The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-07-31
CAUSE AND EFFECT.

ton would be beneficial Infalhbility
does not attach to the present edition Of
human nature, and, therefore, however
logically any given premise may be fol-
lowed to result, so long as that result
is not with us, or a matter Of history, it
is only believed conclusive, II, perchance,
it exactly accords with ones own desir-
ings. But certainly when the argument
is made conclusive, with known and
well understood premise, and result
startlingly present, common sense must
suggest an acknowledgment and profta-
bic use Of such experience.
Upon the all absorbing topics of the
day, we have all come, without an excep-
ton, to a conclusion that should be fruit
full of results; and if still needless and
reckless, in spite of definite experience,
we are worthy of no better fate than our
own folly has made inevitable.
The conclusion TO which all have come
to-day, in view of the battle of Sunday,
21st inst, is that il is, without an excep-
ton, the veriest abortion, in the way of
military achievement, that ever disgraced
a nation. The effect must be charged 10
the cause. We can figure up, unmistaka-
bly,, n result, in what is now the history
of our country, so positively traceable TO
its immediate cause that none dare ques-
ton its paternity. That result is hor-
rid slaughter of brave citizens of the Re
organized on the one side in re-
bellion, and on the other for the main
tenance of constitutional authority--the
shameful degradation resting upon our
flag, and the aching, bleeding hearts, torn
and comfortless, in almost every home
circle in our land. Fanatics took charge
of the nation. The +" Irreprcssibes" took
the reins of authority. Their impudent
assumption has, at last, drawn down the
ire and curses of nation. Their teach
ngs and theories have demoralized the
Republic. They have educated gencr-
alton to their standard of ethics, socially,
morally and politically, thus sectionaliz-
ing the nation, and placed in the Cabinet
willing agents for their reckless purposes.
Unconstitutional projects, embittered by
the creation and persistent cultivation Of
sectional aninosities, have raised n whirl-
wind of rebellion, positively traceable To
them as the instrumentalily; and our
portion of this designating element, with
clamor never before equaled, claimed and
obtained the control and direction of the
military power of The nation to quell and
subdue their own offspring. Their wis
dom and practicability in military tactics
is lamentably evident The soldiery no,
bly, did their part. But so long as histo-
ny is consulted, so long will the scenes at.
tending the battle of Bulls Run be stain
and blot upon us as nation. i.E
We are slowly but surely realizing The
heresies and infdelities, and tho disos.
trous effects upon our nationality Of that
school Of political charlatans, whose ex-
ponents arc Yancey d Co., in the South
and Greeley, Beecher & Co., at the North
secession aud abolition. The PERM.
cious and demoraliziug influences of these
twin fiends are now being made tangibly
evident in the dead and dying in almost
every household in the whole land. Alb
clifton, the cause, and secession, the effect
are together working out the inevitable
results of giving countenance TO fanaticaI
extremists, rs dctators Of our nationa
policy. @
To-day the nation is divided" State;
discordant and belligerent." So far rs tho
North is concerned, for once our eyes have
been opened to see whose insane counsel
ings and dictation have insured disastrous
result. Throughout the North, sooner Oh
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lator, will be traced to the same source tho
cause of all our woes--and, as unmistak
ably, too, in regard to governmental poll
cy, MS the crime is acknowledged and
proved by such interference in military
movements.
The penitent confessions of the Tribune
tend to prove the total depravity ..of its
controlling mind in the shameless attempt
to turn the tide Of merited condemnation
of an outraged Republic upon a less prom.
inent member of its editorial corps. We
have repeatedly called attention TO the