Exemption Act passed at
preyious session, win be found in another column.
IL will be seen that that clause of the Exemption
Act which exempts zone person, agent. owner OF
overseer. each plantation on which there are
twenty negroes" has been repealed. The amend
ment adopted exempts one person on each farm or
plantation on which there are twenty or more
slaves, provided the plantation belongs to minor,
person of unsound mind a teme sole unmarried
woman), or TO person absent from home in the
military or naval service of the Confederacy, and
for the overseeing of which it is impossible to pro-
cure a person not liable to military duty. The
owner of the slaves and plantation for which q
person is exempted agent or overseer is required
to pay into the Confederate Treasury the sum OF
FIVE hundred dollars annually. With this exception,
the Exemption Act stands it did heretofore.
MIsTAKEN-The Yankees made a very poor
calculation when they settled down into the belief
that they could starye the South into submission if
they could not whip There is danger OF
starvation unless Providence is against u.s. which
we do not Believe. From all directions hear the
most cheering accounts of the crops, and we are
told that even the women are in the fields, working
with all their might-some who never did days
work out of doors in their lives before now put
ting their hands to the pillow. Can people who
have such noble women ever be subjugated! Never,
never. If the men were to submit, the women of
the South would resist to the death. They have
determined that their children shall never be the
subjects of Abe Lincoln or be ruled by Northern
men.
FEMALE ORATOR AND PoLTrICIAN.-The
Yankees (of course the Yankees, for other people
would SO disgrace themselves,) have got female
orator going through their country advocating the
prosecution of the war against the South. She is
called Miss Anna E. Dckinson,'' and we find in
late number of the New York Herald an account
of harangue she delivered at the Cooper Insti-
tute in that city. Ex-Gov. Morgan, Henry w ard
Beecher, and other prominent fanatics were on the
stand and the Herald says the house so
crowded that hundreds could not gain abundance
all to see and hear poor, silly woman expose and
disgace herself In the synopsis of her speech we
find the following sentence:
"After an eloquent e1ordium, Miss Dickinson de-
fined the fight which the country was engaged in
as contest between intelligence and ignorance
between cultivation and brutishness-b between the
niceness and refinement of civilization and the I'M
couthness of barbarism."
OF course she claimed that the Northern people
were the intelligent. refined and civilized class
while she illustrated the reverse in her own con-
duct and person; for that no respecta-
BILE Southern woman would consent to make
public speeches to crowd of Plugs and
"Shoulder strikers" and fanatics 6 Miss Diekn
son. was particularly severe on what she called
the democratic Generals of the North, such men
as Mcclellan, Buell., &C., but she complmented
Butler and for so doing received round of APP
plause. Such is the low and degraded condition of
Northern society, i. e. the ''intelligent refined,
"cvilized." Probably Miss Dickinson is only hunt
ing husband, instead of advertising for one in the
New York papers, as many of the Yankee girls are
doing. They are the "refned' cream of Yankee
land!