Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1881-09-28

State worth Honor won't buy
breakfast the traditions OF your
State and State credit won't buy
your wife a gown.
To this speech Gen. Walker re-
piled, and after expressing the sur
prise and notification which he
felt at hearing a gentleman who
claimed TO be leader OF his party
and political teacher in Virginia
utter such sentiments before a Vir-
ginia audience he turned to Captain
Blair add asked him if be were will
ing to carry out his teachings to
their legitimate conclusions, and
said, in substance &. Go with me
to the town of Lexington, where
sleeps The dust of Lee and Jackson,
stand by the graves of those he
roes whom the world delights to
honor, and tell the pilgrims who re
sort thither that ''honor won't Luy
breakfast" Go with me to Hol-
lywood cemetery, and stand with
me in the midst of the graves Of
thirty thousand Confederate dead
who sleep there bid them rise
from their cell and stand again in
seriied ranks, with Jeb Stuart and
Pickett at their head, ready to die
for the cause they loved and lost,
and tell them honor won't buy a
breakfast Go home, call up your
son-the bright manly boy, who
looks to you for guidance and in
struction-place your hand on his
head and tell him MY son, listen
to the words of your father. AS
you grow up to manhood You will
hear men prate of honor. My son
listen not them. Only fools regard
honor. Honoris but sounding brass
and tiDkling cymbal. Honor will
not buy you breakfast. Therefore
have none OF it." Call up your
little haxen haired daughter, twine
her ring'ets around your fingers.
look into her pare innocent face and
tell her, my daughter, honor won't
buy you a gown.-Shame will buy
you silks and diamonds and Jewels.
Therefore shame is better than hon
or" Go with me 10 Monticello and
stand by the granite shaft which
marks the grave of Thomas Jeffer-
son read inscribed theron these
words "Thomsa Jefferson, the
anthor OF the Declaration of indie
pendence, of tne Statute OF Reli-
gious Freedom in Virginia, and the
Founder of TIE University of Virgil |
MIA and, il your tongue does not
cleaye to the roof of your mouth,
say in the presence ofthose memoir
les 'honor won't buy a breakfast,
and when your race is run, and you,
sir come to lie at the foot of the
hill, on the shaft which marks your
last resting place we will inscrib
Frank S. Blair, the champion OF
forcible REIMBURSEMENT in Virginia,
and the author of that sublime and |
enobling sentiment "Honor won't
buy a breakfast" There were
present at this discussion besides
the above named Col. Withers. A
A, Phlegar, Gen. Malone. and
three Or four hundred people The
Circuit Court being in session,
large number OF lawyers from tn e
counties were also pres
ent. The denial is sought to be
modified by saying that Captain
Blair said 'Funder honor won't buy
a breakfast The word Funder
was not used in that connection
nor was the expression qualified or
in any way whatever, but
the language was used, if not verbG-
tim as we have given it above,
precisely the same in substance.
Nor was there in the context or in
the rest of the speech Of Capt.
Blair any explanation or modlfica-
ion Of the language whatever. The
replies to Captain BIair's remarks
we're given to show how it was trea
ed at the time, and the construc-
lion which was placed on it at the
ime. Had he said 'Funder honor
Won't buy breakfast the replies
would have been uncalled for and
.bsurd. A
During the course of Gen. Wal
.er's remarks Captain Blair rose to
is feet, and interrupting Gen.
said: 81 don't mean to say
hat l have no regard for honor in