Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-07-02
A PORTRAIT.

Tribune quite mistake the object of our recent
erpose of their political hereses when they sup
pose that we simply designed to show the chronic
contrariety which exists between their views and
our views respecting secession and the war. 1t
would be great superhuty to waste words in the
demonstration of such proposition, for those who
know any thing of our respective journals are
sufficiently apprzed of the diversity which exists
| between them
The Tribune believes in the revolutionary right
of secession Tribune, November 9, 1869 We
have always denied the right.
The Tribune has pledged its best efforts to for
ward the views of the insurgents, if it can be con-
vinccd that the Soatherh people are conclas sly
alenated from the Union. !" Tribune, February %,
1861 We have always resisted the schemes of
Southern as well as Northern disor,anizers.
The Tribune predicted the breaking of the re-
bellion's !" backbone" in sixty days, if we could
only have proclamation Of freedom" We
never believed that the walls of the Southern Jer-
cho would fall at the sound of any number of rams
horns, however vigorously blown, for the age of
miracles has passed under the present dispansa-
ton
The Tribune, in the month of September last,
after it had got the proclamation" pleased with
rattle and ticked with straw"-cried God
bless Abraham Lincoln" Tribune, September 20,
1862 A few days ago it frantically denounced
the President and his associates as men who only
day after day have given proof upon proof that
they can neither comprehend nor grapple success
f,,1l, tuda nd fba af tba
task before them" (Tribune, June 3, 1869 We
have never manifested any such African fetichism
which worsbips its idol one day and whips it the
next.
The Tribune is in favor of foreign arbitration
Tribune, December 27, 1862.) We have always
held it to be inadmissble.
The Tribune was in favor of 9 the best attaina-
BILE peace" after three months of "vigorous fight
ing" during season-last winter and spring
when it knew vigorous fighting was impossible.
Tribune, January %, 1869 We have never
drawn our counsels from our despair.
The Tribune believes that the rebellion was much
more likely to be " crushed OUT during the said
three months "term," when it was not " crushed
out" than it is ever likely to be afterwards CTri-
bune, January 22 1869 We have never sought in
this way to dispirit the Government and encourage
the insurgents.
The Tribune is in favor of "owning the rebels
as its masters if only Gen. Grant is defeated and
Gen. Lee can water his horses in the Delaware"
Tribune, June II, 1862 Not being used to the
dialect of slaves, we have never yet foreseen the
contingency anticipated the day when we would
be ready to own any man as our " master"
These points of difference between the Intelli-
gencer and the Tribune are, it will be seen, too
numerous and important, as well too well known
to render necessary any display of verbosity,
whereof the main object would seem to be de-
monstration that our views of the rebellion, its
treatment and issues, are widely divergent as
possible" from those of our New York contempo-
rary. That divergence, we hope, is known and
recognised by all.
Our purpose in reviving these "reminiscences was
simply to improve the memory of the present con-
ductcrs Of the Tribune, who from the style Of dis
course they occasionally hold towards their more
loyal, consistent, and determined contemporaries,
would not Seem to have been aware of tie perni-
clous doctrines lnculcateu In Gnelr own Columns.
Observing that they did not very carefully read
their own paper, while they obviously bestowed
some attention on ours, we thought we should be
doing them good service by bringing to their no
tice the secession tares which somebody is con
stantly sowing with their anti-savery wheat, until
it is hard to tell which of the two growths is the
more rank and luxuriant
If our contemporaries need any further reminders
on this score we shall be ready at any time to repeat
ard apply our stimulus. At present we have only
to add single suggestion or two We find in the
Tribune of the 25th instant the following panic
cry:
If Lee can conquer u.s. SO be Il! but if not, let him
never recross the Potomac with than the wreck Of
an army Men of the North! Pennsylvanans Jerseymen
New Yorkers New Englanders the foe s at your doors
Are you true tratorsl brave towards II
you are patriots resolved and deserving to be Free prove
by universal rayng, armng, and marching to meet the
rebel foe! Prove it NOW"
This looks little as though the Tribune had
changed its view from that announced at the out
break of the war. We quote from the Tribune of
May Is, 1861:
"Tbe progress of events within month ought to be
cent to convince that the present is to be civil
war, and that the terrors Of Revolutionary days
not to be re-enacted The miraculous compacness Of the
Norhern aHd decides tho, qu,son Our pleasant places