New-York daily tribune., 1862-05-06
VERY PARTICULAR.

cannot recognize any man az puDnc object
who repudates lis allegiance to the United
States Of America, yet as somebody must do
the epstolizing on tho insurgent side, Nunroe
is perhaps as good as another for the purpose.
His exceedingly cool letter of the 26th ut. to
Capt. Farrsgut shows that he does not by any
means intend to be " diddled ont of the sweets
of Lis unfortunate .tuatioD." He is quite
ready to surrender the city, but he wishes to
do it genteelly; like the unhappy man at the
Old Bailey who insisted upon being carried up
the scaiTold stairs as he could not CONSCIENTIOUS
ly in any way be a party to bis own death.
SO Mayor, or ex-Mayor, or Mock-Mayor Nun
roe, is very fastidious. AS for pulling down
tho Secession Gag-he cannot do it; for he says
that :" his hand would be paralyzed at the
very thought Of such an act" Also, his
heart" This would seem to settle the matter;
for medically considered, paralysis of the heart
is no ioke-a sort of complaint which it isn't
safe to indulge in Oflener than three times q
day. If so often. After this. Mayor Munroe
begins to whnper in the following feeble style:
:" You have gallant people to admlnistrate
during your occupancy OF this city--a people
sensitive to all that can in tho least affect their
dignity and sef.respect. Pray, Sir, DO not iaii
to regard their susceptibilitcs."
Ono Sets the wind in that quarter VIII
apybody learned in the black art tell us BY
what nccromsuy, thaumoturgy, preStdigltaton,
or Whatever yon may call it the boot has been 80
randy and miraculousIy transferred to the
other leg How have the " susceptbiltios
Of Union men Jared in NewOrleans, or any
where else for that matter, Ill the Revolted
States How in East Tennessee, for instance
Ia this very City of New-0rleans the putatye
Mayor of which now bawls for mercy and
slIiyers with guilty apprehension in his oinclsi
robes bow saie has 1t been for any malay
or for any woman, 70 question the morality oil
treason, or tue duty OF dissolution, or the ex-
ceediug beauty OF Slavery, or the omnlscience
of Davis. or the inyinciDilty OF Beauregard
Why. it was only tie other day that we quoted
from what was once respectable New-Oreans
paper. ample evidence Of the existence OF
reign OF terror in that city. Men who refused
to take up arms in defense OF the " Conied-
eracy" were threatened with the direst penal
es-imprsoument, coniiscatIon, and oven death :!
Mecl ancs of Northern birth who remained loyal
TO their country have been swindled out of their
wages. locked up, or forced to march IN the
traitor. ranks. Female teachers have been treated,
in more than one instance, with excessive cruelty.
Clereynenguity only Of fidelity to their ord nation
vows. have been hauled from their pulplts, and
banished. But why do we thus dwell upon
special instances Can any honest aud intel
lieent reader deny that Secession, w!ckedly
needless and unproyoked in It's origin, has been
coarse, and blood thirsty ia its progress And
now. when our victorious arms are advancing
once more 10 the establishment of Law and
order, this mnclng Mayor, who would not
have lifted one of bis pens to save any Union
ist from death at a lamp-post, trusts that the
gnrdcd We thought we knew something
about Magisteral Impudcnce up this way; but
We hereby renouLce all laurels IN that line.
We have nobody here to compete with Mayor
Munroe Why didn't he go Just little fur
therl Why did Mt he make a pension for
life. bonus Of 100000, a gold snuli-box and
free gift OF five hundred " niggers," the in
eyorabe condition OF bis surrender Why
did ut he Insist, while hc was about It, upon
having Capt. Farragut's sword Why did MT
he stlpulate that the Secession banner should
remain flung to the breeze-should not be
pulled down at all-should still ilaunt and ilnt-
ter TO sootb the susceptbtles' of tho late
Mayor Of Ncw-Oreansl
Then there was one other thing which stirred
up tho serenity Of this il,-treaed gentleman.
- The city is yours" he writes with indigna-
ton, "by the power of brutal force" TINS Is
shameful To be sure, We nave never heard
Of besieged cites taken IN any other way but
" by power Of brutal torce;" but New-Orleans,
We supp0se, should have been an exception.
We should have captured it by some Kind OF
humane weakness. But Farragut didn't see 1t
in that Iiehf. IIo went to work in the old.
fashioned style, which was certainly very repre-
henslble. The truth is, when city Is taken, it
/ is absolutely necessary that somebody should
pull the flag down-t's way they have IN
war. Another truth is, that if the Secession
lists arc 80 exceedingly susceptible" they
should secure tho comfort Of their own delicate
nerves by showing US good example. There
is certain guerrilla chief, Morgan by name,
who is hanging Unionists at tie West in rather
free and easy, not 10 say reckless way; and
lately ho varied his murderous performances by
hanging boy. There a,so seems TO have been