Impudence Unparalleled

We heard the other day of a letter from a young gentleman, now a prisoner at Indianapolis, to his mother in Kentucky, in which he stated that he had always been taught that the people of the South were a superior race to those in the North, and what he saw while a prisoner only convinced him of the truth of the position.  “Why mother,” says he, “we are waited on here and by these people, and receive as much attention with the same apparent docility and obsequiousness which characterizes our slaves, in their attentiveness to our slightest wishes.  I am fully convinced, had I doubted it before, that the South is the ruling race, and must triumph in the end.”  This, we understand, if not the language, was about the substance of the young gentleman’s reflection.  It also shows what hidden mines of gratitude have been opened out by the sympathy and kindness of the people of Northern cities toward the misguided beings imprisoned in their midst. – {Evansville Journal.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 29, 1862, p. 3