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London (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 55
Secession Squabbles. the reckless dissensions of leaders have been the ruin of half the revolts mentioned in history. It is not impossible that Charles Stuart might have reached London, however short might have been his stay there, if he could have kept his Highland chieftains from quarreling. The operations and efficiency of our own Revolutionary Army were often seriously embarrassed by the military intrigues of ambitious leaders; and nothing but the extraordinary good sense of Washington rescued us upon such occasions from temporary discomfiture. Men who have thrown off the authority of one Government, glide with but little grace into loyalty to another; and it is when the foundations of society are broken up, that the aspiring ply with the greatest and most mischievous assiduity their schemes of personal aggrandizement. We are not, therefore, at all astonished to find that the leaders of the Slaveholders' Rebellion are already at loggerheads; and as our sources of inform
Highland County (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 55
Secession Squabbles. the reckless dissensions of leaders have been the ruin of half the revolts mentioned in history. It is not impossible that Charles Stuart might have reached London, however short might have been his stay there, if he could have kept his Highland chieftains from quarreling. The operations and efficiency of our own Revolutionary Army were often seriously embarrassed by the military intrigues of ambitious leaders; and nothing but the extraordinary good sense of Washington rescued us upon such occasions from temporary discomfiture. Men who have thrown off the authority of one Government, glide with but little grace into loyalty to another; and it is when the foundations of society are broken up, that the aspiring ply with the greatest and most mischievous assiduity their schemes of personal aggrandizement. We are not, therefore, at all astonished to find that the leaders of the Slaveholders' Rebellion are already at loggerheads; and as our sources of inform
North Carolina (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 55
e lofty than agreeable. Half the citizens of the South do not as yet know the alphabet of government. In the political ethics of the plantation they are well enough versed; they have a dim notion of governing by the aid of a long whip and a heavy-handed overseer; but of governing themselves, of permitting themselves to be governed, they have no more notion than had the Barons and Robber-Knights of the Middle Ages — the quarrelsome ragtag and bob-tail of chivalry that followed St. Louis to Palestine. The doctrine of secession would be found in the end monstrously inconvenient, even though it should be at first triumphant; for after that, there would be nothing but thunder. State would recede from State, County from County, Parish from Parish, Husband from Wife, and Copartner from Copartner, until, at last, we should hear from their farm in North Carolina that Chang had seceded from Eng, and that both were dead — the victims of a mania for breaking things generally! March 6, 1
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 55
hey for raggedness? Why he for eminence and they for obscurity? They made him, great as he has grown; their votes are the meat upon which he has fed. Why, some scion of an ancient and dilapidated Virginian house might ask, Why is this man sovereign and I only sergeant upon (a promise of) quarter-pay? It is in this key — a kind of mad minor — that The Whig pipes its disaffection. Why has n't my advice been followed? asks the able Editor of that paper. Why does n't the army ravage Pennsylvania? And then it goes on frankly to declare why. It is because the Government --which, of course, is not expected to even go through the motions of governing — has been wrangling with popular generals, and piddling over petty jobs. This is acidulous as well as alliterative. The Whig then, really quite after the manner of Junius, says: A child with a bauble, an old man with a young wife, are partial illustrations of our deplorable folly. The rage for fine writing has led many a Southern ed<
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 55
Secession Squabbles. the reckless dissensions of leaders have been the ruin of half the revolts mentioned in history. It is not impossible that Charles Stuart might have reached London, however short might have been his stay there, if he could have kept his Highland chieftains from quarreling. The operations and efficiency of our own Revolutionary Army were often seriously embarrassed by the military intrigues of ambitious leaders; and nothing but the extraordinary good sense of Washington rescued us upon such occasions from temporary discomfiture. Men who have thrown off the authority of one Government, glide with but little grace into loyalty to another; and it is when the foundations of society are broken up, that the aspiring ply with the greatest and most mischievous assiduity their schemes of personal aggrandizement. We are not, therefore, at all astonished to find that the leaders of the Slaveholders' Rebellion are already at loggerheads; and as our sources of inform
