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situation, placed their shoulders to the wheel, and indus 

 try and thrift are prominent. Cynical people, who wish 

 to find indolence, laziness, and false pride among the 

 female sex, need not extend their observations any further 

 than the females of American birth in the Northern 

 States a portion of the world where industry and labor 

 are considered disgraceful by a majority of those who 

 were intended by a wise and beneficent Creator to 

 become helpmates of man. In our many wanderings in 

 the Southern States we have met with numerous Northern 

 people who, after years of residence in the South were 

 as active, industrious, and enterprising as before they 

 left a more inhospitable climate. I am prompted to 

 write as I, do in consequence of having daily and hourly 

 listened to the unkind, unjust, and censorious criticisms 

 of Northerners persons who should extend the hand of 

 sympathy and speak words of kindness to a suffering and 

 struggling people. I am a Northerner, but must confess 

 that I am disgusted with the want of Christian charity 

 that characterizes many bigoted people of my section : 

 &quot; Let us have peace,&quot; and to bring about this halcyon 

 state let us treat the Southern people as we would be 

 treated extend to them the hand of brotherhood, and 

 use words of sympathy and kindness, instead &quot;of censure 

 and words of reproach and condemnation. To those 

 who intend visiting the South as tourists or sportsmen I 

 would say, &quot; Be generous, be kind, be honest, and a ( true 

 Southern welcome and unbounded hospitality will greet 

 you everywhere, from the mansion to the palmetto hut.&quot; 

 In our Northern States we have thousands of persons 

 who are suffering from rheumatic, pulmonary, and 

 chronic diseases, whose health would be improved and 

 lives prolonged, if they could be induced to settle in the 



