New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-18


- nsy BE- vsfsabed ever BY he tsrgiA Aoroos Q
Asnsde, developed 10 he glitter md ,ibsd @
French tragedy.
A writer, however who cannot remember
Hal the title Of PG,<r PG,rse vn ever conferred
"by common CONSENT" upon any man from C,oert
70 WshinetOn-who speaks Of Naples " mol
safe from the "oDDipresent power Of Rome,
m Coero's age-wko supposss that Cicero drove
Anthony nom the city by his spesehes-hA' evl.
SsDt, such large gaps 10 supply in his Snt0reA
reading that be need scarcely detAin q from biz
fiesd Of Tie Trarcllsr. What says he on the gen
snl subject,
"In aiming 10 involve Cicero and his p.negyrst
H. Choate In one web o. oDtemsstoo be IBs
YnBpSEl rakes up the whole volume OF Ccercnc de-
annexation which has Ito orlgn 70 NE n,oefn Gernan
ssASoIs and which based upon special instances Of
Csserss life, 6eto,e CGs0y's desh These show We
vscilstion and unstesdiDe,s Of literary man IN the
nidet OF the slanors and bloee, and blood Of cvil
var and civil warriors, rather than amid competing
stsssspen. But wss II not elnos. unavoidable hat
Ciceio a man Of books and written speeches, should
have been oonfused IN hs course nay almoet stanned
BY the bury .burly Of period when Iepobllc wa
hang done 20 death by the bloody hands If toe great
ssDtsips In the midst OF arms not only HSs are
alept but aatesmen are stained. Dauotess Cicero
did trm and et bis situation be his on use
This sustaiDs the gis. Of our remarks. Cicero
vas trimmer, only be had reason for 1t, namely,
Rat be want strong enough for bis times which s
singular apology for the greatest and noblest OF
AZ Romans" Yet th re are are several things to
BE- said Of the excuse here preferred for his weak
ness First, that be WAS not simply man of
boois, for be had been a questor, edIe, pretor-
general, and consul (the last equivalent TO our
Presidency, and the most eminent lawyer Of Rome
al his manhood; second, that he was not merely
"stunned" and "silent" during the civil war, but
most ofboiousIy busy flying from one aide TO the
other, and never knowing bis own mind; and third,
hat it wa hardly Characteristic Of "tbe greatest
and DOblest Of the ROusns," at an hour when his
country was being done TO death by the bands Of
great captains" to allow himself to be eOwed into
aequieecence. Then was the time for his greatness
and sObenees 10 have sbown themselves; then it
wss that the tbunders Of bis eloquence should have
rusg around the heads Of the great captains; and
Nat instead Of standing shillyshaly between them,
he should have acted some determined part. Sup.
pore that Gen. Jackson aud Gsp Scott had come
% strift Is 10 the military domination Of this re.
pshhe, could the voice of Henry Clay have been
drowned except in his own blood' Would he have
run from one 10 the other, prsttng Greek and try
ng to lsep up halffsced fellowship with both
II seems, however. that VI. Choase and Cham
ssen No. lay the particular stress Of their
admiration for C'eazO's political greatness on the
list TIVE ytar. Of his life. 1.-THE pauegyric," says
ia Tsydlsr Twas confined wholly 10 the last
"two years Of his life, after the death Of Cesar"
That 10, after noble lion had been torn to pieces
BY pack Of curs and they found themselves utterly
unable to supply bis place, Cicero shines among
them with peculiar luster After the nation had
been brought to civil war by an a'rccOus deed Of
violence, perpetrsted by squad Of imbeciles, he
joins the party Of the sssassns and mounting much
Of "the republic" and liberty" becomes an enes-
nous patriot, But our crilc assigns too long
tsrn to this glorious manifestation. Caesar wa
murdered on March Is, "A B. Cicero, on Decem-
Der 2, - d. Csc that three months must be cur
tailed from it. Then, again, the greater part OF the
Summer, after the ASSASSINATION, he was at one OF
his villas writing the De 0tFeis, the De Fato, the
De Gloria, the TopisH, the De Dse'SH''ose, and
"s,veral other works" says Niebuhr. He did not
appear publicly at Rome till September 2, when
he made mild speech arrGgnng Antonys policy,
but treating him with marked personal courtesy.
Antony took it in dudeeon, ando the l9hOf Septem-
Der replied. Cicero, having got frightened, repaired
70 near Naples, where he wrote out that furious
ssSopd Philippe (fun Of the grossest personal in
yestiye), which he communicated TO Attcus in Dc
teber, with . strict Injunction to keep it secret
ftsm Antony's friends AL this time be vent to
Reno only "st intervals" says Arnold, "resurn.
ma immediately"
On the 10th Of December after Antony had gone
INTO Cisalpne Gaul- Cicero returned to Rome
whore his own party was coming into power on the
Let Of Jsnsary. His whole public activity is en-
krseed in the seven months from hst to the forma-
ton Of the second triumvirste in August How
did 10 exert it, The Tspeilsr says that it was
tAen that the true grspple between the Republic
sand the Empire came on" that:
"Tben Cicero coming out - from under clopd,
stood firm for Freedom a. an apostle, and that was the
reason Antonys soldiers cut of bis head and thereby
eonsecrated him fof ever Is q genuine martyr for
Liberty. whom TEE TRIBUNE. II consistent, ought TO
love. For if modern Senstor has his head beaten in
good cause ThY TRRusR max ~ saint OF h'n, but
this ancient Senator he'd his head hacked OF for that
saane good cause Then he rcused the Rom An youth,
and, Is THE TRIBUNE ssys be sided with 0ctsvius.
Yes but 1t was because that artful young man, the
foremost bypouite Of al this wsrld bad sworn to be
true 70 the Republic, and deceived the republicans al
alike. Then Cicero fulmined his immortal and brave
PAlippcs against The shortlved usurper, Marc
Antony"
What historic. does this writer read What
meaning does be attach " the words Republic and
Liberty He had Just told Us that the Republic
had been "done 10 death BY the great captain;
bot here it 10 alive and kicking again : o. no