St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1864-10-06
bril- ST. CLOUD. MINNESOTA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER g. 1864

and new inventions of spleen. It dis
closes the wonderful atrabiliar capabili,
ties Of the human soul and more es,
reoially its prodisiious power + Of ada pit
ing itself to the dismal exigences of
tight sepulchral places. It beats Cor:
man or Baron sMuncbaussn or gBarere
in. that lofty field Of imaginative art
where these illpstrioqs ,,uconte,srs have, u,
heretofore stoAa without rival, and
SURPRISING Pesksnif or Dick swiveleeirf leif
in pathos, short, it is a good thing.
We find, upon actual count, that this
speech averages just one lie to every
three lines, which is about one third onf
the standard Gormanio proportion ~ y
With little more practice, Gilman will
undoubtedly be able, before tie cam
paign is over, to come up even with
his great model in this respect. But
the lack Of quantity is abuadantly1 made
up by the II superior quality Of ,Gil41an's
artistic creations One Of his lies is as
good as at least sixof5 Gorman's.l They
do not, it's true, possess the colossal
roough-hewn grandeur and picturesque
wildness of Gormani' 8 ,extravagapzas---:' -
but they have . neat, artistic finish and
symmetry of their own which are as
much, superior. to the latter as is the
nicely chiseled bas relief to the block
blovn from the quarry, Or. the Venus
Of Praxitiles to the Egyptian Sphinx;
IA Here for example is gem to COM
mence with: 33 il: %|,&-::; ~: &"@ .E:'1 jar
Well, war has now ragged for three and a
half years, and the end is not yet The
administration has. had ,oithoM Opposition
all the men and money it has asked. .
l. Without opposition ! fendeavoring
to discourage. enlistments, to excite re-
sistance to the draft, the draft riots in
Democratic districts, if all this is not
"opposition,' what is it.? And here is
another; ~ Z. ~-..,t@& is'>5t @..s
Two million i've hundred thousand men
have been called for and furnished, and
over four thousand millions of dollars, and
still the cry is for more men and more mon
ey. - @~S.& -,
That is very pretty little lie. Cor
man wou.d have said thousand mill
lion nen and ten thousand millions of
dollars. Gilman contents himself with
doubling the actual figures, thereby
giving it a plausible verlsimi]itude
which is altogether more effective than
Gorman's .Brobdignagian monstrosities.
Then comes this airy and delicate little
equicogue; ,... .~ vi
i. l apprehend there is no one who does not
believe that the rebellion could have been
overcome long ago by a judicious and pa
triotic use Of enc half the means in ,ren
and money that have been furnished this
administration. E..,I..-.. .,,r;,.
Now apart from its context that's an
indisputable fact; it becomes lie only
in its, application. If during the first
Year and a, half. of the war it had been
as patriotically,' as judiciously and as
energetical conducted as it has in the
last year and a half, there can be no
question that the rebellion would have
been overcome long ago. Il But unfor-
tunately during the first year and a
half the conduct of the war was en-
trusted to such conservative and con-
ciliatory. policy Of damaging the reb.
els in the least possible degree. In
that year and a half, before the rebel
power was organized, no one can doubt
that vigorous blows with the immense
forces at .McClellan's command would
have crushed all resistance in the rebel
States. Instead Of that he waited and
dawdled in camp and parade, restrain
ing our impatient armies for seven
months, moving only when he was per-
emptorily ordered to do So and then
waited and dawdled in tho field, and
dawdled and waited, and ditched and
dug, giving the rebels time to organize
and equip an immense. force, to buy
ships and materials: of war, to build for
ti6cations and mount them with guns
from Europe-his troops led by their
gallant corps commanders, winning VIC
tory after victory, only to be thrown
away by their General, till finally he
dragged his victorious and invincible
army at his heels, in disyraceful and
humiliatiDg retreat, and turned cam
paign that should have been decisive
and overwhelming triumph, into the
most complete and disastrous failure of
the war. That was the time "when a
judicious use Of the men and money
furnished the Administration would have
overcome the rebellion )" but unlucky
II WAS a time rvhan oooo.1;nu - ~