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Society in Richmond

The Philadelphia Enquirer publishes a statement of society in Richmond, from a "loyal lady" who is said to have recently reached that city from the rebel capital, and who gives a fearful account of the dissolute manners of the metropolis. We are so accustomed to slanders that the present would not attract notice, but that, for the first time our women, than whom nobler and purer beings never lived, are made the objects of detraction. Who is this loyal lady? We have never heard of half a dozen ladies in Richmond, deserving the name, who sympathized with the Yankees, and none of them were capable of such monstrous falsehoods against their own sex as the mendacious woman whom the Enquire chooses to call a lady.

The Daily Dispatch: March 24, 1863. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. March 24, 1863. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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