New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-07-29
THE BICKLRY INsURRECTION,

Our readers have already been told how
the gay aid gall,n. SIR George W. l.. Bick.
ley, founder and Generals'mo of tho Knight.
of the Golden Circle. has fallen into the hands
Of the Ssracen Unionists, and now langui,hes,
Ike pow Richard tho Llon-Heartcd, in the
donion Of Louisville, with no Blondcl 70 .ing:
80 George o mon roy" under his iron lat
tcc. Those who are inclined coldly TO snub
this unfortunate brave, may assert that SIR
George, With his Order of knightbood, his
grips and passwords and bra" decorations, is
an ass We do not, in bis behalf, repel the
soft impeachment. Iie il an ass; but then We
must urge that he is an extraordinary ass, and
order OF nature ever become. An ass
who csu, By his tremendous braying, fill III
uprising continent with the fiery storms OF
civil war, and lead great many other asses
to treason and rapine and murder. is not one
Of your vulgar animals, but u sort Of beatIhod,
and, as We may say, idcallzed nss-an A. OF
the Asses! Now, when this Cheyaer was
taken prisoner, so was his carPet-bag, and in
that receptacle were found the entire archives
of the Circularly Golden Order, whereby the
mysteries Of the body have been ruthlessly ex-
posed 10 tho orbs Of a profAre world. Blu.
with these were found also Sir Georges liter
ary works, including his confessions, written
at u period of extreme mental distress, oeea-
.ioued, We should judge, partly by thirst, and
partly by ignoble Pccuhiary Deficiencies. Sir
George 10 evidently good writer, alter the
Southern pattern. His language is fine. Nay,
why sbonld wc hesitate 10 declare that in our
opinion, it is superfne Spurnins the inilu-
cnces Of an ignoble Jealousy, wc admit that in
the department Of English composition, Sir
George is at once noble and pretty. More
than this, he ID the legitimate Father of Secess-
sion. 81 have" says he, brought up prac-
teal Secession, and inaugurated the greatest
war of modern times !" We should very much
ike 10 know what Jefferson Davis will say
TO that. For our own part, We are willing,
here and now, TO yindicnte the claim Of Sir
Gsorgs TO be considered ~ the Representative
Man Of the Rebellion. Why not Is he
not Gercest among the fierce is he not
bcwilderingly and sublimely incoherent I
hath he not a nux OF red.hot speech Is
be not magnificent in metaphor, tremendous in
tropcs, wonderful in his wrath, aud donuncla-
tory in his documents Has anybody ever
seen Confederate State paper that wGs other
than thescl Has anybody ever read Con-
federato editorial which, in its breathing
thoughts aud burning words, did not exhibit itd
obligations 10 the Golden Circle literature !
Ia it not wei known that Sir George invented
that phrase, "tho sunny South" which did so
much toward dissolviDg the Unoni Why,
when the Coniederacy rests upon words with
out sense, complaints without injury, asser-
tons without truth, anger without cause,
hatred without offonse, and fanaticism without
reli gion, who shall say that Sir George Bick.
10y was not its father and founder Hero are
political institutions erected upon phrases.
Hero are mon doing battle for childish catch.
words. Here are criminals who have worked
themselves into treasonous frenzy, not be-
cause they have experienced any injury in
pocket or in person, but because they wore
told that Il was their duty to do 30. Hero
arc patriots who s1tsmporizs . passion for
thsh country frst, and then seek to s1tsm.