New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-13
THE COUNT DE PARIS ON THE WAR OF
EXTRACTS FROM BOOK oS THE CIVIL WAR SHORTLY
TO BE PUBLISHED.


EXTRACTS FROM a BOOK ON THE CIVIL WAR SHORTLY
TO BIZ PUBLISHED.
The first two volumes of History of the Civil
War 10 America" Dy the Count de Paris. are shortly TO
apprar IN Paris. The Rerue deS DeuT HOndes published
Oh the FIRST OF july contained passages from
tins work The following extracts taken from 1.-THE
Rcril6:
At the beginning o.. the year 1861 OF those acts OF
violence VII en- ambitious men often know % dis
gulsc under which the finer n proportion 70
the eulpabty Of their motives. rent the United states
aempted against the Constitution OF that Republic bv
the powerful ogarcny which tegned IN the 50uth and
HAD long dOmileered iu the council OF the nation
Whenever the common law. which Dsures equally 70 the
and isolated the respect OF their rights ana 70 the
majority Tie tu enjoyment Of political power j. vO-
lated by any OF society. despOtism Is founded,
unless that attack is severely repealed. Beaten the
Presidential election OF 1901 tIt southern states wished
to recover by intimidation or force the influence which
they Lad hitherto exercised iof the al se oi
aud VINE plocIaaiiillus ''V t ~ to,1. III ~
dependence and Liberty" they uampled under
foot a sacred contract as soon as the ma
uOnal vote pronounced against thsI pOIIcy But
success, that great ustner OF provdentlal men, was
wanting them. and victory sanctioned me cause Of
right and Legality. 10 then seen what a fuud OF
tue wide aud constant practice OF Dery anasses
among naQgs happy enough 70 possess ana wise enough
10 guard IT, America had already solved one 81 iae
most difficult problems n by developing liberal
institutions amid democratic society, but no great In
ttIha crisis had yet come 70 ny tAeT eoH'y' MANY
people asserted that the first storm ths fragile plant
would be plucked up from a soil Incapable or nOursh
ihg H Inc Dast Oh clVll var arose dud II was on the
contrary, the vigorous tree OF American institutions
II uad struck such deep roots preserved them from i'm
destruction. At this crisis the American people
learned 70 value their Constitution in the
past and proved 10 the world that statue Liberty
II vain IDOL deaf IN the hOus OF danger but the
holy image OF powerful divinity which must be In
yOked u adversely. o. Happily the compar son
bel ween the noble movement OF i75 and the resort 10
arms III 1891 a. false from the
military as from the political point of view Al the
time the colonies rejected the authority Of the mother
country all strategic points OF their territory were
occupied BIZ the English. IL sheer necessity 10 con
ourr tie whole They had nothing 10 lose aud could
moi deem themselves beaten even when the was
sun IN inc heart the country Ia 1861. the con
tary the COnfederates, masters OF al the territory
Ublcn they claimed 70 withdraw from the legal power
OF tue ne President had need OF that vast region
the one hand, MAINTAIN the INSTITUTION OF
Slavery and the Other 20 support thelr bumer-
Gus armies. When II invaded they zen thein.
selves vanqu-hed What possible III the war or
epeu1euce. when the number OF the cOnDatnte Was
limited, wac longer Washington ana CAFES,
Howe ana COrnwallis, lad usually under their orders
only 1000 1900 aud very rarely 10000 men lhese
small armies could subsst upon the country they occu
pied. II not indeed, always without dIfculty, ana
WasnngtOns soldiers suffered terribly IN The Winter
they passed Valley Forge. The English army, traV-
ersiBg comparatively rich country from Philadelphia
o. EewYOrk obliged 10 carry its provisions with
IT, aud COrnwais lost all ms baggage ia North Carolina
sAicn he marched through ~ coD22sSor but neither