New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1844-08-23

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we believe the Literature of War has not &c.
..rcd more valuable augmentation this cen
,,p,v than Gel. Naplef's justly celebrated work.
Though d gslont combatant IN the field, lie Is
;, impartial historian; he exposes the errors
,onmu,ed on each side, reiutes many tales al
rpch ateocily and rop;nc, aud does not conceal
-, revoung scenes OF drunkenness, piliage.
..,sbment aud walton slaughter, which tar
.,,,e Inc lusre OF the But.sh arms in ihrse
venerable campaigns. We ;hjnk no CIVILIAN
,srpicler CT tue events oF this dcSpcre,e contest
s.s been 80 just To the adversary OF his nation
| ;, mas this ste:n warrior.
The War in the Peninsula is the mos, worthy
| Of uofound contemplation Of all tie many which
,,eg out OF the French Revolution. 1t had It's
,rgn IN the grossest periidy ard fraud on The
| at Of the iron ruler Of France, whose treatment
4 4 me Royal House of Spain clearly cyinced tina,
:s was not only himself destitute Of every
nsGow OF moral principle, but that he was not
wen able to conceive and calculate upon its ex.
,snce in the breasts of others. Spain was his
3,.equous and serviceablc ally; her rulers his
sind ldoaters; he. best troops were fighting his
s.t,les on the shores of the Baltic. There never
| sas an act Of kingly vllainy more utterly unpal-
aled than his perfidious enticement Of the Span
81 Bourbons into France and atrocious impris
| ,nnent Of them there, with the sole object OF
| ,bbng them of their dominions-not to give
Eo1y to their pricst-ridden people, but merely to
f,,end the limits of his empire and swell the
millions of his slaves. His only apology was
the pirates argument-hiss sabre. Spain was an
inviting, and, it seemed, an easy prey. E1sy
Eould il have been but for the fact (Which Power
s,emalIy forgetting) that there is God who
aes over the affairs OF nations, and scattcrs the
iosts Of the mighty when they have done His
! ascrutable will. Spain, without Government,
Without guiding class, Cor her mobiles mainly
,,oYcd corrupt and worthless,) without an army,
and with but the most uDpromising clements Of
Military force, proved The real grave Of Napo-
cons empirc-the outset of his voyage TO St.
Helena The destruction of the Grand Army
,y Russian steel and Russian frost was a terrible
Vow, vet this would never have been fatal but
oI the previous sacrifice of half million French
odicrs in inglorous contest with the daily dis
omitted but unconqucrable guerlllas OF the
Spanish mountains. With one half of these
brave victims OF his depraved, INSCRIPTIONS aln-
bon, Napoleon would in 1913 have held Aus.
iria in tmid though heartlcss alliance, crushed
the Russians tnd Prussans at Baulzen, and on
the Niemen dictated TO Alexander peace which
would have shut out Great Britain from the Con.
dnent and reduced Prussia to level with Hol.
land and Switzerland. The Cavalry wasted in
Spain would alonchavc effected this. But gigantic
crime was here, as elsewhere, suffered TO work
out lis own punishment, and TIL tldngs of the
B.te OF Salamanca, conveyed to both Armies or
the eve OF the awful contest of Burodlno, was
the kncil of the French Empire.
Napier's History is 10 mere record of human
bu,cherics, with iIomer's descriptions modern
ized 1t exhibits Causes and portrays Character
|, gives US the Moral of War without sermon.
izing No right prlncipcd man can read it with
out bathing War even more than he previously
lid. He secs, indeed the pomp and biazonry OF
nethodlzed carnage, but close behind this follow
nynads Of hldeous gashes and horrd cprpses
Napier is Liberal wilha, champion Of Revolu
.,n, OF Democracy, and even Of Napoleon, st
h, nd
bis work wider currency i'll this country, wher,
the antagonist History of Alison has been st
WIDELY disseminated and read. We need view
Ciao,h sides, to enable US to form right Idg
nent OF the merits, or Father OF the crimes o
The contend,ng Arsiocratic and Revoutionar,
,4rues in the great contest whose clangor ushcrcc
a this century There are grounds of sympathy
sith, as of detcst atom for, either party; but fol
lie God.defying vllainy which robbed the Revo
alton OF its tcrrors aud the People OF the Liber
les to reconquer which they had waded through
mch oceans Of crime and blood-for the despot
sm of Napoleon and his sanguinary puppets, We
not how either Aristocrat or Democrat, Con.
servat!ve or Radical. can cherish even tolerance
The crimes of the Revolution were not arrested
by Napoleon, as his apologlsts and adulator'
would pretend; they had ceased before ne came
cOnspicuously upon the stage, and even lntidelity
which can never outlast "a generaton-had los
It's vitality long before he pretended to restor'
Raigion Ofall enemies of Mankind, we regar,
I'M who deliberately puts his foot on the neck o
aNstion with greatest adherence.
Mr.. Redfeld has condensed Napier's grcat
Fork into one comprehensive royal octave ofovcl
sOGpages. 1t is little too cheaply got up, bu
is still a fair edition.
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