The Daily Dispatch: September 20, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Virginia.

--It gives us pleasure to observe the tributes to the chivalry and hospitality of Virginians, which abound in the journals of our. Southern contemporaries. We would freely transfer them to our columns, but do not desire to blow the trumpet for our good old mother, whose works speak for her without a word from any of her sons. She has seventy thousand troops now in the field, and every house within her borders is the soldier's home. At some future time, we may set forth what the State of Virginia has done in the way of preparation for this war; and we think that when the facts and figures come to be known, it will be admitted that no State of ancient or modern days, having the same disadvantages to contend against, ever achieved as much in the same space of time as Virginia, from the moment when Lincoln's purpose of overthrowing the Constitution became manifest.--She was slow of vision to detect that purpose; but, once discerned, her attitude has been most disinterested, energetic, and even sublime. We rejoice to see that throughout the entire South this is the universal sentiment towards the glorious Old Dominion. their absence.