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considered in Massachusetts Southern fooleries; but, in the vital, hose hold virtues, which are essential to the purity and happiness of society, Massachusetts can bear no comparison with South Carolina.--And so of other Southern States. We well recollect that, when, at the instance of a Northern correspondent, in the canvass between Fremont, Fillmore and Buchanan, we examined the Virginia records to ascertain whether a divorce had ever been obtained between Mrs. Fremont and her husband, Mr. Prior, we were struck with the rarity of such cases in Virginia history. Can Massachusetts say as much? or any New England State?--We do not impeach the general purity of the sex in that or any other portion of the country, for the majority of women in every land are better and purer than man; but we maintain that there does not exist elsewhere, and has not in modern times, whether in the Old World or the New, as high morality as characterizes the Southern States. In regard to truth, franknes