Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1870-05-21
The Truth Of History.
From tho Southern Home, ]

! protccti0nlsts every chAhcc i get
The Truth Of History.
From tho Southern Home.
Tho most dangerous sentiment
ever uttered on this continent, il
that recently addressed by our
present President to a Virginia del
cgation: "You want manufactures
more than chivahy.' In the coarse
matcrialistic language OF tho age,
"chivalry don't pay, it Is played
ont. Tie Sonth wants money-mai.
ing men, and not statesmen and
scholars. You hire had crotcheta
about state Rights, checks and bal;
anccs Of the Constitution, three CO.
ordinate departments OF tho Gov
crnmcnt. All this nonsense has
given place 10 n consolidated En-
pirc and the Empire is peace You
have had some antiquatcd notions
about honor, truth, high breeding
chivalry. All we'll enough under
the 'barbarism of slavery, but il is
decidedly old fogyish now. You
have pridcd yourselves upon your
open door hospitality. Twas Il
foolish piece ofcXtravaganco. Bet
ter take presents from friends than
spend your money upon them. You
boosted of yonr wcll-fed slaves, no
wander yoh were poor; look at our
pale factory girls and at our pinch
featured necdlo-womon. How could
you lo great, rich and prosperous,
with so Eiaiiy crude notions and alb.
surd customs ?"
The little speech of tho head OF
the Gift Enterprise was intended as
sncer at tho pdst and . warning
for the future. The uttcrancc Of Il
course boor would deserve no con
sidcration, did it not happen that
tho coarse boor is Chief Magistrate
of the United States. Let us then
examine his snecr, and see whether
we ought to take heed to his warn
ing.
Has the chivalry of tho South
dwarfed her intellect, impaired her
iHan hood, Of diminished her mate
rial fesoilrccs If no injury has
bcUn donb i'll those important re-
spects, we may reasonably suppose
that "lhc first captain OF his age"
may bo mistaken in his estimate oi
Tho blighted effect Of chitalry. We
will take up the three heads sepa-
rately.
In the formation Of the Federal
Constitution, Madison, Pinckney
and Mason, were unqnestionably
the controlling spirits The Supreme
Court Bench has had no ablcr nor
purer Chief Justices than Rutlcdgc
Marshall and Tancy. The North
has produced no Statesmen equal
to Calhotin, Madison, Jefferson and
Clhy. No thtoloSinhs comparable
with Thornwcll and Alexander
No poet superior to Poe, No pain
tel srpcfi3f to Allston. No natu
ralist equal to Audubon. No inven
tors of really important things SUI
perior to Brooke, inventor of deep
sch sounding apparatus and tor
toiso-shcll iron. clad; to McCor-
mick, inventor Of the reaper tc
Gill, inventor of tho rovolvcrs and
to Clemmons, inventor of the tcle
graph. But the fact that two-third'
of the life of the Nation has beer
spent under the administration o
Southern born men is proof enough
that "chivalry" has not dwarfed the
Southern intellect.
Let us look at tho second head.
In tho first great rebellion, th'
ARMY of the United States was com
mandcd by a Southern born man
| In the war of 1912, Andrew Jack
son, of Mecklenburg county, Nortl
Carolina, gained the most laurol
and inflicted the heaviest blows up
on the enemy.
In the war of 1916, both wings o
tho American army were command
ed by Virginians, Scott on one lin
and Taylor on tho other. In Tia
war of 1861, it is notorious that tn
South fought better and endure'
better than tho North. All Europ
| was ransacked TO fill the armies 0
the Unioi, though the North ha'
four times the population of th
South, and yet after getting recruit
| by hundreds of thousands fror
among Germans, Irish, Italians
French, Poles, Swiss, Spanish, &c
the Secretary Of War Of the Unite
States made the iiumiliating confct
sion that. the rebellion would hav
been established but for the timei.
aid of two hundred tho1sand South
ern negroesl But this is not al
tho South from first TO last furnish
ed four hundred thousand mon {
the Union cause. No great disas
ter befel the arms Of the South q
any tiftic during tie four years
struggle, without The blow comm
mainly or in part FROM one Of he
bwn recr5anf sons. Tie first I.
verso was inflicted at Mil Creel
By TH5rnas, Of Virginia. The firs
: c5Rhdehee inspired IN ths demorn
lied sfthy of Ball Run, was OWN
: 10 tic generalship Of Ord Of Nafs
fsud, ;. nrrr@z-Tic, Wien tHt