The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-08-27
Correspondents Of the Gate City -,
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Washington, Aug. Y, ieof-
The FIRST shall be last, and the last siiaii
be frst--a saying in Scripture sDou'
which there has been considerable bottle
ration in Sunday Schools, time out OF
mind. The best illustration of the FIRST
becoming the last ] ever heard or read of,
nav be found in the case Of Gen. George
B. Mcclellan, commander OF ''the grand
army \ Gu will remember the report
ers alleged that in the famous "change OF
base (strategice for base retreat from
the Swamps to Harrison's Landing,
Mcclellan himself was the first to reach
the gunboats in the James River-an al
legation which has since been fully cor
roborated by the French Princes who
were members of our young Napoleon 3
staff. The thing is reversed. however,
in the case Of the late splendid skedaddle
from Harrison's Landing; for here the
trumpet toots the glorious words; 'Mc-
Clellan was the last man to pass over the
pontoon bridge across 1.-THE Chickahomi-
N.Y. The first, therefore, became the
blast In the seven days retreat. when
cavalry shook the earth behind our brave
men, and artillery Numbered rs ut sec
ond Austerltx- hordes of infantry
divisions pressed with bayonets fixed SO
close upon our retiring columns, that the
lead and wounded were left to the tender
mcrcies of the rebels, when along the
whole rear the red fame of battle flashed
across the faces of the living and the dead
when that was the place for glory OF
for death, 10 the Commander-inChief il
peeking through his eye-glass from the
rigging of rhe Galenal Having looked
on this picture, now look on this: The
President has been to HaIrison's Landing;
so has Gen. Halleck. 1--WE must get out
of this is the determination. And out
The army came. No enemy behind now
far more likely to be in front-not a
rebel within range Of our greatest guns
There is not so much as dirt-eater with
pop gun to annoy our rear, and, grand,
gloomy aud peculiar, wrapped in the soli-
tude of his own strayeticality," the young
Napoleon, with a courage al his own,
steps from the protection of his gunboats
to the protection of his army. If, among
the thoughts which mus. have been press
ing hard upon his mind, he said not f.
himself,
"Farew ell, a long farewell to all my greatness
it was because his heart had grown tough
as the rhinoceros' skin, and his nature
impenetrable by the CRISIS which have
made the nation mourn the loss of the ten
thousond braves WING never more shall fol
low him 10 safety. nor lead him out Of
danger.
In the progress of the re-population o
this world, from the time Of Noah to the
present juncsure. there have been some
tall specimens of skodaddling, but in tha
respect Mcclellan is first and the rest no
| where. Not to mention the cases in So
cred history, among which, you know
was that where
"The Assyrian came down like wolf on tn,
| fold,
His cohorts cleaning in purple and gold"
And good many others, it might strik.
the reader of Pagan history or Anthem
Classical Dictionary, that, among all TIL
ancient wsrrios of distinction, our mus
tachioed Napoleon had adopted Is hi
model the great Darius, King of tn
Modes and Persians. who skedaddled s.
beautifully before Alexander from th
plain of Issus. aud afterwards from tn
plain of Gaugamela. Not the Roman
: before Hannibal at the Ticinus and I
+ Canine not Pompey before the gre.
1 Caesar at Pharsalia; not the Lacedmm,
a mans at Leuctra, with Epaminondas aft,
! EN- not the stout legions before the vi
or and the elephants Of Pyrrhus At He
q aclea not the armies which fed from Il
d veterans Of Henry of Navarro; nor tho
which Marlborough chased; nor ev.
those which succumbed to Bonapar
(the original article)-not. say, in al
70 of these cases, nor in any other case, sh,
! you find so pure, SO unmixed, SO slblir