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The Daily Dispatch: October 5, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
ith, or commanded, volunteers fresh from the domestic hearth, and from the pursuits of peaceful life. They combine experience and practical skill with scientific attainments; a knowledge of the outside world with a knowledge of camp life. Bonaparte was a deplorable instance of the too exclusive habituation to military affairs and camp life. Soldiers were the only man kind with him, and war, prosecuted without definite aim or object, the only respectable human pursuit. He knew little of entirely to superior amounts of money, men, and gunpowder. Hence, he said, "Providence always takes sides with the heaviest artillery" The Cossacks proved to him that he was mistaken; when, however, it was too late to retrieve his error. Bonaparte, if not a great man, was certainly the greatest of martinets. He was, whilst successful, the scourge of Europe, and when his rashness and ignorance of a moral worth brought about his fall, he equally disgraced himself and his country. We