Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1840-04-18

Michigan he has inthis discussion written new
chapter in the " regula philosophandi," and
made not ourselves only, but the whole world
his debtors in gratitude, by overtuning the old
worn out principles of the g inductiye sys-
tem."
Mr.. Speaker, there lave been many and
ponderous volumes written, and various unctu-
Gus discourses delivered, on the doctrine as
sociation." Dugald Stewart a Scotch gentle
man of no mean pretensions in his day, thought
much and wrote much concerning that prlnci-
pie in mental philosophy and Brown, another
of the same school, but of later date, has also
written and said much on the same subject
This latter gentleman | think calls it SuggeS-
ton ) but never, | venture to say, did any met
aphysician pushing his researches, dream that
would come to pass, which we have discovered
and clearly dcyeloped- two subjects so
unlike as an appropriation to road in l840, q
the tactics proper in Indian war in 1871, were
not merely akin, but actually, identically the
same.
Mr.. Speaker this discussion should think,
if not absolutely absurd and utterly ridiculous,
which my respect for the gentleman from Mi
chigan, and the American Congress, viii not al
low me to suppose has elected another trait r the
American character, which has beenthe subiectof
great admiration with intelligent travellers, from
the Old World Foreigners have admired the
ease with which us Yankees, as they call US,
can turn our hands to any business or pursuit,
public or private and this has been brought
! forward by our own people as proof that man
IN this great and free republic, IS being We
ry far superior 10 the same animal in other
parts of the globe less favored than ours. A
proof of the most convincing character of this
truth, so hatering to our national pride, is ex-
hibited before our eyes in the gentleman
from Michigan delivering TO the world grave
lecture on the campaigns of Gen. Harrison
! including a variety of yerv Interesting militia.
ry events in the years 1911, 1912, and 1913
| In all other countries, a1Iji all former times
before now, a gentleman who would either
speak or be listened to on the subject of war
| involving subtle criticisms on strategy, anc
care lul reviews ofmarches, sieges, battles, reg
ular and casual, and irregular onslaughts, woult
be required to show, first, that he had studied
much, investigated fully and digesfed well, the
science and history of his subject But here
sir, no such painful preparation is required
witness the gentleman from Michigan. He
has announced to the House that he is mill
i
he is lawyer we know, tOlerably well read il
Tidd's Practice and Espannasses Nisi Prius
These studies, so happily adapted to the sub
ject of war, with an appointment N the mllitl;
in time of peace, furnish him at once with al
the knowledge necessary to discourse with u'
as from high authority from all the mysteries ii
1 the trade of death Again Mr. Speaker, i
must occur to every one, that we to whom thes,
questions are submitted aud these military crit
icisms are addressed being all colonels a
| least, and most of US, like the gentlemen him
SELF brigadiers are, of all conceivable tribunals
best qualified TO decide any nice point connect
ed with military science | hope the House
was not alarmed by an impression that | am a
bout to discuss one or the other of the military
questions now before us at length, but | wish t(
submit remark or two by way of preparing us
for proper appreciation of the merits of the
discourse we have heard. trust, as we are al
brother officers, that the gentleman from Mchi
gan and the two hundred and forty colonels ant
! generals of this honorable House will receive
what have to say as coming from an old broth
er in arms, and addressed to them in spirit o
candor,
/ " Such as becomes comrades free,
RepoSng after victory"
Sir, we all know the military studies of the
gentleman from Michigan before he was promo
ted. take it to be beyond a reasonable doub
that he had perused with great care the title
page of " Baron Steuben." Nay, go further
as the gentlemen has incidentally assured us
/ he is prone to look at musty and neglected vol
umes, | venture to assert, without vouching the
fact from personal knowledge, that he has
prosecuted his researches SO far, as to be able
to know that the rear rank stands right behind
the front. This, think, is fairly inferrble from
what | understood him to say of the two lines
of encampment at Tippecanoe. Thus we see
Mr.. Speaker that the gentleman from Michi-
gan, SO far as study can give us knowledge of
subject, comes before us with claims to great
proiundity But this is a subject which, OF all
others, requires the aid of actual experience to
make us wise. Now the gentleman from Mi
chigan, being militia general as he has told
us, his brother officers, in that simple statement
has revealed the glorious history OF tolls, pri-
vations, sacrifices, and bloody scenes, through
which we know from experience and observa-
,;o IN, tima of