The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1865-08-09

,ioy VISIONS aurcls long to share.
TnR WoMEs OF THE SoUTH-It is not surprising that
the women Of the south are the last to accommodate
themselves to the circumstances by which they are
surrounded in consequence of the overthrow of the
late Cuntederacy They would be either more less
than women it otherwise. It is their nature to
a8geof the things through their instincts and sympa
hies rather than through the logical processes of the
understanding. And these instincts and sympathieS
rre cultivated to greater degree among them than
among tie men, by the greater liberty of expression
accorded to them in consequence of their Nor do
they feel the responsibilities Of the future results of
present actions as the men do acting, is their won't
from the impulse Of the moment without any calcula-
tons as to the future They quicker and more in
tense in their feelings than the indulge them with
rore a6a1adoz and, indeed have less power to control
them The strength of their character in the single
ness depth and force Of their hearts, and their lives
c0lored and controlled By their affections Facts
However stubborn, do not change their feelings Logic
however powerful, may oTerwhelm their understand
g, but il IS repealed by the tender and partial aec
tons. woman, to be convinced must be convinced
ID heart This citadel of her character must be taken
or else she Will there maintain impregnable position,
even after all the outer defeuses of and fact
have heen swept away. Force can never conquer
those impulses and sympathies Of woman which have
refused to yield to fact and argument. The greater
the force, and the more vigorous the application of it.
the more determined and undying the opposition. A
nSi4Uu Bcip LHLlIS tlOSB apply force 10
herself IN matters Of feeling, even if she would
Women know nothing, or at least realise nothing of
the feeling OF men in yielding to the fortunes Of war
Men recognise the validity of force for they have
been accustomed to use it, and the legitimacy of
quest of authority and power for they have
been accustomed to seek authority and power through
the agency of conquest. But women recognise the
validity of force but that of moral suason and the
legitimacy of the power of no conquest except the
power gained by conquest Of the heart. And though
women may have logical doubts Of the legitimacy
OF that upon which their hearts are fixed, vet if
without respect to their feelings they are forced
70 give up the cherished object their logical doubts
once disappear, and they are, from that moment
WINGED that they both logically and sentimentally
right all the time.
The heart Of the rebellion was in the hearts of the
women Of the south. Never on earth vas cause SO
cousccrated by womanly affection the cause of the
southern Confederacy. All their Dreams all their
romance and Imagination, all the poetry of their ma.
lures all their love for husbands sons brothers.
friends were concentrated and ncarnated in it. They
9Fercame their peculiar weaknesses in its behalf and
anGde them elements Of strength for its support They
did more to fire the southern heart" than all other
influences combined when once the war had commenced
IL is only necessary to alude it to bring before the
mind of the whole country the various pictures with
which the now sad memory of our people is filed of !
the departure of the different companies and regiments
sor the seat of war, The women universally tnrned I
out 70 bless them, and to do them honor and to en-
grave upon their hearts visions of home and love AID T
beauty and dependent innocence to inspire them with
Uatent endurance ndomitabe courage, and unwaver-
ing honor Tender female hands wrought and presented
banners, with iaspiring notices and devices Cloth
Ing made for the soldiers by the same hands;
cotton and wooden cloth was fabricated; sock were
AnSt and mementoes of womanly regard, useful and /
otherwise, were laboriously wrought with the scanty
means which the state of the country allowed and /
cent OH their uncertain Grand accompanied by words
Of cheer, in prose and poetry, to the boys" in yir
GINA Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and Louisiana
And obi the prayers and tears and anxious suspense
Of mothers, wives, sisters, and sweehearts as the
weary months and years rolled By, with the varying
IF the war; and the news so long in coming, and
letters reighted with intelligence more precious than
gold were delayed, lost captured; and some of the
darling ones siekened and died, others killed on
the bloody field and Others still captured and
confined in distant prisons.
But amid it ALL there was not the shadow OF doubt
upon the hearts of the women Of the country that the
glorious cause would succeed and the blessed sun of
peace would finally arise with healing in his wings
upon land proud of its independence though sore
and unsghtly with sears. And then the final crash,
Hope dead in Instant All staked and all lost! The
whole spiritual wealth Of noble wealthy-hearted race
Of women all expended, and all for nothing-but sub
ugation. The women Of the south must be excused;
they will be excused They cannot cease to mourn
heir dead-heir dead sons, their dead country their
dead hopes! Telegraph.