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

| n hecatomb for tho usage he had received IN ms
| yonth. Rough tongued and rough hammered IN me
| midst OF courteous people. he was iorinldaDIy
| equipped for attack; but his resources ia ,he
wav Of DEFENCE were even more eficacious, Tor
nature had 20 hicky encased nam as 10 WnNe ~
mental skin quite impe,rios 10 the delicate needic pons
ok chich highly bred 0cntlo'k 10 accustomed 70 cor
rccf liz offenders With all his roughness ana Vio,
snce. II would seem he had no base malignity. ana
was more alter all. the rhnoccros thah the egcr oi
He was not without friends, OF whom some still
remember him kindly; and they like attnDuting
TO him those sterling, montni gnant,es W,a 1.
woud harmonic with his acknowledged dcIectS;
SO that after for instance. admitting ms rouSDhcns
and violence they fondy pronounce hun strong
willed. Their conclusions are PERHAPS sus,a'neo
by a survey of Lord Pannure's character as uIss
closed in "A long course Of years: but never nysell
knew him personally, and besides, am 30 clrgun-
stanced. that part of his career wDich perhaps
may have been the least worthy is the very one
brought before me- and this, too. under the iisnt
the intensely strong piticss light-anorded ny his
Judging only from his conduct and words during
this confined perio1-a period OF less than rye
months-I must own that instead OF strong VIII.
discern through the rougLness and violence nan
quite az tame under pressure as statesmen ~ Iee
countries should be. j indeed see MN guilty. oI
frivolous reckless injustice, not unmIn9el WIN
actual rtlGeness towards absent COMMANDER Diit
still proving sufficiently flexible under stress OF The
political lover. and snDmissve-bey0nd measure
submissive-iO the then oveI-dominant power
that is. to che power Of the press lie seems 10
have retained strong soldierly Instincts hut II
some Of those tend towards good hghtlng there arc
others that tend towards obedience; so that H. ior
instance, soldier however valiant ana reS0ln'o uc
once disarmed and made prisoner, he VIII com
monty accept his fate, and obey any marching
orders he receives from the enemy wit readiness
not always exhibited by captured clvllap. AL
the time | speak of. the bearing OF Lord Panmurc
towards the press was good zeal iEe that ol y
soldier taken prisoner 10y the enemy lie reccl'eu
his marching orders submSslvely from the snec'S
of The , ines proceeded at once to obey them, ana
so trudged d0ggedly on, without giving other vent
to his savageucSS than comiOrtaDie oath anu Il
Growl Whilst he trudged he would even eNplsin
10 any less docile fellow prisoner how vain ana
foolish it was to dream of attempting resistance.
No hrmbe suhordInate emppyeG by ro s e ore
tractable in their hands than dld tue new chi9l ol
the War Department. What The Times had been
enoining he made 1t his hrst task TO 40 Mae t Inc
Time had asserted, he held must be taken as true
until the contrary were shown. and IN the mean-
time might be used the basis OF set accusation
He-eyen maintained that the public clamor directed
AGAINST Lord RaGlans most highly valued ohcers,
should of itself suffice to disqnallty them. III rs
true ne froE time 10 time showed that ne saVaeeiy
hated the yoke which he thought himself forced To
bear; aud observe that, after bringing himself 10
write a dispatch which was the very echo OF what
the great journal ordained, he INDUCED hlniseiI
with fling at the power he had strictly Obeyed Dy
calling it the vIllanous Times" But one must not
forget that he made good his obedience to the news
paper by an act of State fraught with State cOnse-
duences: while his little NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. no
good or harm to anybody-crept hulnbly into tho
sheet of II merely private letter.
We shall presently nave 10 Scc tlidt' ~ i'E'iuo
questions OF right and wrong and questions OF
what might be fitting and what might be uhsermly,
Lord Panmure, on the 10Th of February, chose TO
govern his acts by standard much lower man me
ono most in use: and il might be sad that to Sec
rotary of State thus strangely offending one ought
to apply some hard word without more ADO. But
there is an air of simple candor III the
mans avowal of motive which almost cOmpels
one to believe that he had the approval OF
his own misleading conscience ana that'
irid ard rash as is deridteRS Cere ne sincerely re-
gGrdtd Them s rGITGnttGe ard eren BSPiHt excursions
from the straight path. 1t is right besides to acknowl-
edge that his wild attack on Lord Raglan was per,
petrated by single dispatch and that from several
portions of his correspondence, no less than nom
the testimony OF many who knew hlm well, there
NAV be gathered fair reasons Tor believing hlm 10
have been man Of other and better quanty IMAM
could be inferred from the course he adopted at the
time of acceding 10 office. In the eyes OF ms
friends, nnrepeed by the fauits OF drheanCI that
hedged round his genuine nature, he was always,
they gladly declare, of the quality belonging to
those who have in them nothing lehOble; DuC
I must own that-not having their means OF p-crc-
ing through the hlIsl OF his character can only
keep down the repugnauce when ms c0nduc: To-
wards Lord Raglan provOkes ny asrrbng 1t 10
bodily alment. There is some foundation for
thinking that the language he unhapplIy addressed
to the general conn anding our army owed It's
SOURCE after all to the unseen approach or nalady
which soon afterwards disclosed itself plainly by
GRIPPING the sufferers right hand. Ii acquainted
with the singular mlsslve OF he lZth or February,
and with the state of its writer soon afterwards
when stricken by manifest govt, the modern phy
stefan, it seems. woud be likely to hold that the
cause of the patients affection. as disclosed by his
swollen Joints, was the same az the one that-whcn
only assaIllng the brain and not recognized yet
disease had goadcd him. few weeks before, into
writing the unseenly dispatch.
We have said that there are 10 battle pictures in
this volume but the noise o. the conflicts 1t has
awakened is resembling IN London and will doubt
less echo for some time TO come. The great
journal" Las replied, with denunciatons singularly
in contrast VITA the keen and carefully chosen
tepcps of the veteran historian But the newspaper
in this instance is no match for its anita gOnst. The
wrath of the " crOuchlng tigers" will BE- forgotten
The polished IRONY the high bred scorn and the per-
fecly lust and decorous anger of the author of The
Invasion OF the Crlmea ;" has passed into the stand
ard literature of the English language.