THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH. PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JULY 9, 18CG.
THE NEW YORK PKES3.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS OF THE LEADING
JCURNAL8 UPON CURRENT TOPICS.
1CMP1LLD AVERT DAT OR MVJUUHO TXLBORAPB.
Out Native Chines The Party or Pr
hibitlon. from the Timet.
The violent effort of the Tribune to identify
the Union party with a hiirn protective party
will not succeed; but ita endeavors, as well as
the words or Mr. Stevens in a recent debate, in
which free trade and Rebellion were apparently
regarded as growths of the same poll, give a
color to some of the worst accusations of onr
European enemies, that onr struggle was in th
interest of protection, rather than of nationality
or liberty. The great Union party included
within its wings persons of all probable shades
ol opinion on the tariff question. Free traders,
revenue tariff men, protectionists, and excla
slonists. A convention of the party aever ven
tuied to enunciate any principles on the ques
tion ot low or high protection; and tor the
Tribune now to raise the cry ot "lalso lights"
and "treason to party" because a large and
influential body of Unionists are opposed (o a
tariff ("nee trade tariff," according to Mr.
Steven), raising duties trom one hundred to
two hundred per cent., Is simply the old partisan
trt k, lamiiiar to the readers of that journal, ot
nbstituting abuse for argument.
We regr. t that any party or personal feelings
are allowed to enter into a discussion of a pure
question of finance aud ecouomv. The position
of the American people is simply this: Tbey
tar recovering Irom the VHStly destructive
I'flVcts of a terrible thouerb necesary wa.
They arc sutrciing under a loss and scarcity of
lalor and a redundancy of currency. All ex
penses of living have risen in a fearlul measure;
and the problem is to turn the capital and labor
ot the country to that which will waste the least
and bring in the highest return, in order to meet
our financial difficulties and bring down prices.
As all aeree, the most profitable and natural
branch of this country is agriculture. Thus far,
the effort of the bigoted protectionists, since
and during the war, has been to divert capital
and labor from this to less protitablc pursuits.
Manuiactures, already sufficiently protected,
have been bolstered with bounties, until in
some branches their profits have ranged from
60 to 3U0 per cent
As a consequence, every farmer has paid a
irreat additional price tor ttie manufactures pur
chased by him, lor his clothing, bedding, imple
ments, machines, household tarniture, and
btuldmg materials; but worse than this, In
many cases the capital, though diverted by largo
bounties to these branches, has not been m per
manently profitable investment tor the nation,
so that though the individuals are richer by the
taxes paid in their favor by consumers, the
whole peopio are poorer. Prices remain high
for the farmer, because manufacturers receive
excessive duties to aid them in that which is not
profitable. With our vast agricultural wealth
we ought to be exporting grain and brea lstuffs
and dairy products to many countries of Europe.
We cannot do it, and the great reason is the
expense of 1 reign t trom the central West f) the
seaboard. This expense is immensely height
ened by the tariff. Mr. Raymond gives a striking
instance ot the truth of this in bis remarks on
the duty on iron, in the House session of the 3d
ultimo:
"Pile New Tork Cential and Erie Railroads, he
says, rmpli yed together live times mure cauital tuau
ail the rolling-mills in the Uniitd (States, diibursioK
ten timet as much money to work them and sup
porting ten times as many people. Those) two roads
renewed usually one-tilth ol' their track every year,
requiring, each ot tlieui, 2U,uou tons 01 railroad iron.
At the present rate of duty the duty on that was
$772 000; at the increased rate proposed it would bo
5(1(76 000 that is to av, those two roads would pay
about two millions ot dollars by way of protection.
They had paid last year one million each as luternal
tax. There must be an end to that they could not
stand sncb a pressure I'ho.-e were only two railroad
companies. All the railroan companies ol the Uuited
Stales had paid lust year little less than six millions
lor internal tax, and now it was proposed to put
upon thorn five or six millions uioro in tue shape ot
protect on."
Who does not see that this increase of
$5,000,000 in expenses for the railroads of the
United States must come out of the freight, and
that for every cent added to the cost ot iron the
farmer must p;.y in diminished price on his pro
duct? The increased expense of Iron and steel is so
great, and the ninli protection has mule all
material and machinery so costly, and has in
creased the watte and carelessness eo much in
our machine manufacture (as is the well
known reMilt of bounties), that it is notorious
that forehrners, from South America, tor in
ftiuice, no longer order their machines here as
they did, going to England, where they are
cheaper; and it is equally well known that the
vast commerce in iron screws between America
and Europe, and other countries, has been In lieu
;rom our hands, because we cannot make screw
iteamers as cheaply us the English. And this
mainly trom the bad influence of over protec
tion, lor the rate ol wages in machine factories
is not so vastly different in the two couutrlui.
