The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-10-24
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of souls, and a big salary for each. in not oep
orally regarded as entilsed to the highest place
in the calendar of santa. Even in England
which has an illimitable e.,ehequer and suf
fers from a plethora of pros,eerity, pluralism
either in Church or State has secome edious
in the extreme, and bids fair to disappear al
together before the improving political moral
| ity of the times
The present state of things in the SonsS has
called forth such a spirit Of selfsacrifiee as.he
world has never before seen. The womee
have led the way, as they always do, in what
ever Is good and generous. We do not saw
this in the language of compliment The wo-
men have their faults, as well as the rest of
| creation, but seliishness and avarice are not
among them. Of all the myriad acts of self.
sacrifice performed by the Southern women in
| this war, from giving up their first born TO
knitting pair of stockings, we don't believe
| one woman Of them all has expected to receive
any return, or even desired any, except the
dehverance of their country. Con bless
them We wish they could make the men
more like them. We wish all the men were
as single minded, honest, and noble as the wo-
men. And many of them are No one can
doubt that the privatcs in the ranks, who are
| lighting at eleven dollars month, or. in other
words, Tor nothing, are genuine PATRIOTS
They, noble spirits, whose equals the world
| never saw before, are genuine patriots, whose
master passion is country, not self; worthy
| sons, brothers, and husbands of the trucst and
brayest women in the world, worthy to lay
| the foundations of the best and grandest Coy
ernment i'll all the earth
| We do not wish to be misunderstood We
detest and abhor the radicalism and red re-
| publlcan.sm that has just shown us in the old
United States how close akin they are to the
most detestabie Despotism We trust that
this new Government of ours will be a
genuine representative Republic, not Demo
cracyi and no better model for each State in il
| could be found than the old Constitution of
Virginia. This thing of letting everybody
vote for everything is the source of all our
present woes. Especially in the army must
the gradatons of rank be distinct and well
defined, aud the power of authority be SUI
| preme We do not even advocate a very ma
terial increase of the pay of the private sol
diers, for that would involve an expense
which the country could not sustain, and, be-
| sides, money is to the mass of our volunteers
no consideration. Nor would we broach any
such absurd idea as reducing the pay of the
| Generals, the heads of the army, the men who
are as important to its functions lbs the human
head to the body But what we do desire is
amidst the great devotion of our women and
| of our soldiers, to denounce the precedent OF
combining civil and military Offices in the
same functionary, and of loading some men
down with the spoils of pluralism, whilst the
great mass are barely able to obtain food and
raiment.
We maintain that the honor of holding q
commission in an Army of Patriots, with a
private pay and barely enough more to pay
the expense incident to the rank, will be re-
ward enough to any man who is able to vol
unteer at all 1t is honor and duty, and not
the em0luments, that lead both officers and
men to volunteer Consequently, whilst il
might not be expedient now to make any ma
teriai reduction, it was obviously great mis-
| take to begin with the mercenary principle
prevalent i'll the Northern and in foreign
| armies, for both our officers and privates en-
tered the service for the good of their coun
try, and did not ask or desire anything more
than their support and the gratitude of the
present and future generations. What shall
we say then of multiplying Offices and emolu
| ments III the person of the same indi vidua
especially in period like this but that it is in
fatal opposition to republican simplicity and
justice, and injurious to the public service, be
cause the same man cannot discharge with ef
fcieney the duties of two, three, or four dit
| terent offices-of Offices, too, which REQUIRE
essentially different qualifications, and even il
the incumbent has time and talent enough
would require him to be in three or four diff
ferent places at the same moment. There art
some men who, putting the deficiency OF
ubiquity out Of the question, are able to shine
in both the camp and council. julius CESAR
| NAPoLEos BoNAPARTE, GEORGE WAsHISG
TON, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, were statesmen
us well as soldiers; but we may be pardoneG
| for doubling whether they have their coun
terpart in modern times. Instead of enaetina
the part in history of either of those great per
sonages, or, indeed, suggesting to the liyelies
imagination the faintest resemblance to them
the only image that our pluralists bring before
the mind is one which presents the Common
| wealth i'll a more ludicrous condition than tba,
of a nursing mother of swine, for we have never
heard of q SOW who permitted one pig to sucl
half dozen teats at time, or of d pig who
was greedy and wide nouthed enough to per
form that operation.
The science of erpioitaiioR, UNIVERSAL,
practiced in society, is one of questionable
morality and even decency, when the public i.
the victim Of that science. We do not thinl
the reader will find the word in any EneIisl
dictionary; but, if he wishes clear illustra
| ton of the French phrase from which it i,
derived, he may find it in a lamprey eel, whicl
gets its living by erpfoiting, or sucking tt,
blood of all other fish to which it can attael
ITSELF or, the daughter of the horse-leech
which always cries give, give, may afford an
other example There is altogether too mucl
of the office seeking mania in this new Re
public; too strong a passion to erolost the
country for private benefit, and that at a mo
ment when she can least afford to have hel
veins aud arteries tapped by hungry blood
suckers. Ii any main burns with devotion te
serve his country, there is as much ROOM ant
even more, to CRAFTY it in private station
than in AN official sphere. Nothing can b.
more disgusting and hideous than the shame
less display of seliishness and greed at tims
like this, when the great mass of the peopls
are making the grandest sacrifices ever re
corded in history. Worst of all, most brase,
and infamous OF all, is the rayenoas pertina
city of old LINCOLN office holders, Office