Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-10-15
Yrom ne New Tork world.
sTRANaE CANCELLATION.

our reconstructed country, we are
glad to believe. That It has faith
in the Intellectual superiority oil
New England at home and Of
Prussia abroad TO all other kinds
Of communities and people, We
concede, while wondering ut the
delusion. But surely no better
mode of keeping alive dormant
and dying, but not yet dead, re-
sentiment could be resorted To
than the comparison in the Times
Of Saturday between the intellec-
tual calibre of the military masses
of the loyal North and Of the reb-
Ell South, and the assertion that
the Northern, and especially the
New England, army was "all
brains" ant, hence successful,
while the Southern array was mo
brains" and hence defeated. In
our simplicity we thought differ.
emily, and imagined that the
Southern rank and file had a GER
tain sort of social distinction and
was composed of men Of cultiva.
ton and condition. There lies
before us as VIC write the letter Of
o heart broken Virginia gentleman,
dated as far back as 1861, mourn
ing the death at Manassas Of two
sons and q nephew, all college
bred, and then students of divini-
by, priUGtes in the Border Guards.
|Of such it is that the Times, now
that ell asperity, once so natural,
should have passed away, says:
The lives of Southern men we're
less valuable, and they valued
them less, and it seemed at first
like waste of material and q sure
source of defeat to pit our cult
waited sons and brothers against
such q scum and riff-raf as filed
the rebel regiments.
These are words, it seems to us
mot calculated to soothe the South
ern heart and bring about that
great contamination of reconcile
alton which our mildly Radical
friends so much desire. In n far
different tone and temper towards
a fallen foe were those uttered
of one of the most gallant
soldiers Of the North-a Republi.
cana New Englandman, and now
on aspirant for high honors at the
of his party.
Speaking Of the army Of the Po-
tomac, Governor Chamberlain, of
Maine, said in this city more than
a year ago land such words do
more for reconciliation than those
Ol INSULT
We had an army opposed to us,
such as the Confederacy had no
where else an army reared in the
same field, growing up with US,
by the same experience,
trained by the same discipline,
matched and balanced against
Us in weight and measure
and movement That Army
of Northern Virginia-who can
help looking back upon them
now with feelings half fraternalg
Ragged and reckless; pet careful
10 keep their bayonets bright and
Of battle we'll dressed re-
to dire extremities some.
yet always ready for a fight
aud rude, yet knowing well
to make a field il~lustrious.
Who can forget them-the brave,
bronzed faces that looked at us
four years across the flaming pit
men with whom, in a hundred
fierce grapples, we fought with re-
morseless desperation and all the
terrible enginery Of death, till on.
the one side and on the other a
quarter of q million fell; and yet
we never hated them.
1t was not, then, "scum and riff
that filed all the rebel regi
ments! AS to the quota of intel
and military skill from New
putting aside for the
nonce Burnside and Hooker
whose success was not eminent
We meekly ask our neighbor to
call over the roll of honor, and
point out, among the great leaders,
hose furnished by its pet intellect
community. We give them To-
pick from-McDowell, Scott, Nc.
Clellan, Mead, Sherman, Thomas
Sheridan, and Grant-not one cas-;
Of the Hudson!
In this connection our eye lights
lpon a passage in the last number
Of the London Spectator, and no
Dne will question its fidelity to the
1t says:
'We do not often sympathize
Mr.. Beresford Hope, but the
moral condemnation casl
lpon him by that great moral
'Historicus,' for applying
The subscriptions he had received
for General StOnewall Jackson's
to their Legitimate object,
loes seem to US, we confess, an
obsolete piece of pompous clap
rap. 'HistoriCus' calls this pro-
seeding of Mr.. Beresford Hopes
awakening the terrible recollec-
Of sleeping resentments,' and
cOnjuring up the ghosts Of buried
which Ia haaufic,l