The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1864-03-27
From Huntsville, Alabama.
Correspondence Of the Nashville Union.l
HUNTSVILLE, ALA, Mar. Dist 1864.

HUNTSVILLE, ALA, Mar. Dist 1864
III: Editor If Washington City can
boast of its Pennsylvania Avenue"
New York of its immense "Parll" and
its broadway" where people do con-
gregate," so also can Huntsville boast
of its Bully board corner, where, from
the rising of the sun to the going down
thereof, are to be seen various people.
Bully board" corner, took its name
from the fact that in the earlier days
of the rebellion, there was located on
that corner, huge bulletin board at
which the young and the old, the rich
and the poor, the halt, lame, blind and
decrepid, were to be seen daily and
hourly, pondering over the dispatches
from rebeldom. Here on this board
was gazetted in bold legible characters,
the dispatch of jeff Davis from the first
Manassas, saying to the unterrifed,
I'VE have captured twenty thousand
stand of arms, enough provisions to last
the Confederacy for three years, and
also an innumerable host of prisoners,
DC" Here were dispatches Of an earlier
date, saying to the perfdeous and con-
glomerated mass of putrid humanity,
who, under the name of Convention or
Provisional Congress, was in session in
that sink of iniquity, Montgomery
here, l say, were dispatches to that
hellish mess, urging them to appoint
A II Stephens, Vice President, in order
to conciliate the Union men" Here,
on the bulletin board on "bully cor
ner," you might have seen dispatches
from Virginia, saying Pope Walker
says that the Confederate flag will float
over the White House in Washington
city III ten days. IT would have better
had he said ''in horn" | said that
various peoples could be seen on "bully
board" corner. By far the majority of
them are very nice, clever gentlemen.
They represent, however, as a friend
suggests, several lists. Firstly, we
have the ''Unionists," the Secession
ists," and the "reconstructionists," and
then the "destructionists. On the same
corner, among those who wear the
United States uniform, we find the lex
terminationist," the "UniOnist,' the
"Amalgamationist,' or to use the more
happy and recent expression the ''mis-
cegenationist." This latter class, how
ever, to their honor be it said, IS quite
small. Miscegenation, or a blending OF
intermarrying of the whites and blacks
can never be general In fact the
northern and western man is really
more free from the probable adoption
of the idea than the southern man.
Such an idea never has and never will
enter the minds of our women north OF
south. God bless the women every
where. They often err, but it is an er.
ror in judgment Except in few iso-
lated cases their hearts are right
They have gone far to assist in the
ruin of the South,-in fact Methodist
preachers and women have rendered
jeff. and his faction great assistance
God knows there are secesh ladies
enough in and around Huntsville. | can
but sympathise with them. | cannot
have the heart even to censure them
There never was a country on earth
where woman occupied so high social
position,-no place where she was SC
highly appreciated, or where more
Difference was paid to her. Every at
tention was paid to her-she was loved
and caressed, and really occupied her
true position. here in the South The
more reason, therefore, for her remain
ing loyal and true.-UNoy.
1t is not for me to lift the veil that
covers the future-it is not for me 70
say whether she will lose by this rebel
lion, the great influence she so nobly
welded, in the good old days Of the
republic.
God grant that she may resist every
outward influence that may tend to
drag her to a level with the general
mass. And in this connection let me
ask letter writers to confne their re-
marks to the times and men. Let the
ladies alone. Treat them with defer
ence and respect Look over their i'm
perfections. Do not criticise their dress
ings and toilette Remember that they
have been shut out of the world for
several years No gentleman will insult
a lady in word or deed Pitch into the
men rough-shod, but for heavens sake
let the ladies alone One little Miss
said to me the other day, (when it was
reported that some ladies, wives Of off,
GERS in the Federal army, had been in