New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-12-05
A LITTLE DOLOROSO.

newspapers, we ODserVo, IN uoVOteu W tue pun
LEGATION of Confederate pains The gentlemen
who conduct these precious Sheets with al
their genius, do not seem to comprehend that
in war it is customary now and then to kill
people, and to carry away the COWS Of hostile
communities. The able editor of The Memphis
Appeal, at Grenada, cannot forgive us our
" fleets, gunboats, ingenious contriyances Of
every kind. and numerous hosts" We are
all crude depraved, and insolent," aud We
seek to subject the poor Couiederates to " the
most CALLING and degrading dominaton'-to
" lingering torture and immoyabe disgrace.
In other newspapers we fud other sorrowS and
injuries. The Abolitionists have been desolatlng
the coast of Georgia, and have actually carried
away City negroes in spite Of the cries and
lamentations of those ill-treated chattes. Also,
one old lady, aged ninety, inhumanly insulted.
hem, the salt-works of Colonel Mcdonald de-
stroyed. Item, few things stolen. Rem,
" vandalism and barbarity" in general. So in
Texas, old Sam Houston, that venerable sinner,
lately made speech in Brennan in which be
complained that being ga septuagenarian' he
had been driven from bis home" The
inyidious foe," quoth Samuel, sis stealthily
marching"-as if foes were ever other than
inyidious, and as if it were our duty to send
our compliments, and ask permission before we
advanced into the bowels of the land
We must do these Confederate mOurners the
Justice TO say, that great deal OF wrath Is
mixed up with their wailing, and that their
pluck is really more inexhaustible than their
hen-coops. Whenever they have occasion to
bewail the abduction of some patriots COW,
they invariably call upon their serried cohorts
TO redress the slaughter Of the animal. When
some Rebels house is visited by bomb, to the
serious arrangement Of the furniture these
newspaper warriors exhort the countless mil
lions Of the Confederacy to rush promptly to
the rescue
II seems Just little odd that before these
sufferers plunged hesdlong into hct water, they
should not have considered their ability TO bear
the predestinate blstcrs without baHling.
They had choice between peace and war,
plenty and starvation, comfort ard squalor.
Their cows might still have grazed al pleasure,
aud Sammy Houston might have remained
prattng under his own vine and tg-tree.
The slightest common sense might have told
these rash folks that our Government would
hardly submit TO reputation Of It's authority
without an effort TO maintain il. No method
was left VA but the military; we Lad no re-
source but war; and with war came slaughter,
burning, forage, the SORROWS Of Sammy llous-
ton, and the sway of the ogre Butler. School
boys do not like 10 be birched, but it does not
wholesome castigation is a ruilian. The Seces-
sionists are having the dance Tor which they
have so long been itchiug-why do they howl
20 dlsmally when called upon TO pay the
piper
There are two ways in which outside obser-
ycrs may regard these traitors. Words are
cheap. and plenty OF small.beer poetry can
be pumped up from the butts Of beneyoence.
IL ia easy to say of these Rebels: Poor vic
tins of despotism they are fighting for their
roof-trecs, and hcarth.stone., and affairs, for
their beautiful wives, their promising children,
their ancestral acres, their lovely cities--and
for these they endure hunger, cold, raggedness,
and death itself" This sounds well, but
what does it all amount to- Great rascal3
may have roof-trees, and hearth.stones and
altars, and beautiful wives, aud promising chill
dren, and ancestral acres, aud lovely cities, and
may suffer, TO preserve them, hunger, cold,
raggedness, death ITSELF Bengal tigers have
dens, and cubs, and bones TO fight for, but no.
body laments the death of these creatures,
when arrested in foraging expedition-and,
to do them justice, they never draw their
handkerchief aud begin TO cry when fate and
Gordon Cumming oyertokc them. Men who
ask for the worlds sympathy should frat show
that they deserve it. This is precisely what
the Conicderates have never been able TO do.
Could they have found single substantial in
jury upon which to mount themselves, they
would have had foreign friends enough long ago.
IL Is because they have no cause that they can
get no cooperation. The very fact that for
eign powers stand aloot attracted by material,
but as constantly repealed BY moral consdera.
tlOns, demonstrates the distrust of the C0nled.
rates speculation of Ia substantial validity and
intrinsic honesty, which controls the
selishness and ambition of shrewd and
courts. There is doubt;
there is hesitation; there is a prudent
delay; there is u lurking suspicion that the
cause Of the shareholders is not respectable.
Worse than all, there is in tho very nature OF
this cause, or rather of this crime which Is
called Il cause, an inhcrent vice which victory
,yould d, imnot.n, IA erndirate The establish.