New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-09-19
TRAVELLING 1oyALIsTs.

Louis XIV was called :, the great monarch.
But even +" the great monarch was not a
hero to his valet. 1t is remarkable that some
of the laws of physical nature are reversed, as
to their operation, in the moral world To
the actual eye objects diminish by dis
lance, and increase by proximity. To the
mental eye characters and events seem
to grow into prominence as they are re
moved from the point of view. The
mists of time and distance seem to have
a magnifying effect; just as through the
vapors of the Broken the shadow of pigmy
is projected into gigantic image on the dis
tant sky At least this is our theory; and We
believe it to be psychologically correct in
spite of the contrary opinion of Yoltaire.
Bearing this truth in mind, it would have
been well for the travelling {" loyalists' who
are now parading through the Northern
States to remain quietly at home and play out
the farce of His Life's in Danger, or the
Converted Rebel" to the end II is barely
probable that if they had pursued this course,
and kept themselves studiously out of view of
the public some of them might have gained
credit for q moderate share of ability and
Others might have passed themselves off on a
credulous world as sincere patriots. 1t is
said of a certain class of people that they
ought to have good memories but unhappily
for them their mnemonical capacity is never
equal to the demands which are made upon
it. There is another class of persons who,
especially, ought to be prudent in the use of
their tongues but unfortunately for them
the very cause which produces the necessity
for prudence is the very cause which urges
them to an extravagant ingual audacity. We
have heard of a case, to be sure, in which a
stupid fellow was called fool because he re-
fused TO open his mouth even to answer a
civil question but this was an exceptional
instance. AS a general rule, a conscious idiot
might disguise the extent Of his folly by sim I
ply holding his tongue But those people I
who ought to hold their tongues are precisely
those who will persist in talking and thus,
they become the instruments
Of their own detection and exposure.
DR.. johnson once said of Goldsmith that
., he wrote ikean angel, and talked like poor.
Poll The criticism was probably unjust in |
regard to Goldsmith; but it would be emf |
nently applicable, ut least in part, to the tin
Grant "Southern loyalists" Those gentle |
men certainly talk more like poor Poll than
any human beings we ever heard of but they |
neither write, nor look, nor act like angels. We
have the authority of SHAKESPEARE for the fact
that
" A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,
The graves stood tenantless and the sheete'
dead r.
Did squeak and gibber in the Rone- -stts.n
Have the days of miracles come again Is
some extraordinary catastrophe about to over
AXE the country? Else why is it that these
almost martyrs these rehearsing corpses-
hese fugitiyes from phantom bowie knives,
md imminent lamp-posts, go squeaking and
sibbering through the Northern streets in a
manner that would excite the envy of a
lecent Roman ghost? If they are not really
esuscitated corpses why do they squeak and
sibber in that unmereiful manner which is APP
'osite to the respectable sheeted dead alone II
We cannot account forthe phenomenon on any
ther principle than that to which we referred t
t the beginning of these remarks-the spell
hitch is laid on one class of men to exhibit {
leir falsehood, and thenecessity under which
mother class exist to show their folly. IF
rahn and Hamilton and Brownlow had staid
home they might some day or another have
cen made saints in the radical calendar but
ven the radicals require that their saints and
cities shall have some sense-ordina1y COM
ION sense, at least, or some power of argu-
lent and extent Of requirement Intellectu- :
lily considered, they have no reason to be .
shamed Of their true leaders ); of men who, !
Ike Phillips and Sumner and Greeley, have :
dlthe van Of the movement for the conversion
the government into consolidated des- :,
otism but to place these Southern loyal :
It's beside such men would be like putting -
le fetish deities Of Ashantee on par with :.
le gods Of Greece satyr 10 Hyperion !; a :,
iglny to Hercules. To conclude where we
egan, if the 'great monarch was not a !
gro to his valet, how can such narnelass carl :,
ltures as these expect to be heroes to any y
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