The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-09-10

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View England by tho Back Door as
Looked Into by SOutherner.
fCouespondenee Of the Baltimore SUM-
WHLIMANTIC, CT, August 80, $780,
LETTER No. IL.
have run ND here for day to look at the
mills and the camp.meeting. But first let me
get through with Lebanon-no easy matter,
for much remains to be told about the place
and It's inhabitants. Hearing that a south
erner was in town, lady who was born
in Virginia, and had lived there I'M
iii she was married, did me the honor
10 call on me- We talked for an hour or
two. She said that in Hartford. the place OF
her residence, she has made many warm
friends, principally among the wives OF pro-
fessional men, her husband being pbysi-
clan. $50, tben," said ]. "you believe
with Mrs. -, of Litchfeld, that the YAM
KEGS are good people?v 81 do; indeed /
do" she replied; Sand il you ever come
70 Hartford / think 7 can prove it to your
entire satisfaction. You may not remember
II, but the Georgia soldiers who came North
last year were so pleased with their recep-
ton in Hartford that they left Boston to pay
our city a second visit"
This lady's bealih has not been good
since she came, six or eight years ago. into
this harsh climate, and much as she likes
New England and its people, IN times OF
sickness her thoughts 60 back 10 her old
home in Albemarle.
Last evening had quite prolonged con.
versation with a young gentleman Just
graduated at Yale. Politics are but little
discussed In college. The few southern
students who are there get along very well
with the northern boys. Doubtless there is
some prejudice, but 1t does not show itself
extensively. He had often wished to visit
the South; was much interested in what /
told bin about the past and present condi-
ton OF the people. The desire 10 see the
South has been expressed by the majority of
portherners with whom / have talked, bun
few, II any, OF them have said they would
like to live with us.
Among other talks remember one that
had with young girl OF fourieen-the Rose
OF Lebanon / call her. Her blooming
cheeks, tiny hands, perfect form, and the
torrent Of brown hair that flows down to
her waist would be enyied by city belle.
This child--born a year after the war end
ed-in the innocence OF her heart, believed
OF the war. Her parents were strong Re-
publicaDs. "WeTe you not taught to dis
like southerners, and to believe that they
"No, not all OF them; but those who stood
with the whips in their hands and made the
slaves work so hard III the hot cotton-felds,
they must have been bad" AS TO cooking
and washing. she said a relative Of hers had
once employed girl or woman to do the
drudgery, but after trial was so worried by
her inefsciency that Sue dismissed her and
did all the work herself. Not from motives
OF economy only, but TO escape annoyance,
that IL is which impels New England women
TO dispense with servants.
Here Yet me say that more than one gen.
tleman has lnyelghed against the uppish-
ness OF the Yankee gTls. They refuse not
only 10 do homework, but OF late years also
decline to GO into the mills. In Whitman.
tie, for example, you will lind that the mill
women. almost without exception, are
Irish; bur iatterly French and Norwegians
or Swedex are coming in pretty freely. The
Yankee girl, forsooth. must be millner or
nothing. These are almost the words of o
gentleman with whom talked two days
ago; aud what he said was confirmed by
the officer who showed me through the
mills this morning. "Tbey are all Irish,
you may saw" was his remark, rs we
paused Ia a room full Of female ope-
ratives. Much the same expressions, only
intensified almost TO bitterness, are used
by TIE upper classes 10 regard TO the
male Yankees. 1.-THE Yankee has got TO be
so seis<i0lportaRt that be Is coed for nothing
as a wsxkman,1 said New Haven manu-
factuner to me. 81 wouldn't give one
Swede for a dazen OF 'em," he added
"their beads are full OF politics, and they
are too sAssrt for their own good. IL Is net
90 with the Swedt." In precisely the same
tone other geptIemen spoke OF Yankee
farm.handk. do 8otcall tkese house girls,
mechanics, and fsrm-hands yankees. /"
The men who talked to me so abusiyeiy
about them eaIl them so. Pride In the New
England race may still exist, docs, and must
exist; but pride Ia Yankee simpIy because
tle is Yankee has ceased---I might, alslost
say 1t has given place 10 c0ntemTs. No< is
this hard TO acc0ant for. 1t Is the dstieren-
tiasIon produced By increasing wealth.
II the Yankee Is A. deeply interested In
politics As the New Haven man alleged, 1t *
strenge be has not shown 1t to me iI all
thees weeks. Morning. noon, and night
have repaired to the store In Lebanon,
hoping TO hear political discussion, or at
least an expression OF opinion 10 vain.
The tax has been about the Willimantic
camppseeting, the barn that was struck ky
lightning and burnt 10 the ground day be-
fore yesterday, the price OF butter In Pro-
violence, etc.; anything except politics,
Last njstt, indeed, an attempt was
made 10 organize In the town ball
Garfield club a Boys In Blue" and
there was Q brief political dialogue
In the store RetWceu the village doctor
taking tie ground that u the Democrats
eerrg Dn1jsns Hanaockss election IL certain.
yieb q without YjFkjriss snd the other
80 ee<ring ~ bet cIfsrs thai Indiana will
~ - cpfrjed, -, Governor Andrews
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