The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1861-07-13

LnUlIaOud1 IOE US Ap1Eb lIOln
democratic government is long since IN fait
acconaph, fixed fact, and the Anglo Amer
lean race can no more revert in the direction
of monarchy than of the Saurian epoch.
Our geographical position frees US from for
eign disturbance. and there is no really for
midable internal trouble, slavery alone ex-
cepted. Let US come cut of this conflict
victorious in the field, escaping also the
more serious danger OF coEquering our
selves by compromise, and the case of free
government is settled past caVil History
may put up her spy-glass, like Wellington
at Waterloo. saying. The field Is won.
Let the whole line advance
There has been foolish suspicion that
the North was strong in diplomacy and weak
in war. The contrary is the case. We are
proving ourselves formidable enough in war
to cover our shortcomings in diplomacy.
How narrowly we escaped demoralizing
ourselves, at the last moment before Con-
gress adjourned, by some concession which
would have destroyed our consistency with
out strengthening our position 1--we could
even now bind our generals to initiate our
Cabinet in its admirable and novel policy of
sience-to eschew pen and ink as carefully
as If they were in training for the Presi-
dency! The country is safe so long as they
shut their mouths and open their batteries.
The ordeal by battle is stern test of the
solid power of a nation. There must al
ways be some great quality to produce
great military superiority-skill, or daring
or endurance, or numbers, or wealth. or all
together. Except the first two, neither of
these special qualifications has been even
claimed by the Secessionists aud these
two have been taken for granted with such
superfiuous boastfulness as to yield strong
internal evidence against the claim. Certainly
their general strategy. up to this moment,
has yielded not a single evidence of far
sighted judgment or conscious power,
while it has shown decided glimpses of
weakness and indecision. Indeed, how can
an army like theirs be strong? Its mem
bers mostly unaccustomed to steady exer-
ton or precise organization without me-
chanic skill or invention without cash or
credit; fettered in their movements by the
limited rolling-stock of their scanty rail-
wsvs; tethered to their own homes by the
fear OF insurrection what element of solid
strength have they to set against these
In the present state of the world,
strong in peace is strong in war. In mod
ern times an army of heroes is useless with
out facilities for arming; transporting and
feeding it, to say nothing of the more lg-
noble circumstance of pay. Considerations
of simple political economy render it almost
impossible for slaveholding army to be
strong collectively, nor do the habits Of
Southern life usually fit its members TO be
strong singly.
In remembering the battle of New Or
leans, we forget that the Southwest was
then region of hardy pioneers, such as are
now rather TO be sought for in Kansas and
California. The famous Tennessee ri1emen
of that day were not necessarily Shareholders,
and their legitimate descendants are yet to
be found among the brave men who rally
round the nearest approach to Andrew
Jackson whom the State now boasts-a toll
cradle fac-simile, both as to character and
tymology-Andrew Johnson. There is no
need of disparaging the personal courage Of
any man, and the Southern army has some
good oficers-too good, probably, in spite
of themselves, to bring to bear their clear
est judgment and their best energies in strik
ing down the flag they have all sworn to die
for. They have eminent foreign advisers
also. or one at least for Mr.W. II. Russell
self-apoointed plenipotenliary near the Cour
of St. Jefferson, is said to have lent the aid
of his valuable military experience to thai
commanding officer so appropriately nance
Capt Bragg. But, Bragg or no brag, it ii
almost moral impossibiIIty that a slave
holding army should be strong.
The Secessionists have suggested to US
fatal argument. 1.-The superior race mus
control the INFERIOR Very well :; if they
insist on invoking the ordeal by battle to de
eide which is the superior. let it be so. I
will be found that they have made the com
mon mistake of confounding barbarism will
strength. Because the Southern masses ar,
as ignorant of letters and of arts as tn
| Scottish Highlanders, they infer themselve
to be as warlike. But even the brave ant
hardy Highlanders proved powerless agains
the imperfect military resources of England
century ago, and it is not easy to see VIII,
those who now parody them should far
better. The absence of the alphabet doe
strength, nor is the ignorance Of all usefu
arts the best preparation for the elabo-ai
warfare of modern times. The nation ha
grown well weary of this sham ..chivalry, ,
that would sell Bayard or Du Guesclin &
aSSo.ion. if it could be shown that the moth
er of either had drop of marketable bloc
in her veins. Is had always been charitabl
fancied that in South Carolina at least Their
was some remnant of more knightly honor
until kind Providence sent Preston
Brooks to dispel the illusion. Il may
possible that even a brave man, in som
moment of insane Inconsistency. may CON
NIT some act which is the consummation
all cowardice; but it is utterly and absc
lutely impossible that any brave communit
should approve it. Time has long sine
carried the perpetrator Of that dastardly ou
rage to higher tribunal, but nothing ca
ever redeem the State of his birth from th
|. GROWING shame of its Endorsement.
It is not recorded whether the proverbi:
, English army in Flanders lied as terribly &
, they swore ; the genius of the nation di
not take that direction. But if they did
they have now met their match in audacit
| of falsehood. Capt. Bobadil in the plaJ
who submitted plan of killing off an arm
of forty thousand men by the prowess
4 twenty. each man TO do his twenty per die
in successive single combats, might ha,
raised his proposed score of heroes anon
I any handful of Sscessionists. There seen
h to be no one to stop these prodigious fe
e lows as party of Buford's men were on