Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-29
Southern View OF the Advantage Of War
The HuseiHeroIs of the south.

/, The Petersburg (Va.) Express observes;
Whatever be the race of people, or their
stsge OF civilization, or their progress in in
teliigence peace will deprave, while war will
enoble them. Our own people constitute no
exception TO the general truth; nor is there
any thing in the prosperity of the country,
or in the enlightenment of the age, to mod
ify the rule in our peculiar case, War was
necessary to elevate the American character.
The heroic principle still had existed at the
South, but it was extinct at the North.
Butler is specimen of the only type of hero
which the North can furnish. Sickles is
another Lincoln still another.
Seward the false, Seward the liar, is the
best type of statesman that the North can
baast Paradoxicsl as it may seem, none
who know him will deny that ohm O. Heenan
has more ofthe higher qualities of character
than any of the creatures we have named.
Heenan is man ofwaF in his way. Cir
cumstanees cast his lot in the lowest ranks
of society but, even in the sewers, he de.
voted his life to fame rather than TO gain I;
IJand be is q better nan to-day than Bhtler,
or Sickles, or Lincoln, ior Seward sdl
The South was far from being corrupted
by the principles Of gain and sel6shness,
With Davis, Beauregerd,- Piekens, Wise,
Bragg, MeCullogh, and thousands Of their
| stamp, it would be libel to say that her
Tace Of heroes was extinct. But war is the
nursery, Of heroism, and it is doubtless for
some great pToYidential purpose that her
| sons have been invoked to arms. -
The thoughts Of her people will be turned
! from self elfaggrandizement and individual
thrift to things beyond self and higher thar
/ personal ease and enjoyment. The very facI
! of men Aban ndonibg the pursuit Of selfish OBJ
/ jects to devote their energies, and their lives
! Il need be, to the cause Of country, lifts then
above their old nature to q higher existence
The fact of deserving the love and thanks o
man and woman eleVates the character, en-
/ MOBILES the sentiments, and gives new incen
tives 10 honorable exertion,, ui Of gi9HT
seeeasIon Consolation About TrifiIhG Fei
\ ,.-a nj. pasJ lows. d., .gsti-,, p -.
The New Orleans Dsltg consoles itself 70
the inferiority uof Southern resources ant
chances in the present fight, with the follow
ing comparison of the officers of the tw,
armies: s--ss .j,.sg5g r5f ,74f 4
IL the votes, the honest, votes of all tn
officers of the army of the United State
had been takenrin the selection of militar
4 commanders, il would have resulted in th
] choice of the very men whom Davis ha
called TO high commands in, the Confederat
States The secession Of such men as Les
the two Johnstons - Joseph and A. s.
= Cooper, Bragg, BeauFegard,, HArdee, va
Dom, Washington, has left the old army i
a most beggarly condition in regard to mill
tary capacity, experience, talent and all tn
: soldieFY qualities.d truis1a s57r-p nd 4.
Il. II has left them Harney, who has lon
!, been the opprohfium of the army, for b
| brutality and ignorance, and who, since th
" death Of his gallant brother, the late D
|. | Harney, and his own poltroOnery in th
! | affair with Sumner, has never been regarde
{ IN the South with any other feeling but di
gust and contempt. 1t has leftg them PoS
I, DID dolt-head Wool, the laughing stock I
|, Il the army, whose ,ealiber and attainmens A.
equal TO the position Of 8 sergeAht-mAjor
eI Ithas left them old gouty Seott- -hobhliE
. along, with his feet bigger than hia hes
o and RrnVling ayfully over the bad suppl
b of the Washington market. Scott, in all b
& 4 politiSAl and military movements, f0lloY
a 4 bis belly. His salary Of $4,000 gives hi
al plenty of market money, and Scott Witho
market ts1 money would be very poor patri
: This opinion, 81 General scott e9ntisi
: strangely with that expressed Of him by :
~ same paper when 1t was represented that
had resigned and joined the Oonfeder.
| II 10 Isfa a.l Why z GIltH aaI gl 1Il
+ RImXsvOD 40 niLI.ss0 Al zabH1 sfi
& .STATuRns, AND seLpIERs.TS "a P, VII
III writes ffom IaleWild to the NsW Y oEk 10
x Journal,y,1y ,-o., So 49, ~, lSs s. S
y Another Saturday stroll through our !
e soldiered broadway has confirmed my |
= preston thai men Of small stature are apt
u 10 Be- military. The Vermont regime
y 1with not man under six feet tyFho w
~ on their way 10 embark that day were
l evidently mere exceptions = dne.looki
W fellows all Of them, but sill without q
~ combatiYe iemeanor which shows that a q
. takes to it naturally. The thousands
h. smaller men In uniform who were eve
a. where visible were Of such very differ
70 styie-so much more bantam-y and plue
ng in Their bearing and couhtenance yil
ed inclined TO 0think that for q dimipntlye I
ais To fiRht gives relief to certain jealous
bis sentiment against nature for having b
ID. done injustice toeo2 I2di tlel naa1 lei
~ ~ arr.nge1oep,s have been. I iin made al Il
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