The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1865-03-19
Man Wanted.

Panic always rusbes to poltroonery,
and poltroonery to a pitiable reliance
upon other than its own right arm
The carter whose wheels stuck in the
mud bawled plaintively to Jupiter, and
was informed that the god helped those
that helped themselves. The rebels,
who do not shake in their shoes, simply
because they have no shoes to shake ii,
fancy that they need n Dictator We
do not blame them for being sick Of
/ their President, and heartily tired of
their Congress; but why they should
suppose that by surFenderiRg them
selves, body, soul and spirit, to General
Lee, they will al become victorious
braves, we do not clearly comprehend
| Lee may be an extraordinary warrior.
but he cannot create those things which
the Confederacy most sorely lacks, viz:
beef, bread and battalions. Robert
E Lee, says the Richmond Enquirer,
Shy and with the consent Of the armv
and the people, viii grasp the scept T
they may wrench from the hands Cf
Mr. Davis. and WELD it for the safety
and security of his oountrys liberty
and independence ''Sceptcr' is an
ugly word, aad the thing itself Is an al :
common utensil to be used IN the ma
agement Of a republic A N mar b
seems to be taken for granted There
is only to be change Of dynasty. The
sceptre Is 10 be transferred from King
JEFF TO King Bob That is ell
Now let Us note; following the init
nations of The Enquirer, what Robert
the First is expected to do when be
snug in the purple "The Congress hes
utterly failed and so he is to legis-
late. The treasury is empty, and so he
is TO coin money. The army ranks
miserably thin-Gen Lee Is to thicken
them The Commissary Department is
not only out of joint, bat of everything
else-and the Dictator is to replenish
it. Having supreme power he Is 70 tax
and to take, to confscate and to con-
scribe, to make the President his er-
rand boy, the Secretaries his servants,
the people his plant and unquestien
able Instruments The whole scheme
hss a smack of plantation morality
about it which is truly edifying In
spite of their straight and silky hair,
their fine Roman noses, their straw
berry and cream compilations, and
their une xceptionable shin bones, the
proud people Of the Confederacy are to
hew Gen. Lees wood, and to draw va
ter for the Dictator This logically in
wolves a most astonishing cOmph
cation OF principles The white
men are the superior race, but |
in order TO keep the black men in
an inferior position, the former must, |
so to speak, abdicate. and take upon /
themselves the ban of inferiority, there
being no first class A No. | human be- /
ings left in the COnfedeTacy except X. |
E. Lee, who will reign a kind of moral |
Robinson Crusoe, surrounded and |
served by several millions of Man-Fri- !
days, white, black and yellow
Ali this may be delightful in theory, !
but unless Lee is a much greater man
than We think he is, the plan viii Ia
break down in practice. |
There is no one living who can extract
blood from turnip. King Robert will !
not be Cadmus, he cannot extempOrise !
crops of armed soldiers, nor even crops /
of corn and potatoes He may be !
good commander of armies, but he /
must first have armies to command |
He may take up arms against sea OF I
troubles, but like King Canute, he will /
find the advancing ocean too strong for !
his regal authority. He may grasp /
the sceptre" but he will stand IN much
greater need OF a hfe-preserver. He Is |
excellent at fighting shy-if wise, be |
will fight very shy indeed of the indig- |
nifty of coronation.-N I. Tribune.