New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-12-07
TIE rOEs or WAR.

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T.iG rOEs or WAR.
"Thc dogs Of Var. lat loose, are hOHling,'
we were wont 30 sing in the old days OF the
Kansas contest. This, when VIC consider the
british character OF the Missouri invaders, was
hardly metaphor. or at least wa very pal
pablc ana iust one. II Ina, been reserved for
, the Confederate authorities 20 reduce their in
\ dignant poetry 70 plain and practical prose, and
TO hun. men aS legitimate beasts OF game. The
ilcfIicicncy OF their oonscripton has sent the
/ Condolences 70 their dogs, and, n between the
bipel and he quadruped pack, we are not sure
that the last Is not the more merCful and mag
unanimous. Our correspondent at Beaufort, >.
/ c., ha. already reported with suitable comment,
! tha. bloodhound- age employed against the
/ Black Regiments in the Union service, and has
recorded the llmon.ablc fate OF five animals
who went out bri-hy upon their campaign, and
who came back upon the bayoncts of their
sable slaughtogcn. We wait patiently to heat
what British bcnoyoicnoc, which wcpt ccpioasiy
when Gen. BGtler sent a woman to the Gala
! bose, viii have to say Of this mild method Of
making wax; nor should We be surprised II tue
casuis;ry Of certain London newspapers were
cyostcd to prove these canine auKilhries ,he
humanest OF oomba.ants. But NO shall waste
no more wolls upon then " aOominable de-
vices"
"Chgalry," following the strict derivation Of
/ the vorl, has heretofore suggested horse', and
II seem. TO be quite a pity that hereafter it
.hoald be lkei, TO remind II, OF dogs. The
s.if.lhris.encd "Chcyslcrs" OF the Slave
States now in revolt do not sppear to be exactly
ilncal desccnuatis Of tho amored gentlemen
who succortd women N distress, viniicsied the
Injured, and released the prisoner You may
search vouT Iroissari from end ,o end, and Won
viii no, fnd It recorded Of single knigh, that
b. oli bis children bascly bcgottea. Instead
ol sending them 20 market, he contented HIM
sclf with indicating the fact Of their lllcgitmacy
f by wcll-undersiooi marx upon the lcit side Of
their shields. The coarse men who profess 10
have revived all that Mr. Burke wept for, and
20 cmbody all the gallant characters in the
D 7 AAF RlffUs IiA@f N4N4NiA laRAN II tNA'f 4li-
deed Of their gentle blood and crow shrill def
anOc 20 The base aGd mechanical North, being
strangely ohliylous, for such accomplished crca-
lures, Of the rule which ioibds gentleman 20
| blow his own trumpet, and of that other law
/ which denies 10 knights, without shame and
without reproach, the rapture OF falsehood and
OF felony. We poor kinds of the North, Of
ooU,sc, make no knightly pretension. We are
mere shopkcepcrs, weayers artisans, and fisher
men. Our manners are bad, our motives are
selfish, our pursuits aye degrading, and our ends
are sordid. We have missed the refining infu-
cnces Of Human Slavery; oar absurd notions
OF equality have insured general and equal
! dcgradation; our best men are but better
clowns, and our finest women but the fit COM
paniOns OF clownish husbands; We are divided
into n few millionaires and many mendicants;
We do not know how 20 read the Holy Script
urcs intelhgently, and most of rs are founder.
/ ing in the swamp of that French Inidcli,y
which, since blr. Julcrson's death, il no longer
/ fashionable In Virginia. In peace We are penu.
rious, and in war va arc craven and cruel.
/ Ihl; amahlo character has been so often be-
slowed upon US by Southern writers and orators
I that they have persuaded the world To some
extent of It's justice, aud foreigners send back
to Us exaggerated rope,i,ons Of these silly SIAN
dcrs. We are exceedingly well misunderstood.
War, certainly, would have developed, ii fanny.
thing could, those graceful virtues and honor
able sentiments which should mitigate is
au,tcritics and temper It's rude aud normal
grossncis. Now, with every disposition TO
remember acts Of soldierly courtesy Oh the part
of the Rebels, we are constrained to declare that
of such the record is, thus far, painfully barren.
Their whole conduct, even in the minulest par
/ tculars, seems to be based completely upon a
blind and indscriminate hatred. In more than
one battle they have refused quarter when it
has been distinctly solicited. Not content with
starving their prisoners OF war. they have
murdered them under trivial pretcSts. They
have done what, in morality. seems almost as
bad-thcy have stolen, and converted to their
own use, the supplies sent by US to our prison.
crs pining in their jals-an act of wckedncss
which, so far as our knowledge extends, is
unprecedented in The history of modern warfare
Yet TO this act they have added the shame of
falsehood. They have thus plicrcd under the
poor prctensc that Confederate prisoners have
been subjected by us to ill-treatment; whereas,
IA every well-iniormed man knows, we have
erred in quite an opposite direction, and have
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