The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-04-03

IectuaI Tastes.
ass rule, the Southern woman is a
creature of prejudice and passion. She
has ardent impulses, intense affections,
but she is not intellectual. She fasci-
mates by the charm OF her manner, not
by her intelligence. She is not learned
and philanthropic, and angular, like
her sister of New York. She is never
burdened with. Emission" She has
no ambition for a "career" greater than
to be mistress of many slaves, and the
mother of many children. She plays
the piano, speaks French, perhaps is q
splendid housewoman, but of all 'olo-
gies and PHILOSOPHERS she is blissfully
ignorant. She is often equally igno-
rant OF subjects of common intelligence,
which n Northern woman could not
help knowing. And, as ignorance be-
gets prejudice, she is almost always, to
n greater or less extent, senctiOnal and
nnrrow. Even travel and culture will
not make her catholic and cosmopoli-
tan. AT the ends of the globe her CEN
tral idea is to be Southern, and only
Southern. She never reasons; she feels.
She never reflects; she acts as impulse
fmpels. Her hate is as Intense as her
love;- when it is reused she is violent,
yindictive, and bitter. She can be per-
fectly unreasonable, and perfectly ire
sisti6le. She moves men through their
affections and passions, and through
these she can drive them on to the mad
dest end, as she did when she goaded
them on to battle. She sent from her
presence the man that she loved, and
then sat down in anguish and desola-
,tion, to nurse her heroism and her
hate. This is the Southern woman as
/ have found her; but here is one
who bellies just half that have
said. Augusta Evans, Southern
woman. who, in her intellectual
oN1fa tyf Enflth-
ern womanhood, and who stands alone
amid them all. This is Lady Beulahs
who has said so many unhearable
things, that she has proved herself TO be
precisely like all other Southern wo-
men In her passion and prejudice, how
ever much She may differ in the texture
of her brain. This is the very Lady
Beulah who wrote in early days of the
war that she cleaned, loaded and prnc-
ticed on her pistols as she had formerly
done on her piano, that before the rag
ofaholitiOn doated over Mobile. the ha-
ted Yankees would have to slaughter
all their men, and then pass over the
dead bodies of all their women. The
true, vet hated flag, again waves over
Mobile and Augusta Evans is still
alive, as, also, are quite number OF
other Mobile ladies.
This Is the enthusiast, Beulah. who
wrote in her Macaria of the schools and
palaces of art 10 which the daughters OF
the South were to throng, when the
COnfederacy was established ON its
Ecorner stone of slavery" and one race
had reached its highest exaItation by
the degradation OF the other. o, my
BeuIah, how can you, who reason upon
all things, doubt the wisdom which has
brought your dreams to disappoint-
| mentl You say that you have over es-
timated the civilization of the Northi
although ii has poured out upest eul-
ture, generous gifts, and lavish kind
ness upon you. The civilization of the
South makes you a Niobe amid your
ruins to-day. The civilization of the
erin. and great. only because one has
denied and crushed, and the other
poured out its blood for the humanity