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Updated: May 21, 2025
Though Washington Flagg had first opened his eyes on the banks of the Penobscot, he appeared to have been planned by nature to adorn the banks of the Rappahannock. There was nothing of the New Englander about him. The sallowness of his complexion and the blackness of his straight hair, which he wore long, were those of the typical Southerner.
No one can regret it more than I do, in particular since I am really a Southerner myself, a Kentuckian." "A traitor then as well as an enemy." Dick flushed deeply, and again there was angry blood in his veins, but he restrained his temper. "You must at least allow to a man the liberty of choice," he said. "Provided he has the intelligence and honesty to choose right."
Once it got into the newspapers every father and mother who has a child out yonder would go right up in the air. It would make a great first page story buried treasure a war for hidden gold centered about a girls' camp. That whole yarn about the haughty southerner planting his money in safe territory till he saw which way the cat jumped is fruity stuff for our special correspondent on the spot.
If they did not know the picture, they would inspect it unmoved, and say, 'Young girl with hay fever; young girl with her head in a bag. I found the half-forgotten Southern intonations and elisions as pleasing to my ear as they had formerly been. A Southerner talks music. At least it is music to me, but then I was born in the South.
He was a Southerner in almost all his feelings, and had never had a scruple respecting the ownership of slaves.
The self-possession of this southerner, in whom was condensed, as it were, all the exuberance of his compatriots, served him as well as his perfect knowledge of French law, of which the Code of Tunis is only a disfigured copy.
Then, in 1868, he did something which would have been social and political suicide for any Southerner with a less imposing war record. He supported Ulysses S. Grant for President. It was about as unexpected as any act in an extremely unconventional career, and, as usual, he had a well-reasoned purpose. Grant, he argued, was a professional soldier, not a politician.
"I'll see if Sam is bringing your horse," he said. Tom's eyes met Marjorie's as the older man entered the next room, where he could look out toward the stables. He had no sooner disappeared than Tom asked in a low voice: "Why did you do that?" "You're not a Southerner, are you?" she asked. "No," he answered bluntly. "But what...?" "I'm not either," she replied. Her glowed with excitement.
The Southerner, it was understood, was a gentleman, a man of mettle and spirit, and in many cases the direct descendant of an old English Cavalier family; while the Northerners were for the most part but humdrum and commercially minded people who inherited the necessarily somewhat bigoted, if excellent, characteristics of their Dutch, Puritan, or Quaker ancestors.
Not alone Calhoun but nearly every other southerner of great influence, at least from the day of the Missouri Compromise, had been inculcating the supreme authority of the State as compared with the Union.
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