The daily Wabash express., 1862-10-06
From the London Daily News
The Southern Chiyalry.

The word "hOner" il forever on the lips Of
the Southern chivalry: but the meaning Os
that word seems TO have long degenerated
into the inferior sense of honors received,
instead Of honorable conduct practiced. The
Southern practice OF honor is illustrated by
the custom of gentlemen dsbauching their
female slaves. in order to increase their
chattel property: by Mr.. Jefferson Davis
earlier practices of reputation OF State
debts; by the recent transactions Of his Gov
ernment in regard TO cotton. by the use bis
supporters made Of their opportunities Of
Office under Mr.. Buchanan 10 steal the Ma
tional property. aud betray the majority Of
the nation into the hands Of a small minority.
No Yankee ever had keener eve for the
main chance than the citizens OF Mississippi
who cot hold of the foreign money for pub
Lie works and then repudiated the debt the
present head OF the Confederation impudent.
Is counseling that course No low adveu-
turcr ever perpctrated a fouler swindle than
Mr. Flo,t and his colleagues when they
used their position at Washington for alien
sting Tue National property, hlchng tho
States. and piiaging the Treasury OF their
country. These were the men 10 institute
Confederate Government which should use
the cotton crop-the property, OF small
number Of planters three times over. What
We already know IL that owners we're first
summoned 10 yield up their cotton 20 the
Government, receiving bonds for tho value.
20 be redeemed at the end Of the war; that
this same cotton was next made the basis OF
a paper currency which i the only money
now existing IN the Confederate States:
that ths same cotton i at oRce held out as
securitv 10 foreign powers who win lend al
10 the Confederate cause and burned by
Government orders wherever any store Of 10
can be discovered
I,ixofa piece With this mode oi conduct
that the discovery Of such stores ~ made by
trick. Brokers in plain clothes prowl among
the estates bargaining for cotton which they
declare themselves able % send down 20
port. thew survey the stock ia IT. hiding
place. 20 away 10 arrange their means of
transport and reappear as soldiers. as the
southern chivalry. 20 burn tho cotton. lis
consistent with this tone and manners that
ths sane men Who borrow ed Northern mon
ev While prisilv plotting Secession nos re
padisie al debts to the North. on the ground
II that Of Secession II : Of = piece with
such conduct that The Confeicrate Leaders
should declare slavery - be their sheet A..
/ chor Al home While whispering a. surAnces
In Europe that slavery shoald decltoe and
f, die oat from the date Of Southern lnde-
penieace
II ! OF /. piece Nth al this that Mr.. Yam
eev. should have been denied the existence
actual and prospective. OF the African slave
trade. While his cordjutor. Mr.. Sldell, vas
champion Of renewed slave trade. and
~hile Mr.. Yancey himself had no; only Al
xocatsa the trafsc IN public conventions, bot
has been fully aware Of tho actual systematic
iuport.sion of thousands % negroes straight
from Africa. Mr. lAncey found this oona-
trv TOO bot 70 hold him aaeF three disclos.
urss ~sre made. bat Mr.. Yancey = consid
cred Al home deciaediy favorable speci-
men az The Southern chivAlfy