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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley) 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1864., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), The perils of Pedagogy. (search)
into obedience at bed-time, just as it has jostled children of larger growth into unwinking watchfulness, and scared the Commander of the Crustacea into unoyster-like volubility. The fearful forebodings of our Virginian friends do not surprise us. It is perfectly natural for their to dread the spontaneous combustion of The Tribune in their post-offices — the explosion of infernal machines in their cellars — poison in the kitchen, or rifle-balls flying through the drawing-room windows. Sir Boyle Roche regarded it as one of the principal perils of the Irish Rebellion that gentlemen might any morning awake with their throats cut; and the apprehensions of the Virginian chevaliers — not to mention particularly those of their wives — must be inconsistent with balmy and restorative slumber. Under such perilous circumstances, no vigilance, however suspicious, can be thought untimely; nor is it strange, while others are fearful of death in the pot, that the lion. Mr. Matthews should fear
The Daily Dispatch: March 31, 1864., [Electronic resource], The sentiment in the United States. (search)
ould save the Union through the very agencies by which the Union has been destroyed, or most seriously endangered. --They would strengthen the fabric of the Constitution by repeated assaults upon the foundation.--They would instruct men how to amplify and preserve their own liberties by sanctioning the annihilation of the liberties of their neighbors. They would violate one part of the Constitution in order to preserve another. Many of them, in their patriotic zeal, are very much like Sir Boyle Roche, in the British Parliament, "who was willing to give up not only a part, but, if necessary, the whole of the Constitution in order to save the remainder." We doubt whether, if all the mad houses were let loose, there could be mustered such a collection of incomprehensible and mad theorists as now have control and are shaping the policy of this unfortunate Government. If these men think they can calcine ice out of gunpowder and make silk out of cobwebs, or bottle up sunlight to let