Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1861-09-06
Our Washington Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, Sept, 1861.

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means confined to those ignorant of their du-
ties, or wanting in bravery and judgment.
Age has its inexorablc laws, and no clique
of service or OF art can oppose War, more
than all professions and occupations beside,
requires the greatest physical exertions, is
most exhaustive and ruinous TO health 1t
is an axiom of war that a general who wins
battles must take the field in person. Al
most all the great battles of the ancient and
modern world have been won by young Gen
erals, and the same is true Of the brilliant
campaigns that have changed the face Of So
ciety in Europe. The great genuscs of war,
Alexander. Hannibal, Cesar, Napoleon, es
tablshcd their fame almost in youth. Ma
poleon at 80 years had conquered Italy;
Hannibal at 81 had well nigh annihilatcd
the Roman power at Cannal Alexander,
before his 35th year, subdued Persia, and
implanted Grcciln polity on the banks OF the
/ Euphrates Caesar later in lifc-at 52-had
conquered Gau, defeated pompcy at Phar-
salia, and made himself master Of the Ro-
man world. The great Athenians, Militia
DIES, Cimon. Themistoclcs arrested the Per-
sian power and : gained a Marathan, sala-
mis- before fifty. Seipio Atrcanus defeated
Hannibal, AMI conquered Carthage, a young
man Of thirty. The great military leaders
Of modern times, Eugene of Savoy. Marble
rough, Marshal SAKE, Luxembourg, Heu-
dome, Frelrick the Great, Wellington,
Washington led armies. won battles. and
made campaigns in the prime and visor OF
their manhood.
In the United States one obtains command
in the army and navy partly through merit
and partly through favor. Bat in Dem
ocracy where every one may aspire to an
honorable position in the service the only
rule Of promotion in a time of peace thus
far practical is that of superiority. Its
merits are It's simplicity and fairness its de-
leets are that in time Of war the young
men who are best fitted 10 encounter the
fatisucs and hatdships Of the field have not
YET oech 'fA'"'1 - eoiini'n" "iit!ie'' iisiVe
II happens that men IN TIA military and ma
val service Of tie United Stats lass their
best days a lieutenants, they grow gray be.
tore reaching e4Fta'neies, ami already are
Old men on becoming cgl5ne!s AMI generals
And thus afttr l5ns peace the chief con
mahIs IN the szrYiee are h!lei by veterans
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