' Some of our manufacturers, perhaps a larg
proportion, can now stand on their own legs
without Government help or bounty. Tuosj
which have bicu "protected'' so many years, and
tor whosp protection every man, woman and
child in the United States has been payinar a
heavy tax, and which are now as weak as ever,
had better be lelt to co down, and the money
and handii employed in them be turned to more
remunerative biauches. To add no a duty of
one bundled or two hundred percent, to Keep
tip these sickly branches ot manufacture is the
height ol folly.
The position of reasonable men on this subject
who seek the fluuuciul srutpd of all sections is
precisely that of the able Commissioners on In
ternal Revenue, is confirmed by the long expe
rience of loreien countries in the matter ot
taxation; that is, to arrange tne tariff with
relerenee solely to Graining the greatest revenue,
Hiid to lav the irreat nrooortion of the duties on
a few articles of luxury. The Jrtbune derides
this, but the experience of Great Britain in the
immense results from taxing spirits, tobacco,
and a lew other articles is fair proof of its
wisdom.
It happens, fortunately, that most of our im
ports are articles ot luxury: they outrht to yield
a large portion of the Dublto revenue. Theu,
without Improper mterterence trom (iovern
meut, the capital and labir of the country will
turn to what pavs best, and the whole people
lee) the good eilect in higher profits and lo-ver
prices.
To the D-alb.
fromtu Tribune.
The uUliculty which dead persons of color
i. e., persons of no color, according to our Ame
riian misuse of the word experience in getting
buried in Flushing, would seem to admit of uo
compromise. In one regard it is certainly a
matter lor the Metropolitan Board of Health
Dead persons of color mtint, like dead persons
of no color and of every color, be buriel some
where or burned. w"e should think that Trustee
James Btrong, at lea&t, would understand that
but what's in a name Ilowever, we do not
mean specially to discuss the subject at this
time. Our topio in hand more general.
""There are clearly bttt two ways for our society
10 pursue respcuuug -persons ot arricaa de
cent." Imvrimis. we may exterminate them
How, if this is to be done, we insist that it should
not be done in aloolish, reluctant, tlddle-iad lie,
retail sort of way, as we managed, to our treat
historical opprobrium, with the Indians. iThis
aillui" off a race by laches Is altogether too
much like an Eastern mode of execution, t The
culprit is whittled ti desth. Every morning the
' executioner comes and slice off an inca oi the
yictim flesh, in eoraparisoa with this, strau-
SuiWMh owapitauvc, garreuxig, combustion
and even wheel-breaking, seem to be femininely
mild methods of taking ott. It "persons of color"
in this country, in life or in death, cannot be
permitted the vulear privileges ol humanity, our
voice Is for a general and speedy massacre of tb
whole tribe. Half-way measures never adjusted
any botheration since the creation of the world.
Even King Pharaoh made a ludicrous mess or
it in trying to be rid of the Hebrews when be
said to the midwivei: "Ecry son that is born
ye shall cast into the river, and every daughter
ye shall save alive." lie should have killed the
whole obnoxious crowd men, women, and
children; if he had done so, be might not have
come to moist grief, with his tine cbnriota and
fast horses, in the Red Sea. The children of
Israel, when upon abort commons in the desert,
asked Mokcs if there "were no graves in
Egypt" that he had led them to perish in the
a, .ert. There are "no itraves.'' it seems, in
Flushing, but even the fastidious cemetery con
trollers might not object to finding a sort ot
pits, with quick lime, for the remains ot all the
"colored" population, if it could be got rid of at
once. They would do as much as that for the
Jour-footed victims of plcuro-pneuraonla. They
ee that we are quite willing to be tenderly ac
commodating to theirpreiudlces.
We hope no soft-heaited reader thinks that
we are cruel. We love murder no better than
the next man. To the best of our recollection
we have never killed anybody, i. e., physically,
though we tire conscious of having morally
slaughtered a vast number of solemn fools.
