The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-03-10

nanccs-The Speeches or General DIX
and Judge Picrrepont 1T the Lsto Ceic-
bratiOn.
Though in all its more snowy features the
great celebration on Monday last in honor Of
our recent victories was remarkably fine |;
thoagh the military parade and the character
istio.parts of the procession, that made it really
representative of us as business people, were
both admirable; and though the turn out of the
masses was magnifcent-yet none Of these
points formed the best feature of the great festi
val. The best part Of the celebration was the
intellectual part Of it The speeches were su-
perior to all else. There was more compre-
hensive and effective thought-more real states
manship apparent in these speeches than has
been shown in Congress through the whole
winter These speeches were such as will
direct the minds of the people in the right
channels at this important epoch-such as will
help the people to keep in sight the really
great points of the struggle as it now stands,
and enable them to separate those great points
from minor and partisan issues They are
speeches by which the intellect Of the nation,
influencing the masses, will thereby control the
action of the government-even more distinctly
than that action will be controlled by those
whom the accidents Of an election have given
the right to vote for or against given measures
of policy in Congress.
The most noteworthy of these speeches were
those Of General Dix and Judge Pierrepont
General Dix spoke mainly on our foreign rela-
tons and Judge Pierrepont on the national
finances, and both touched, and touched
well, the really important points in these
which we now stand before Europe in a
very clear light He showed that before
the war there were three fragrant politi-
cal evils in our system and our history for
which Europe roundly abused us; and then
showed that these existed only at the South,
and were evils entirely of Southern origin.
They were slavery, flibustering and repudia-
ton. Yet Europe, when the war broke out, in
spite of its fine, virtuous haired of these evils,
Immediately took sides with the evil doors, with
the orginators and sustainers of all these evils,
as against the national government. General
Dix then argued that such a fragrant and shame
less inconsistency between the assertion OF one
day and the action of the next could only be
attributed to desire to see this government
broken up, and to contribute to our ruin by the
first possible opportunity. He considered that
European material aid had fully doubled the
resistance that we had encountered in this war,
and that thus Europe stands before us to-day
as the disappointed enemy who has sought our
destruction, and is baffied and amazed by
our triumph and by the strength that we
have shown in this great struggle. This is not
exactly the view OF our relative positions that
the Europeans Powers will get from our State
Department.; but those Powers may be certain
that this is the real idea Of our relations that
fills up the minds Of the American people.
This is the real national sentiment, and sooner
or later it will be felt
Judge Pierrepont gave expression to the few
simple ideas that are the law and the gospel Of
our present financial condition. Though the
present development of oil companies may
prove to be disturbing influence, and may
complicate the general finances of the country,
the financial safety Of the government is be-
yond question certain, with the Treasury in the
hands of such q man as Judge Pierrepont
describes-"a Secretary with strong common
sense, some capacity for generalization" and
the ability to utilize the experience Of others.
Mr.. McCulloch appears to be such a man, and
if he is he will soon bring order out Of the
present chaos. Our material riches are illmi-
table. We have in our own limits the gold and
silver for the most extensive metallic basis, and
our oil and other minerals, and The agricultural
products of the nation developed by a most
industrious and energetic population, make
this indeed "thc richest land the sun shines on"
And all this wealth stands in simple fact as o
security for the national notes. All
that is necessary is that the Secretary should
and act upon this plain fact. Then
all must be right Our relations with the
European Powers will be simplifed and rem
dered more vigorous and national, and our
financial troubles will be done with when the
government shall feel the full influence Of the
ideas thus set forth at this late metropolitan
festival.