The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1905-10-30
~OFGHIYALRY
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their power for the alienation Of
human suffering and for the preser-
vation of human life.
eaThrough the efforts of such men.
Chivalry has now come to be consld-
cred in the light of a civil establish
ment, rather than a mode OF war
fare, and its ancient practice seems
to have been forgotten. AT any
rate it is obsolete.
seFor the protection of society and
for the promotion of peace, public
policy imperiously demanded that
| there should be a change of chivalry.
1t demanded a change from foes and
friends, from vassals to freemen, a
change fro mthe customs of the ori-
entail monarchies to the more recent
methods of this bright new republic:
and in consequence of such change.
we have drawn simplicity and pleas
ure out of what was originally a
military plan for the destruction of
Youthful heroic lives. Nc ancient
ancestor ever had the opportunity
to enjoy the privileges which you
have today, and yet, with practice
under our present system, it Is pos
sible for the sir knights of old Har-
rison county to handle the lance
with as much dexterity as did ever
any Grecian phalanx or any Roman
legion.
owe have to turn back but a leaf
or two to find that the American
youth first imbibed the idea of
chiyalrv from that venerable Scot.
Alexander Spotswood. History tells
MS that in the year of 1716, Alex
~Spotswood, then colonial Governor
of Virginia, determined to learn
more of the vast wilderness lying
west of the English settlements, and
which had hitherto been inhabited
only by the savage tribes
Accordingly he left Williamsburg
with so daring horsemen on June
goth. and marched through the for
ests following the courses of the DIFF
fercnt rivers until he reached the
mountains. Crossing the Blue
Ridge at Swift Run gap, he pressed
onward across the beautiful Valley
of Virginia. and on through the
mountain files until he reached the
territorial limits of what is now
Pendleton county. West Virginia.
There on the 5th day of September,
1916, on one of the loftiest sum
mits of the Allegheny mountains,
he and his little band halted and
drank the health of their King.
George the First. Never before had
the voice of civilized nan been heard
in the solemn hush of these rugged
mountains. There for the first time
stood the representatives of the
Anglo-Saxon race. gazing upon the
lofty peaks of a boundless wilder
ness. Who were these men, these
80 daring horsemen? They we're
Observation-Disclosures of the Golden
Horseshoe.
"'When Governor Spotswood re-
turned to jamestown, he organized
what was known as the "Transmon-
tame Order or Knights of the Cold
en- Horseshoe, and presented to
each brave knight who had accom-
panied him on this perilous journey,
a miniature horseshoe, bearing this
inscription sc jurat t~ranscendere
montes'-Thus he swears us to
cross the mountains
Chivalry of America! born upon
the soil of the old Dominion,
brought up in the lap of the union
fostcred by the society of every state,
now fourishes unrivaled from the
grandeur of the Niagara to the ever
glades of Florida, and from the
ebbing tides of the eastern shores to
the golden sands of California!
"Your anxiety, Sir Knights, to
enter this contest brought about by
your own untiring zeal and unaided
efforts, is but a token of the high