W L G Smith

Life at the South W L G Smith

"WHO is not familiar with the history of the Old Dominion f " remarked a portly-appearing gentleman, seated at his ease in the portico of the United States Hotel, at Washington, some years since. " And where is her equal, sir, in all that's good and chivalrous ? " he added, with the view of engaging the attention of a member of Congress, who just then took a seat by his side. " Ah, Mr. Erskine," replied the person addressed, " I find you ' still harping on my daughter.' Her history is good so far as it goes; but it does not go far enough. It is the unwritten pages which we of the North take exceptions to."