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The Daily Dispatch: July 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Pipe for Lincolnites to Smoke. (search)
ss altogether the difference of manners — the genial, refined deportment of Southern men in general, and the coarse, abrupt, unfeeling style which has become so general in Northern society that a man of sensibility and geniality among them is regarded as little better than a fool. Think of a people who can deliberately elect such a swine as Lincoln President of the United States, whose beau ideal of a gentleman is Summer, of Massachusetts, and whose model of a hero, Benjamin F. Butler, of Old Point! Rebellion against them! It is the rebellion of a civilized stomach against pork and molasses, Withersfield onions and Massachusetts cod! There is a practical idea, however, connected with this slang about Southern rebels which lies at the foundation of this infamous war. It is that the Southern States belong to the North; that they are the rightful owners of our wealth and industry; that they are entitled of right to our cotton, tobacco, rice, naval stores and trade. We are not to