When a respectable young woman, therefore, at a boarding-house, brings him his tea, he feels impelled to rise and ask her to be seated, and to wait upon her.

I have been an eye-witness to scenes of this kind, and have been much pleased and not a little amused at some exhibitions of the feeling.

If our sentiments toward the sex, and their position in social life, mark the degree of civilization and cultivation in a community, I am compelled to accord a high degree of it to Southern society, in its best estate.
"This is one effect of slavery.

It takes mothers, wives, daughters, away from occupations which, though honorable, do not always elevate them in the eyes of the other sex.

Perhaps there is no value (and some will say it) in all this; that every labor and service is right and good for woman; and that we are to prefer a state of society where woman does these things with her own hands, instead of having them done for her, and that this is our only safeguard against luxury and degeneracy.