Wiatwe Insist on is the commonest kind of
benevolence. If we were "a person of color,"
livme in this United States, and found the
schools which we helped to support closed
against our children, the sanctuary gates shut
in our laces, tne public vehicles denied us, the
places ot amusement refusing us entrance, we
aie not sure whether we should commit suicide,
run nwuy, or liht it out to the bitter end In the
home of our fathers. It would be cowardly to
abeeoud, but it would be a dally torture to stay.
On the whole, we think that we should ask to be
exci Bed by act ol Assembly, with permission to
select our own method to exit.
But in the second place, we will suppose our
own method to be squeamishly rejected. Well,
then, we will insist that if we thus shrink
trom a di-agreeable duty, and, aeit were, force
lue upon the "colored" classes, wo have no
right to moke that Ufa intolerable. Either let
them go to the promised laud, or take off their
burdens, if not' lor their sake, at leat for our
own; because the presence of a pauperized, op
pressed, and permanently degraded class iu this
country is a standing refutation of our most
cherished political theories, aud will always be
a suggestion to enterprising usurpers to get
their feet upon the whitest of necks. A de
graded class is always an aseltlOn that demo
cracy Is impossible. It is the black who suffers
to-day it will be the white who will sutler to
morrow. The men, if we may say so.wholinte the negroes
harden i-o hard that we believe they would not
even drink rum with them these are the men,
white as they would be if they would take a
yearly bath, who will first be enslaved. Riches
will get the better ot them. Learning will get
the better of them. Unprincipled sagacity will
get the better of them. They will he kept poor,
laboring for others, living lor others, drawing
water and hewing wood lor others. When every
white man claims a rierht divine to oppress
every black man, then white man No. 1 witl be
claiming a right divine to oppress white man
No. 2. Wall street will then get a grip upon the
throat of Five Points, and wo be to the Five
Pointers.
It isn't our fault If we are forced so often to
repeat here these alphabetical truths. Would
to God that we had no occasion 1 Coarse-minded
and sreuemlly bemuddled men charge us with
writing in the negro interest. We deny it. We
assert, and the whole course of the Tribune sus
tail. s us in asserting, that we have no more to
say lor oppressed blacks than for oppressed
whites. We are simply for carrying out to the
letter the chief doctrine ot the Declaration of In
dependence, or tor flincring that respectable
document oyerooara altogether, uur radical
ism is that oi Thomas Jellerson, and they will
liiccotterh to you in the grog-shops that Thomas
Jefferson was a very good man. We are lor a
democracy that means sometniug, ana until we
get it, we shall be lorced to indulge, tiresome as
they may be, iu a good many repetitious ol our
demand.
The Case of ex-Postmaster Fowler.
From the Herald.
The action of the Government authorities in
entering a nolle prosequi In the indictment against
Isaac V. Fowler, for embezzlement ot the public
lunds while Postmaster of New York some years
ago, has naturally excited no little comment
among all classes. With many, perhaps, the
result of this lone latent prosecution finds favor
upon the grouuds urged by the District Attor
ney in presenting the case, that the New York
public were magnanimous and forgiving. Tho
argument may weigh with others, that Fowler
did not enjoy the fruits ot the defalcation him
self, and that he was not only urged to the com
nii'sion of the tbelt by his political friends, bat
tl tit the money was appropriated to the uses of
a political party, with the knowledge it not the
actual sanction ot the Postmaster-Geuernl's De
partment at Washington. To our mind these tacts,
if they be true, are an aggravation of the offente,
and we are disposed to repaid the matter ot the
defalcation ana the condoninc of the offense bv
the Government authorities as a great moral
wrong, a aangeious precedent, ana a proceeding
wholly unworthy of a great, free republican Gov
ernment like ours. It presents Itself to ns as an
incentive to crime on the part of public officials
w hat right nag tne government or the political
party it represent to authorize the stealing of
the public funds for party purposes admitting
mat tnese were tne circumstances under which
this dedication arose and uot the personal
extravagances ot the individual ollicebolder?
For Fowler, personally, we have no ill will. It
ne wtis usen as a tooi o.y politicians we regret
his weakness, but we protest azainst the urin-
ciple introduced into our system ot dispensing
law and justice as developed in this case. The
poor man who steals the price of a loal to keep
via i-unuren, it may oe, irom starvation, nnus no
tavor. The State Prisou is bis doom, but people
will argue that a rutin who happens to be a poli
tician can go scot tree for a more heinous offense;
in lact, that politics, when used in behalf of the
rulirg powers, legalize lelony.
