New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-03-09

| culture; so it would not BIO strange II, beng
often reminded Of our social inferority, We began
to feel that the courtly Virginiau," or the
| "dashing South Carolinian, were really our supe
riors in the outer reinements and the Unborn
sense of honor with which the poetical toadies OF
oar generation have delighted to endOw them.
1t is true that we have rarely seen this Admira-
bic Crichton Of the Slayeocracy; tmidly, and with
proper distrust of our judgment, we have some
times whispered to ourselves that the longhaircd,
loose, jointed, strangely clad individual with pea
| green gloves and much gold watch-chain, who
booked himself on hotel registers and college
records as q resident of the Sunny South, must
| be an impostor; We have, perhaps, occasionally
asked each other with o becoming mOdesty, if
the rude men whom we met in Washington,
armed with many knives and doing execution on
much tobacco, could be the true gentlemen of the
land of leisure, who had go often put our North
| ern awk@ardness to the blush. But yet, a.
general rule, we have quite resignedly accepted
| the statement that We had no manners or culti-
| walton or sense of honor, and that they bad all.
The events of the past four months, however,
have done much to shake cur confidence in This
theory. We have had an acquaintance more ex-
tensve than satisfactory with the "nOble South
ron" in our Cabinet, our Army and Navy our
Congress, and we begin to see that We have
been buied by humbug-thOugh that is word
which the courlly model would probably chide us
for using. A few instances will point our moral
if they do not adorn our tale, and by these few
all may be known.
We had a Secretary OF the Treasury who
found tue country prosperous and his department
amply supplied with funds and who applied all
his feeble energies to the work of running the
one and leaving the other bankrupt; unable to
compass half this design, be accomplished the re-
mainder and then ran away, leaving confusion
Of unpaid bills for his successor, and threw him.
self on the bosom of his beautiful South. We
had another Secretary, he OF the War Depart
ment, who feathered his nest by dishonest con-
tracts, then scattered the forces under bis con-
troll so that they could not interfere with his pnr-
poses, sent munitions where he knew they would
be stolen by traitors, put out Of the way honest
officials who obstructed his trcnchery, sold for
tixth Of their value arms which he knew would
be used against his country, and then, when
en- unlucky accident exposed some OF his
rascality and subjected him to criminal
indictment, lie, too, ran away to his own
place-the South. We had still another Sec
retary, presiding over the Interior, whose noble
Office, publicly performed, wac, while yet holding
the commission Of the United States, to serve M
the agent OF Mississippi in the work of engaging
~ =, ira aud TINT aPsamug lpl
his next duty WIS to break the most sacred con-
fdcncc, aud giye-to traitors early information OF
measures set on foot 10 restrain them. Hav.
inc done this, lie lied himself ont Of Office, and,
going q bis loved South, boastod Of his shame.
We had a member OF Congress, Senator
named Toombs, who from bis seat in the
Capitol telcgraphed false dispatches and trea-
sonabIe advice, enloning upon bic chiyalrous
brethren the necessity OF robbng the Govern.
ment. In our army there was II white-headed
old man-we say white-headed because HE name
is too prominent as n eulogist of hair-dye 10
leave the matter doubtful-who had for fifty
years been honored through service under
tie Federal flag; he brought everlasting iufamy
upon his name, and tinglng modification upon
the soldiers he commanded, by turning over his
trust 10 o mob of Rebels; and in his honor the
gallau. Southrous" have murdered much OF
the English language and roared till hoarseness
silenccd them Our navy furnishes some equally
bright examples Of Southern ch!yalry: One Lieu
tenant, bearing tho honored namo Of Hamilton,
resigned from his vessel while lying in u foreign
port, and then, without waiting to learn if his
resignation was accepted, called on his fellow
officers from the Southern States TO resign also,
urging those who commanded vessels to bring
them into Southern ports, there TO give
them up to the Rebels, take commissions under
the new Confederation, and turn their guns
against the country to which they belonged. An.
other, Captain Randolph, who had been excused
from active service for three years by reason of
illness, found himsef sufficiently recovered to lead
a band of insurgents TO the Nayy-Yard of Pensa-
cola, while yet Captain in the service, and de-
mnnd It's surrender. The second in command
at that ward was one Farrand-a gallant
southron, Of courge-and he il vas who opened
the gate 10 tho band led by our sick eIemplar,
and allowed the traitors TO sneak within, while
be still held bis commission in the seryice be dis
graced. certain Lieutenant Renshaw, high
spirited SOutherner, and perfect gentleman, also
holding his commission, ordered the flag of the
United States 10 be- pulled down, while tho rab-
bio spat upon it and driyellcd their naudlin
insults.
What need Of making longer the catalogue
Are not the events Of these four months craven
on the memory of the People And will they