New-York daily tribune., 1858-02-20
which be means to put the Border-RushAa Logs
lsture through.

elbows Cbeyalers, have lively appreciation oi tno
wisdom Of these saws, and have never been known
to decline pecuniary donations although they came
from the chill and inhospitable North, and were the
fruits Of that peddliDg and spinning which
tobscco-planters hold in sovereign contempt Ihey
may not Ike our morals, but they have no invnci'
bic objection to our money. But gratDde win
the is sense Of benefits TO come, and they DO no'
mean to waste the precious and priceless emotion
upon benefits which hare cOme. Considering the
proyocation which the North has experienced.
and the propensity to be unforgiving which is one
of The weaknesses Of human nature, We think that
We have exhibited singulariy good Ssmsri-
tan spirit toward Virginia. When one of her
principal towns was rsvsget by pestIence,
and those who uere not alex were starving,
the North sent substantial aid, AID il wss no more
refused than hungry beggar will refuse the bro
ken victuaIs proffered him at the basement door.
The feyered patient the slave deserted by hscoward
master, the widow and the orphan, in that season
of dire distress did not before accepting our aims,
pause to ssa from what quarter they had come
Chvalry was sick, and weak, and hungry and IN
TOOK the cash of New-Yorh of Boston, and OF other
cities, and growled not at the same. But when
Flsyous John (alias Yellow jack had departed,
ChiyalIy waxed fat and kicked, and 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 Chvalry became ashamed
of the desolate and dilapidated condition OF the
home Of Washington, and its owner, mauger
the brisk trade which he had driven in canes,
found himself too poor to keep the estate, aud
yet not too proud to drive sharp bargain
for the bones of his illustriOus ancestor, who
shou!d come forward but Northern man offering
by his sole personal eIertions to raise large por
tion of the purchase money needed to save the
shrine, and to give to Virginia monument nobler
than any other State can hope tobOast. And doing
it, too. While ChivalIy has been indulging in the
ornamental, this gentleman has confined himself to
the practical. While Chiyalry has been instituting
the Order of the Knights of Mount Vernon with
what mummsries Heaven only knows), Mr.. Everett
has been raising the funds to buy Mount Vernon,
which is o matter of more consequence. What
the present Mr.. Washington wants is not revival
of chiyalry but revival of cash. If the gallant
Knights Of Mount Venom were to approach him in
q body and make him an offer of their accOutre-
ment, be would not for all their pasteboard breast
plstea, tin helmets and ptch.pne lances, give them
rood of the sacred soil; and they might esteem
Themselves lucky if he did not charge them dol
lar for trespassing upon his property. "Down
"with the dust" ia the motto Of this modern
Waahinofsn
The "dust' being the thing needed, and being
also precisely the scarcest thing in that State, Yer
ginia should be civil to the gentleman who has vol,
unteered to raise it. And, to do her justice, she
shows disposition to be so, and will be so, pro.
yided few extra ssinine ninny hammers will per-
NIT. Bot the moment it ia known that Mr.. Ever
cit has been invited ~ be in Richmond on the I'D
inst, aud is then and there to be presented with
one Of Gen. WashiDgton's walking sticks, the vol.
canic South newspaper goes at once into state of
yesuyian eruption. 1t could not be hotter and
more reverberant if it had been proposed to give
Mr. Everett Mount Vernon itself. Pray, the
reader will ask, what is Mr.. E.'s ofensel Doing
Virginia service which she was incapable Of doing
for herself' Assisting to rescue our American Mecca
from the hands of one who lacks either the means
of keeping it in decent order, or the inclination to
do so, Nothing of the kind. But The Sop,h does
not think that man who disapproyed Of Mr..
Brooks assault upon Charles Sumner is worthy to
possess the cane of Washington.
Here We will pause for breath. We sometimes
encounter q fatuity, an imbecility Of intellect,
mOnomania yerging upon stark madness, which is
perfectly stunning. We are too angry to laugh;
we ere too much amused 10 cry; we are too much
sstonished TO speak; we are too much bewildersa
TO think; and even if We we're disposed to argue
We cannot get hold of the tail of the argument.
Sometimes absurdity bothers one much more com.
pletely than logic. But let Us be calm and reason
together upon the premises Of The South. Wash
ington was worthy of the cane; no man disapproy-
ing of assault and battery could be worthy Of the
cane; therefore, Washington approved Of assault
and bsttery. Or suppose that We put it in this
way: Washington disspproyed Of assault and bat.
terry; no man disapproyins of assault and battery
could be worthy of the cane; therefore, the cane
shosId have been taken away from Washington
during his life time. We fancy that any fre-estng
nipcompoops going to Mount Vernon upon that er.
rand would have felt the weight of the hsllowed
sc,pio across their shoulders.
But wherefore the reluctance Of The Sontl TO
part with this particular cane Ae cane. becom-
ing scarce IN the Old Dominion Is the raw mate
rial e1hau.tedl All that would indeed be SD.
When one considers what material element in the
politics of Virginia is the cane, and how the belsbor-
ing of an opponent is there the favorte method of
persuasion, he viii readily understand that famine
of canes might be followed BY anarchy and chaos.
We submit to the Virginia Legislature the propriety