It is against the bad moral effect of such a
course on tho part of the Government that we
protest. The case of Fowler is but a single
Illustration. This course may be and probably
lias been pursued in many other cases. We
have seen young men led asiray, in commercial
Hie, into the commission ot crimes against the
community cousipned to Sing Sins tor a term
1 jears, which they will probably serve out,
whde lellows who have some strong political
affiliations and political friends are pardoned
utter a few weeks incarceratioi. The etiect ot
mica proceedings is more demoraluiutr than
can be easily imagined. It is a temptation to
commit crime of which many avail themselves
and which has an evil influence upon tb en
tire community.
II Fewler bad any of the instincts of an honest
man, he would rather leel relief In his unob
served exile, conscious of the wrong he has
done, than seek to return to the scenes ot public
lite of which he once made so conspicuous a
feature. No doubt he will bo r-celed here on
h's return with the same eclat that the rougher
eleu ents ot ew York society aoeoided to Rill
Ponle on his decease. The sachems of Tammany
and the brave ot all the Democratic strongholds
will receive l.im with a cord ml embrace; but
we should suppose thxt the ex-Postmaster would
Dreter the ret rement which it annenra hn ima
been eujoyiiii; in ense and comfm abroad fur
some years i)Kt to tue unenviable notoriety
which awaits liitn here. '
j The story o this defalcation has been dead lor
many year's. Toe public had forgotten It, and
the name of the official defaulter bad . been
blotted almost out of n-emory by the frequent
cases of a simlar character that have ince
occurred. But the wbold tale is revived by the
late judicial aetion, and we are reminded thereby
l Ue disgraceful fact that for the past live ye.v
vr nure uieu oi inuetu.ee u uie political world,
men even in Judicial station, have been exer
cising their power to procure pardon tor a man
who, whatever the extenuating circumstances
may be, was at best a plunderer of the public
treasury, of money obtained from the hard
working and heavily-taxed people. We are com
pelled, in the performance ot our duty as con
servators of public morality and public justice,
to condemn the encouragement offered to crime
in official station which the law officers of
the Government have thought proper to extend
in this cafe. It is a dangerous example to set
in the very weakest point of our governmental
system.
Comm o n -Sense.
From the Tribune.
The anti-Bread-and-Btttfer press of Richmond
labor under the delusion that "the Radicals of
the North" are unduly exercised because a num
ber of leading starvationlsts are boldly in favor
of conducting the impoverished South on tho
plan of excluding Northern capital and labor.
Not at all; for we understand, without experi
ment, how foolish it is to keep on "shooting at
the crisis," and how hard it is to oppose a loco
motive. "We want," says one of these lunatics,
population and capital, but not radical popu
lation and capltaL" Sensible people do not need
to be lnlormed that the South wants Just what
it can get, and has no real business or interest
to inquire whether its laborer is radical or con
servative, Methodist or Episcoparian, so long
its lands are tilled and its railroads built and
kept running.
A plan to keep out radical capital, and take
in conservative and foreign immigration, would
scarcely commend itself to aiy Southern propri
etor who wants to borrow money to pay withal;
lor it is a remarkable commentary on the anti
locomotlonists that nearly all the Northern
capital at present in the South nas been begued,
borrowed, or invited from the North, which is
unwilling neither to lend or to give while it
finds itself welcome. It is alawot our conti
nental commerce and civilization that the emi
gration which conies through Northern channels
lollows Northern capital, as a matter of course,
whether it lead northeast, northwest, or south.
We cannot teach the Richmond Philistines this
fact, though it be as old as the hills; but it is
nevertheless true that immigration follows its
introducers, and will go where there is the most
thnlt and industry, and slay there until North
ern and Western enterprise is invited to lead it
elsewhere, whether it be to the Northwestern
States Bud Territories, where agriculture and
building promise familiar tasks, or to the South,
which is a stronger country altogether. We
doubt if it has ever occurred to the blockheads
who advocated exclusion, that emigration must
co South through the North, and that a new
clas ot white men will not go to work where
Northerners and negroes are badly treated.
The real laws of labor are pretty sound morals.
Every Southerner is justified in making as good
a bargain as he can. whether he sell his land to
radical or conservative. So we are disposed tj
believe that the people of the South will per
force disregard those village Quixotes who run
fit full tilt: nnnlnnf Kiirlham Fatsii-iriiTiioAle n nA
chivaltously inisfeature themselves in order to
spite tnetr own and other peoples counte
nances. General Martindale as an Orator.
