New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-03-13

reduced to a dead certainty There may be
chances OF it. So there may be chances Of
drawing $4,000 in one of Frater Bens
truly lucky lotteries But the chances in one
case are about as good az the chances in the
other. At any rate, we had better not disband
the Army, until Ben has been dispatched to
! Richmond, there to wave the Ove.branch in
our behalf. When we hear the result of bis
apostolic mission, it will be time enough to
consider the question of dsbandng.
Benjamin ia far different from the rest of
us, being. we suppose, of finer philosophical
spirit. When we are fortunate enough to
pick up victory, the fraternaI Wood morlrns.
by parity of reason, when we are 50 I'M
fortunate rs to encounter defeat and disaster,
we suppose that he rejoices exceedingly. We
have fondy thought that the success Of the
Federal arms would bring back peace and
prosperity. but our prophetic Member, bic
visual orbs being beautifully purged, is con-
WINGED that nothing more runous could happen
to US than the most rcfalgent triumphs. lie
breads, in the recesses of bis soul, "the de-
structon of the resisting powers of the South"
We may take Charleston. That would be "a
resisting power" Everybody else in these
parts would be glad, but Benjamin is sorry.
There is one chance the less Of "a con-
tented household" Yicksburg may be re-
duced. More misery! Really, under such
circumstances one would, as matter
of curiosity, like to have Bepjamin's views
of the moral, political, and religious effect
of the Battle of Bull Run! With bis
views. he should consider it blessing to
this community. Thinking as he does, lie
should go down every night upon his blessed
knees, and pray that we may be routed horse
foot, and batteries BY sea and BY land. lie Is
opposed to success upon principle-that Is, to
onr success-and the inevitable sequitur is that
he desires the success Of the Confederate
Army. Otherwise. a plain man does not well
zee why no should be SO timOrous OF I" the de-
struction of the resisting powers OF the
South"
But, let us try the logical Woods philosophy
by the rule Of contraries. 1t is very clear to
our mind that tho disbandmcnt Of our armies
would not be followed by flood of millennial
ylores. The next thing to disbandmcnt is
o defeat. We will suppose that the Davis
forces have smitten--hip and tbish-the Federal
forces, and that, after the notifying agonies
of captulation, we have arrived at the delicate
delights of negotiation. The surrender would
be morally equivalent to Bcn's proposed with
drawal of our army-and yet, does he suppose
that the Southern diplomatists would at once
commiserate our wretched condition, and them
selves first propose return Would the happy
and contentod household then and there be with
one ceremony organized Member Wood may
believe, but we do Mt.
BY "thc destruction of the resisting powers
of the South" this astute and benevolent gen.
tleman can only mean, as he evidently does,
tho destruction of Rebels-and If they were,
every one of them destroyed, By the sword, the
ak, tho sallows, or ratsbane, the chances of
Woods Happy Family would be considerably
multiplied. The object Of the Government, If
we understand it, is to enforce the legal and
most righteous jurisdiction Of the Constitution
over CcIlhlH vi grow uuu
value. Ii we conquer, the Moguls OF the Re-
bcllion will, if they can, levant to European,
Mexican, or South American parts; and those
who cannot get away must be dealt with nc.
cordipg TO law. This will finish the matter
neatly, and it will be finished quite as neatly, !
though not quite so pleasantly, if We are
worsted. But Mr.. Ben Woods peace would
settle nothing Instead of the Felcitous Fam.
iy of his dulcet dreams-rats, mice, rabbits, |
and terriers in one cage--we should only 60
back to ancient riots and quondam rows. The
voice of the bully would again be heard in
tho Capltol-the old system of buster would
be resumsd-the Shareholder would come back
infinitely more insoent and mora awfully out
rageous-in conjunction with the rejayenated
Democracy of tho North, the Man-Owners
would begin again the game of nominating and
electing doughiace or Slaveholding Presidents
and after another period Of labor dire and
weary woe, we should, ere long, find our
selves again compelled to fight, even if a.
Slaveholding or Doughface President should
not sell us out completely to the Man.Owners.
This is Mt the kind of Happy Family to which
we look forward with unutterabe yearnings.
So wo think, upon the whole, that it will be
just as we'll not to act upon Ben's brilliant
suggestions.