The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-20
THE AUGUST MAGAZINES.
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story, by Florence Marryat; "The One Sweet
Thing That is Lost to Ne, poem, by How
ard Glyndon; "The Virginia Tourist, part
III, profusely illustrated, by Edward A. Pol
lard; 1.-The Emperor Alexander" 'The Old
Book-shops of London and Paris" ''Sir Harry
Hotspur of Humblethwaite," a novel, part
", by Anthony Trollope; son the Hypothe-
sis of Evolution" part II, by Prof. Edward
d. Cope; "Our Castles, by Edward Spencer;
"The Hungry Heart" 'sThe Dominican Re-
public and Annexation" by H. Hargrave;
''Noncarra's Bad Luck" ''The Island of
Time poem "Our Monthly Gossip;"
Literature of the Day."
We make these extracts from the paper on
''Southern Society,"
For as yet there is no peace in Southern So
ciety. Passions once reused to full flame re-
quire much time to calm down and to change
into gentler feelings; and with sadness and sor-
row it must be confessed there has been no oil
and no wine poured into the wounds of the con-
quered. Accustomed to act with the liberality
and generosity which are so often found COM
binPd with hasty passions and impetuous action,
the people of the South expected the same from
others, and were disappointed; they fam
cied-whether rightly or wrongly does
not matter so long as the feeling was there
that the purpose was not only to subdue their
strong arms, but to crush their spirits and to
break their hearts: the bread they asked for at
brothers hand looked to them like stone,
and the fish that was offered like serpent; and
the waters of bitterness rose in their hearts
higher and higher. And yet they were silent.
They had surrendered, and they kept their
parole; they had promised to be of the Union,
and they obeyed its laws: in sorrowful silence
they did all they were required to do and bore
all that was laid upon them. The heart know
eth its own bitterness, and they cared not to
lament aloud.
But where men and women, old and young,
go about with such burdens weighing upon their
souls, with grief gnawing at their heartstrings,
society cannot be joyous, it cannot be healthy.
The simple pleasures of rural life are gone
forever where there is no peace of mind; and
how can the cheerful farmer of former days
look with pleasure upon his impoverished
homestead, worked by hired laborers, bur-
dened with heavy mortgages and taxed almost
beyond endurance? The simple, happy
life of the city has departed, and feverish eX-
citement, a restless desire for high-wrought
amusement, and an utter disregard for health
and real comfort, have taken its place. The
sting of poverty at home and the sight of great
wealth at the North, the desire to enjoy life
once more and to drown the narrowing memo
ries of the past, have led to an insane haste to
be rich, which has rendered social enjoyment
almost impossible. Where so much has been
lost, the palry remainder is readily flung after it
into the abyss, and where life becomes lottery,
prudence is laid aside and conscience but too
often bidden to be silent.
Southern society still consists of the same
elements which before the war made it so dear
to its members and SO attractive to foreigners
1t will be different when the present generation
has died out, but as yet we meet the same
large-hearted landowner, the same gentle and
discreet matron, and the same happy, thought
less children as of old Yet the spirit that once
animated them all has changed sadly: they
have all grown wiser in their generation; their
hearts are no longer so open, their hands
no longer so ready to grasp yours with hearty
1T tln.r ,inIo n1npp mani
eion, simple and straightforward. They have
hardened in the fiery furnace: they may make
better citizens hereafter; they have already, in
many cases, become more industrious, more
frugal, more provident; but they are happy no
longer. They feel-a few clearly, from their
knowledge of men and power to read the signs
of the times, others instinctively, often uncou-
sciously-that a new trial is in store for them,
harder in many aspects than war itself. They
have to pass through period of transition, to
work out great problems, to adapt their native
land to a new order of things-to be, in fact,
the pioneers OF new era, and, like the settlers
of the Far West, to pay with their lives and
their happiness for the success and the welfare
of those who come after them.
The greatest of all these problems is the social
question, How to reconcile the various forms
under which an active, aggressive antagonism
presents itself in Southern society? For here
lies the danger: if the manly energy and we'll
tried self-cOntrol of the Southern people enable
them to fuse the new elements into an organic
craftsmanship and personal forbearance, and to
accept wisely inevitable evils in order
to force them to produce good, then the
South will soon be greater and happier than ever,
and rise from the struggle and the suffering
with increased power at home and greater re-
spect abroad. But the task is heavy one
calling not for great acts of daring, efforts o.
sublime courage, but for the far harder endu
submission to the Divine command: ''Bs still
and know that am the Lordl"
1t is difficult for people to sit still when tn,
long accustomed habit of self-government ii
suddenly interrupted by the rule of outsiders
who from the very force OF circumstances must
be without familiarity and without sympathy
with their wants and usages. And here was
the first bitter antagonism arising between the
native aud the foreigner. From the governor tC
the poor-house steward, every Office was filled
by one of that class which soon became known
all over the country as "carpet-baggers.
Many OF them won the respect OF the
communities on which the sad state Of
things not unfrequently forced then
against their own wishes, and these were me-
with courtesy and treated respectfully; but the
simple fact of their being Northerners, con
querors and intruders raised an impossible wal
between them and their new neighbors. The
men mastered the feeling with that facility
which alternate political triumphs and defeat
naturally engender in republican communi
ties; but the women, always more ready K
follow the impulses of the heart thar
no truce and no peace. With that naiv'
ignorance which, affected or real, is thei
commonprerogative, they classed all the new
comers as Yankees, and refused to meet then
in society. They thought this conduct plucky
they called it constancy; above all, they foant
II so sweet to wound where men had failed, ant
to infict pitiless scorn where no other weapo
was available. 1t has been costly indulgence
and bitterly mas many community rued tn
day on which commanders heart was stung T.
the quick by slight offered to his wife; whiI