From the World.
Tie American people, like other great people,
have always given their admiration as freely to
brilliant orators as to renowned leaders of
armies. As among the ancients the speeches of
Demosthenes kindled as many hearts as the
victories of Alexander, and the splendid confla
gration ot Tully's eloquence blazed as brightly
as the fame of Cie-ar's exploits; and as, in
modern French history, Mirabeau was not
eclipsed by Napoleon, so, among the American
people the fame of Patrick Henry, "the forest
born Demosthenes," is scarcely less cherished
than that ot Washinetou, the leader ot our
Revolutionary armies; and at a later period,
Clay, on whose Hps listening Senates hung with
rapt in e, divided the homaae of his generation
with Jackson, the illustrious hero of New
Orleans. It is the rare felicity of the times lu
which we live, to see both of these dazzling
characters united in one to contemplate a hero
who "speaks with the same spirit with which
he tougbt." It was reserved lor the Fourth-of-Julv
celebration at Albany to disclose this mar
vel, in tue person oi jonn n. juarunaaie, late
Brigadier-General of Volunteers, and now
Attorney-General of Hew York, rlis merita In
both these characters were set forth in one of
the toasts at the Albany dinner, in a strain ot
eloquence inferior only to his own. We quote:
"1 ho third teculsr toast was 'The Orator ot the
Dav. As brilliant in eloquence as he wa dashing
iu the held, ue has stormed the citadels of our
hearts, carried thorn at ihe lirst assault, planted the
genial banner ol tho (rod ot eloquence over us, and
w e have only to surrender at discretion." General
liattindale responded in a very happy speech. He
retorted to Air. l remain's strioture in a very nappy
manni'i, aiid indulged in many Hashes oi wit aud
humor."
The author of this toast 1s probably a near
lelative of Mrs. Amelia Guhintrtou, one of
whose letters lately appeared In 1'uMsh. Jlis
tasteful c:.U'.;ou Ix.t, more than the merit of
eloquence; stripped of tho showy plumage with
which it is decorated, it has the greater merit
ot trutn. its sense, expressed in plainer lan
guage, is that General Martindale is as great as
an orutor as be was as a soldier which, we take
it, is a proposition it would require a hardy
reasoner to reiute I
We cannot find it in our hearts to Buffer so
splendid a light as this General Martindale to be
longer bid under a bushel; so we hasten to place
him upon a candlestick where he may shine
upon all our countrymen. In giving specimens
oi uenerai Diartinaaie's oration, we are nappuy
relieved from the trouble of estimating matter.
It our friendly criticism were confined to this.
it would be after the model of the celebrated
chapter in the book of a mmnl on Iceland: .
"CHAPTEK XVIII. SNAKES. There are no
snakes iu Iceland;" which was the whale chap
tor. We do not lemnrk the absence of matter
in General Martindalc's speech to disparage its
eloauence: very much the contrary, one of the
characters in Jloliere's Amphytrion tays that
the truly great cook is he who can set out a
sumptuous dinner without incurnne any ex
pense at the butcher's. So your truly great
orator, like uenerai Martindale, is one woo
ran make a srorgeous display ot splendid woras
without any expeuse of knowledge orthought.
And besides, this makes the parallel In tne
toai-t so perfect between General Martindale's
nruLorv and his military tame. Lloduence
si eh eloauence. at least, as his is a drum which
gives lorth more sound in proportion to the
vacuum witnin; it is a Dhiioon, whica mounts
to a preater heieht in rroDorLion to tie tenuity
of tbe gas which swells out its sides. This being
the character ot General Martimialo's eloquence,
we ure able to wesetit some verv uncommon
SHir.ples of soaring loltiness. We bve but a
Blei.dcr acquaintance with the physiology of
bath; but, as far as we cau judge, General
Martindale is proDauiy ngnt in reeroruun; iud
birth be Here dcscriDes as quite unusuai:
"How shall I address yon in terms snl thoughts
fittiup to such uu audience and ueh a iimef Ho
Klisli 1 suitably assist to commemorate birthday
llkettnsf Abirthoayl Was eer natoi born into
l'uil lite by one grand declaiation, leaping up to
such an aitituds as ours i
We do not know that we quite understand the
application of tbe pbra.e "alive and kicking;"
but y.e t-upposo it may describe icourately
pnmiirh the cond.tton of a new b iru biby. But
when General MartiudMa mattes his leap up to
such un aiitoiushiug "al itude," be give a
Btrlklna proof oi the rsiug tendencies ot his
eloquence. We may well ask, in his own mag
nificent language, ''When, ever belore, in the
track of the centuries, or in human expenjtiee,
lim uiu'h u fmectae.Ifl tann witnessed ?" The
woid. "altitude," like some other vrr tall
terms, Is a e reat favorite with General Martiu
dale, rathe high ivgnmi to which his armauttc
eloquence so Jrrepivssibly soars. For instance:
"Amhltuincan find no altitude loftlur than the ele
vation t which humanity nas exaJlod the Apostles
who went torUi p rwKhutf .
