The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1867-11-21
Chivalry.

John and Douglass Wise, nephcws
OF Henry A. Wise, the bloviating
Ex-Governor Of Virginia, who was
going to. but unfortunately didn't
die in the last ditch, recently assault
cd Pollard, editor Of the Richmond
South Side Opinion, while the latter
was walking on the streets Of Balli-
more with his wife on his arm, one
of the shots taking effect in
Pollard's right arm preventing him
from successfully using bis own pis-
tol in defense. The two young
scions of the aristocratic and chival-
rio Wise family are in the Baltimore
jail awaiting their trial for assault
with intent to kill. Should two men
assail ono, with deadly weapons and
that one accompanied by his, wife
who was thus placed in great jcopar-
dy' Of her life, it would brand them
/. n all civilized communities as ruff.
ans and outlaws of the decpest dye,
bat . people that tolerated slavery
with all its horrors. that gloated
over the cowardly and brutal assault
OF Sumner, Greeley and others, by
Southern representative men, wilt
b, more likely to applaud than CEN
sure this disgraceful sct.-
Pollard has written book entitled
"14ee and Fills Leiutcnants" in which
no roughly handles Wise, and the fol
lowing paragraph in particular is
the one that the young Wise's took
tfiehse at.
"Now, will tho candid reader say
the character Of Bonn bastes Furioso
is overdrawn for the man who could
talk as OK Governor Wise did, on tie
brink OF one Of the greatest convul-
sions of modern times? 1t was Just
such windy nonsense as quoted above
wich impellcd the South into the gulf
Of war. It was Just such bom6ast
that disfigurcd our cause in the
eyes Of the world, and made it rid:cu.
fous. The people Of the South rec
Olcct how they were told by Wise
and such men that the war was to
BE- despatched by a few blades of.old
rom that the yankees would run
at levclled corn stalks; aid how the
ex- Governor attempted to scare the
ercmy in Western Virginia, by deck
ing himself with immense yellow
legging's and a pair Of old flint lock
pistols. Such nonsense deserves
something more than the slight pen.
Mites of ridicule. 1t was an impor.
tant element Of the war, an iniispen-
sable part Of its story; it has incur.
red large share of the responsibility
for the fearful misery which over.
spreads and Expresses our land and
fall the big, passionate words in
which we were told that the war was
simply to be afoot-race after Yankees
and the South needed no other arms
than sharpened bits OF carriage
springs with which TO pursue the
fugitive foe, were gulped down the
throats Of their authors until they
evoked, they would be treated as
they deserved. 52
RS {" At least, let such men observe the
dccency Of silence, and DO dumb in
vic y Of the great ruins of the war
which they once so lightly and inso.
lentiy discussed. The public is don.
with thhif bnn,bast. The day Of the
Horny a. Wisc's Roger A. Pryors and
Martin Lipscombs-tiic times Of the
gonvs, and the bubbles, and the buck
skin leggfns, and the f1int-lock pis
with graves. SCARED, mutitatcd ane
in torment, is a monument of what .
few swo!len fools may do. Sham,
and silence bcit such creatures now!
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