Year: 1867

this appeal.


knights and Workers.


The Chicago Times, although ia
nous for its unwise opposition to
the late war, gives the Southern peo-
pie some good hints occasionally
In an article on Southern Chivalry,
it discourses thus:


The irrepressible If. R. Pollard,
historian Journalist, fire eater, and
so forth, has lately been anxious to
deliver lecture on the chivalry of
the south. The sub-comnander
squelched the effort. An appeal was
taken to the superior court presided
over by General Schofield, who con-
firmed the squelching verdict Of the
court below. 1t is intended, we be-
lieve, to appeal from this decision to
the supreme tribunal presided over
by the President. In case the action
Of the lower courts shall be affirmed,
the appellant will drop his case, as
there are no higher courts, unless
those of heaven, and they, probably
have no jurisdiction over cases com
ing from tho United States.


Pending the final appeal, some
thing may beprofitably said of the
merits of the case in question.


Chivalry is fine thing. Itsounds
well To call a man chivalrous, or
O ch ivalry, is to attach to him res
onant, musical description. No eu-
logy of the living, no laudation of
the dead, can be rounded off, made
melodious and finished, without the
term chivalrous. This, in the south.
Tn the north, nobody is chivalrous.
Nobody contemplates himself as be-
longing to the chivalry; nor does
any one invariably describe every
body else as chiyalrous. It is term
which few newspapers use !: and
which orators have not got the chang
off," We suspect that one of the
chief differences between the north
and the south lies in the presence or
absence of ''chivalrous."


It would be better if there were
less difference between the north and
the south in this respect. 1t would
be better, not if the north had more
Of it, but the south less. Chivalry
looks well, reads well, sounds well,
and is the passion of young ladies
of certain age. Conceding these
merits, and we have conceded very
nearly ALL Chivalry will not build
up the blackened walls of a burned
homestead it viii not produce a
pound of cotton to the thousand
acres.


It is something which is a good
deal more ornamental than useful.
1t will not raise corn, vote the prop
er ticket, OR get an excluded state
into congress. 1t is something
which, in this country, is like coat
of arms. Everybody may have it,
and nobody be any the better, or no.
bier, Or wiser for its possession
What the south needs nowtis some.
thing quite different from chivalry.


It wants patience and industry


It wants to settle into the harness for


hard work. Either the south will re-


build itself, or the time will come


when it will be doing the same thing
under the direction ola Yankee task,


master. Its public men, instead Of
delivering infammable lectures upon


exploded humbugs, should all be


hard at work, repairing, reconstruct


ing, rebuilding. Chivalry, like Fal-


staff men in buckram, is long since


past praying for The industries of
the south are still within reach Of
) prayer and of good preserving effort,


For these, and Il thousand other
similar reasons, do we advise the
southern people not to take it great
ly to heart that the lecture on chiv-
airy has been suppressed; and let
, them pray that President Johnson
, may affirm the conclusions ofthe in
, ferior courts. The better destiny Of


the south invites it to labor, and not
: to act of chiyalry. The hoe, and not
the lance, should be henceforth the
, weapon of the southerner. When a
/ man dies let it be said Of him that he
was laborer in the work of rebuild
t ing, and not that he was chivalrous
gentleman A bale ofcotton is worth
, several times the amount of a wreath


of flowers presented by the queen of
/ beauty to some chivalrous knight for
, his magnificent daring in sticking q
, pointed pole through ring. A doz-
( en- workers are worth ten times as
r much as an army of knights. Let
) the south believe this,and act accord
n ingly. .zaT