Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-04-23
Cllivalry.

The Southern gentlemen have lata y
made new display of their chivalrc sem
timont and practice, The bercavcd father
Of Colonel Dahlgrcn has returned from
Fortress Monroe without the body of his
son, aud tho annexed abstract from Rich
mond paper probably gives clue to the
reason
"lIe was buried like n dog, after outrag-
ing his body, His friends need not inquire
where hc was buried "
Probably the more decent officers were
ashamed to send back the manglcd remains,
and preferred to remain under the imputa-
ton Of discourtosy rather than furnish tam
giblc proof of their worse than heathensh
barbNrity. Whether this is so or not, the
fact that 4 Richmond Journal could utter
such atrocious sentiments Is we give below
will remain monument oithc character of
this chivalric rebellion Every day and
every hour brings more and more evidence
that the claim of the Southcn rebels to
chivalry is a worse shame, if pssiblc, than
the claim of their Northern alli,s to be n
true Democracy, They are bob shams,
and must perish before the progress Of
knowledge, Even on their iavoritc ground
that a long line Of wealthy ancestry psodu
ccs n chivalric and refined race, we should
be ready to meet them But when upon a
sham aristocracy is grated the arrogance
based upon wealth acquired by negro-trad,
ing, by slave driving for hire, by negro
catching, and the various slave-dcaling de-
vices for acquiring wealth, which experience
proves to be the ease, every honest man, be
he arislocrat or democrat will repudiate
with scorn the claim of the Southern rulers
TO oven the outside garb Of genuine aris
tocracy; while the recurrence of such events
rs the treatment Of young Dahlgren, and
the comments upon it by the Southern press
shows that public sentiment is corrupt, and
true civilization might equally be claimed
by the Caribs;
From the Richmond ErdmiRcr:
1T would seem something of the curse he
came to bcstow on others lighted upon his
own (Dahlgrcn carcasc, when it fell rid.
died by avenging Southern bullets. Strip
ped robbed Of every valuable, the fingers
cut off for the sake Of the diamond rings
that encirclcd them, when the body was
IOund by those sent TO take charge of it, il
was lying in field stark naked, with the
exception Of the stockings Some humane
persons had lifted the corpse from the pike
and thrown it over into the field to save il
from the hogs. The artificial leg worn by
Dahlgren was removed, and is now at Gen
Eizcys headquarters 1t is of most bcauti-
tul design and finish.
Yesterday afternoon the body was re-
moved from the car that brought it to the
York River railroad depot and given to the
spot OF earth selected to receive it, Where
that spot is no one but those concerned in
It's burial know or care to tell 1t was "A
dogs burial, without coffin, winding sheet
or service, Friends and relatives at the
North need inquire no further; this is all
they will know-he is buried Il burial that
bctitted the mission upon which he came
He has swept through the city of Rich
mond' on pine bier, and written his
name on the scroll of iniamy, instead of
"on the hearts Of his countrymen, never to
be erased.