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

pOriZe country TO satisiy tno Cravings OF
passion which they have crafty cultivated.
Hero arc enthusiasts who roar that they will
do or die, when there was nothing for them to
do aud nothing to die for Who suppo'es
that with generally well educated people, with
toerabe dissemination Of the elements OF
morality, with fair degree OF per-
manent social tranquility, with a cear'headed'
industrious and dominating Middle Glass, the
designing men, who have partly kicked and
partly coaxed the Southern army into the war,
could have set one single squadron IN the
felil Why, it is tho very indefinltenes' oil
their canse, working upon ignorant and preJu'
diced and violent minds. and dexterously
making phrases do the work of principles
which has enabled the Confederate leaders to
employ their unsubstantial appeals with GER
tain practical success. We could better afford
to encounter calm and elaborate statement of
Confederate wrongs, with thin element
Of truth in it with something that
we could refute, with real charges
TINT we could. if only by sophistical ingenuity
rebut--than this Buckley vaporing, this school
boy stuff about dying in the last ditch, which
is used to wheedle the world out Of its wasted
sympathy. But formal statement was just
what the origiuators of the Rebellion had sense
enough to avoid. They took refuge in gene
ralites. They relied upon their rhetoric
They affected an awful Indignation. They
called upon mankind TO wlsne" that they had
been fearfully oppressed. They were like the
children in Salem, who pretended that the
witches stuck pins into their agon'zed bodies
They went through with the motions OF NOR
tai pain, aud simulated apprehension' which
had no foundation in facts or in reason
OF course, we cannot deny that this sham
Abraham trick worked in the beginning and
la, since worked, exceedingly well. The
world, when such swindliDg screams reach its
ears, does not withhold its pity until it has
made judicial investigation. The Slave
holders cried out that they had been out
rageousiy abused, robbed, swindled, insulted,
and oppressed, and they did it with such
energy, backed up as they we're by our charm
ingy pit.ful Copperheads, that in certain
quarters they were believed. But sympathy
spou.ed in Parliament is one thing and sym
patty reduced to the rigid concrete of minis
teral action is quite another. An autocrat
like Louis Napoleon may disdain investigation
and discard rigid analysis Of political equities;
but the government OF constitutional
England, before it can, with a decent regard
for international preceLents which it has assisted
10 establish, recognize revolution begun and
continued IN sheer rascsli.y, must convince
itself or alice. to be convinced, that the re-
volt which it proposes TO aid and comfort is a
ri shteous one. Vaporing, ard mere rhetoric,
and school.boy defamation, and blaspbemous
appeals to God--,hese certainly, should not
influence British Prime Minister. A Con-
fsd.racy originated by Sir George Buckley,
X. G. c., ID entitled TO about as mu ch credit
in Downing Street, as the Forty Thieves de-
served or obtained at the court Of the Sultan.
Fools and knases may fight extremely well,
but they arc not therefore entitled TO the
kisse, and caresses OF the world.