St. Louis (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 55
a hoist more lofty than agreeable. Half the citizens of the South do not as yet know the alphabet of government. In the political ethics of the plantation they are well enough versed; they have a dim notion of governing by the aid of a long whip and a heavy-handed overseer; but of governing themselves, of permitting themselves to be governed, they have no more notion than had the Barons and Robber-Knights of the Middle Ages — the quarrelsome ragtag and bob-tail of chivalry that followed St. Louis to Palestine. The doctrine of secession would be found in the end monstrously inconvenient, even though it should be at first triumphant; for after that, there would be nothing but thunder. State would recede from State, County from County, Parish from Parish, Husband from Wife, and Copartner from Copartner, until, at last, we should hear from their farm in North Carolina that Chang had seceded from Eng, and that both were dead — the victims of a mania for breaking things generally! M
Jefferson Davis (search for this): chapter 55
the intelligent, the only escape from an intolerable night-mare, and life-indeath listlessness. Secession, itself the offspring of politics, breeds in its turn a progeny of parties, each prolific of cliques, and each restive under guidance. Mr. Davis has not warmed the stool of office, before this aspirant or that newspaper seeks to push him from it; and a score of men think themselves as well entitled to the honor as he is. Are not their necks as precious as his? Why should he come in forments perform their functions, and confidently predicts that when our side gets inside, the vehicle will move with admirable ease and celerity. But if Congress should prove as incompetent as Cabinet, nothing will remain to be done but for Mr. Jefferson Davis to go up to the House, pistol the Speaker, turn out the Members, and establish a Despotism tempered by cocktails and leading-articles. This, then, is the Confederacy, so little compact that even the perils of war and imminent destructio
Charles Stuart (search for this): chapter 55
Secession Squabbles. the reckless dissensions of leaders have been the ruin of half the revolts mentioned in history. It is not impossible that Charles Stuart might have reached London, however short might have been his stay there, if he could have kept his Highland chieftains from quarreling. The operations and efficiency of our own Revolutionary Army were often seriously embarrassed by the military intrigues of ambitious leaders; and nothing but the extraordinary good sense of Washington rescued us upon such occasions from temporary discomfiture. Men who have thrown off the authority of one Government, glide with but little grace into loyalty to another; and it is when the foundations of society are broken up, that the aspiring ply with the greatest and most mischievous assiduity their schemes of personal aggrandizement. We are not, therefore, at all astonished to find that the leaders of the Slaveholders' Rebellion are already at loggerheads; and as our sources of inform
Junius (search for this): chapter 55
ind of mad minor — that The Whig pipes its disaffection. Why has n't my advice been followed? asks the able Editor of that paper. Why does n't the army ravage Pennsylvania? And then it goes on frankly to declare why. It is because the Government --which, of course, is not expected to even go through the motions of governing — has been wrangling with popular generals, and piddling over petty jobs. This is acidulous as well as alliterative. The Whig then, really quite after the manner of Junius, says: A child with a bauble, an old man with a young wife, are partial illustrations of our deplorable folly. The rage for fine writing has led many a Southern editor into scrapes either droll or murderous; but this man of metaphor who has contrived to compare the Confederacy to a bauble and an old man's wife has surpassed his predecessors as much in boldness as in truth. To say that The Whig is discontented, exasperated, indignant and ferocious, is to say nothing adequate. Its wrath m
March 6th, 1862 AD (search for this): chapter 55
lofty than agreeable. Half the citizens of the South do not as yet know the alphabet of government. In the political ethics of the plantation they are well enough versed; they have a dim notion of governing by the aid of a long whip and a heavy-handed overseer; but of governing themselves, of permitting themselves to be governed, they have no more notion than had the Barons and Robber-Knights of the Middle Ages — the quarrelsome ragtag and bob-tail of chivalry that followed St. Louis to Palestine. The doctrine of secession would be found in the end monstrously inconvenient, even though it should be at first triumphant; for after that, there would be nothing but thunder. State would recede from State, County from County, Parish from Parish, Husband from Wife, and Copartner from Copartner, until, at last, we should hear from their farm in North Carolina that Chang had seceded from Eng, and that both were dead — the victims of a mania for breaking things generally! March 6, 1862