Social Relations in Our Southern States Author:Daniel Robinson Hundley General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1860 Original Publisher: H. B. Price Subjects: Southern States Southern states Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial... more » access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. COTTON SNOBS. "A barren spirited fellow, one that feeds On objects, arts, and imitations ; Which, out of use, and stalled by other men, Begin his fashion : do not talk of him, But as a property." Shakspeabe. Mb. Michael Angelo Titmarsh has discoursed to us very entertainingly. upon the character, attainments, etc. etc., of Snobs in the Old World, while Mr. Geo. "W. Curtis has in an equally pleasant manner sketched for our delectation, the family portraits of the Poti- phars of the North. But the South has had as yet no chronicler to note down the distinguishing peculiarities of her own Cotton Snobs, who indeed, either through ignorance or malice on the part of the enemies of the South, have been pretty generally confounded with the Southern Gentleman -- than which a more egregious blunder could hardly be committed. For although the Cotton Snob may possess many Southern characteristics, and thus differ materially from the New-York or English Snob, he is yet not a whit more respectable than these, and never once is a gentleman. Let the reader not forget it -- to be a Cotton Snob is one thing, and to be a Southern Gentleman is quite another. By the term Cotton, used to designate the class of Snobs peculiar to the South, do not understand us to mean a person who must of necessity hail from the cotton-growing States. By the expression we wish to embrace the entire class of agricultural snobs -- so to speak -- without reference to whether they raise cotton, or tobacco, or rice, or sugar, or wheat, or hemp, or...« less