Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-05-31
THE BEl.CHER SISTERS IN THE LAND
OF THE PHILISTINES.

"What is bred in the bone will come out in
the desh," says the old adage; and VIC certain
ly have never seen it better exempli6ed than in
the treatment of Mrs Stowe and her sister Miss
Catherine E. Beecher, from the students of the
University of Virginia, in their late tour to the
Old Dominion. 1t had been stated in the pa
pers that these ladies had been insulted by those
students, at Charlottesville, by the burning Of
the one in efiigy, and q serenade of ram 's-horns
of the other This the Virginia papers indig-
nantly denied. "Old Virginia--hospitable old
Virginia guilty of such breach of courtesy to
her guests say they " Never Its oil Sian.
der " But the ingrained love Of slavery had
been wounded, and what is bred in the bone
must needs in some shape come out in the flesh,
and but hear Miss Beechers version of the af-
fair in letter which, for keen and subtle satire,
has been rarely outdone:
CHIvALRY OF THE OLD DOMINION.
To the Editor of the NJ Y. Tribune:
SIR: perceive an article going the usual
rounds of the public prints stating that, recent
ly, at the University of Virginia, was insult
ed with mock scramble and my sister, Mrs.
Stowe, at the same time burned in effigy.
The improbabillty of this is apparent when it
is considered that at that place are assembled
more than five hundred of the flower of South
ern chvalry and from every State south of Ma
son and Dixons line.
These young gentlemen, too, arc members of
q literary institution unrivallcd not only ct
the South, but throughout the nation, for a
lihoral md W.T. of JnatrucfiOn
so that Yale and Cambridge are entirely out
done.
The visit of myself and literary lady friend
was to two of their fayorite Professors, by inUi
tation and without escort.
Moreover, during the last twenty years.
have passed from East to West and back again
not less than thirty times, and have travelled and
visited in every Free State and in five of the
Southern States, and never have known disre-
spectful word or action toward myself or any
to the mprobability that, in the above circum-
stances, the first known insult should have
TRANSFERRED.
After several days of most hospitable atten-
tons, and after the wonted pilgrimage to the
tomb of the Sage of Monticello, the whole was
crowned with moonlight serenadc under my
balcony.
1t is true the performers were dressed in a
uniform that was peculiar" and their instru-
ments were of the patriarchal " description
But when the young and unpractised BRING The
best they can and do The best they knoD how, ev-
cry generous mind regards the offering MS per-
feet of its kind.
am no connoisseur of music, but under
stand that the highest style of composition Of
ten includes many discords. From this infer
red that the musical developments of the young
gentlemen were of as high an order as their lit.
erary, and that as | was not able to attend any
recitations, this administration was offered as or
index of their whole polite culture--er pede Her
culem
As to the burning of my sister in efigy, an
confident that no such transaction occurred
while was there. Possibly, after we left .scmt
! clique who imagined that too many hdnors wert
offered to one s6ember n b peculiar = 'fIfMily
attempted something of this kind as an offset
But certainly nothing occurred during our sta,
: that was deemed anything but the kindest ant
d most distinguished hospitality, and trust al
editors who in this matter have contributed t.
y disseminate false impression of the chivalry o
II the Old Dominion will insert this recti6cation
n CATHERINE E. BEEcHER.