Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-10-19
The ZOuaVes.

| Alas that we should be called on to re
cord the notifying fact that this name, hith
erto the synonym of military daring, skill
and energy. has so suddenly fallen into dis
| grace aud disfavor. The only consolation
we have in our sorrow for this sad decline il
our beau ideal of soldier is to be found il
| that immortal sentiment of the Bard of Avon
so highly priced by young lodies just emerg
ing from pantalettdom and pig tails, "there':
| nothing in name.n 1t is evident that In
| military as in love affairs, rose by any Other
name will smell as sweet, and that Zouave
| by any other name may be just as much sol
| der as any of the Zouaves of Billy Wilson
| or Ellsworth. The reverse of the Shakspear-
ian proposition, that an onion would smell as
strong by any other name, may be main
tanned in its application 10 military matters,
with like force, by the assertion that SOL
der may be as arrant potroon under the
name of Rouave as under any other title
Billy Wilson and Dan Cunningham have fully
demonstrated this propoSition-the one at
Manassas and the other at Santa Rosa. These
at least are the prominent, there are several
subordinate illustrations of the inadequacy
of the title of '.ZouaVe'' to confer the military
virtues associated hitherto with that name on
all who assume it. Those yalOrous red caps
from New York have very effectually played
out the Zou-Zou idea. Red breeks and Fezzes,
and bare necks, are at a decided discount in
military circles Liccoln's Zou-zous are evil
IDENTIFY bastard-decided coupterteits and
impostors.
They doubtless possess some Of the quail
ties of the original, but are deficient in 9TH
ers, and misapply those which they have
Thus, they incidentally possess the agility and
gymsastic endurance of the genuine article,
but they apply them to far different uses
The French Zou-Zou can beat the world in
running at and after, and Billy's and the
Ellsworth imitators in running from his enc
my. The New Yorker turns somersets to
dodge bayopets, and the Partisan to lodge his
own in the bread basket or other permeable
part of q hostile corpus. TIE New York
article is mauUais suja, tai terrible FAINT, but
bis wickedness aud his dangerousness are OF
quite q different character from the Parisianes.
Petty larceny, pocket picking, watch and
ballot stuffing ere his prominent Characters
tics, and garrotting by night and punching
and coughing smaller and weaker men IN
groggeries. his titles to valor and ferceness.
1t is evident, as we of the South all along
suspected, that the Wall street board OF
brokers aud capitalists and UuIon-sayers have
made great blunder in sending such fellows
to Whip the South. 1t has been a double
blunder-they will fail both in whipping the
South and getting rid Of these patriotic
roue hs The raseals are determined not tn
be made the instruments of any such imam
cial scheme. They wont stand long enough
to whip our boys or to be shot of themselves.
They will all get back TO "plague the inven-
torsn of the infamous plot 10 rid New York
or il most influential citizens Some of the
employees in the New York Times Office have
already felt more of the weight of their
borney firsts than any of the rebels. The
trick of making them good marks for our
boys by covering their bullet heads with red
caps and their muscular legs with red
breaches, was soon smoked and afforded
them an excuse for lodging in the bushes or
from the battle field. .sThe cow
ardly Yankees wanted Us to draw all the fire"
said one OF the red hreeehed victims in the
prisons of Richmond, "aad so they put these
cursed caps and pants on Us that can be
seen ten miles OFF, and even If We escape The
Secesh the bulls would run rs out of the |
Thus then has the grand idea Of overrun- |
ming the South with the roughs and ruf1ans |
OF the great cities OF the North, under the |
guise OF zeuases, proved, like all the other |
plans of this Infamous war, a wretched fail |
ure; nay more, a source of new trouble and |
dangers to its corrupt and pusillanimous
O. Della.