National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-08-05
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SOUTHERN WOMEN DURING TEE BE
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SOUTHERN WOMEN DURING TIE Be
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The Aflaatie for August has George Cary
Eggieston's third paper on "A Rsbelis RscoI.
leetlons," which e devoted 70 tho conduct Of
southern women during and ailer the waF. Ho
strengthens the general testimony A. "a tbe
passionate aud uryielding devotion Of tue
women 70 "ths cause" and The heroism with
which they have borDo poverty End dspriys-
tons since 4 became "lost" A Few incidents
illustrate MS temper Of sbe laughter Of ths
south.
An Old FHNALH AEBRL.
remember conversations between two ~
them-one young wife WhOyB husband Va
IN the srmyr and the other an elderly iady.
With no husband o. son, but with many frlendS J
T no I nsar relatives IN marching regiments.
Ins younger lady remarked
"a sure DO not hate our enomies.. earn
ostly hope Their louls may 20 10 heaven, bt.t L !.
Wouls IKE 70 blow Ell their moFta bodIan
away % Iass a. they come upon our soii %
WIZ you shock me, my DEAR replied the
otneri ~ don't see Why you want the Yankees
some day and Pm Surs'I Shouldn't Wsus 10 10.
II thought should Ind any Of them. there.
The old lady was convinced eron the Ara
that the South would fan and she bases this
belief on the'fact that We had permitted tho,
Yankees 10 build railroadB through tAe South
ern States. II viii tell you" she would Soy,
that what they built the roads for. They
khew she war was coming, aud they got ready
LOT IL. The railroads win whip Us, you may
oepend' What else were they made fort We
Eos On wen enough without them, and We
9usntnt 70 have let anybody build them. -
ana no amount OF reasoning would serve 10.
shake her conviction that The peonle AZ ths,
North had built all our railroads WIN traaeh-
erous Intent, though the stock Of the ouIV road
she had ever seen was held very largely bv
people along its Line, many Of whom were her
own friends.
YOUNG REBEL IN PETrIcoATs.
young girl, ordinarily Of q very gentle dis
position, astonished q Federal colonel one 'daY
by an outburst Of temper which served at least
TO show the earnestness Of her purpose to up
hold her side OF the argument She lived in
part OF the country then for the first time held
by the FEDERAL army, and q colonel, with some
members Of his staff, made her family the I'M
willing recipients Of q call one morning. See
ing the piano open, the colonel asked the young.
lady to play, but she declined. He then went
to the instrument himself, but he had hardly
begun to play when the damsel, raising the
plano top, severed nearly all the strings With
Ratchet, saying to the astonishsd performeryas-
she did so,
"That's my piano, and It shah not give you
= plGasuIG- 1Qo OOlOl6l DOMeQs
apologized and replied
II all your people are as ready es you to
make costly sacrifices, we might as wen 90.
home"
And most Of them were ready and willing to
make similar sacrifices. One lady Of my ae-
quaintanee knocked IN the heads Of q dozen
casks Of choice wine, rather than allow some
Federal officers to sip as many glasses Of It.
Another destroyed her own library, which was
very precious to her, when that seemed the
only way in which she could prevent the STAFF
Of general officer, camped near her, from en-
joying few hours reading in her parlor every
morning. There Is
STORY OF GENERAL FORREST,
which will serve to show his opinion Of the
pluck and devotion of the Southern women.
He was drawing his men up In line Of battle
one day, and Il was evident that q sharp en-
counter was about to take place. some ladies
ran from q house, which happened to stand
just in front Of his line, and asked him anxi-
ously:
DOT"
Strong in his faith that they only wished to
help in some way, he replied:
81 really don't see that you can do much,
except to stand on stumps, wave your bOnnets,
and shout Hurrah, boysP"