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The Daily Dispatch: July 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], N. P. Willis on the South. (search)
ng from a letter written by Willis to the Home Journal, about the beginning of the secession movement. It contains more of truth than the majority of his writings: Polities, trade, and sectional differences quite out of the question, (and the News knows the branches of the question are sufficiently discussed in the other papers,) we are sustaining a great social loss in the estrangement of the South. In all the larger and more refined circles of our American society--at Saratoga and Newport, in our gaieties of the cities, and on our routes of fashionable travel and resort, the Southerners are unquestionably the class most sought and admired as "the nicest people. "--It would be hard to find a cultivated "society man." probably, anywhere at the North, who does not number many of his most valued friends and pleasantest acquaintances in this class. Explain it by what social alchemy you please, too, the Southern amalgam in any alembic of politeness at the North, exceedingly impro