Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-03-13
From the New York Tribune.
THE CHIVALRY OF VIRGINIA.

I When you are in doubt pocket the trick says
the classic Hoyle US quoted by the erude DR.. Pan
gloss. Never refuse money in another maxim
much revered in commercial, and in fact all cir
cles. Our gallant friends in Virginia the Uut-at.
the-elbows Chevaers, have a lively appreciation OF
the wisdom vt these saws, ano have never been
known TO decline pecuniary donations, although
! they came from the chill an unhuspitable NUr,h
and were the fruits of that peddiing and cotton
spinning which t1bacco planters hold in sovereign
contempt. They may not like our morals, but
they have no invinclbie objection ~ our money!
But gratitude with them is Il sense of benefits In
come they did not mean to waste the precious and
priceless emotion upon benefits which hare come
Considering the prJvUcatiUn which the North has
experienced, and the propensity to be uniorgivng
which Ii one of the weaknesses Of human nature
we think that we have exhibited sngularly good
Samaritan spirit towards Virginia. When one of
her principal towns was rayaged by postilence and
those who were not sick were starving, the North
sent substantial aid, and it was no more refused
than hungry beggar would refuse the broken
victuals prufcred HIM at the basement door. The
eveied patient, the slave deserted by his coward
uaster, the widow and the orphan. in that season
of dire uistrcSs did not before accepting our aims
pause 10 ask from what quarter they had come -
Chiyalry was SICK, aud weak, and hungry, aud in
no condition make 10 nice distinctions. SoChivalry
touk the cash ot New York. of Boston. and of 9th
er cities aud grow led not at the same But whepFa-
vous John (alias Yellow Jack) hud departed Cbv.
airy waved fat and kicked, und abused the friends
who had bound up It's wounds, pouring in oil and
wine bringing it to an inn, and paying its bill in
advance. So when Chivalry became ashamed
of the desolate and dilapida.ed condition of the
uoue Of Washington, and its owner maugre the
brisk trade which he had driven in canes found
himself too poor to keep the estate and yet not ro
proud to drive sharp bargain fer the bones of his
'Ilustrious estor, who should come forward bur
northora Offering by his sole personal exer-
tt,,t, L., ,,E al.
icy needed 10 save the shrine, and to give to Vir.
sinia a monument nobler than any other State can
nope to boast. And doing it, too While Cbiy-
airy has been ndplging in the ornamental. this
gentleman has confined himsell to the practical
.he Chvalry has been nstituting the Order of
The Knights of Mount Vernon with what mum.
neres. Heaven only knows Mr.. Everett has beer,
raising the funds TO buy Mount Vernon. which is II
- matter of more consequence. What the present
MIR. Washington wants il not revival If chipalry
cat revival Of cash. II the gallant knights OF
Mount Vernon were to approach him in II BODY
aud make him offer Of their accoutrements. he
would not, Tor all their pasteboard treastplates
I'm hems and pi,ch-pne lances, give them "a
rood "i the sacred soil; aud they might esteem !
themselves lucky If he did not charge them dol |
lar Tor trespaS. ling upon his properly. Down With
the dust is the motto OF this modern Washing.
The dust being the thing needed. and being al
so precisely The scarcest thing III that State. fr-
gina should he civil 20 the gentleman who has
volunteered To raise it. Aud 10 do her justice, she
shows Il disposition o. be So. ana will he 50 pro-
Niued n ieW extraa>lnine ninny hammers will Ter.
mt. But the moment it is known that Mr.. Everett
mas been invited u b. in RivhuOnd on Il e22d inst
t,d Is then ;inl there To- be presented with one oi
General Washington'- walking sticks the volcan.
&c South neNspa?er gees aT once into state OF
Ne>uvInn eruption. 1t cruld net be hotter and
more revererant, If il had been proposed to give
Mr. Everett Mount vernon itself PRAY, the read |
or will ask, what is Mr. Everett's offence? Doing
Virginia service which she was ines, Jahle nf do |
ing tor herself! Assisting To rescue American
Mecca from the bands OF one who lacks either the
OF keeping it in decent order. ur the inclin
alton 70 do SO? Nothing of the kind. But The
South don't think that man who disapproved of
Mr.. Brookss assault upon Charles Sumner is wor-
tny to p0ssess the care of Washington.
lleie we will pause for breath. We sometimes
n fatuty, an intecelity Of intellect. u
munomanla vergiug upon stark madness, which is
perfectly stunning. We are 700 angry to laueh
we are too much amused TO cry we are too much
bewlldered 10 think and even # We were dispos.
ed 10 argue, we cannot get hold Of the tail ut the
Argument Sometimes ahsurdty buthers one much
mUre com ietely than lugic. But let US be caim
aud reason together upon the premises of The
South. Washington was worthy of the cane
no man disappearing af assault and battery could
be worthy Of the cane therefore. Washington
approved of assault and battery. Or suppose We
put it in this way Washington disapproved Of as
sault and battery no man disappearing of assault
and battery could he worthy of the cane there
fore. :he cane should he taken away from Wash.
ington during bis life time We fancy that any
fre-enting nihcDmp0ops going to Mount Vernon
upon that errand would have felt the weight of the
halowed scipio across their shoulders.