The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-13

ONE WOULD suppose Cnal tue game VI III
suit, sneers and exasperating abuse o
Southerners pursued by the radicals before
the war, might, after having produced its
natural aud desired results, be now desist
ed from 1t is common thing with big
bullying towards, who desire to thrash
smaller men without making themselves
amendable to the law, insult them until
pressed beyond their powers of endurance
they strike the first blow; but few, even
of this stripe of humanity, are low enough
to keep up the same style of address after
they have succeeded in their object. In
the same way that we in the North might
feel, if some English tourist should pick a
filthy and degraded female from the streets
or almshouse and depict her as a specimen
of ''native women," so every Southerner,
Unionist as well as rebel, must feel when
he reads such accounts as the following
from the correspondent Of the Chicago Jour
nal. with Rosecrans' army.
aPicture human female in dress hang
ing limp, with the look and grace of a dish,
cloth on fork, and resembling IN tint the
inky map Of the benightsd portions Of the
globe; an unmarried female with the mod
esty of COW; piece of tobacco in her
mouth and two patches of children at her
heels, and you have the counterfeit present.
ment of several have seen. They infest
quartermasters, commissaries, command
ants of posts; their hungry looks attest the
nature Of their errand, and their incessant
I've cum for sich's you've got always
meets a response in the shape of 'hard tack
and bacon from Uncle Samuel's locomotive
pantries. The men are with the rebel ar
mics, and the women are starving. All
through this valley, miserable inhabitants
have no prospect of food for the coming
winter but the bounty Of the Government.
Thesepoople are free to falkland allow that
the .Yanks are not the terrible Huns they
had faucied them, if anything so lightfoot-
ed as fancy can be predicated upon any.
thing so lifeless as these poor creatures.
They all indulge, when they can, in the
practice of which so many disgusting pic
lures have been made--the practice called
dipping Take little stem Of althea,
chew it into bit Of broom at one end,
dip it in snuff, sweep your mouth with it, and
leave the handle sticking out Of one corner,
like broom in a mop pail, and remember
all the " lille that it is a woman's mouth,
and YOU have as much Of the fashion as
propose to describe. Just here and now,
tobacco, aud not cotton, is king. Negroes
will sing, dance, or cry for it, and the sift
ings of soldiers pocket are eagerly scrap
ed up by the natives, and the little broom:
speedily raise dust in it,"
The Nashville Despatch copies the above
and, with great self-command, comment. q:
follows
1--WE have seen q number Of Just suct
caricatures as this of the women of Ten
nessses These writers possess a lively
Imagination, and do not fail to bring all it
qualities into request when writing abou
our native women. These writers cannot
find one in thousand Of all the womeI
they have seen in Tennessee that, By th,
greatest stretch of fancy would be recog
nized as the original of the description VI
have quoted. Such caricatures may pleas
the rabble, but they must surely DISCUS
f the sensible portion of the readers of th
! journals in which they appear"