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The Yankee journals make themselves merry over the seediness of Confederate garments, and the general "rebel style of shabbiness." The Confederate wardrobe, it is true, has become somewhat dilapidated by the war, but we should dislike to exchange the hearts that beat beneath it for the purple and fine linen of Broadway.
Ragged as our soldiers are, they are not as badly off in that respect as the coatless and shoeless soldiers of the first Revolution, the praises of whose bare feet and tattered garments are to be found in Yankee histories of the days of 1776.
Nor are they in anything like the forlorn condition of the army of Italy when Napoleon took command.
Nevertheless, that army managed to make itself presentable at every court in Europe, and to cut a finer figure in history than kings and nobles.
There is no such worshipper of externals as your genuine snob and parvenue.
There are people who are eternally vexing the heavens with their fulminations against aristocracy