The Kanzas news., 1858-10-16

the public offices. And not all the spies
and soldiers of France are a more desola-
ting afhiction to her than are our loafers of
the ruling class to US, while as for the rela-
tive cost and usefulness of the army which
Is the glory of France, and that which is
our shame-the French have the advantage
of US. They may estimate the cost of their
army-we cannot estimate that of ours.
The French army is occupied in guarding
the throne and person of the Emperor. :
Our forces find employment in beseiging
the Treasures. Never did engineers make
more careful and scientific approaches to 3
beleaguered castle-or with more care ane
calculation direct the boring of an artesian
well-than do the officers of our standing
army lay out the ground and cut the trench
es that are to lead into the Sub-Treasury,
and sink shafts TO the strong boxes of the
States and cities.
Through the gratitude of peoples, monu-
ments rise to heroes whose deeds have the
rare and happy fortune to be recognized
The leaders of our partizan soldiery, in the
process of their peculiar warfare, rear their
own monuments. These are of infinite va
riety. Some dot the landscape; others are
apparent only in the official pigeon holes.
They are seen In shapeless custom aud
court-houses, erected in the most execrable
taste, at three or four times the cost of
proper building; in bridges that are not
reached by roads; in roads whereon there
is no travel; in forts useless as the pyra-
mids; in ships of war unseaworihy from
the hour they were launched; in dredge
boats, rotting idly in the harbors, and rivers
they should clean; in the trail of the skele-
tons of costly animals from Fort Leaven-
worth to Fort Bridger; in the hunger and
wrelchedness and helplessness of an army
wintering amid the mountains of Utah; in
the wrecks that strew the shores of our
lakes, while the money that should provide
places of safety for the proud vessels they
were, is scattered along some distant coast;
in Fort Smelling sales and Willett's Point
purchases; in the thirty years war upon
the Treasury in the name of the Indians of
Florida; in the five million frolic between
the Indians and the script spectators of Or
egon and Washington Territories. Daily
and nightly. from the stately streets of our
cities to the remotest quarter
sections of pre-emption claims, upon which |!
Civilization has made its mark with worm /
fence, are sobbed jeremaids over the horrors /
of taxation, from which, for US, there seems
to be no escape, by land or sea, in the I
crowded mart or the wilderness. These la |
seem not more universal than
mbecile. The Demon of Party has for the !
country that faculty of fascination which
Poe's Imp of the Perverse had for the In
1ividual. 1t is the monster of hideous |
nein that we have come to embrace We |
lrowsily insist upon assoeiating partizanism
and patriotism, and inextricably confuse our
IDEAS of party and country, so that it is |
hard indeed to learn that our vaunted ex-
pertinent of self-government may not, after
all, be a success SO stupendous as Fourth of
July literature would indicate-harder still |
10 appreciate the fact, THAT THE MOST LIcEN-
CIOUS AND PRoFLIGATE, THE MEANEST AND |
MOST BALEFUL OF DEsPoTIsMs, Is THAT OF A
PARTY, ORGANIZED IN THE sIMILITUDE OF /
ARMY, wATCHFUL, DESPERATE, AND
ALIKE IN THE ACQUISITION
AND THE USES OF POWER.