The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-01-22
From Major De Forests paper we take the
cHIvALRous souTHRoNs.

'Imagine the wrath of a fine gentleman, once
the representative of his country abroad. who
finds himself driven to open beer saloon.
Imagine the indignation of a fine lady who
must keep boarders; of another who must 90
out to service little less than menial. of another
who must beg rations with low-downers and
negroes. During the war saw women of good
families at the South who had no STOCKINGS: and
here beg leave to stop and ask the reader tn
conceive fully, If he can, the sense of degrade.
tlon which must accompany such noveTtv. a
degradation OF dirt and nakedness and slatio,rr
ly uncomeliAess, be IL observed; a degradation
which seemed to place them beside the NEGRO.
Let us imagine the prosperous ladies of our
clVlllzIatlon prevented only from wearing
the latest fashions; what manifest man
OF us all would like to assume the responsibility
Oh such a piece of tyranny? Moreover, Our
Lady OF Tears the terrible Mater Ldc5rLplaJ,uD,
OF De Quincey's Visions fills the whole South
with her outCries for the dead. 1t is not so
much wonder as pity that the women are
bitter, and teach bitterness TO their children. OF
course there are lower and more ridiculous
motives for this hate, Non-combatants sure of
at least bodily safety, are apt to be Warllke and
10 bloW cheap trumpets of mock heroism
Furthermore, it is aristocratic to keen aIoof
1rom Yankees; and what woman does not desire
TO have the tone of grand society? When viii
thls sectional aversion end? | can only offer
the, Obvious reflection that it is desirable for
Doth North and South, but especially for the
weaker OF the two, that it should end as oulcklv
as possible. For the sake of the entire republic
we, should erdeayor to make all our citizens
ltGl Judb buty are Americans. and nothing
but Americans. If we do not accomplish this
END, we shall not rival the greatness OF the Ro-
mans. 1t was not patrlcianism which made
Rome great so much as tue vast community and
bonded strength OF Roman citizenship. Let us
remember in our legislation the law of soh-
darity; the fact that no section of a community
can be injured without inuring the other
sections; that the perfect prosperity ofthe whole
depenus upon the prosperity of all the parts.
This idea should be kept ia view despite of
proVocatons; this policy will in the end produce
broad and sound national unity. As the South.
erners tf ma that the republic brings them pros
perity they will, little by little, and one by one
become as loyal as the people OF other sections
SOUTHERN INDIVIDUALITY.
whether chivalrous or semlchvarous, the
soulberner has more individuality OF character
than the Northerner and is one OF the most
interesting, or, at all events, one of the most
amusing, personages on this continent if not
in the world. He has salient virtues wees and
oddities; he has that rich, practical humor
which is totally unconscious of being humor-
lstc; he in the gravest manner deCorates his
life with ludicrous and romantic adventures;
in short he is a prize for the anecdotst and
novelist Dixie has thousands OF high-toned
gentlemen who suppose themselves to be
patterns OF solemn aud staid propriety, but who
would be fit 10 associate with the Caxtons and
Doctor Riccabocca. In that land of romance
you will fno Uncle Toby and Squire Western
and Sir Pitt Crawley and Colonel NeWcOme and
Mr.. Pickwick and LIE Chourlneur, all moving in
the best society and quite sure that they are
Admirable CrChtons.
"In what other part OF the civilized earth
would leading statesman write ponderous
political work in dialogue, alter the fashion of
the essays OF Plato and Cicero? such gusto of
classical imitation might possibly be found in a
Harvard Sophomore; but at the South we dis
cover 1t i'll au eX-Unlted States CONGRESSMAN
and eX-ViceP President of the Cunfederacy. v.
Alexander II. Stephens is as redolsnt of Greeks
and Romans, as verdant with lore, as Keitt or
Pryor.
''Where else could you meet such a curious
incarnation of the apostolic character as
---, planter by profession and habitude,
but q preacher by mission? He was passion =
ate 1eIgionlst; ii he met you in the street ne
buttonholed you and vented upon you bis
doemas; chance passers-by were beckoned to
until he had circle; you listened because you
dare not run away. One Sunday, eXhorting in
little crossroads church, and having been
annoyed by two negroes stealing out OF the
house he came to solemn pause in his service,
and then spoke as tolows:-'NeXt Lords day
shall hold worship in this same place. l shall
bring my double barreled gun; / shall stand
that gun, brethren, IN the pulpit, alongside of
me; and II any man gets up and goes out while
am preaching, by - I'll shoot him y
"a haftuddled planter called on me one
evening, and invited me out to treat of ste wed
oysters. The restaurant was the back-room OF
sticky pans, spilled flour, and oaves OF dough; |;
the oyster.can were opened with au old DO Wle-
knife. When the stews were before us, my
friend obserVed:- Come, don't let's eat this ike
A
l declined, lie pulled his broad -Drimmed felt
IRON HIS muddled cIanium and said grace him
self.
"Audacity, vehemence, reckl lessness, passion,
sentiment, prejudice, vanity, whim whams, ao-
surdlties, culture, ignorar ce, courtli ress bar.
barism The individual has plenty of elbow
room Mt the South; he kicks out of the traces
with freedom unknown TO our steady-pull ng
society; he i5 bull in Mrs. Grundy's china
shop. Strangest of ALL he believes that he is
ike the rest OF the world, or, more accurately,
that the Test of the world should be ike him.
The Chivalrous Southron has been too POSI-
lively and authoritatiVely political power to
get fair treatment in literature. People have
not described him; they have felt driven 10
declaim about him; they have preached for
him or preached against him. Northern pens
have not done justice TO his virtues, nor South.
ern pens TO his vices.
'HoW shall we manage this eccentric croa-
ture? We have been ruled by him; we nave
fought him, beaten him, made him captive;
now what treatment shall We allot him? My
opinion is, that it would be good for him an
for us il we should pPTseVerlngly attemptto TO put
up with mis- oddities and handle him as a pet.
He resembles the ideal white bears described IN
the Pearl OF Orr's Island? there aiu'G no
kinder creeter in the whole world ii you'll only
get the right side OF him. II is true that he
has wanted to eat US, which is eXlsperatinp;
tits true that he still talks OF eating us at some
convenient season, which is ridiculous; but
believe that he suffered too much in our late
struggle to seriously think OF renewing il;
hold that his war snOrts are mere election ban,
COmbC.n
From Preachers and Preaching" by
Robert Tones, We take these remarks about
texts and seImons:-
"The text is the keystone ofthat formal strue-
ture, the modern sermon. II was not, however,
so in former times tOr we are told that the Oh
diWnes frequently preached without any text at