Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-03
"Chivalry."
From the San Francisco Argonaut.

The evidence furnished by the
formation of the New Constitution
party in the Tenth Ward and else
where tends to show that it is a
chiyalry movement. There are two
kinds of Southern men-gentlemen
and :chivs." The gentlemen-well,
gentlemen are the same in all parts
OF the world; the same in the South,
or in the North; the same in politics
as in the other relations of life; the
| fact is, gentlemen are gentlemen. :"
But "chivs That's another thing.
A "chiv" is a poor, proud white !;
has false dignity and an exaggerat-
ed department. His education is
superficial, his clothes are over
brushed, his bat is over ironed, he
wears crooked AIDED hickory cane
which he hangs upon his arm. This
habit is acquired in taking drinks
it gives freedom to pour and lift. He
is always well horn, of good family,
and is always either descended from,
or related to, a governor or senator
or member of Congress. His fam
lily is one of the ''first" usually first
of Virginia or South Carolina, but
the area of gentcel birth has extend
ed oflate years to embrace Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia and
parts of other gulf states. The
"chiv's" family was once rich, or,
what is better form of expression,
"wealthy, sir" The "chiv" uses
the word "sir" with frequency and
emphasis. When very emphatic he
says "By Cd, SIR" The family is
of course poor. Formerly the fortune
was lost in the United States Bank
latterly impoverishment has been
brought about by the war. "The
damned Yankees stole our niggers.
sir,' remarked a "chiv" to us the
other day. The pretension Of the
"chiv" puts himself among the blue
blooded by birth aud family. The
fact usually is that he was "poor
white" of "no account obscure ORR
gin, and never owned "nigger" in
his life, and, if slaves had been six.
pence dozen, would have sold the
last one upon the auction block for
drink. The probability is that he
descended from Yankee school
master or tin peddler who drifted
southwark, became Niger driver,
plantation overseer, or something OF
the kind The achiv' pays bis gam
bling debts as "debts of honor" He
cheats bis boarding house, his tailor,
his washerwoman. He borrows
money that he never intends to pay.
He sponges and begs with the az
dacity of a tramp. lie is born pol
itician az he is born mendicant.
He is fraud and a pretense. When
the civil war ragged he talked loud of
"his people," has country" and he
accepted the boast as true that "one
Southern gentleman could whip five
Yankees" but he never tried it He
did not go to the war, but stayed here
and clustered and swelled up with
patriotic Indignation, aud turned red
or pale 10 his face at the recital of
Northern aggressions and Southern
wrongs--red or pale according to
whether he draRk brandy or Bour
bon. The 'schiv proper never misses
a meal nor pays cent. lie never
refuses drink, and he thinks the
country is going to the devil because
men won't work. He hangs on to
the tail OF any party that will carry
him, or let him ride and tie, or that
will help tote his baggage. lie is al
ways the first to aid in the formation
of new party. A new pack and
new deal are always acceptable TO the