New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-05-01
AGOOD GUESS.

There was recently shelled from the Hon.
Howell Cobb, that eminent Secessonist,
kernel of q remark, which we have already
printed, but upon which it may be harmless
aud even profitable to dilate. Quoth Cobb:
{" But two things stand in the way OF settle.
ment-the Landing of the Pilgrims aud Ongi'
nal SIM" This is not only seoteDtlous bu! IL
ia sage. Cobb is philosophical, Cobb is; and
Cobb is laconic, is Cobb--a Platonist In WIS.,
dow and Socratic in brevity Deep also 10
Divine Things is Howell; wonderful is bis IN
sight into human nature; something marSeious
is his knowledge of the Holy Scriptures; as
tute is be in Theological Problems, and in'
mense is he in Political Disquisitions OR
own private opinion 10, that be would have ta-
tied tho Gordian 49,. as if il had b.<H
s;mple shoe string; aud that fenconfrs nj
wisdom between himself and the Sphinx, no
would have been able to guess the great c,u-
undrum in jiAy. We hasten to say that We
quite agree with Cobb, who is evidently no
cobbler at this business-the causes of this Be-
bellion may be found in tie Landing at Ply.
fortunate colloquy with the original Copper.
head in the Garden. But it is necessary for
us to make just discrimination of the differ.
ent parties influenced by these causes.
First, then, in behalf of the North We own
up, with contented cheerfulness, to the Pil.
grim Fathers. Cobb holds them in high con-
tempt--he despises the breaking waves that
dashed high; he loaths the stern and rock.
bound coast; he contemns the woods that
against stormy sky their giant branches tost;
and % for the band of Pilgrims that moored
their bark on the wild New-England> shore,
why Cobb considers them as mere ruthans. MOI
as the conqueror comes "-grosls Cobb VI
should think pot-but as the sneak comes, a.
the scamp comes, as the ragamufhn comes ~
the empty bellied adventurer comes--that
the way they come, sniveling hymns and nssai
prayers, and making asses of themselves gen.
srally :" Freedom to worship God " DO
continues; "gammon freedom to rob hen
roosts, you mean, and freedom TO run on my
picpers, and freedom to swiodle my own beaGfl'
full and sunny South-all that is what tue cfop'
cared rogues were after " And so from tnas
landing, Cobb, we suppose, dedac'
the election of Abraham Lincoln,-a most
Puritanical and pestilent event, which CON
PEELED the South to exhibit its virtue by steal
ing money, ships. and munitions Of war. aua
whatever else 1t could lay its larcenous oa'
holy hands upon. and to betake itself to Ras
Treason and Petty Treason and Censlfu0"'.
Treason, and to 90 generally into the Ou''a'
of Perjury. Never were men before so 'u''
forced by the Excessive Virtue Of Their enems''
% bstaks Themselves to Sin and Iniquity
For here is where the Serpent "fiss"
and rolls himself in. 1t requires no s'cS, ca, .,I
,orical .ruaitiou to know that the V% -
Original Serpent was also the old AHu -, Nv ~.
nal seces,ionist and Primitive Rebel. Lie
having an excellent time OF it in Heaven w..
like Cobb before his fall, was an snS'' 49,.
versally respected; and he might a .s;..' y
on to thi. hour, enjoying many good tA's 49,.
Cobb might; but, Us the Devil woula Da .s,.
Rebellion. hs was kicked out Of n'' ~,
country, as we hope Cobb will b. '''' ,e.r
indeed. But here the parallel ceases IN
the flight of Cobb, it is not likely 'na' Ut
will be capable of any mischief in any '0a. r,
which the Police Courts Of said c'u. Gun.
will not DO competent to srapp.. SoS1
whereas the Original Serpent e'~S =. .i
to Adams plantation, and Dy 49, u,s1
of Adams wife. with whom be s.' ~
terms of improper familiarity, ra',oa sou ~
Rebellion, the longest in history, os''u d
tho Original Sin to which Howell i0rol'y
Iludes-a Rebellion which tho Serpent nss
able to keep up over since against W"