"That dlrlne philosophy which the anrols pro-
claimed in Bethlehem of Jndea will be carried to tbe
rnrlet altitude ol excellence, and will demonstrate
that it contains the elements ol millennial Joys and
flor.
Sooner or later ,we shall reach the plonaclo of that
Idea."
As a critic said of Milton, " he conl-i not be
always In other worlds," so General Ilartiudale
cannot always stay at aerial heights. He mutt
sometimes neteend to tbe earth ; but under tbe
tread of his eloquent step, the earth, though
solid, is not vulgar. His architecture is as sur
prising as his physiology ; as for example :
"Sooner or later the Government itself will erumb'e,
if that f reat foundation rook on which ibe dome of
tbe temple rests shall be broken and removed "
This "dome" resting on the "great foundation
rock" surpasses the description given by the
delectable Diedrich Knickerbocker, ot the
renowned Wouter Von Twlller.or "Walter the
Doubter," the first of the old Dutch Governors
of this goodly city. Darao Nature, says the
veracious historian, had given to that redoubt
able personage a bead of enormous size; but It
exceeded her skill to construct a neck sufficient
to support it; so she stuck it squat down upon
his fat shoulders, not exactly like General
MartinrJale't dome Testing on his deep founda
tion rock, for be rests the magnldcent head of
his architectural wonder, not immediately on its
Bhouldcrs without any neck, but upon Its heels
without any intervening body. Having men
tioned the sedate, truth-loving "historian ol New
Amsterdam, we are led, in the way of further
illustration, to reier to a protound remark ot nis,
lu another part ot his book, on tbe character of
Dnme Nature, who, with tbe capricious temper
ot her sex, has so often acted in disregard of the
theories invented for her conduct by profound
phfUsophers. History seems to have treated
General Martindale in tbe same capricious, dis
respect I ul manner in which name JS attire nas
treated so many great philosophers. General
Martindale says in his oration:
"The lint Nanoleon exDrescd tho nrinclDle of the
Imperial Government in the torso but emjiUatio
declaration, '1 am the State.'"
Tli a famAinaanlnni " Tloint fdoat Ynfi I' to nna.ln
two ccntuties older than the "tirst Napoleon."
to whom General Martindale attributes it. We
did not suppose a siuirle human being who had
ever seen the phrase, could be so uznorant as
nt t to know that Its author was Liouis XIV.
The new convert who began his first exhorta
tion in the prayer-meeting by speaking of "the
Apostle Job." did not make a more laucrhable
blunder.
The little bouquet which we have culled from
General Martindule's wilderness of flowers, must
suttice lor to-day. tveu it there were no dan
ger that they would quickly wilt when detached
from "the stem where they grew," there is some
danger tliut their concentrated fragrance might
be a little too strong tor this sultry weather,
Altogether his military laurels and his oratorical
flowers make a very pretty chaplet; tor though
neither may be very tastelul in itself, they are
very suitable to each other. But we cannot
quite make up our minds whether the author
ol tne oetore-quoted toat is a weakiins or a
satirist, it not the latter, be has very happily
nit tne marx at wnicn ue aia not aim
Military Critics and Strategical Bohemians.
From the Daily 2iewt.
It is a matter of some Interest, just now, to
observe how promptly the Bohemians and mill
tary critics of the metropolitan press are step
ping up to the work of instructing bnrope in
the proper method of conducting the war re
cently commenced on that continent. No
sooner does tbe European steamer brine the
t'dines of an undoubted commencement ot hos
tilities, than the military critics and strategical
Bohemians, having nothing else to do, piescnt
themselves like noisy mounteoanks at a village
fair, and bellow out their suggestions and ad
vice, declaring the immetie superiority ol the
military science on this side of the water over
that whicb obtains on the other, and making it
clear to tbe commonest understanding that they
have not the faintest idea of what they are
writing about.
