New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-02-14
yIR. TURPIE FOR LIBERTY OF TEE
LARGEST DEsCLGPIION.

Many years ago the question Have We o
Bourbon Among Us agtated this continent,
and also shook PHtnam's Magazine TO its mid
riG. Out of this excellent periodical. indeed,
it assisted to shake tho life; and his Bourbon
fathers have also welcomed the Rev. EleGzer
Williams to the EIysan Fields. And now
another interesting inquiry should, if we prop
ery estimate it's Importance, shake society
somewhat. Does some descendant OF that ex-
ceedingly benstly but at the same time histori-
cally beatified autocrat, the Great Peter, not
only reside in these accidental parts; but has
be had also the impotence ~ secure his cleo
ton to the Presidency, Of course il at all. by
the most Internal Muscovito arts We ask
these questions, because the eminent Con.
script Father, Tnrpie OF Indiana, said last
Saturday night in the Senate: The
American Car will find no serfs West of the
Allegheny Mountains" Mr.. Turpie is under
stood here to assert that Abraham Lincoln is
czar--a Russian out Of his furs-a fugitive
from Moscow--and that he is also the proprie.
tor of large number Of serfs East of the Ale.
ghanies. Now, considering Mr. Lipcons most
unmistakable American origin, betrayed by his
manners, speech, history private aud public, wo
ask if the chances are not against Turpie's
theory We 60 further. We ask if the pre-.
sumption 10 not also against his sanity Is 1t
not the duty of the Senate at once to raise a
Committee De Lunaiioo, with power to send
for surgeons and strait,jacketsi That Turpis
- al sul.,a do mot md
to affirm; but it is evident that, for some
reason or other. he had the largest kind of bee
in his bonnet last Saturday evening.
For Ae not only bothered his brains, which
are good enough brains, we suppose, when
they are not bewildered-he not only maun-
dered in making Dir. Lincoln q most outrage
Gus and unconstitutional Gar, but be also
meandercd into another galvoDic absurdlty.
when" quoth Turpie, zone man is allowed
to direct the army and navy without restric-
ton, a military despotism is created which
Turpie seemed to consider painful. This
shows that be is much finer in his feelings
than the men who framed the Constitution.
That makes the Muscoyite OF toe Waite House
and it was hardly fair 10 call poor Mr. Lin
coin TO account for being what, upon certain
4th of March, he sWore to be. Really, III ill
Reasonable matters, Turpie should be gratiGed;
it is Mt always safe TO restrain gentlemen in
his unfortunate frame of mind, for sometimes
they burst vessels; but il Tarpie does n't know
that the President il Commander IA. Chief and
that il is the business Of the Commauier-ln.
Chief to take the chief command without TO-
striction ard that most military discipline is a
quasi despotism, then he IS Mt yecy well
acquainted with Casar's Commentaries, the
Military Works OF Marshal SAKE, Yauban,
Col. Napier, and SCOTS Tactics; ard, iAstead
OF the ieeches aud strnigl jacket which We
let him be locked up, for a mid course Of ele-
mentHry reading in BIO Congressional Library.
lie Will there learn that when gentleman is
unfortunate enough to be elected 10 Tho Presi.
dency ne must assume certain responsibility:
and that no cannot, before ordering q retreat
or an advance, before he commands field oper-
atoms or marine movements, tend q special
messenger down to the Senate, not TO take
the adv CO, but TO beseoch the consent Of the
Hon. 'urpie Of Indiana. And yet this is the
only reason why Turpie has fallen into n
cracked cODdtion--because he cannot be Com.
mandcr.in-Chief And Turple sn't alone in
his amusing hallucinaton. The country swarms
with men who fondy fancy that if they could
be elevated to Chief Command, the war would
be- over before April FOOLS Day. We have no.
ticed them aud their antics with considerable