New-York tribune., 1879-05-24

nlunder beneath fhc 1rostrate body of the South.
The Emperor Commodus. III full panopy' lnet ra in
the arena disabled and unarmed gisdiatols. INC
servile Romans applauded his easy victories. An
cient Pistol covers with patches the ighODle scaos
OF corrupt life. The vulgar herd believes then W
be wounds received in the Gallo wars, as ~ once
believed i'll the virtue and patriotism oil Maral auu
Barrere.
These. however. arc only individuals Let us see
what General Taylor has to say to Englishmeh Oh
the Republican leaders as body. For sharp words
against carpet-baggers he NAV be excused bat for
all the deeds Of the carpet-baggers he holds the
North responsible.
Divines moralists, orators and poets through hdo
| ont the North commended their theftS anu paue
| them God-speed In spelling the Egyptians
The Senate is likcned to slobbering Claudius,"
and the majority. admitting Kellogg, became guilty
of perjury, and was inspired by hatred OF the
| South.
"Twelve years of triumph have not served 10
abate the hate of the victors in the great war Inc
last Presidential campaign was but a crusade OF
vengeance against the South" Just as Northern
soldiers were "brigands," so the Republican rep
resentatives of the North are Senatorial hyenas."
Moreover:
The leaders of the radical masses of the North
have inflicted such countless and cruel wrongs
on the Southern people to forbid any hope OF DIS
position ability to forgive their victims; ana lhe
land will have no rest until the last OF these perSe
cutOTs has passed into obllvion.
Still more explicitly, EnglIshmen are told that
during President JOhnson's reign. Congress was
"makng a whipping-post of the South and lnfiict-
ing upon it every humiliation that maiignity
could devise" That is the political condition OF
the North Socially it s no better; If possible IS
worse. England is given to understand that the
East and the North have paid and are paying the
penalty of their crimes Here is sketch OF WASH
ingtoni
The martial tread of hundreds of volunteer gem
erals lust disbanded, resOuDded in the streets
Gorged with loot thev spent it as layishly as Nor
gan's buccaneers after the sack OF Panama lheH
women sat at meat or walked the highways re-
The camp-foloWers of the army were mere
in high carnival and in character ana num-
bers rivaled the attendants OF AerXes' CourI
tesans swarmed everywhere, about the inns, around
the Capitol, in the antecbambers OF the Wmte
House. and were brokers for the transaction OF
all business OF tolerant disposition, ana WIN q
wide experience of earthly wickedness, dld not
feel called upon to cry aloud against these ehor,
mites, remembering the fate of Faithful; but
had some doubts concerning divine justice; LOT
why were the cities of the plain overthrown and
this place suffered to exlstf
Nor is New-York any better General Taylor
knows it well, for, as he tells u.s. he was much
there and had dear friends in that cityj whom he
thus describesi
The war had afforded opportunity and stimu-
lated appetite for reckless speculation. vast for
tunes had been acquired by new men, destitute OF
manners taste or principles. The vulgar insolence
of wealth held complete possession OF pubhG
pl9ces and carried by storm the cltadels OF
society Indeed. society disappeared. As in the
middle ages to escape pollution honorable men and
refined women land there many such in the
North fled to sanctuary and desert or like early
Christians in the CatacombS, met secretly ana IN
fear. The masses sank into condition that WOulG
disgrace Australian natives ana lost all power VI
discrimination.
And after an enumeration of individuals whom he
dislkes General TAYLOR adds:
The wears of Methuselah and the pen of Juvenal
would not suffice to exhaust the list, or depict the
benghted state into which we had fallen; but 1t
can be asserted of the popular idols of the day that
unveiled they resemble Mokanna, and can each ex-
claim
Here. Judge If hell. with all It's power to damn.
Can aud one curse to the foul thing amI
In a word, society was in q state of general cor
rupton," and social life in New-York resembled the
"orgieS of harlots and burglars"
Do not suppose that these landscapes are allowed
to stand alone. General Taylor is an artist in his
kind; he unders ands the force of contrast, knows
how white sets off black. and how view of celestial
brightness viii color this glimpse into the bottom
less pit The South, on his canvas presents spec
tacle of unselfsh virtue, deserving of Unlimited
panegyric:
During all these years. the conduct of the South
ern people has been admirable. Submitting to the
inevitable they have shown fortltude and dignity,
and rarely has one been found base enough to take
wages of shame from the oppressor and malgner OF
his brethren.
This period includes the Presidency of General
Grant. whom General Taylor before 1858 found
modest, and determined to steer clear of politics.
Afterward "the Radical Satan took him up
to the high places and promised him do
minon over all in view" Neither then
nor ever was the South provoked into any
wrong doing. There was never any ku-Kiux
al failed after many inquiries, to find single man
in the South who heard of 1t, saving in news
papers, General Taylor is nevertheless willing to
admit that there were many acts of violence"
Admit is not the word he asserts 1t, proclams
1t, justiies it.
Wbon ignorant negroes. instigated by pestilent
emssaries went beyOnd endurance, the whites killed
them and this TO 6eerpected! The breed TO which
these whites belong has for eight centuries Deen the
master OF the earth wherever IL las piahteu its
foot, ETC., etc.
There Is no need to add to this General TaylOrs
glowing eulogies on the Rebel leaders on Davis,
Johnston, Jackson, Lee and the rest Nobody will
think the worse of him for liking his old comrades.
quote only paragraph on Lee for different pur-
pose:
Steadfast to the end, he upheld the waning for,
times of the COnfederacY, as did Hector those or
Troy Last of all, at his surrender, his great
ness and d gnity made of his adversary but a hum
BILE accessory and II departed iarelSe9ee nee De PER
the sOul of Light Horse Harry rejoces that his own
euogy of Washington First in war, first in peace,
first in the hearts of his cOuntTymen is by the
united voice of the South, applied TO his noble
SON
Isthat so7 Is it true that the man who was all
but the DESTROYER of his country supeTsedes in the
South the Father and Savior of his countryf Does
General TAYLOR in this aud the other expressions |
have quoted speak for the Southf Is his view Of
the Government aud Of the and its consequences
their viewf Do they share the bitter resentment,
the unforgivngness, the impatience of defeat, the
hope ofrevcnge, which inspire his languagef He was
by no means to take his own account an original
IIo daseribes bitnsaIf as retiring Ia hia