Chivalry there seems to blend with the genial influences of Christianity, and together they give a tone and manner to Southern life which is peculiar.
"I am often struck with a Southern gentleman's reverence, here at the North, for the female sex.

He is displeased at seeing daughters serving at table in boarding-houses kept by their worthy parents or widowed mothers.

We, indeed, respect a young woman who serves us in this manner, (if we reflect at all,) and we resent rudeness or an unfeeling mode of addressing those who are in such situations.

But the Southern gentleman goes further.

He has, perhaps, not been accustomed to see the daughter of a white family serve.