The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-08-30
AsnrInI Wander.

The rebellion, that indignant shake.
ing of by The master race" Of The Sum
ny South, Of the political, educational,
commercial and social ties Of the North,
has exhibited many wonders and mys-
teries, during its progress. But the good
city Of Nashville, (Heaycn purify her,
and cleanse her from her manifold sins,
and make her the nursery Of loyalty y
has within the past three weeks Utterly
dumbfounded US. We are informed
that large number Of fashionable fam
lilies, decidedly rcbellilus heretofore in
all their feelings, have packed their
trunks and gone of to take pleasure
tour through the low, degraded, uneigil-
lied, barbarous North, where all the Ab-
ohiionisis live It's so. Bewitohing
young Flora McF'lmseys, whose bright
eyes and lovely faces,
"Nelt tempt The anlhpof 40 Anehorite,'
for kind nature gave the jewel of
beauty literally 70 the stately matrons,
and young damsels Of Nashville-and
who, six months ago, were so intensely
Southern that they wouldn't look at the
North Star, or Ursa Major, for fear they
were Yankee inventions, have deliber-
ately, in cool blood, packed their two
and forty Saratoga trunks, with oil sorts
Of sweet smelling little Tulllss, and
lacee, and unwhisperables, white as the
hands, and fragrant as the balmy breath
Of the angelic wearers, and gone off to
ride on gorgeous Yankee steamers, and
Yankee railway cars, TO eat, Eve sup
pose they eat-in our counting days we
waited on good many who were con-
siderably gifted in that hne) at Yankee
tables, and sleep in Yankee hotels; to
luxuriate on Yankee fruits, creams, ices,
and innumerab!e delicacies; to at
tend Yankee concerts, theatres, op
eras and churches; and last and great
est ofsll, to 90 shopping at Yankee stores
which glitter resplendently as a sky
festooned with aurora borealises, tapes.
| tried with the FURNISHED clouds of au.
tumnal sunset, and garlanded with ali
the rainbows, and parahelia which have
blossomed since the creation They
have finished up ali the horror which
they used TO express at the north
| and all the extravagant admiration they
used for Dixie, by turning their b.. ks
upon the Celestial Empire of tao South
ern Cohfederacy, and flying into the arms
of yankeedom, for recreation, pleas
ure, and peace They are right. The
land Of freedom is the true-land for wo.
man. 1t 10 in the Free States only that
those sublime aud holy and pure princi
pies prevail, which ennoble, and protect
and guard her sex, with the shield AMI
spear of III comfy true chiyalry, the chiyal
ry Of justice and right What has slavery
done foi. woman? lthas made all la
Dor degrading and nnwomanly, ant
then relieved, perhaps one woman il
fifty, from the necessity of toll. II hai
placed before their brothers and sons th,
temptation and degradation of the coars.
est debauchery, and trained them TO thu
code of the duellist, whose arguments
are the revolver and Che bowie-knife
These things are the ,a'e in slave society
and The reception in free society. In thu
first they are demanded by the code o
honor, and in The second they arc badges
of disgrace. Free society too produces
all those ingenious and beautiful labor.
saving inventions, which make life agree.
able and comfortable, and which con.
tribute so much TO the attractions O
home, where woman reisns supreme
Therefore every Southern woman should
use all her influence to effect the remoy.
al of our great social incubus aud curse