The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-01-10

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TUESDAY NoaAlS9~....1,NHUARY 10, 1855.
THE .1IGUT llATTN TIE EIGH1'
PLACE.
History aIounds with proof Of the
vial Importance to a c%llSa Of having the
IN, luan in the right place. Il makes
lust a. great difference in every depart
laant Of national affairs as it does in
those of an individual what kind Of head
j. anon It's shoulders. No matter what
the resources, what the courage Of a
people. all must prove unavaiiins unless,
in the control Of its finances and its ar
mics. the right man is in the right place.
This truth was strikinsly excmpliied
in France not long before, and during
the French Revolution. When the great
liaancier, Neckar, assumed the control
Of The finances Of France, the Govern
ment vas most severely pressed by the
money arrangement; all was confusion,
discord, darkness, mystery. The intiu-
encc Of a master mind produced the most
extraordinary change. 1t was like the
rising of the sun dissipating the shades
Of night. In five years, Neckar changed
deficit Of thirty-fve millions of francs
into a surplus Of ten millions without
imposing a single new tax Of any kind
and under all the burdensome expenses
which had. been added to those of the
former peace establishment. But he
was unfettered by any other department.,
and was clothed with full power to do
whatever his own judgment dictated.
Ills resignation Of Office was signal for
the return OF all the confusion and dis
order which had preceded his admins
tration, and which finally led to the Re
yolution. When he was again called to
tie direction Of affairs, it was, in his own
molunful words, "too late"
Carn0t is another memorable example.
When he undertook the military admin
i>tration of the Republic the crisis was
truly appalling. The remnant of Dumou
rer's army was flying from foe who
would have laughed at Thomas's five
miles & day a rebellion IN La Verdec
menaced the capital Of the province with
forty thousand armed peasants three
Spanish armies were advancing from
diiefont points; town after town had
fallen; Marseillcs and Lyons had sepa-
rated themselves from the Government,
and an English feet was in the ha.bor Of
Ioulon. The Republic seemed ready 10
drop an unresis;in& prey into the hands
OF a hostile world B,t behold what
the genius and energy Of one man, III
the right place, can accomplish! In q
brief space .. time tie whole scene was
changed: the invading armies driven
lack at all points, and the anticipated
victim Of Europe became It's terrible
con!uer0r. In year ana a half q
xarnot's military administration, TWEEN
ty-seven victories, eight Of them il
pitched battles, were gained one hun
dTed and twenty successful actions on'
hundred and sixteen regular fortrcsses o.
great towns taken, and two hundred al,
thirty lesser forts carried, eighty thou
sand Of the enemy slain,. nincty-on
Thousand made prisoners, three thousan'
oght hundred cannon and seventy thou
sand inuskcts captured. But Carnot wa
not only the right man in the right place
he possessed that indispensable qualit
of great mind, the capacity of selcctin
The right men for the right places. II
discovered the merits Of the illustriou
Hoche when Hoche was only sergean
lie placed Bonaparte at the head of tn
army Of Italy when he was a youn
'hieer Of twenty-five, and was who'll
unknown to the world except by tn
dispositions he had made in Paris f