Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1864-07-14

Mother CARING, Ihpa pFlues anu NV
IDOL Of grandpa who looking through the
speciacles Of sixty.fve years, could not reol.
iect such prodigy in all his protrscted eK
perieuce Dear little Dolly was taught her
first lessons at home Graudps took delight
in teaching her the alphabet and was never
weary OF expstiatiug on the aptness OF bis
pupil Spelling and reading followed in due
time; and then she was sent to school Dn-
ring all Of this period she betrayed no char
actetstics save those Of a sweet, innocent lit
tie girl loving and beloved--a ray Of sunlight
in the home which she blessed with her pres .
ence As she grew into womsnhood, she .
eyinced marked disposition to acquire knowl- /
edge, and read with esgerness whatever books
and newspapers she could obtain Uniortn
natey her fathers house afforded no books
save Uncle Tom Cabin and no newspaper
except the Tribune, and the county paper, |
which wss imbued With the same hue OF poll
tics, aud edited with great ability by Joshua
Walker She read Uncle Toms Cabin over
and over, until il impressed itself deeply on
her mind Its mouslrous Hntruths became
! part of her belet--"glued,' "a it were, 'into
her br in which reason was wholly power
/ less to remove, If reason had ever been al
lowed to attempt the assertion Of its preroga'
tive At last she thought OF God only as n
black deity; the angels were all ebon-hued,
wearing woody wings and the devil she i'm
agned to a slave.drver, with long whip,
whose name, translated into English, was La
gree These conclusions we're all slregtheD-
ed by the New York Tribune, which brought
into the household weekly budget Of lies
bigoiry and ignorance, afordine a vast guam
tity Of mental aliment for the family Dolly
had already learned to associa politics with
religion, not only from the sources Indicated
but FROM the "sa BIB at h school," and from
the Sunday diatrbes Of the Rev. Gourmond
fiuttle, the "minister" of the church to which
her parents belonged The Tribune therefore
became a weekly study and from this she
learned that the South was helplessly depen-
dent on the North, not only for the Injuries,
but for the necessaries Of life that her men
we're ignorant, cowardly braggarts, who could
not he driven out Of the Union--or, if driven
out could be whipped back in the indenticai
space of time known to our farmers as
"brrakfast spell She learned that the South
ern section of the Confederacy was burden
upon the North and was often heard to re-
peat that we had TO pay the postage bills of
South Carolina It was obvious from this, that
Dolly knew nothing whatever Of the trne
character of the Southern people nothing
: OF their territory and resources nothing OF
the value of the Union, which had been ce-
t mented with the blood of our revolutionary
. fathers, nothing of the constitutional rela-
tons OF the States All this a woman is nor
expected to know, unless she turns politician
and assumes to give force and direction 10
= public affairs. But the ignorance of Doll was
Il participated in by old Tearsheet and his wife,
' as well as by the Rev Gourmond Guttle whose
ignorance Was, if possible, more profound and
beastly than that of any of the stupid hearers,
who slept while he preached, when Providence
and the flies permitted.
i OF course such training, und r such cir
Il cumstances and influences, would have de
+ yeopmeut unlike anything W. have conceiv
G ed of womanly character and dignity. IL did
i not therefore, surprise the acquaintanees o
e Dolly when they saw her one day in long
q wagon, with some sixteen others of the SAINT
= mixed sex singing at the top of voice al
ready grown hoarse and discordant
"John Browns oty hes mouldering in the grave,
But his soul rs marching on "
- We shall not pursue the history of Dol
Tearsheet at greater length. II is no doub
e familiar 10 our readers, for those who have
a not seen, have heard of her She ia in all pub
lie places, and wherever she is, she makes he
d presence known, by her loud talk, and studieC
and deliberate offensiveness 10 ladies and gen
- tlemen Her talk is Of blood-the blood o
her neighbors and acquaintanees, who wer'
'e not educated By Mrs Stowe, Horace Greeley
d and Gonrmond Cutie. She may be seen an
evening when at home standing by old Tear
u sheets gate her capacous "buzzum' pendan
= over the ba's, singing the hymn of the grisll
p, horsethief who was hanged in Virginia
o. Alas that native innocence can be so vita
n ted by pernicious education. and the oiiciou
in Instruction OF the ignorant and the vile Tha
the glory, the grace the virtne, the modesty
II the love and compassion, inherent in woman
IT, character, can he 80 far eradicated, and th
NJ vice and nastiness of the virago substituted
I. in Their place
'e TnE driver of the Engine that passed
o' through from Washington TO Baltimor
v on yesterday, reports that he saw onl,
y one rebel on the way and he was hal
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