The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-07-20
The San Juan Dihiculty---Our Army
Officers.

The London Times is very wroth at Gen.
HARVEY. In its leading editorial of June
81, while it compliments the officers of the
American army in the following language,
it charges HARVEY, in his course in connec-
ton with the San Juan matter, with 6" leav-
ing nothing untried in order to embroil the
United States with England:
There is no class of her citizens which
America has better reason to be proud than
of the officers of her army. Educated, for
the most part. in the delightful and romantic
solitude of West Point, shut out from the
busy world around them by gigantic chain
of mountains on the one side, and the circling
course of the Hudson on the other, and sub
ected to discipline which teaches them to
command themselves and others, the officers
of the American army join to full share of
the national intelligence an amount OF mod.
esty and gentleness which, we may be per-
mitted to say, is not quite so univeral
among their fellow countrymen as some
other more brilliant qualities. In the pur-
suance Of profession peculiarly arduous
and ill remunerated, possessed of the know
ledge which, according to the European
system, is subdivded among half dozen
services, Thoroughly understanding the duties
of infantry and cavalry officers, excellent
artillerists and admirable engineers, the Off
GERS of the American army are among the
bravest, the most enduring and the most
accomplished of their profession. We have
in two wars had ample reason to respect
their skill and daring; and while we have
often had but too much reason to complain
of the treatment we have received from
statesmen who have sought to improve their
political position by pandering to some
popular prejudice against this country, we
have had every reason to be satisfied with
the gentemanlike and considerate conduct
of the officers of the American army"
The Times ends its article by demanding
the immediate recall of Gen. Harvey from
his command at San Juan. 1t says.
I'VE haze right to demand that an off,
Ger tDhose continuance IN command has been
proved to be inconsistent with good UNDER
standing betaceen the tho nations, shall be at
once recalled, and we have besides, right to
insist that, now America repudiates joint
OCCupdtlOu OuIluS uCSoSAo1Aouo, tAo9 tA0oIo
US as only present by sufrance, her forces
shall be Withdrawn from the island, togeth>
er with our own, and the whole matter left
to treaty or, if this may not be, to the
arbitration of third power. We cannot
bring ourselves to believe that terms so rea-
sonable can be rejected. Wedo not desire for
a moment to insist upon the superiority of
the resources which at this moment we
possess. The island itself is not worth one
hundredth part of the losses and calamities
that must ensue from the interruption for a
single week of a good understanding be-
tween the two countries but there is a
thing dearer even than ease and wealth, and
that thing is national honor. We have not
called forth our young men from the peace
full avocations Of ordinary life, and put arms
in their hands, in order to exhibit to them in
return for their heroic efforts the spectacle
of a country which has no respect for her,
self, and invites by her tameness the injuries
she dare not repel.