Social Relations in Our Southern States

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PERHAPS it would be altogether superfluous to remind our readers, that the fashion has been for several years, at least since the unlooked-for success of Uncle Tom's Cabin, to write books about the South, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Down-Eastern men, the Bloomer style of men, as well as countless numbers of female scribblers, have not ceased to drum upon the public tympanum (almost to deafness, indeed) in praise or blame-generally the latter-of Southern peculiarities, social habits, manners, customs, observances, and domestic institutions.