The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-11-12
PACIFIC
Commercial Advertiser.
THURSDAY, VEMBER II.
The Foreign News.

events have happened during tne "eek since GU
last previous advices-news that must sadder
every loyal heart. 1t is not the triumph of the
rebels, for victory can never be their fortune
nor IL it gloomy defeat threatening the Union
arms. for the cause must and will move forward.
But IL il the unaccountable course of the admin
istrsion ut Washington in cashiering our best
generals for not meeting that success which IL
expects Of them. Three generals and one admI-
ri have been shelved during one week. These
are
I.-GEx. RosEcRASs. the gallant hero, who
cleared Tennessee Of the rebels and restored her
% the Union.
2.-GES. MEADE. the commander of the army
Of the Potomac. The assigned cause is because
he retreated before Lee, without attempting to
fight him, and then lie, him escape without
damage.
3.-GEy. BLUNT, who has whipped the rebel
puerrillas and driven them out Of Arkansas.
For what ofense he has been removed, remains
20 be seen.
4-ADmRAL DAHLGRES, who was in com
maud Of the naval feet before Charleston, has
been removed because he did not move fast
enough, or from ONE want of harmony with
Gilmore.
Here are four removals Of what have been sup
posed to be successful and worthy commanders,
and on whom the public have been lavish of
praises. What boots it if successful men have
been put in their places-the first ill-fortune
that crosses their track. will crush them TO the
dust, and besmear their names with the foul
eaIumnies which party rivalry may soon rake
up. Until such party schemes triumphed, Nc
Clellan was esteemed a perfect counterpart of
NapoleOn.-Hooker and Burnside were models
Of bravery ,-Rosecrans was the embodiment of
all that was p%raiseworthy in a general. But all
have been sacrificed for failures which, we fear,
are traceable in the main to their superiors at
Washington-HaIIeck and Stanton. Gen. Grant
takes the field in Tennessee, and Gen. Sedgwick
in Virginia-but the chances of either of them
holding their places for six months is small.
Speaking of these removals., the Alta says
The most sickening feature of the war. is the petty jealous
les that have arisen between some Of those who have been placed
in high command. Indeed the opinion is universal that there
are some generals in our army who would sacrifice 10000 men
sooner than a rival should win great fame for himself. Their
ms.,es' They have hesitatei at nothing-neither at furnishing
men nor money. Fathers have sent their sons to the field
of their declining years"
But some may say, the cause of the Union has
oeen steadily gaining from the outset, till now
the rebellion is nearly crushed and SO it has,
but il has done so an spite of the mismanagement
of the authorities in Washington. The frequent
removal of worthy generals has Il demoralizing
effect on the army and the nation, and every
removal creates bitter feelings among the soldiers
of each general and among his friends and adj
mirerS. The course of the government is quite
enough to excite against it strong sectional and
party opposition, and make enemies of those
whom it thus deposes for lack of uniform sue
cess. Had that been the rule in former times
we should never have heard of Il Napoleon, an
Alexander. a Wellington or a Washington for
each met disastrous defeats in their careers, and
their victories were but few.
Besides the removal of generals, the news has
no great Importance, and events haze changed
but little in any quarter. The fall and winter
rains will soon set in, when the movements of
the armies will be still less rapid.
The foreign news. what there is IF it, has a
cheering complexion. England now says that
she finds good reasons to stop the Intended de-
parture of the rebel iron-clads, though the rea-
sons for such a course are not so apparent as
they were in the case of the AMbdmo of which
vessel Laird boosted in Parliament thu he built
it for the rebels and the government d;ents knew
it was for them. There seems to haze been an
entire change in the current of opinion in Eng
land, and the course of the ministry since the
speech of Senator Sumner. Concerning the new
Mexican Empire, we learn nothing defnite-and
it is uncertain whether Macmillan is or is not
to be the unfortunate, prince sent out to try to
sit on that throne
Referring to Summers speech in New York,
We notice that copies of 1t came by the last mail.
1t is lengthy. but as 1t goes into u full review of
American foreign relations, it will repay perusal.
and ought to be read by every one interested in
the war,-and who is not? 1t is one of the
most brilliant oratorical efforts that have been
made of late years in any country-powerful
in Its language and beautiful in all that goes to
make pure rhetoric. 1t is moreover, one of the
most sarcastic and logical papers that have APP
peared on the rebellion. The new word - Slave
monger." which Sumner uses so freely, may at
first sound harsh and ill-chosen but ii is admit
rably expressive OF the rebel cause, and we opine
will soon become the most popular term by
which shareholders and slavedealers i'm anv part
of the world. will henceforth be known. We
quote a paragraph or two referring to the So
called rebel Plenipotentiaries,' Mason and
SIidell.
Amidst The general degradation that would follow such an
oheIsauce 20 Slavery. there are two Christian Powers that
would appear in sad and shameful emineuce. / refer to Great
Britaiu-the declared {. protectress of the African race,"-and
10 France, the declared champion Of q" ideas,h-who,f from the
very hrgess Of their pledges, are so situated, that they cannot
desert the good Old cause aud turn their hacks upon civilization
without a criminal standardization, which no amount Of apOl-
the African race? Where then would be French devotion to
easI-Remembered only to point a tale and show how ma
TONS had fallen Great Britain knows less than France of
at-nnsl Vlcissitutes hut such an act Of wrong would do some