New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-12-09
WAR SCHOOL nIsTEEss.

WAR SCHOOL uISbhE
NJ Robert Tcombs, tho most CANDID Of Con
fedcraDes let lip the Other d. The astute re-
mark that "Reyolr'' .on, 70 20 The bottom Of
snlng1," IT, enterprise Of the Man-owners Is
not got Revolution, for i, remains thus tar IL
the igaoblc eatceory e Rebellion. |h,'1 !.
-'''.. .""..iiiins different and les .i'''u' '0'
noyerlhcles. promise. TO "go to the bottom,
ana rather hot bottom, We suspect, L. iis pre-
obstinate resting place. But We leave Toonibs
20 lamen, over empty ca -boxes and useless
Kitchens. War ha, taught him AID his hungry
companions. that thToe regular meals per dien
sro 70 be re koned among The blessings OF our
fallen state, and thai when dollar in paper
fll5 . peck measure The currency has pretty
:, cached the bottom Of things" also We
oC,,,. >pr,h, to-, l;sipliasdby ths Var, albeit
!, ant .er way, die beginning 10 ieei the H., ''.'
If fn,a.,r. 'uid consistency. Five years ago
a.. v..,. do, dcrng in such a slough of sole
Inn. ~, on, ."xirication seemed TO bo well
nth ,,,ros.l,le We laugh At poor. crack
Drained projectors w middle themselves
with dreaus Of per,e.ra. mouon-wc gnn
AZ enthusiasts who Mr,.' 'n" thry
have exploded me NcwioBir. theory oil
grayitaiion--yct how long IS II sin c We hAd
only skcyiicL sncer fox those who toid Us
that the natural law Of oppos.tcs is tue N pa
uonal policies, aad that no Government ca
maintain itself under which either extreme % !
is practice il logical condemnation ~ the
oiher' II cannot BE sid that we did not strug- /
pic braycly that We did not argue brilliantly, |
tha, we did not lie boldly. that We lid not write /
beautifully, IN prose and IN verse, In our Con |
crosses and our Conferences, IN our romantic I
devotion 10 . palpaile efsor We had bat one
wretchcd rcsource--we planted ourselves upon
The justice oi Human Slavery, but our ground /
here could be- but III maintained, without bold +
assumption Of the inrradcable vices. mental .
and moral, OF The Black. AZ this point the .
Wax found Us, with our patriotism and our pre-
judce bearing such an equal sway, like the two
Kings Of Brentford. that it war hard 10 say
which prcdominato1. Those who first proposed (
10 employ the slaves against their felon Masters
were either laughed At or lectured upon the ex-
ccotng haTbarity OF their suggestion. illusions
10 the history Of 81. Domingo, usually founded
upon variations either fictitious or apocryphal,
were continually made IN walling or in .
warning accents, while the London news
papers were good enough to treat us to
most narrowing phantasmagoria OF Fire,
Famine and Slaughter" We could not allow
to the Black even the poor honor Of being killed
in defense Of his class--we could not afford to
give him the chance Of developing a manhood .
which We thought it TO be profitable TO
deny--we sllrunk from being rcscuedby his base .
hands from the perils which beset us-we were
Union, but for tho yindication Of certain the
cries which scholastic old gentlemen had eab.
GRATED over their Hebrew leAicons. We lancied /
in our folly, that this Black Man could be made .
other than the central figure in the whir of
events. OF course, we intrenched ourselves /
behind bristliDg stockade of cheap and dubi- .
ons assertions. The Blacks could not be drilled. +
The Blacks would not fight. The Black sympa-
thy was with the Rebels. The Blacks would
demonstrate the depth Of this sympathy by MUIR
dering their masters and rayishing their mis-
trcsses. The Blacks were stupid, ignorant, lazy,
sensual, cruel-we layished upon them all the
discreditablc adjectiyes in both the great die
tionaries and made out against them (on paper
case exceedingly conclusive.
The months went by. The difficulty which
the whiiest of our soldiers experience in putting
down the Rebellion, appeacdat least TO our self
ishness. The honor OF being put to death,
which, as pure Cauca'ians, We 80 coveted, lost
Il, briliancy Ii seemed hard that the slaughter
should 30 confined 10 the SUPERIOR Race aud