Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1866-04-09
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Rsplying y . eoaris allusion Of the New
York Tribune to the womea of the South,
the Oosrter Dc Etats Unis says:
Let ~ permit the Tribune 70 insist upon
tho gross Ignorance" Of Che Confederate
women. and to refer to this ignorance their
energy and conAtancy during the war. We
attribute the qualities Of which the South
esn women have given noble example 70 .
higher origin. Ignorance, the Tribune has
said it hundred times, can engender only
vice end nsanness- and, II the Confederate
women have been heroic, it is because they
nad saisn To their cause. There are occa
ctone To history when women, whose mission
10 ordinary times 10 to make tho good wife,
the tender mother, and to polish manners
~ the charm and grace which she brings
MTG oil social relations, may rise above her
self and give examples Of the highest virtue,
Thees occasions occur when the sacred sol.
of her country, and with it Tor through ID
the domestic hearth and the family are
threatened with invasion. These high vir
tues the women Of the South have practiced,
wisheut ostentation, without theatrical
parade.
They have borne oil privations they have
defied oil outragcs BY their proud And i'm
passable attitudes. Soldiers, drunken with
oioods could outrage their bodies, but their
victims remained - pure ~ those Onri Il ian
vtsgins whose memories the embraces ..ol
the exscutioner could not defile. All thskis
precious 70 women-dress, Jewels, the l1k
ertes Of home-all these the Southern va
- gave up-they did not even recoil be,
iofo sscrincos still more painful-tbev did
not fear to break their hearts by sending
forth their sons to do battle for 1 cause. ga.
cred 10 their eyes, like that Lacedemon a n
mother who showed shield to her son and
said simply-return with it-or upon lido
ny duty or die. Do not expect such trials
elevation.
And while desolation over all the hearths
81 the South. while mothers had each day
ire:h tears to wipe away, yet bra,cly bore
sneit 8rlef. now were the women Of the
North employeds In developing costly
luxury against which the Tribune itself
crisd out, calling attention to its scandalous
extent. feminine prcdigali,y became more
and more unrcstrained. We know to what
disastrous result this state Of affairs had led,
some ladies, It is true, like Miss Anna Dick
lse0nsgsvs tiresomc lectures to protpiscuous
audiences, others clamored for pretended
woman's rights, aud exposed themselves to
tho derision Of the public; and others still
enrolled themselves under the banner Of
miscegenation. It il among these classes Of
women, who defy good sense and modcsty
y peblte exhibitions. that the Tribune flnis
il ideal. .fs4 IL =
Lot this jousnal, Their, cease to insult these
conquered women, Of whom the defeat has
net diniaished the greatness; let it cease to
embitter and dishonor its pen in sustaining
an iodefensible paradox. The North. like
The South has its oontihss as Or Good brace
Eo'se educated and elegant bred wonen;it has.
large aumber Of that alaan no 40
''!tse ds6etve the name Of womeH, and for
vhem eoseaih announcements IRE made in
the jouraslt; il possesses, also. : greater
share Of learned and pedantic ladics-hnt
Ior these will New Orleans nut beooS,e en-,
vsouS Of Boston. As for good and we'll bre
!scietys It is the same everywhere add the I
Tribune may be sure that woman Of the
wessd p0ing from Boston, would not fee
eae OF plAcs in New Orleans, nor would the |
b true. In eliminating the |
sWoutn, Nj 0teelev las simply |
proved thaE h. doss not know then. ana hat |
% knows still lens the comm n laws Of pro.
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