The Soldiers' journal. (Rendezvous of Distribution, Va.) 1864-1865, 1865-02-01


coin stories from myths, and one really capable
of making mountains from mole hills. We see
here big headings and bigger Victories accounts
From Our Own Correspondent" of everything
TRANSPORTING on earth, with additional particulars
by telegraph; but we can see no peace, and won
der If indeed the tongue of Bennett has been
bent straight" in his age, and by the accumu-
latlon OF his dimes. Surely Bennett has often
cried war, war, when there war, and by
the noise and persistence of his cries almost
caused imaginative persons to wade into the At
lantlc to drive off a foreign aggressor, who was
slumbering innocently and peacefully ON the
other side, distance of only two thousand miles
as the bird flies But Bennett has lost his pow
er to charm and beguile, and can't tell us what
we wish to know We then await the arrival of
the meet days mail, and in 1t numbers the pom
derous New York Tribune, which, by the weight
OF its wisdom, has astonished even its own pro-
prietor After having failed in all the others the
If76Wne must be more than carefully examined.
But somehow a first glance at that paper is al
ways suggestive of its present and past history
particularly it's past. We see in it's columns the
precocity of it's editor when printers devil Tor
have read it in book from his own penn, and
when we examine it's erudite composition we
are not bit surprised, and don't think it de-
meaning to Ourself to confess that we are not
entirely disgraced by the association! Reflect
ing upon Greeley's history, strive to see if it
is worthy of emulation. It is before us in a nut
shell. Having, as above stated, by the peculiar
good fortune of his life, gained the position of
printers devil, he was then by the force of cir
cumstances, increased age and knowledge, pro-
NOTED to apprentice journeyman- EDITOR =
The last title the source from which he de-
rived all his subsequent fame and shame. HIS
pen was mightier than any sword, his tongue
wiser and more prophetic than any Millerite's-
and just about as truthful. The idea and secret
of his life was to be aseO to be ahead of the age
on all questions and principles, and the more
scorn and abuse his words and prophecies won
the more was he assured that he was ahead 1t
is scarcely our province to mention his political
life. But for years he advocated Grahamism,
and won the title of philosopher by living up to
the doctrine. Few following him in this, he tried
Fourierism, to the disgust of his stringent and
civil and virtuous anti-meat eaters. He was
consistent and firm, however, mainly in his anti
slavery prOclivities-which won him a brief seat
in Congress-, but through fear of injury to his
own cause he was never returned. He shouted
war long before Lincoln's first election, and with
his superior newspaper generalissimoical quail
ties, and his determination to rule subordinate
and ignorant West Pointers, he prophetically
pointed out victory at Bull Run and Balls Bluff,
and sounded the advanced Of course we follow
ed in the line of his wierd, and august index
finger, and we got-victory, the same as our dis
tinguished sign post aforesaid was reelected to
Congress! After this it is supposed that our
good-natured Abe solemnly asked himself "who
was running this machine" himself or Horace
Greeley? So Greeley was thrown slightly be-
hind on the war-path, but the lapse of thirty
nine new moons found him still Greeley, with
an additional lick of the philosophers stone at
each monthly change, whereby it is supposed he