The news from Vicksburg by the morning's papers is very
delightful, if authentic. We pause for confirmation of it. The young people
among the villagers and refugees have been amusing themselves, during the past
two evenings, with tableaux. I am too old to enjoy such things in these
troubled times, but one picture I regretted not seeing. It represented the
young Confederacy. The whole bright galaxy was there—South Carolina in scarlet,
restive and fiery; Virginia, grave and dignified, yet bright with hope, seemed
to be beckoning Kentucky on, who stood beyond the threshold, her eyes cast down
with shame and suffering; Maryland was at the threshold, but held back by a
strong hand; all the rest of the fair sisters were there in their appropriate
places, forming a beautiful picture.
I am amused to see how the Democrats of the North are
speechifying and exciting themselves about the arrest of Vallandigham, and how
Lincoln will soon make them back down.
SOURCE: Judith W. McGuire, Diary of a Southern
Refugee, During the War, p. 217-8
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