The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-02-08
NUMBER 21.

without production. There was Presidential
election in 1916, when the victory was fresh,
and the country ringing, and imaginati"ns daz-
zled with it, but it did not make Jackson Presi-
dent, or even bring him forward as candid
The sam" four years afterwards, al The election
| OF lS20-not even a candidate then -Four
years still later, at the e.esion Of 1924, he be-
come candidate, and-was not ell cted recei-
ving bu' SO electoral votes out Of 26l. In the
year lc25 he was first elected, receiving i7S
out Of 26l votes, and in 1889 he was a second
time elected, receiving 2l9 out Of 258 votes
Surely, there must have been something be-
sides an old military recollection to made these
two elections different from the two former,
and there was That something else was
principle and the same that have stated in
the b"g,nnng of this chapter as entering in the
canvass OF 1923, and ruling its issne pass on
to the last sparagement " A victory which
vas very ordinary achievement. and not only
to be remembered where battles were rare
Such was not the BATH, OF New Orleans. II
was no ordinary achievement. 1t was a victory
nj go citizens just called from their homes
without knowledge of scientific war, under a
leader as little scbooied as themselves in that
particular, without other advantages than n
slight field work "a ditch and bank of earth)
hastily thrown up--over double their numbers
OF British veterans, survivors of the wars of the
French revolution, vic ors in the Pen nsula and
Toulouse, und'r trained generals Of he Wei
hngioa school, and with a disparity of loss new
eg before witnessed One side 200 killed
(includlIg the first, second aud third generals }
400 wounded ,09 taken prisoners On the
other, six privates killed aud seven wounded,
and tho total rrpulse of M invading army,
which instantly fed t, its 'vooden walls, }" and
never again placed hostile foot on American
soil. Such an achievement is not ordinary,
much less 6 very" ordinary. Does Mons de
Tocquevlllc re the Importance of victories
by the number engaged, and the quantity of
blood shed, or by their consequences IF the
former, the cannonade on the heights Of Valmy
(Which WIS not battle, nor even combat,
but distant cannon firing in which few were
hurt) must seem TO birn vcsy insignificant
affair. Ye, it did what the marvellous victo
ries of Champaubert, Mon'misail Chateap
Thierry, Vauchamps aud Monier, au could not
do-turned back the invader, and saved the
soil OF France from the iron hoof OF the con.
querors horse and YVES commemorate twelve
years,af,erwards by The great Emperor in ducal
title bestowed upon one of its generals.
The vicory at New Orleans did what the
cannonade ataVamy did-drove hack the inva- :
der and also what it did no, do-destroyed tue
one fourth part OF his force. And therefore it
is not to be disparaged, and will not be, by any
one VINO judges victories by their consequences,
instead of by the numbers engaged. And so
the victory OF New Orleans will remain in h,s-
tory as one of the great achievements Of the
world, in spite Of the low opinion which the
writer on Americans democracy entertains Of it.
But Mons de focluevles disparayement Of
General Jackson and his achievement, does not
stop at him and his victory. 1t goes beyond
both, and reaches the American people, their
lIirn ~, e.
chlse. 1t represents the people as incapable of
s-lfgovernment, as led off by little military
glare to elect man twice President who had moi
one qualification for the place, who was violent,
and mediocre, and whom the enlightened classes
opposed; all most uni uslly said, but still to pass
for American history in Europe, and with some
Americans at home.
Reg rd for Mons, de Tocq evlle is the cause
OF this correction Of his errors it is q piece of
respect which do not extend to the riffraff of
European writers, who come here to pick up
the gossip of the highways, to sell il in Europe
tor American history, and to rcquite with defa-
nation the hospitalities Of our houses He is
not of that class; he is above it he is evident
ly not Intentionally unjust. But he is the vic
tim of the company which he kept while among
US; and his book must pay tho penalty Of the
Impositions practIced upon him. The charac-
ter of our country and the cause of republican
government, require his errors to be corrected
and, unhappily, shall have further occasion
perform that duty.