The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-27

lenge Of the Navy Department in the case of
the Eutaw was not accepted, because 1t was
proposed to run the race in fresh water,
whereas naval vessels are constructed for salt
water service. A navy is not supposed to be
used in fresh water, except in cases like our
Western campaigns, and there river steamers,
and not seagoing vessels, had to be used. We
think 1t Is due to the public that the Navy De-
partment should permit the trial to be made,
and let us know whether we can save two
thirds of the amount of fuel on our naval YES
sells and yet obtain the same speed. This is
the age of economy in public expenditure.
Secession Literature and Secession His
torians-Plenty OF New Books.
Great wars, like great commissions of nature,
bury many old things under mountains of rub
bish, and bring many new things to the sur
face. For example,, before the late terrible
war, which has turned the South upside down
and inside out, the elements of Southern litera-
ture were Southern rights, Southern chivalry,
King Cotton and the almighty niger, under the
divine institution of slavery. During the war
this literature was absorbed In the issues and
elements involved-material, military and pO-
litical-in the struggle for Southern independ-
ence. With the decline and downfall Of JEFF.
Davis all this secession literature goes to the
grocery at six cents pound. Slavery is dead
its divinity is gone; State sovereignty is laid
out, King Cotton is shelved, and Southern
chivalry, quite chapfallen, is fed upon govern
ment rations, including a daily allowance of
Yankee Goldfish. Think of that Yankee cod
ash for the Southern chivalryl Ia relish as de-
testable to Southern stomachs as Yankee fish,
ing bounties or negro suffrage. Could South
ern subjugation further got
Secession literature, however, under various
notifications, may survive on Yankee Goldfish.
The living military chieftains, politicians poets
and philosophers whose lives have been de-
voted to the glories of Southern confederacy,
on the corner stone of slavery, may now, like
Napoleon at St. Helena, fight their battles over
again, and give employment to host of book
makers. Some Of them have already thus ap-
peared in print, others are well on the way
with their manuscripts, and more are coming.
Pollard, of the Richmond Examiner, has given
us bis Southern History of the War;" as an
Offset, We suppose, to Greeley's history of the
rebellion. That famous female rebel Spy, now
rejoicing in exile in the blessings Of matrimony,
Belle Boyd, has published the book Of her
warlike adventures, from which we expect an
equivalent from that loyal female surgeon, DIR.
Mary Walker. Madame LIE Vert, the celebrated
literary queen D. Mobile, is coming to settle
down in New York td>yrite out her memoirs
Of the Late Civil Wars" and to balance that
account on the Northern side we must call upon
the most capable of our blue-stockings who
have smelt gunpowder No other than one Of
these can give an equivalent for Mrs. LIE vert's
siege, battles and capture of Mobile, and the
inside social life of that city during the war;
We learn that General Duff Green, returned
to Washington, Is preparing an autobiography
embracing sketches OF public men and measures
Of the last forty years. This will be formida-
BILE book, including the rise Of General Green
as the Washington organ Of General Jackson,
and the decline and fall politically of General
Green as deserter to Calhoun. To meet the
secession arguments and the historical state
ments concerning those "mahogany- stocked pis-
tolls from General Green, our champion will be
forthcoming In our fighting chevalier, James
Watson Webb. Let General Duff Green, there
fore, come on. We are ready for him. The
irrepressble Webb Is our man. His cry for
the last twenty years has been, Oh that mine
enemy would write book"
Ex-President Buchanan is giving the finishing
touches to his apology for his unfortunate
administration, and 1t may possibly embrace an
apology for Howell Cobb, Jake Thompson and
Floyd, those precious secession members
Of his Cabinet To make his story
complete, however, poor Pierce ought to give
us his history of the Kansas-N Nebraska bill and
of JEFF Davis as . member of his Cabinet, and
Fillmore the secrets of his Presidential cam
paign of 1855, whereby Buchanan was elected.
We are sorry that JEFF. Davis, In his casemate
at Fortress Monroe, Is denied pen, ink and
paper; for otherwise his leisure hours might for
the country be probably appropriated in work.
ments the terrific struggle and awful collapse
Of his confederacy. But, to some extent,
Breckenridge and Benjamin, from the island Of
Cuba; Mason, from England, and Slidell, from
France, may supply our loss from the historical
suppression Of Davis. Against Breckenridge
we shall have 10 pit the sharp and caustic
Gurowski; against Benjamin we must call upon
the chop-logic of Wendell Phillips; against the
cold and malignant Mason we will place the
genial and gracious Ward Beecher; while for
the smooth and slippery slidell we name that
polished master of dinner table diplomacy the
Chevalier Wikof.
With some such arrangements as these we
shall satisfactorily wind up the secession litera-
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