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Charles Congdon, Tribune Essays: Leading Articles Contributing to the New York Tribune from 1857 to 1863. (ed. Horace Greeley), Secession Squabbles. (search)
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