Year: 1863




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The celebrated Count de Gurowski ia pre-
pairing another diary for immediate publication
1t will be remembered that the last production
Of this sombre and sarcastic chevalier embraced
the time between March, 1861, and November.
1852 and concluded with these remarkable
words :-"Dlctatorship with Mcclellan seems to
dawn upon the horizon. The smallest Disaster
Burnside, ah!-will precipitate the catastrophe.
pray to God (and for the first time) that I
may be mistaken" This first, wild prayer of
the noble Count was heard and answered. The
catastrophe of dictatorship, which the patri-
otic Gurowski dreaded, was mercifully averted
We still live under strictly republican form
of government, and are still permitted to read
all the spicy and instructive volumes which the
genius and the leisure of the Count de Gurow-
ski may allow him to compile for our delecta-
tion.


In the new diary soon to be issued the
Count will take up the story of the
secret history of the war at November
last, and will continue it down to the 1st Of
August we hope. To stop in June or July
would be to omit the recent riots and the radi-
cal conspiracy disclosed through them. Whether
as mere gossipper or an impartial historian
and we prefer to regard him in the latter cha
racter-the genial and talented Count cannot
rials as the disturbances in this city and the ex-
posure by General Wool of the radical plot
against our State and the country. To omit
these events we're to miss the climax and the
moral Of the story Of the last two years, and to
wilfully neglect the finest opportunity for satire
and invective ever yet voucbsafed to man Of
the Counts genius. We cannot persuade our
selves therefore, that the erudite and polished
Gurowski will refuse to add few hasty but
effective pages to his work, and thus make It
entirely perfect. We know that Gurowski
is q modern Tacitus but Honest Old
Abe is really not a Tiberius. Greeley
not Lincoln, is the cruel, bloodthirsty,
but cowardly and treacherous, fellow (who
would be Nero if he could) whom Gu
rowski ought to paint; and never, since the ex-
citement after the Manassas massacre, has
Greeley placed himself in more picturesque
and characteristic attitude than during the late
tumults, when he penned incendiary articles
upon the backs Of greasy bills of fare, and
plotted against the country in an Office guarded
by soldiers and packed with hand grenades.


There is but little doubt, however, that the
illustrious Count will pay proper attention to
Greeley and the other radical conspirators in
his review Of the past year. But what words
will he find bitter enough to express his su-
preme contempt for the intrigucs Of Chase, the
petty tyrannies and official Misrepresentation
of Stanton, the blunderings of Halleck, the ex-
ploits of Burnside at Fredericksburg and
Cincinnati, and the marvelously unsuccess.
full strategy of Hooker at Chancel-
lorsvilles What will he say of the
diplomacy Of Seward, who robbed the
State Department Of its brightest ornament
by dismissing Gurowski on account Of his
plain speaking in his former book? What
damning truths will he tell Of Wade, Wilson,
Chandler, Sumner, and the rest of the radical
fanatics, who are perpetually interfering with
military affairs, whose personal and political
influence over Chase and Stanton was the
means Of removing Mcclellan, and who now
60 about abusing General Meade with the same
venomous ardor that they once displayed
against Little Mac? What view will Gurowski
now take Of Mcclellan himself, whose military
genius all the world at last admircs, whose
generalship oven enemies praise, and WITHOUT
whom we va are afraid That the Army q tic Po
tomac will never do anything decisive? How
will the Counts book speak of Welles. who
never troubles himself about rebel privateers.
but combs his long beard and trusts to luck
with a stolidity which would be very amusing
did not the rebel depredations upon our COM
merce make the joke altogether too serious :
The best answer to these questions will be the
book itself; and if it prove to be as caustic,
shrewd, truthful, amusing. interesting, vndic-
tive, instructive and abusive as the other diary
of the famous Count de Gurowski, we have no
doubt that it will be more than equally sue
cessful.