A noble Virginia boy.
We publish, with great pleasure, the following letter. The patriotic contribution enclosed has been applied to the purpose designated by the writer: Norfolk, May 10th, 1861.
Editors of the Dispatch.--In a time such as this, I believe it to be the duty not only of the grey.
haired patriarch, who is bowed down by the weight of many years — not only the duty of the man of family, who may be surrounded by the heavy cares of life — not only the duty of the young man, who is just entering upon the busy stage of life; but, I believe it to be the duty of every So?thern boy, in this dread crisis of his country, to endeavor, by all the means that are in his power, to resist or help in resisting the tyrannous yoke of him who now occupies the chair once filled by the illustrious Washington —— of him who has not only the awkwardness of a baboon, but the subtlety of a prostitute — and who is a compound of immeasurable hypocrisy, and insufferable and intolerable audacity and deceit — of him who has not only infamously declared and proclaimed, but who tenaciously adheres to and stands by, his attrocious theory and damnable doctrine of despotic monarchy, and who, bloated by success, has become pregnant with pride and corruption, and now threatens to subdue the South by his bought minions.
I am a boy and a cripple.--They won't let me help in fighting, except on my own hook, and that I am determined to do. But permit me to place in your hands, for you to hand over to the proper persons, the small sum of $30 for the defence of Virginia.
It is part of a sum which I have been hoarding up like a miser, that I might give myself an education; but, I now lay it on the altar of Virginia as an humble tribute of the love and affection which I bear towards her, and with the heartfelt prayer that the South may be able to shake off the heavy burthen of mountainous monstrosity and galling slavery which the ungrateful North threatens and is endeavoring to crush us with. 