New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-10-11

other side OF the story ha0 sucn Cio"'
! and moderate expounders before the war
| You are sure of one thing-thas you nave
I never fallen before among such people o.
| the Rose and her kinsfolk, men or women,
! who took life with such easy, lazy gooo
| hnmor. who carried their opinions, thell
! i0ys and woes so out of doors, or who II
| their every day habit recognized the people
! who ON earth do dwell as one great family
I partv. whose privilege 1t was to be help1u
! and friendly together. Trying to reconcile
| this with your ancient doctrines concerning
slave owners and Legrees, You iail asleep
| the Rose forming q bewlldering, allurlng
centre to the kindly little drama.
| With the new day these trivial perplex
/ tiles renew themselves. You closely observe
| the colored hoy who warts upon the Col
I onei at breakfast. or the saucy-looklng mu-
| la.to maid behind the Roses chair, for any
sign Of arrogance OF chagrin on the part OF
| wsite or black, at their change OF position,
| but find none. Whatever may he the cen
| ditivD of affairs in South Carolina or Ioor-
| ola, here both parties have accepted the
situation with the passive good humOr pc
| c,lIiar 90 them. The Rose, 1t Is true. rates
| her maid. but now, in her piping compass
! sionate tone. assures you that tho "pooh
(! ere etures' are utterly unable to care for
! themselves: that Papa assures her the ra-
! ace must become extinct out OF slavery:
| Papa says there is no real civilization for
| any Of the cOlored races; the Indian will
always bs a wild animal the negro do
mes,ic animal. tits terribly sad, is it not =
| pinniag bud OF pak laurel coquettishly
! in her bosom.
| Bat il You chance 70 talk to one Of these
I domestic animals You tud their shrewd in
1 telligence far in advance OF the same class
! of servants in the North, white or black.
| You can not make any animal tine object OF
! ing him at least in regard to his Importance
and chances The boy behind the Culonel's
! chair cOntdes 20 you his plan of ''buyn'
a small place in te fall, q few
| acres OF mountain pastur', and maxim
| somethin' uv hissef." Roses maid thinks
| '.ef she was Nawth. and eahnin' twelve dol
| lahs months instid NV five, she could make
| su.Dethin' w herself That something can
| be made OF them selves is the point where
in they differ FROM the Colonel and his
! daughter.
Another puzzhng observation you make,
I which is, that tho Rose, unlike her North
ern sister, is totally unconcerned to keep
up appearances" The Colonel. in old times,
was wont at this season to visit the White
| Sulphur Springs in state, with superb
l display Of equipages and servants. The
! Roses mother blazed in diamonds and
| Partisan dresses. She herself, then child
| of five summers, dainty in costly en-
! brOidery and lace, her hair flying free, and
! her white feet bare, looked as it born to
| command. She does not pretend to COM
| mand now; there is no effort to hide the
! lack Of jewels by cheap tinery, or to conceal
| the patched furniture, table linen, or
cracked mirrors that fill the scram bling,
| implanted, unthrifty house. She tells you
! the Colonel tells you q dozen times day
with high compOsure and cOmplacency,
| that ''this part of Nawth Caholina is much
| Impoverished by the waw-as you Sec"
| aud there is an end Of it. When they will
| cease to enjoy their tattered garments as
| badges Of honorable warfare, and try to
| earn whole ones, is difficult 10 decide The
| Roses cousin in Virginia. more delicate,
! cleverer girl, is teaching in Richmond. Rose
| has no thought Oh any such self-sacritice;
| her father refuses loftily to sell the black
walnut tim her on his mountain land to a
| dealer from Chicago at large profit. The
pine he may have for nothing, but can not
see the cream of our Southern produce
! carried any longer to the Nawth- Let the
black walnuts stand. My grandchildren
may be able to use them"
But you shall not hear from him, nor
any man or woman of his class in this
| reg ion. a bitter or unkindly mention of the
war. There is not hand which IS not
ready to give sou = cheerful, sincere wei
| come. Roses sister lwho was the Rose in
1856: and 1868, used to keep watch from her
chamber window upon the house OF a poor
farmer. whose sons were Union men hid
ing in the mount aims fer three years. 1t
was she who saw these boys stealing home
70 see their old mother one night, and who
sent word TO the home guard. When abe
heard the shots an hour after, and the ter.
ritied negroes rushed in 70 tell her that the
men, her neighbors all her life, lay dead
outside the very door, she coOlly babe them
GO help to bury them, as though it had been
dogs or mountain boomers she spoke Of.
She 10 fair. plump tender-vOiced NO.
man now, with half a dozen soft.eyed, we'll
bred children crowdins about her She
stops at the farm house for . bit of kindly
gossip with the mother of she dead boys
whneyer she passes il, and when the old
woman is sick makes her nice little dishes,
for she stays with her at night. leaving her
baby to the nurse. When you tell her OF
any call Of suffering in the North. Chicago
fire or Pittsbur2 flood, the quick tears rush
to her eyes, and hef poGtemoNRale livery
thin and limp is out.
Then you befhink yourself Of . certain
gentle cousin Of yours in Boston or Phila-
delphiS, who would not SEQ mouse harm
ed without pity, but whose patriotic zeal
against the rebels ten years ago vas bitter
and murderous beyond that of men, and
you close tho matter with tho usual mas
problem. Meanwhile, you find . broken
cannon in the Blue Ridge passes. green,
inch deep with moss. while the gray sqnif
rel hides its winter store OF nuts in il, and
pass Il chubby checked boy whlstiing az
he pastures hrs cows on The plain oi Man
assas, and think reverently .; the grea.
Healer a: work .Or US all, y. Ath time and
nature.
You wish when you turn north ward. and
leave the mountains rising behind you,
range on range, that you could bring the
Rose and these ready -wittet. warm H. arted
cousins Of yours closer together. and fancy
that the effect would be wholesome. both
upon themselve. and the generations u
come after them.
You do not find when Won have gone
back 20 the Nortl, that ycE forget the REESE
as you have forgotten 40 many brilliant
women, from Boston or New York, women,
too. who wore the Gordon ben in the ranks
Of intellect or fashion. When .you fail 60
specializing las a yOnng fellow slii over his
cigar now and them about marriage. ald y
home, you find yourself going back 20 this
girl with her sweet voic, and decisive little
nod presiding over Che coffee urn and cups
at breakfast. TIE inc vitabIe bisc uit, honey.
and fried chicken. at which you used TO
swear inwardlv, make part now "f the
homo like picture. and il il well il Rose,
whom none OF her neighbors would cali
more than 'pleasant girl" does not rise be-
fore you as an alluring mountain nymph.
hedged in and yelled by her eEn g'''teEing
streams and pink laurel.
Il YOU would chose to 60 back and win
her, however. you will! find il is no nymph
whom YOU nave taken to wife. but one OF
the most real and practical Of American
women. Her table will be noted for its
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