The close ot our own little 3ftuaoble threw an
immense number of these tacticiuns on paoer
out ot employment. For the while Othello's
occupation was truly gone. Four years of in
credible hardships on their pait, nussed in the
rear of armies on the advauce aud in their trout
on the retreat, and devoted to fabricating re-
put a' ions lor their favorite generals, aud to
writing of victories that were never won,
gave them a sufficient smrtterine of terms
connected with the art of war, and acquired
from a careful perusal of field orders, aud by
hanging around the rear of tents and listen
ing to the soldiers' conversations, to enable
them, with the facts in hand, to write up,
a suuicienliy lucid account ot marches,
battles, and sieges to enable their crudities to
pass, among tbe unthinking, for good, sound.
practical views of tbe military situations. In a
condition of affairs in which nobody, trom the
t.enerai ol Division to bis hostler, was well up
in tbe theories of Vauban, Totleben, or any of
the celebrated European masters of strategy
ai d the systems of offense and defense, the
military Bohemian, with his pencil and note
book, became no mean exponent of the mys
teries ot tactics and the p'olound and compli
cated manoeuvres of a well-handled army iu
buttle. Tho natural audacity of the race, too,
earned them out bravely where more sensible
men would have hesitatod; and, as lathe king
dom where dwell the blind, tho one-eyed man is
king, to did it occur that our Bohemian, in
their condition of one eyedism, and surrounded
by the sightless, came out ot the war in tine
leather, aud with the satisfaction ol having
"written up" biinibnes into the position of
heroes, and of having dignified a prosaic
mediocrity, or worse, into a splendid exhibition
of genius.
Now, whilst it was pardonable that, in cir
war, the strategical Bohemians should have felt
their powers and exulted in them, it Is drawing
too largely on human forbearance to witness
their attempts to instruct the soldiers of Europe
in their duties. To suppose tbat any facta in
our war great as it undoubtedly ws in the
sacrifice of human lite could present themselves
as something new to those who conduct the
military movements of the armies ot tkc Old
World, is to suppose an absurdity. Were the
Bohemians to retlect if they ever do reflect
that tbe military system in this country is
almost altogether fashioned alter European
models, and that the best rules of the scleuce of
war have been the product of the brains of
loreism strategists and commanders, they would
see clearly that whatever was practised in our
campaigns, and which is not revealed In the
Furopeau style of conducting military a Hairs,
owed its existence to the fact tbat circumstances
were fuvorablo to its development in tbe Ameri
can conflict, and, perhaps, would not permit of
its exercise in continental warfare.
Tliis, however, is lust what the military
critics and strategical Bohemians reluse to see.
Now, we would like to make a plain sueaesttou
to those ambitious exponents oi tbe science ot
war. Let them avoid tbe columns of the news
papers when they are about to "reconstruct" the
map of Europe, or when they are attempting
to decide, before the French Emperor is out ot
his quandary, upon tho future attitude of
France in the present uuhappy quarrel in Ger
many, and let them seek a publUberof bo
ciw. When they have done that let them
strike a bargain with their publisher to print so
many thousands of copies ot their "views,"
pav tor the same out of their pockets, and dis
tnbute them gratuitously among the people.
That will Ye a cheap wav, as lar as the dublic
are concerned, ot acquiring reading matter,
even tboueh it be of a tishv nature; aud,
although the Euiopean question, in their
band, would become as complicated and unin
telligible as the Scblcsffig-llolntein muddlti now
i, the inquiring mind could always be put on
the right track by perusing tbe lacts as they
appear in the reliable papers. '
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OKOVL WIllbKY hietayou Send us, aud fmu that K
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d sn. oil. wbUh Is tbe cbaracterlstlo and Injurious la
ureultut ol tbe wblfkles In general use.
BOOXU, UAKfibTT dl CAMAO,
, , Analytical Chemists
. , Kew York, September I 18M,
I hare analyzed a sample ot CHEhnut OhoB
VHlfcKY received trom air Cbarles Wharton, Jr.,
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ok UkLiTKiiKi a substances. It Is an unusually pur
anu bue-Uavored quality ot whisky.
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