Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-01-29
The Uomen of the SJufh.


teuigcncer, who has recently been on
Southern tour, writes thus of the wo-
men OF the South,
Southern women have not, as yet,
become enthusiastically fond of the.
Union they were the most rebellious of
rebels during war, the termination of
which they viewed with most poignant
regret. Had they controlled its destl-
MES, we feel quite sure it woul be ra-
cling still. They made personal sacriii-
ces for it while II lasted, and were ready
and anxious to offe- up all they possess
sed upon the altar oftheir cause. They
would have wished the fight to continue
behind every bush, and would have con-
tested every inch ofSouthern soil.
II is article which is published APP
provingly by the Richmond, Va, South
ern Opinion, endorses all that has ever
been claimed 10y the loyal people of the
country, that the Southern women were
the most hateful among the Rebels. If
ii is true that had they controlled the
destines of the South the war woul
have been raging still, it is an addition
nj argument against women suffrage,
especially in the South. They WOULD
have been guerillas behind every bush,
and this would have been bad for the
Yankees woman behind every bush
would have been too many to have sue
cessfully conquered. But it was net Or
dained so to be, and the war closed with
the capture of their Commander-in-
chief behind Il bush, in woman's ap-
parel.
With the good grace of Nor hern wo-
men, whom they have been pleased to
ridicule in times past IA factory opera
tives and laborers, they have adapted
themselves to their new situation as fol-
lows:
AS it is they have suffered much but
they bear their misfortunes nobly. We
know of two ladies, daught rs OF an En-
L. S. Senator from Virginia and for
mer ambassador at one of the first Euro
pean Courts, who were the bellies of the
gay capital to which their father was
accredited, yet who to-day are uncom-
plainingly earni.g their livelihood in
Richmond as mathematics. We
know of another lady, a daughther of
one Of the most ancient ana wealthy
families of the State, who is teaching
school in Richmond, and her daughter
is cheerfully filling the position of gov
erness. We might cite many cases of
this kind, yet they do not repine at
their misfortunes, nor regret the strug-
gle which thus reduced them. One lady
told me she thought that four years of
independence of Yankee rule was an
ample compensation for all their suffer-
ings which we thought, however, was
stating the case quite as strongly as the
truth would warrant.
The war, then, has been Of some ben
eft to the women of the South from it
they have been able to rise above their
dependencies, and to rely upon their
own eXertions for livelihood. 1t
would have been notifying to their
pride once, when labor was made dis
honorable by slavery; it is to be so no
more. The women of the +. +. VS..
are now in n fair way to attain to the
eminence reached by the women of the
Free States, and we congratulate them
upon their new situation. Speaking
on the same subject, the New Orleans
Times says:
1.-THE widow OF one of the most dis
tinguish ed of the Lieutenant Generals
of the Confederate army, who, before
the war. possessed great wealth, and
had been reared from infancy in the
midst of every enjoyment and luxury
is now q teacher in II young In iicS
school in this city. We are glad to
learn that the estimable lady referred tc
has every encouragement to persevere
in her entirely new pursuit. She had
already been preceded in the same ca
reer by a near relative of Jefferson Davis
who, too has been made a widow by
the war, and thrown on her resources
for support. Nevertheless, and despite
her delicate organization and want OF
previous training, this lady set to work
SO zealously to qualify herself for the
duties of teacher that now she is at the
head of one of our most popular and sue
cessful schools for young people in the
First District. These are only two OF
many similar examples of that true he
roism which so gracefully adapts itself
to the most violent changes of fortune
and instead of pining anu wasting with
sorrow over the sad bereavements o
the past, cOnfrOnts and cOnquers the
seveIest adversely by noble fortitude
constancy and courage
That which the women OF The Soutl
believed to be the greatest curse WHICH
could possibly befall them, labor ha
proved to be their greatest blessing, an
wepredict for them glorious future by
reason of it.
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