New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-10-31

fHe LIFE OF sroNEwALL JACKSON. ByAvnsinA1.
Il mo. %. 35. Charles b. Richardson.
The only use Of this feculeRt production, which
Is understood to be from the pen Of the notorious
John H. Daniels, is to illustrate the spri; OF the
Rebels in the prosecution Of the war. 1t consist a
9 series of ipcoherent sketches, loosely thrown 70
gether, and taken, n great degree from newspapss
reports, describing the career Of Stonewsn Jackson
written in ss,yle Of udicrous sIaggeration, and per-
vsded with the most bitter venom Of partisan hatreo
toward the North. With no prctensions TO historic
cal accuracy its main object to blazon the prowes
sAs -ebIn,y. the "chivalrv" Of the Rebels, and :"
paint the detcsted Yankees in the blacklist colors
The inso!ent and vulgar sslfconcet Of the writer
conspicuous on every page. Such an eifusion =
clustering gascsnade is rarely met with cut Of tho
vilcst kennels Of the demagogue. Virginia" q
him, is the brightest lumnsry in the galaxy Of ID
Confederate States--the Central Light which couA
pletes the glories Of the Southern Cross" The
beautiful virgin of the Virginia shield hos lifted tho
spear in defense of her chastity against brutal and
insolent foe that had como in direct conf
tact with her pure person." Stoncwsu
Jackson had elrca1y secured that inn
mortal name which will forever characterize himy
but the arena had been too limited for tho full dS
play Of his splendid faculties, and "the time w
soon TO come, however when these great faculties
would blaze out before the eyes Of the world, sun
rounding their possessor with halo Of almost dan
ding splcndor' On the other hand, the Unio1
forces from the highest officer to the humblest
private" were prompted by the "ccmoniac lust a
spoil AND rapine-s mad and infamous invasion Of
great peoples homes and frcsidcs with Booty and
Beauty for their watchword." The Union com
mander Of the Army of Virginia was "a braggsr4
poltroon, guilty of systematic falsehood, Yankee
compound Of Bobadi and Munchausen, pcrsonag(
chiefly renowned for having been cowhided without
resistance by a Southern gentleman" The anml
itself was "a band Of brigands, motley crew d
ja-birds, malefactors, released convcts aud Dutch
Yankee vermin, from the cellars and rookeries q
Europe and the North" "dirty Federal rubbish u
blue coats with coarse low browed faces, full Of Do
ceit and yalgaritythat vugarity Of The soul which
is in these people, and can no more be rooted OUT
than the spots Of the leopard can be changed or the
skin of the Ethiopian made white current Of
similar ribaldry flows through the pages Of this fo
and ilsccnted volume, relieved at intervals by bora
bastic praises of the Furiosos of the South. The
poison indeed, is not without al antidotein the pre-
yaing heaviness and languor Of the composition
The author never becomes decent without growing
dull His fayorite ornament is inyectiye, but IN spin
of the usual piquancy of detraction, the reading d
his book is BORE His flights Of rhetoric arein thu
yilest Southern taste the attempted polish of hh
style is the coarses varnish the thin vein Of sentt
ment which gttersi his narratives as remote nom
genuine feeling as spangles from silycr.-We do moi
admire tho enterprise OF tho New-York publisher in
SO promptly reproducing the most offensive issaea
OF the Rebel press. 1t may crafty greedy Copper
head appetite for the illusions of disloyal viruence
but it canno: fail to create an unsayory association
with his name.