New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-03-06
sauts the Davis Administration. The mana
GERS of that sheet know best whether they can

saults the Davis Administration. The mana
gers of that sheet know best whether they can
afford, 10 their present predcameut, to be
hypercriticaI, and the presminently factious OF
a faction; but as neither they, nor those to
whom thoy appeal, have ever submitted, either
in public or private affairs. to the semblance OF
control. it is not probable that considerations
of Confederate safety will keep ono pair OF
duellipg pistols in their cases. The ssces'
sion of these States was caused by q
general passion for politics, which, in a
slavehold"" community, commonly A''"' =.
rho on,s avenue to distinction, aud to the in.
tellioeut the on. M, solace of an intolsrable,
/" nightmare. life.in.death0 lstlessness Sc
cession, itself the offspring of politics, breeds
in its turn q progeny Of parties, each prolific
of clioues, and each incapable Of guidance.
Mr.. Davis has not warmed the stool of Office,
before this aspirant or that newspaper
seeks to push him from it; and score oil
men think themselves as well entitled to the
elevation Us he is. Amt their necks az
precious as hi7' Why should be come in for
the robes of dice and they for ragsednessf
Why he for inence and they for emptiness
They made him, great as he u grown; their
votes arc tho meat upon which he has fed.
"WLy." some scion Of an ancient ond dlispi'
dated Virginia house might ask, "why IS tlis
"man sovereign and l only sergeant upon
promise Of quarter pay" 1t is in this key
a kind of mad minor-that TIE Wig
pipes it's dsafecton. "Wby has MT my
!" advice been followed 2" asks the Able Ed
tor of that paper. "Why does mt the
army ravagc Pennsylvania ~ And then
it goes on frankly to declare why 1t 10 be-
cause tie Government" OF course,
isn't expected TO even 60 through the motions
Of gOverning-hos been "wrangng with popu-
" lar Generals and bidding over petty jobs"
This is acidulous as well as alliteratiye The
Wig then, really quite after tho manner Of
Sir Philip (Junus) Francis, says; "a
{" child with a bauble, an old man with
young wife, ore partial illustrations of our
" deplorable folly" The rage for fine writing
ha. led many a Southern editor into scrapes
either droll or murderous; but this man of
metaphor who has contrIyed to compare the
Copfederacy to "a baub!e" and an "Oid mans
"wifs" has surpassed all his predecessors as
much in boldness as in truth
Ts say that The Dhtg ia discontented, e,as-
perated, indignant, and ferocious is TO soy
nothing adequate. Ih wrath mounts TO en-
ecstasy. Summer and Winter have been passed
in dreary naction. Diselse and weariness
bayc deinoralzed the Confederate camps The
finest army ever assembled" has wasted
"awoy." Still The Richmond Wig has borne
it with a patien. sbrug. But now, Patience
being no longer Virtue, but the most vicious
Of Vices, The Wig takes of its coat and de-
iyers its right and LEFT at the culpable CABINET
assuring it, readers that certain "reputel
great men" are, after oil, disreputable little
men, who must, unless this fiue, fresh, youth
full Confederacy ia to go to the deuce, be re-
formed out of Office, and give place to those who
read The Richmond Wig regularly and profit
by lis ndmoDition'. 1t calls upon Congress
20 see that other departments perform their
" functions" aud confidently predicts that
when "our side" gets inside, the vehicle will
move with admirable ease aud celebrity. But if
' Congress" should prove quite as incompetent
as cabinet" nothing will remain to be done
but for Jefferson Davis to so up to the House,
pistol the Speaker, turn out the Members, and
establish Despotism tempered by cocktails
and leading articles.
This is the Coniederacy, so little compact
that even the perils of war and imminent de-
.truction cannot unite il These are the men
so little unscfsh. so grossly selfseehing thu.
their own companions cry shame upon their
low ends and little aims. These are the proofs
of capacity for maintaining political indepen-
dence which the Rebels olier TO the powers OF
the world President, Cabinet, Senators, Rep
resentatives, Editors, squabbling like group
of runaway boys, over a birds nest with
nothing in it Why, this would make The
most brilliant victories barren-what will be
its effect, when thick coming defeats, the oc-
cupa;ion of grea, cities, the dispersion Of the
Rebel armies the seizure of tho military strong
holds, the complete command Of coasts and
rivers and guil., shall have brought that Bit
ter disappointment to which only despair can
succeed Let the Rebel leaders look we'll to
Themselves then, for the popular petard which
they have been examining With falsehoods
and passions. may then give them a
hoist more lofty than palatable-an ele-