Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1862-1865, 1864-03-15
Late Publications.

Tux Two NATIONS; KY TO THE HIsLoRr cF THE
AMEnoAS war. BY EDWARD A. PoLLARD.
pamphlet OF sixteen piges. and By fur the best
thing that Mr.. Pollard has yet produced. Some of lis
sentences have the glow sud Aow of Inspiration. The
following passages give the gist of the work
"By a misfortune not easily avoided, the new gov
eminent oil the Coalederacy oll into the hands OF GER
tain eminent paItiz ms but metioc-e politicians who
made setVle copy Of tho old Yankee Consultation
who had ideas OF poll ca adninttra ion higher IL al
the Washington routine; AND who, by their ignorance
and cOnceit have blindolied and staggered the reVol
ton from its commencement THIS observation gives
the key 10 the political history OF the Uoneddscy in
this serTe copy Of old pOlti al ideas an ape
Of the Washington AdmiDis.rGt on, without genius
Witoout originality, rejecting the Coudses oil tSe intel
lgent aud living in its little circle of coleet the
Confederate Government has ls en- immensely below the
occasion OF this revolution, and nseprese.J alike its
spiri: and it's objects.
"But this weak, negative government o! the uonfed
eracy is but the early dent OF this reVOut on and
the people endure the sccideat OF their pessht rulers
merely IRON patriotic scruplls which contemplate i'm
mediate exgencies We stand but the lhresho. Of
this revOuon, and the curtain falls over gra ia use
Of ideas. Those who expect that it will terminate
with the fornaty OF treaty with the public en-
envy, aud that we thal then have oddrg future OF
peace, repetition OF old biblical ideas aud manner
have got their pea,a0t phi sophy from new paper srs
W
and invarsbe lesson Of history, that on commouoDs
immense this WRrno mItter what is particular
Occason-there reared those new political sruc-
turcs Which mark the ages OF pubic p.Ogress. If il
was true that this war Nl,h lis immense expenditures
OF blood AID treasure was merely to deeTmue the A.
tus OF negroes in the Sou hmeTcly to settle the So
called Slavery quostion--lhete is no. an intelligent
ia the COnlederacy but would spit upon the saCri
hce II il true that this terrible Wss merely to
deci6 between two political administrations Of the slue
mode, then the peOpls OF the Conf deracy would DO
right TO abandon Il.
"PolilcAl novelty viii conc soon enough lit ia the
Inevitable oa,pring Of such cOnnotors az this war.
We repeat that the Conicder4cy now barron Of DO
htical ideas, because those who accidently liz
rulers are without originality force, copysis OF old
rotten systems, and tue apes of routine aud beoaue
the public mind of the South is too fol chilly en-
crossed with the public enemy, either to replace their
authority TO chsstse their excuses Ills uadcr these
peculiar restraints tia the Contederacy has proiWced
such little political novelty iu this 4
"But the revolution is not yet past Those exalted
historical inspirations, which, with rap souls and KIN
died blood, read in the prined pages of the pa
are this day, with trumpet sound, At cur deors. We
live in great times arc ia the pIessncs of great
events; stand in the august theatre national ira
gedy The struggle cannot pass away, nut the great
idea- which the public danger alone hods u abeySnce
naye found full developments and complete realiza.
tom til the South vudicates her reputation fer pc
litical science and eliminates from this sysem Of
government more Ingenious than Ghnese CODY of
that At Washington.
"But while we thus reflect upon the iutep .iuf bar
Tenness Of this war, must not 70 got that athCus
the Uonfederacy IN this time has produced but few new
ideaA it has brought out troopl of virtues Ii this re-
speot tho moral interest of the IS cndes theme
for the historian; and may be pardoned for leaving
our immediate subject to say few words Of those fields
OF grandeur n which the OOnfederaey has found COM
pensatiOn for all other Shortcomings and 30 nds mot
conspicuous before the world.
ave have put into the field soldiers suck es ihe void
has seldom seen-men who, hs'f clothed aud hef fed,
havs against superior numbers won twothirds Of the
battle, of this war. The material of the Oonfedaae
army in social worth, is simply superior 10 all that %
related in the military arra's of msnkind Men Of
wealth. men accustomed to the fashions Of polite So
cety men who devoted their ives TO learned pfofes-
ons and pol teal studes have STATED to shout
der their muskets and fight prvale1 in The rsnks with
the hardf ted aud uncouth laborer no less paf-iot
than themselves. Our army presents TO the world, per-
hap the only example OF ihGorete' soca'sm reduced
TO practice t has and realizes, a. Lee il re
spect OF defensive arms the philosophers dean Of ra
ternal and sympathetic quality.
sThs hero Of this IS the private sodisrnot the
officer whose dres Is embroidered With lace Pd whose
name ganshes the gazette but the humble aud honest
patr.ot of t1e South n bis drt-st4ined end sWea
stained clohel who tolls through pain and hunger and
per who has no ward but IN The satisfaction of good
deds; who throws his poor, uoku6wn life away az tae
csnnons mouth, aud dies in that single Aslh OF glory
How Rapy Of these heroes have been laid in unmarked
grou9d-.he nameless geaves Of re tvOtiop But the
ground where they rest is in the sight of HEAVIER.
Notbing ksSes thtir graves but the sunlight nothing
mournS for them bnt the sobbing wind; nothing adori
their dust but the Wild flowers that have grown on the
bloody crust Of the batts field. But not Souttern