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fair means and good homes, and who also are well edu 

 cated, are proud of a gay officer for a husband. There has 

 always been an idea among the women of the South that 

 Northern men make the best husbands. Whether this is 

 true or not is doubtful, but it is certain that multitudes of 

 our officers have every accomplishment, and are skilled in 

 all the arts which attract women. In the ball-room, the 

 parlor, or at promenade, they act the perfect gentlemen ; 

 and if the subject of the discourse be literature, art, or phil 

 osophy, or even matters of practical life, they are ready to 

 instruct or amuse. So long as we continue to possess the 

 country these marriages will increase. It is evident from 

 this that in a few years more, the Rebel soldiers will be for 

 gotten in the places where they were born, and should they 

 return they will find, beside their houses and land being oc 

 cupied by others, that their women have become the wives 

 of their enemies.&quot; 



But whether love or lucre be the motive, the 

 effect on society in that region will be the same. 

 An infusion of Northern sentiment of this whole 

 sale character will be the entering wedge to a sec 

 tional salvation. It will be driven home by subse 

 quent accessions of civilians of all professions 

 mechanics, merchants, traders, lawyers, doctors, 

 speculators. The only true path to the supremacy 

 of civilization is by thus setting free the land, and 

 by planting a true democracy where the most 

 brutalized form of landed aristocracy had been the 

 only ruler. The latter suppressed education, the 

 former will encourage and diffuse it. There will be 

 &quot; a man to every acre, with his right-hand full of 

 brains, and a school-house behind him.&quot; 



