New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-08-08

UUrougbt into hlgh-tOne0 arlstOcrbcyi uuiy
" impressed with sense of its superiority to
Yankee trckey.' A moro philosophic basis
of Government, upon the whole could hardly be
conceived. The theory, however. is not at oil
new to us. As general system, it is already
good deal faded and worn. After laughing
at il for twenty-five years, we are not gong 10
consider it seriously now, however DANGEROUSLY
il may be revived By its professors and deyotees'
But Of one thing we may be certain; and that
is, that until We have fairly beaten the blu'ter
cg.. IS a.. S"mta. We shall never hear tue end OF
it. However astonshed the Io-1 u'es na'o "S'u
to find themselves the yictors at Bull Rue, anu
their tremendous self.laudations thus apparently
justified, they VIII never allow their astonishment
to appear. They know Che value Of lucky turn
in their great game Of chance. They know that
they never stood so well as now, either with
themselves or before the world. They profess to
accept the result of the one battle as foregone
conclusion, and PREJUDICE the future accordingly
They ride higher horse than ever, and they
swell as they never swelled before. From Rich
mond to New Orleans they are ringing the chorus
of their inyincibity All this, of course was to
have been expected. 1t does not disturb US much
since, having suffered the pang Of notifying
though not a disastrous rePuse. we can overlook
the lesser annoyance Of the enemy's Civilizations
but we cannot fail to see that skiiully worked,
il nav prove an excellent encouragement and
stimulus for their side. Their only danger is that
they NAV oyerwOrk tan error into which,
especially when they take to phiosophizng, y
| the South are very apt to fall Already remon-
| strances from the more cautious spirits begin to
be heard and fragment of practical prudence.
which. strangely enough, We find in TIL: Charles
ton Mercury may fairly be set against the specu.
latiye phlosophziDg" OF The Uhig'
ale, ou people not deceive themselves with the notion thai
either the rt or second battle OF Bull Run decisive or HE
to terminate csmpsn the Potomac Facts do not justify
nor position warrant the oIpectiion Wash
iop no; taken Iii, strongly ntrenched and Scott has sysa
bic pny more oops than ouTseeL Tie forces that have just
been routed be rallied REINFORCED aid brought back into
tie field with every pIecaut!on and advantage that seneEal
! and military resources can furnish
| This is better than all the "philosophizing" in
! tbe world. but tie South will not listen to it.
We even suspect that Tie MTcwy has veLtured
too far in giving utterance to such sentiments.
The South will have nothing just now but phi
osophy founded upon mastery fiction, like that
of The Hhig, which cannot accept a moderate
success without oxaggerating it into triumph
too enormous for words to express. The magni-
fying faculty of The Wig is indeed peg higher
than anything we have yet seen. 1t gets the
National army up to 100000, and in other way'
endows us with vast imaginary advantages. But
the point Of The Hhig's article which IS really
sustained is its philosophc, but still very evident,
advocacy Of military dc,pOtsm. Taa' seems to
have meaning.