The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-08-22
AWFUL DEPRAvITY.

The Richmond Wig holds up its
bands and rolls its big eyes in holy hor-
ror, and with pharisaical piety, e1claims,
What is the North coming to?' be-
cause forsooth, it discovers in couple
Of paragraphs going the rounds of the
papers, that some where out West
two females, of depraved tastes, have
married negro men. 1t seizes upon this
text to read the people of the South a
gloomy sermon, upon the degeneracy of
the age, as eAemplifed by this practical
application of the abolition idea of
equality. 1t asserts that this demon
strates whittier the North is drifting,
and into what whirlpool OF social de-
graduation it is about to draw the fair and
unsullied people of the unmixed South.
We must say that we at first trembled
little ourselves for the purity of ourrace,
and the safety of society, when We read
that among population of twenty-five
millions of people, two women should
be found, whose tastes were SO much at
variance with those of the balance of
woman-kind, as to prefer black to white;
but the old saying of lone swallow
doesn't make summer" came to our re-
| lief, and we felt treasured. The coun-
try, we concluded, would pass through
| the terrible crisis, and our sacred South
would escape contamination. The dis
ease is not we are assured, epidemic
even in the North-though we learn
it is quite common in England
France, and other countries of Eu-
rope. How quick we are to detect
the beam in our neighbours eye; how
fond of sweeping other peoples door.
wards, and of giving charity abroad.
One would suppose, to read the Wing,
there never was such thing known as
miscegenation or amalgamation South
of Mason and Dixon's line, and that all
the octoroons, quadroons and mulattos
we see so profusely scattered over every
portion of the country, are merely
freaks of nature" Will the Wing tell
its readers and the public how many
thousands of people have for years lived,
and are still living, in the cities OF the
South, from New Orleans, Louisiana,
TO Alexandria, Virginia, in an open and
undisguised state of concubinage with
negro women - men, too, of high
standing in society, holding official po-
sltlons-and with negro women, old,
ugly and black as Erebus? Will it also
inform us If such conduct ever in the
least affected the political or social
} standing of these men in the comuu.
, mites where they resided, and where the
, facts were patent to all? And If tho
Wing objects that the moral turpitude in
the male sex is not SO great as in the
female, and the injury to society is far
less, will it be pleased to say whether
q great many instances are not we'll
| known wherein women in the South
| have sinned in this respectp Neighbor.
let us sweep our own door-yards We
do not recriminate in order to excuse
the faults or the depraved tastes of those
neonle in the North who thus choose te
degrade themselves and disgrace thsil
CONNECTIONS but we do know that there
is no place in the world where amaiga
nation, as a general thing, is held II
greater detestation than in the Nortn
and that what is admitted to be q COM
mon practice, and is tolerated at III
South, isnot conntenanced in the Nortn
The Wing win have to find some othe'
cause Of complaint-some other way Y