Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-06-03
sonthers Artstocraox.

i"S OVuHuce VI Tue paTOleu olhcers OF
Johnstons army who are hanging around
Raleigh proves that Southern impudence
needs further discipline. Many Of these
men are spoken of frequently os Sou.he
gentlemen. Ii is suggested that as we
often alluded TO person as being a gentle.
man aud a scholar, so those who now term
the chief rebels gentlemen evidently need
some qualifying adjective TO denote the
character of the person spoken of, and
this ought to lie added. Thus General
z. I. q. Beauregard should be called
"a gentleman aud liar" lbe Hon.
Wgfall, Of Texas, "a gentleman and q
swiudler, lor gentleman aud q murderer
the late John B Floyd was 20 gentlemen
and q thief" Governor Lstcher is 80 gen
ileman and drunkard;" jeff DAsis Is "a
gentleman and bauk robber;" Plckens. of
Soulh C1roliuo, who "was born ,insensible
for fear" might be cailad 20 gentleman
aud fool;p Governor Wise, of Virginia,
sn gentleman and baggart.' Then there
is B,uj min, whom bis Yale College friends
would call q gentleman aud o pickpocksi !;
George N. Sanders, who is gentleman
and defaulter; General Forrest, O gen.
lleman and cut-throat; John Morgan,
gentleman and horse thief Then there
is General Lee, who is a geut'ensn and
deserter, or u gentleman and perjurer:
or, remembering Il a. under his tys and,
by his connivao,e G thousands of his country-
meu were tortured 10 death 10y starvation
aud exposure ut Belle Isle, General Lee
might appropriately be called gentleman
and torture, OF gentleman and execu
tioner--just as Wilkes Booth would be
called gentleman aud all assassin. Gen.
eral Winder was gentleman and brute;
General Beckinridge, who tet FIRE to
Richmond, is gentleman aud house.
burner; Captain Semmes is gen leman
aud pirate; and any one who has seen
the scars on the backs of colorel women in
South Carolina will naturally think of q
cotton planter as q gentleman aud q wo
man-~hipper.
The chlvalry warriors in Raleigh, before
alluded to, do not demeau themselves otter
what is popularity supposed to be the usual
and correct manner OF the vaDqnished =
On tho contrary, they swagger They
spread themselves exceedingly. They bear
about them the aspect Of copquerors; and
are, so to speak, rather Extensively demon.
straiiye Of their late ttaitorous and shame.
fal occupation. They are evidently proud
of their gray livery of treason, aud sport
it aaunlingly on house piszzas ard the
stress called Hlllsboro' and Fayetteville
the Eff b avenue and Broadway of this
delightful little city. They are the vel
come guests Of tho wealthy secessionist
,;,;,o,c o,,l tho uohlac, ~ Loroo.
the wivesland daughters of the place. -
They have cut out completely from the
good graces of ,be,e lovely aud accom-
pished beings the brilliant youths in shoul
der straps red blue, who for tie past
three weeks have had the field to themselves
There is much consequent green eyed
monster lurking about several headqnar.
ters. Several galIans members of the sta
almost wish the surrender and parole had
never been accepted and allowed
But if this is the blissfnl portion of the
rebel officers, far otherwise is it with the
privaies. From the late confederate pa
trots SO rampant here, they receive moth
ing but neglect aud iliconceuied disgust. -
They may siarve and rot, ss hundreds of
then would do. but for Uncle Sans bouH.
.iful and benefcient quartermaster's and
commissary departments. Many have no
food, or place TO lay lher heads, except
for the charity of former foes, who proved
more generous than pretended selfish
friends. The cold-hearted brutality of this
southern aristocratc element to all but
those whom it considers its equals is a
frgh,ful phase OF human depravIty 20 con-
template. Ii seems 10 have cultivated an
Indifference to the joys sand suifefings of all
but its own exclusive class, which is as
utterly inhumam and ptiably weak as the
similar brutal stiocism OF the French no.
blesse of the time Of Louis Qniuze.