New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-05-25
THE GRAND REVIEW.

Such a spectacle as no other Continent ever
saw, as this Continent will never see again.
ended yesterday. The great armies that have
saved the Union passed up Pennsylvania
Avenue. out of mortal sight and into ever
lasting history. Honccforth they exist only
in name. The Army of the Potomac, the Army
of the Tennessee, the Army of GcOrga-they
are names to conjure with forever, but the ter
rible force of them in battle has been welded
for four years only to vanish in day. and to
leave behind them results greater than them
selves.
Such pageant as yesterday and the day he
fore witnessed is an event that has to search
wide for precedent or parallel. From the times
of Napoleon when one or two spectacles posi-
bly, ecualed this in mere numbers, there Is moth
ing to help the flight of the imagination till TAR
back in ancient history where we may fancy
the myrads Of Darius passing in review before
the tragedy OF Arbcla had piled the Persian host
in heca,ombs on the plain which their Mace
DOMAIN conQuerors trod. But the great armies OF
old history, of Darius or of Xerxes are shadows,
while the great armies of to-day are living and
breathing men, Those were the siayish instru-
ments of tyranny anu ambitions; these are the
right hands of a Nation struggling for its own
life and the immortality of the Republic
And these armies Of ours passed in review
before no ordinary spectators. The armies
tbemselves-what arc they The Two Humid
red Thousand Men who tramped with feet o.
flesh aud blood by the White Housewife are
they but the sad survivors of successive ARMIES o!
dead Heroes whose earlier fate gave life to their
remaining comrades and to the Republic
Past what do they file in quick procession
Tuesday and Wednesday of this week and
this memorable year, Past tenantless White
House from which has gone ont tie de d corse
of Him who had earned the right TO view this
trumphal march! We know not on which to
think most sorrowiully-the emptiness OF The
Presidents Mansion or the thinneSs Of those
soldier-ranks, where every living man seems to
be accompanied by innumerabie shadows OF
departed patriot warriors. Illu-trious Dead are
they all-more llustrious than any living
possessed of more sacred and enduring fame
than any who yet tread this whirling globe.
Nor is the mind carried backward only in It's
survey of this miraculous procession. We think
Of those who look on, as well as of those who
mass nv. There stands the President whose
hands are upliitcd By these thronglng thousands
and Who sees in them the visible
!
! is the great commander whose all-embracing
genius ma, saved tic Nation. There are the repre-
sentatives Of the Executive, Legislative, judi
lcial Observation-Disclosures one thankful TO the
nmy that he has department TO administer.
There are the diplomatic representatives. OF the
great Powers OF CbristendOm-gHing with earn
est ewes on this demonstration OF the greatest
power Of all; conscious that no European
sovereignty could match this marvellous
demonstration OF Democratic supremacy.
And therc-whcther far or near, whether
from the steps OF the White House or
from the praires of the West, OF the shores o
the ! .lantic. or the SUBMITS of tic mountains
that divide contnent-there Is the American
people looking reyeIontly, admiringly, ailec.
tionately On this march OF their brothers
through their capital, and like them
inspired, upli'ed, and strengthened by
the occasion. No need TO draw lesson from
it-still less to applaud those who make part %.
| il. We but echo the cry OF the army and o.
the People into whom the army will in mo-
ment melt, Live tho Republic--one and indi'
visible forever!