New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-04-15
A few words of, asd 90 the " cn"-eiekness
of Com. Morris-Arrival of Gen. Thumb.
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WASHINGTON. Tuesday. April IL, 10


WASHINGTON. Tuesday. April H. ls41.
What miserable demagogue' --e1eiain' Tue
Washington Union Of last evening IN q our'' Oh
patriotic fury" will now pause to carp upon tne
origin OF the Wr-to higgle about me mamie, "
conducting ito distribute its honors between ln'
or that deoartment-this or that corPs-ths or thar
leading General =
The origin Of the War it may safely be granted,
il matter Of little consequence TO the Feopie d.
large since neither by direct interference OF tnen
selves. nor through their Constitutional organs tns
two Houses Of Congress were they implicated u
;ts commencement The Union may be ngnt'
therefore, in its assumption, that If allowed no
voice in the declaration Of War, the People snOuiu
have m control over its management or in its own
more expressive language should not DC aio"su
to higgle about the manner OF conducting
what demagogue does propose to distriou'e
the bonors Of the War betreeH his or hdt teaoIng
| csne,ol1 The Editor of the Union himself;
,,ho from the position that he holds, or claims as
.ha ofcisl organ Of the President and his advisers
and abettors, is the demagogue OF demagogues
He If is who, "by authority" undertakes to dis
tribute the honors of this War-to magnify or IN
derrate the services Of this or that leading Gen.
eral.v as he thinks, or is told will be best condu-
Give to the interests Of the Administration.
Let the columns of the Union be carefully
noted the last six months-snce the battle oil Mont
erey Let all that has been said in favor OF the be-
roic achievements of Taylor since the bloody days
of Monterey and BUEyA VISTA, be conected-be
published for the edifcatoin Of the country, and
there will not be found enough OF praise, enough OF
appreciation to distinguish the result OF an ordinary
skirnish! No the mouth. piece Of the Executive,
the organ through which, it is said, not only the
Presidents sentiments but his very words often
reach the public eye is closed to the gallant actions
which draw forth the applause Of the country and
the world. or is open but to damn their illustrous
author with faint praise.
Look upon that picture and on this.'-No
sooner has Gen. Scott,-sent to the seat OF war TO
neutralire Taylor,-taken Vera Cruz-an event
which every one anticipated and which was con
fdently believed to have happened long before
positiye information was received-taken a fright
ed panic stricken city, than the deed OF Prowess'
of wonder of awful admiration is blazoned to the
world in the unions" most conruisirs style J
The whole Universe is invited to the entertain
ment l-bonfres-to believe the Union should
he k;ndled on the tallest Andes, and upon all the
neaks of mountains nearest the clouds One shout
should agitate mankind the world throughout
Something can be pardoned to the excitaole
temperament of youth the blood, in that season.
runs warm and freely through the veins, and the
nerves are easily excited to intense agitation
hut how the imagination temperament OF one
who at the time the Virginia Resolutions
passed. some fifty years since, was more than " a
whining school boy"-how so aged an imagination
or temnerament could be stirred to such an ecstacy
because General with the best-appointed and
most dreadful engines of destruction in the world
psixhan guns mortars, Sc-a brave and numerous
Nsvv. and thirteen thousand four hundred and
seventy men. lone of the best disciplined and
most gallant corps in the world" had captured
civ. the hearts of whose defenders, unnerved and
broken by the fatal news from Buena Vista, beat
mostly for surrender-puzzes the mind and makes
one draw conclusions not absolutely aattering to
the conduct or design of the real or pretended en-
thusast
It's a fertile subject of contemplation, and may
occupy future moments, less arbitrarily apprecia-
ted than the present
In the King Cambyses vein,' IN which the
editor Of the Union of late, is wont 10 indulge,
wa. written the whole article from which have
extracted paragraph. Engagements will allow
me now but time to make one other allusion
thereto
1--WE dare not shadow forth the plans OF thu
Administration" We are certainly much obliged,
for since the editor of the Union" who certainly
has not been very scrupulous in supporting those
plans hitherto fears to promulgate the latest ones
there must be some nefarious outrage intended
upon the rights or moral sense OF the people which
we should shudder to see developed Mr.. Editor
Of the Washington Union, accept our thanks fol
your kind forbearance-thanks that we will moi
withhold although we may be more indebted to
your want of knowledge than Of courage, for the
forbearancs! But we will not look gift horse II
the mouth.
The Administration says the Union" is deter
mined to avoid the errors Of the Roman General
, whose enemy said He knows how to gain vic
tory, but he knows not how to profit by it.
Putting aside at present a consideration OF the
errors the Administration is determined TO avoid
: If there be errors left uncommitted for them 4
, avoid would respectfully inquire of the Editor o
the " Union" udO was the Roman General, whose
, enemy made the sagscious remark above trans
/, cribed In what time of the Republic or Empire
did he live Something more about him might be
more interesting to the anxious readers Of the
Union" many Of whom perhaps know no more o
history than they find in its columns
This indiscrininate habit of pressing Roman
Generals and Roman Consuls into service is som e
what dangerous. They may turn out, occasionally
as the elephants in the Persian and Indian armies
more fatal to those who employ them, than to those
! against whom they are intended.
: Com. Morris is confined to his bed with sickness
His liver is said to be much affected, and SOM
doubts are entertained Of his recovery. He is th
Chief of the Bureau Of Construction and Repairs.
The city is enlivened by the presence Of Thomas
Thumb, E 80 who draws day and night, goody houses
|, The President, l understand, will not give hin
either the vacant Major Generalships having doubt
Of his military qualifications therefor-but then b
had no doubts Of Benton's qualifications for th'
Lieut. Generalship. Into such strange inconsisten
ces does the human mind allow itself TO fall as
few additional and perhaps superfuous inshe
qualified one man better than another