The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1866-06-29
A "High-toned" Southern Gentleman.

As is well known, the only true gentlemen
IN the world are the Enlightened" sons oil the
Rivalry who live down South. All other va
lies of gentlemen are of an inferior race,
their tone is not so high by several de-
Is. The Northern mudsill pretenders to
lie breeding, in particular, are low-toned.
re is as much difference between them and
high toned" Southern gentlemen as there
etween low pressure and high pressure
am boiler. The low pressure boiler Is a
dgar, though safe, affair; the high pressure
kae mes eXplodes and tears things, but It Is
a. q powerful. such mettieSOme and alto
ther rip-roaring institution that it needs to
treated with due respect, and handled with
are. So the low-toned Northern gentleman
las notions in common with petty trades
men" "greasy mechanics" and Goldfish deal
ers," concerning mercantile and other vulgar
varieties of honor, deems it disreputable to vi
olate an oath, don'trecognize any vices as gen.
tlemanly, will not allow even "nigger" TO
Guido him in poiiteness, and actually does not
regard labor as degrading.
On the contrary, the Enlightened" gentle
man OF the South is far too high to own any
sentiment in common with less exalted per
sons. His principal labor consists, frequently,
in seeing how "high" he can get. As to pos
Sessing any sentiment in common with labor
ing men, or having anything to do with them;
except in the way OF business, that would be
beneath his dignity. He was created, in his
own opinion, to be looked up to with awe by
laborers, not to stoop to respect them. How
ever, he is almost invariably red-hot john
son man in politics.
A curious illustration of this Enlightened"
feeling has just come to light in Texas. We
find it recorded in the Galveston NeUs, in the
shape of letter, which reads as follows:
ISLAND CITY HOTEL, June H.
EDS. NEWS:-I have been informed Tonight that
It has been currently reported, and believed, that
there is general officer Of the late Confederate ar
N.Y. now at The Island City House, who mas solicited
and received from the President an appointment un-
def the United states Government. believe there
ale but persons the hotel answering this de-
scription, Gen. N. g. Evans, Of South Carolina, anu
myself
Upon the part of both us, 1 deny this report.
believe can say for Gen. Evans, tor myself,
that haze at time held any intercourse sci per-
sns Of the location to sohich, lam informed, Mr..
johnson belongs, except in relation to tie making
repairing Of clothes.
Respectfully,
ARTHUR PENDLEToN BAGBY,
of tine late Confederate Amy.
Surely, this is sufficiently Enlightened" to
suit any latitude From the lofty pedestal of
"high-toned" Southern responsibility, Arthur
Pendleton Bagby, ESQ.,, lace rebel General,
looks down upon the pigmy elevation of the
Presidential station, and observes with calm
contempt the vulgar tailor who occupies the
chair OF Office. From the bar-room of the
Island City Hotel he observes the White House
in which tailor, a member of clothes, is
lodged, and brushes aside the offensive vision
with enc aristocratic hand, while, with the
other, he pours down a Enlightened" lbation
of whiskey in honor of the "iost cause" which
those'vile and base-born louis, the Northern
mudsills, compelled him to drop, fguratively
speaking, by administering sound kicking
with their heavy military boots beneath his
"high-toned" coat-tails, until he and his fell
lows cried enough. Still, although he has i'm
bibed certain respect for mudsills in blue,
with muskets in their hands, he feels it incum-
bent upon him, in order TO preserve rem
nant OF arlstocracy, to declare that he is still
altogether too heightened" to have anything
to do with a tailor (unless he is soldier)
except in relation to the making OF repairing
of Clothes"
We congratulate Mr.. johnson upon the
success of his "policy," particularly among
the "frst families" and the LEADERS of society,"
at the South.-Detr0it Post