Or If, As May Be The
Case, The Blood Of The Races Has Now Been Too Well Mixed To Allow Of
This Being Said With Absolute Truth, Yet Something Of The Manners Of
The Old Forefathers Has Been Left.
The Southern gentleman is more
genial, less dry - I will not say more hospitable, but more given to
enjoy hospitality than his Northern brother; and this difference is
quite as strong with the women as with the men.
It may therefore be
understood that secession would be very fatal to the society of
Washington. It was not only that the members of Congress were not
there. As to very many of the Representatives, it may be said that
they do not belong sufficiently to Washington to make a part of its
society. It is not every Representative that is, perhaps, qualified
to do so. But secession had taken away from Washington those who
held property in the South - who were bound to the South by any ties,
whether political or other; who belonged to the South by blood,
education, and old habits. In very many cases - nay, in most such
cases - it had been necessary that a man should select whether he
would be a friend to the South, and therefore a rebel; or else an
enemy to the South, and therefore untrue to all the predilections
and sympathies of his life. Here has been the hardship. For such
people there has been no neutrality possible. Ladies even have not
been able to profess themselves simply anxious for peace and good-
will, and so to remain tranquil.
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