New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-21

told Won son 1.-The readers of The Times Will have
been prepared for the disaster We have now to al
no-,nce, To be in position for utterlng some suct
sentence rs that If q disaster should take place WA
evidently an object that dominated the minds o.
The Times conductors, and drew them into most o.
their errorsn charge of negecting his army wal
made against Lord Raglan in the columns oil IN
T;mes-a charge which Is now known to have beer
u t-ry unfounded:
As though striving to deepen tho curses winch
such an accusation invoked. by appealing 70 any
hatred found smoulderine between CLASS ana clsss
our great journalists served up the remains OF a
somew hat rancid old doctrine which.-whbn ifesnei
in the days of King Gcorge-hsd nurtnred the soul,
of Young Radicals; and they not only declared
aoud that the army was one vast JOB, tue play
thing of aristocracy," but gave point 10 tngil
Language by showing that the General ana tne
heaauarter stat to whom they ascrlted neglect ana
Insnanagemont guilty of being well-born
After speaking of our dying soIdlery. the writer
went on: But their aristocrat'e general ana lilel
equally aristOcratc sta Wow TINS seen" Oh WI i
and destruction with gentleman-like tranquility
Indeed until stung into something like activity
by the reflections OF the press. the person on whom
the highest responsibility for tins SITUATION do-
wolves had hardly condescended even 10 make
himself superlicialiy acquainted with its horrors.
The aristocracy tIlling with the safety ol iho
army in the Crimea, Just AZ here they are uaWdIinB
over that periodical luxury the formation Oh u
Govern ment" By Thcrstes-like stroke OF com
pgrisOn with the wants OF our s0ldlrry, tDe very
food. the very shelter supposed to 10 obtained az
headquarters were made "A subject OIL taunt anu
he W no amongst living men was unsurpassed IN MS
sense of duty unsui passed i'll his thOughtluneSs
Tor Others. he who rade every day OF his life gay
of well-app!ied toll, he who giving MS al OF
strength and working power TO the Queen anu lne
country he served. destined to sink under MS
bnrthen, scarce finding. scarce seeking an nterVai
between public care and death--he he ana no
other, was the chief held up TO INDIGNATION rs one
who continued TO while away his time III ease ana
tranquility among tbs relics OF his army" The
writer even thought il becoming to point 10 tllho
when Lord Raglan and his staff would return
with their horses their plato, and their china thcli
German cook. and several tons weight OF olhcial
returns, ali in exccllcnt order ana the announce
ment that the last British soldier being dead, they
had left our position III the care CT our gillaht
Allies"
After quoting attacks OF this kind, one need
hardly. | think. loss time III bringing their authors
to Judgment. For if the offender bo deaf, there IS
obvious warrant fer silence; whilst. if he be living
and sentcnt. tile mere reproduction OF his words
will give him enough OF pain. AT the mere sight OF
what he pynned, he will writie like disinterred
worm unwittingly cut by the spade.
This appeal to class hatred TO have been I'M
Needed. and The Times was not long in discovering
that II had also erred III advising the abandonment
OF the campaign. How much influence the news
paper may have had in causing the Duke of New
castle 10 cast blame upon Lord Raglan may be
matter of dispute. Mr. Kinglake believes that "the
conductors of such PRINT as Tile Times would hardly
have begun 10 aspersc Lord Raglan with viruence
unless they had known that the Government was
turning against him." The Duke officially found
fault with the General commanding In the hope OF
saving himself protesting at the same time III DrI-
vatc letters to Lord Ra CLAN that he bad no sympa
thy with the attack Of g the rufianly Times; but
the storm which The Times bad nursed destroyed the
Aberdeen Cabinet, and the Duke of Newcastle
succeeded in the Ministry of War by Lord Pan
,t,ofs oh tba fai Ham s.p
contains some exquisite touches. Explaining how
ii was that notwithstanding the fraukness and
minuteness with which Lord aglan's dispatches
had regularly informed him of the situation of
the army lie felt no uneasiness until the clamors of
The times raised demand tor the sacrifice CT two
Of Lord Raglan's best stat officers. Mr..
Kinelako remarks that 'the Duke of New
castle was not 50 Stqtstcally minded as to
haze the habit Of separating plain state
ments Of fac from the adjacent ianGaqre. Far from
being soldier who slept. as Napoleon did, with the
morning states' under his pillow, he seems not to
have sch0oed himself into a duo appreciation of it'd
ings conveyed by dry words and figures. Accus-
toned himself to express patriotic emotions IL aim
pie well-rouudcd sentences he hardly, think, I'M
derstood that Il Generals Dispatch. though contain
lug no tragic language, miIht still be reporting a
tragadyp When unofficial accounts from the Cher
sonese began 70 pour in. the Duke can hardly have
learned anything of moment from them, hut in their
new poignant forms they impressed his mind more
acutely than sober general statement, and per-
haps it might be SAID not naccuratey that
what before he only had known, he now both
knew and imagined" He presently felt very
that there acknowledgement at Lord Raglans
headquarters though il he had understood better
the extraordinary distribution of The administration
of war among multitude OF London Offices, and
had thought of making certain inquiries at the
Treasury, he wonld have discovered that the fault
W not III the CrImea but IN Pail Nall "ho heard
th- people below crying out at Lord Raglan and the
staff and, since now his real convic-
tons were setting against the same officers might
not he also go down and boot =" If he were to act
with little audacity upon what had suddenly come
to be his opinion, might he not bring about such
a blissful accord between himself and the angry
people, that-at least for awhile-they might travel
together on the same road with the great Journal
cheering them forwards 7"
Lord Paumure believed that the Duke of New-
,as;le might have saved himself if he had booted Mt
Lord Raglan earlier in the campaign. Firmly
minded not to repeat that generous error. he made
an attack upon the absent general the first act of
hi reign. An official dispatch which violent
,ensures. offensive language, based upon
gross misconco )lons of fact accompanied with
private letter. Which the Minister protested his
iesire to stand between Lord Raglan and the angry
people, and urged him to acrlfice his staff as the
east that would satisfy the public" To this pro-
DJsal Of what Mr. Kilglalle calls " u clandestine
lliancc,r Lord Raglan made no reply. combining
himself 20 a 1iQnllied aud comprehensive Telutaton
IF the Official dispatch. AT that time as now"
,ays the hi ,torian. there reIgned in England a
Queen and The stcrnest of those who uphold const-
utional principles wi agree for with the cour-
iers, will concede that such dispatch as the one of
which we are speaking ought not to have left our
hores without having first been submitted for
he royal approval. Ii Will be well for the
if any explorer of desks any
earcher Of journals aud DIARIES shall at last prove
lbe to show that some o1icIal glect over