St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1861-07-11

for in Kansas and California The ia
nous Tennessee rihemen of that day
were not necessarily Shareholders,
and their legitimate descendants are
yet to be found among the brave men
who rally round the nearest approach
to Andrew Jackson whom the State
now boasts, a tolerable facsimile
both as to character and ctymology,
Andrew johnson. There is no need
of disparaging the personal courage
Of any man, and the Southern army
has some good officers, tot g;"32!i
probably, in spite of themselves, to
bring to bear their clcarcst judgment
and their best energies in striking
down the flag they have all sworn to
die for They have eminent foreign
advisers also, or one at least; for MIR.
w. II. Russell, selfappointcd plcnipo-
Tertiary near the Court of st. Jctlcr-
son, is said to have lent the aid of his
valuable military experience to that
commanding officer SO appropriately
named Captain Bragg. But, Bragg
Or no brag, it is almost moral impos-
sibility that slavcholding army
should be strong.
The Secessonists have suggested
to us fatal argument. "The supe-
rior race must control the inferior"
Very well if they insist on invoking
the ordeal by battle to decide which
is tho superior, let it be so. 1t will
be found that they have made the
common mistake of confounding bar
barism with strength. Because the
Southern masses are as ignorant of
letters and Of arts as the Scottish
Highlandcrs, they infer themselves to
be as warlike. But even the brave
and hardy Highlanders proved power
less against the imperfect military re-
sources of England a century ago,
and it is not easy to see why those
who now parody them should fare bet
ter. The absence Of tho alphabet
does not necessarily prove tho pres.
encc Of strength, nor is the ignorance
Of all the useful arts the best prcpa-
ration for the elaborate warfare Of
modern times. The nation is grown
well weary Of this sham chivalry,"
that would sell Bayard or Du Guesclin
at auction, if it could be shown that
the mother of either had drop of
marketable blood in her veins. 1t had
always been charitably fancied that
in South Carolina at least there was
some remnant Of more knightly honor,
until kind Providence sent Preston
5. Brooks to dispcl the illusion. 1t
may be possible that even a brave
mau, in some moment of insane incon.
sistcncy, may commit some act which
is the consummation Of all cowardicc
but it is utterly and absolutely impos
siblc that any brave community should
approve it. Time has long since car
ried the pcrpetrator of that dastardly
outrage to higher tribunal, but noil..
ing can ever redeem the St.:..c of his
birth from the cro%"l.ing shame of its
endorsement.
- not recorded whether the pro-
verbal English army in Flanders lied
as terribly as they sworc the genius
of the nation did not take that dircc-
ton. But if they did, they have now
met their match in audacity of false.
hood. Captain Bobadil in the play,
who submitted the plan of killing of
an army of forty thousand men by the
prowcss of twenty, each man to do
his twenty per diem in successive sill
gle combats, might have raised his
score of heroes among any handful of
Seccss:oniSts. There seems to be no
one to stop these prodigious fellows
as party of Buford's men were once
checked by their commander. in the
writer's hearing, on their way down
the Missouri River, in 1856. "Boys,"
quoth the contemptuous official, "you
had better shut up. Whenever we
came in sight of the enemy, you al.
ways took vote whether to fight OF
run, and you always voted to run"
Then the astonishing tales they have
told respecting our people, down to
the last infamous fabrication of
Booty and Beauty" as the supposed
war-cry of the placid Pcnnsylvanians
Booty, forsooth In the words of the
Richmond Whig," there is more
rich spoil within square mile of New
York and Philadelphia than can be
found in the whole of the poverty.
stricken State of Virginia and the
imaginary war-cry suggests Wilkcs's
joke about the immense plumber car
ricd off by some freebooter from the
complete pillagc of seven Scotch isles 4;
he reGmbarkcd with thrcc-and-six-
pence.
1t is worth all the cost of Kansas
to have the lesson she taught, in pas.
sing through her ordeal. 1t was not
the Emigrant Aid Society which gave
peace at last to her borders, nor was
it her shifting panorama of evancs-
cent governors it was the sheer
physical superiority of her Frcc-State
emigrants, after they took up arms.
Kansas afforded the important discov-
cry, as some Southern officers once
nalvely owned at Lecompton, that
yankees tcoula fight" Patient to
the verge of humiliation, the settlers
rose at last, only to achieve q victory
so absurdly rapid that it was almost
a new disappointment ; the contest
was not so much a series of battles
as succession of stceplc- -chases, of
efforts to get within shot,-Missouri,
Virginia, and South Carolina invaria,
bly, disappearing over one prairie.
swell, precisely as the Sharpc's rifles
of the cmigrants appeared on tho
verge of the next The shareholders
had immense advantages many OF
the settlers were in league with them
to drive ont the remainder they had
the General Government always aid
ing them, more or less openly, with
money, arms, provisions, horses, men
and leaders they had always the
Missouri border to retreat upon, and
the Missouri River to blockade. Yet
they failed so miscrably that every
X ansas boy at last had his story TO
tell of the company sof ruifians whom
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