Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1863-03-05
Beecher Oh McCIellan's Boston Sword.
From the New York INDEPENDENT

beeCner Oh N1CClelldn'S oOStOu SWOrOs
From the New York INDEPENDENT
When bean or a convolvulus selects q
long and shapely stake, and tenderly clasps
it with its twining stem, does the pole
imagine that the vine cares for 1t, or for
ITSELF? All that it asks CT the stick is,
that it will allow the vine chance for
self-display. When men, therefore, ridi-
Guile the eminent scholars and merchants
of Boston for making SO much ado over
General Mcclellan. on his recent invasion
of New England, they lack comprehen-
sion!
He furnished good trunk on which
Boston WORTHLESS could climb themselves
into conspicuity. Mr.. Everett hung beau
tifully as an azure convolvulus from gar.
den trellis. Mr.. billiard twined about the
hero as tender as a poisoning bean. Mr..
Lunt ran ali over him, rank and coarse as
a Virginia trumpet,creeper. The stake
had heavy time of it. But it was Spring
time for the Boston twiners and climbers
We must do the General the Justice to
say, that he appears far better in such
campaigns than before the enemy. Lee is
too much for him, but Lunt is fairly ov0r-
matched.
A sword was presented, all ablsze with
diamonds. 1t was none of your ugly
savage swords, made to cut with. 1t was
one of those home swords whose value is
not in the blade, but in the handle. Of
course it had Latin on it. That is the
patria semper." Never was painful
TACT more elegantly worded. It would
have been rude to say, s. Twice rejected
by the Government. yet ready Cor any
thing from the crowd" The Latin did
the business, St Pro rsge s@pe, pro patria
semper"-now and then for the Govern
ment, but always for the nation Wicked
Mr.. billiard! Mildly roguish Mr.. Lunt
Is not this putting up at auction, in Latin,
the hero of two campaigns tor bid e
Patriotism won't bid. Loyalty won't bid.
If Revolution bids, don't wait second.
Strike him off. Of all Generals to head a
movement against this Government, COM
! mend US to Mcclellan, the Knight OF the
Diamond-hilted Sword
The reply of Gen. Mcclellan is remark
, able. too. After the brief ormalities usu-
al, he thus consecrates his Boston sword
"Please accept, gentlemen, my sincere
thanks for this beautiful sword, and he
lieve that it shall never be used save in
the cause'-of what9 Of this imperiled
country? of this noble Government?
against treason and rebellion ?-''save in
the cause of justice and right !P' A Coun-
try, Government, Loyal States ARE things
concrete. As contrasted with these, Jus.
tice and Right are simply abstractions.-
Is our General about to take the Chair of
Moral Philosophy in some College2 and
will he use his splendid Boston sword to
cut the knots and niceties of ethical casu.
istry2
The day of swords is not past. There
are coming men who will earn swords by
using them! Their blades shall be un-
tameable steel Their ornaments, the
gaps made by battle-strokes. No dia-
monds, no tinsel gliding. A warriors
hand is all the decoration his sword needs.
If inscriptions must be-then, write upon
the blade in letters that shall flash fire in
every fight, Liberty for all Mankind"
and on the other side, "Death to Despots
and to- traitors"
Pass on, generals of the diamond
swords Come, iron men, with iron
~ There was no truth in the report
that Gen. HOOKER has prohibited the cir.
culation of newspapers ia the Army of the
Potomac. So much for the outcry of the
copperheads that the army may vote but
is not to be allowed to read.
81 Col. j. d. Howe, of the s2d Wis
consin, is just recovering from a severe
attack of typhoid fever, at Memphis.