, 1862-11-11
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naturalness aud necessity Of "hero-wor-
ship" We believe with him in the necessity
Of Lcroes- But We long ago emancipa:cl
ourselves from the crudenoti.n, wi.;elr Ell
tc1t.:;ned in TIL. country sicce the outbreak
Of the war fl .l:e Union, that every man
educated by tic government at West
Point, is hero by semc prcscrln,ive, pos
Silly by scme divine, right Tue expert
enst@ Of .aHr and a ha1f, during which
We have seen a great Hation, rich in men,
In money, n patriotism, and ia all that
makes pei IL martial and victorious, re-
G1rcd 10 9 condition Ed piiia',le as to be
Tie laughing 6lock Of the worli,-:lu the
result of tic conildcuce that tue
goyr1bmcn: hes rcnoscl in the
manufactured heroes Of the Military Acad-
<1ny- have rrdecsiycd US, and we come
back 10 the old formula, whica fits the
army asvcll rs lscratu7c- commanders as
well as poc.asters-..' Heroes are bora, not
n:sdc-" We have, erd so have our people,
LEARNED the Lesson that was forced upon
Austria when she sent the heroes cf her
schools to cen:cnd ssainst Napolcon-th.
lesson that Frederick had, before the revo-
3utioDary cru, stamped with blood upon
The history CT France and Ilussia; and if
the humiliation and cast of the schooling
Lave been Mca1cu!ablc, the benefit, IN tle
removal Of the cl,ief Of the hcroes-madc-
1o-ordcr-t1:c "ycung Naroleon''-a the
greatest general of :tny age CT n1uon'-
5s some compression fer what has been
cldur.d-a sign, al least, that the country
has not 1.rn under this expensive and
1lcody tu;t1tge for nothing. Uncle Abe
LES taken Lis first degree
W he.c never keen Of these who dcub:-
c1 AicC}t}luz's legally, according to his
definition Ct thu t'.:r. but since the year
ii cur Ltrd 1sG1, in December thereof,
wh.n, A. the lcsd Of the most magnificent
army Of n,otcrn i,ucs, he failed to attack
aud capture weak aud de,nor:llizcd enc,
my VIC have kno,en that his hcfois n WAS
Of the ''made'' ya1ic!y-a lacquer lila. edu
ca1ion had Put OHIO more resembling
the ingraint1 at clc that made Cesar
I141nitnl, Turnne, Montecucul;, Fred
c1ic and Napoleon famous, than the De
.rorracy Of 1hc Chicago Times resemble:
that Of 1ir. Jefferson, from whom the party
1ow dubbcA Democratic, has its nan.:
He is eaucated-Gcn. Scott, wht
vas never cduc.ted at ali
says lie is "srlenei:'ly" educated. ",
1i:11e nc Doubt he can calculate the 7cla
.ivc d;nmescrs Of III: vent and bore Of
ficli-riece, with degree Of accuracy tina
would delight .a'1h his Instructor ia Sur
ncry and professor If 1.la.ilema.i2s. II
cssn, VIC dare stliTn1, unlike many os III
1.s.rt es HAT Vest l.'int has ms.lc, drill
regiment, .ln,u.l, untii he was dubbed II
jnr Gtrcr.I, ].e Lad rarely drilled :: cou
ra1y- H'c presume he unsleZstaa.is f,zt
1ea:jon Is We. ~ Tsuoau or Mo,.1alrn
aart- He can q Set 4 squadron passl5ly
division, in order, and as a colonel Of ca,
al3 or brigadier general would beha,
sl'lt1dioly in i chargc, OF, as he has mo
experience in Lie reErograle, in . r
tr.at, 1Tc violate no probability wle
We s1y that he Cal, repeat, ff3
sLc books, whole chapters if ncccssar
relating 10 log'sics or strntcsy: and if II
are not mistaken, he once invented a So
die which bears his name In the scho
eud in ,hc arny, lie vas considered MI
pfmerit Ara 50 be is. No man wou
better fi1l a professors chair in West Poi
but lc il Lot Z cua:s,,aodcr. Nature fail
to c.eo* him with the characicrist
which make commanders successful a
famous In d word, his genaralship II
manufactured, mol horn in him. H h
the educa'1oh; but lacks the genius,
knows but cannot act He remembers a
is receptive, but has no crcatiye poxer
meet en- 1gencies that arc not set down
the books. He Is not: enc Of that class
heroes Of whom Curlyle has written. 7
assume that Gen. Mcclellan has done
well as he could do. Iu moments Of IT
Impotence, we have thought that treas
or the shadow thereof, 1urkcd behind
persistent inaction; but as he is to be VI
ten Of IN the past tebse-as one of the
1ocs who wus-we, on review Of his care
choose to adopt the other theory, and alb
by the explaoasi52 that We have ri!
above He didn't because he coul3
Wesbou1d be unreasonable to e1oectt Il
astudcnt, no matter how conscientiously
borious. without spark Of genius for scu
1ure, could, On the first trial, rival in bea1
and in originality Of conception the Ell
Marbles; or that one with no ear for mu
could approach the perfection attained
a1endeishon Or Beethoven. But the ccu
1of command is as much gift Of Hea,
as the genius which reduces dull mar5}
poetical shapes, or as that which ray3is
the ear BY the vibrations Of wire Q. cat,
That Mcclellan had it not, Is no DER
1ion Of bis worth as man, though. ns
the world knows, the lack Of it in McC
Ian as commander, has cost the cou,
uEnnmbcrcd n,i!lE;.2rs Of d:H1rs in I
sure ard tr!,a nt .'uu1e7n's ri II
aac G2J :'5t:': -. t:I= Iii Il!