| Show enough of the show businski Busin sai we find in m our exchanges that gen grant on tile he 1 occasion of his late chit isit to the eastern cities and to washington albov allowed ed himself but once to he be form illy feted after the fashion which lias has become so painfully characteristic of our countrymen at the close of the entertainment tain ment or rather some somewhat nhat before the here hereof is as re remarking marLing ive hail had enough of the show shon business and lie fie has since then most persistently declined nil all tile the 0 anions so numerously tendered him by bv his admirers it would bo be a work forus for us to say that the remark evinces an uncommon degree of sense and appreciation of the exigencies of the country for no man disputes tile the fact that the lieutenant general of the armies of the united states possesses these qualities in a remarkable degree battles uch much as lie his won and military operations stich as lie lias has conducted with the highest success are arc not gained or cairies on without tile the possession of keen sense and acute observation we introduce tile the remark hs as a text on which a sermon might well isell be preached to the people for the show hi business siness is one to which asa as a nation we have all along been too much addicted wo we mean thereby a fondness for display a nina mad passion for a tenda tendency ney to idolize the pot pet of the hour and a corresponding readiness to cast him down from tile the pinnacle to which ourselves relves ou had but just cleTa ted the lorne object of our worship the crazed vagaries of the yet vot votaries aries of fa fanny anny ellsler as she passed through our country the uproar hubbub and confusion attendant upon the jenny lind demonstrations the tilly lefflie of the kossuth excitement doa down n to days which we v c need not particularize but winch are arc fresh in tile the memory of all when then we c erected tho the leader of an army as the object of our temporary adoration subsequently to decry hini even below his deserts it is tile the same story pithily summed up tip in the remark quoted IN we c have had too much of the show allow business and have great confidence that one great and salutary result of tile tho present war will have been to cure us of our fill all too great readiness to throw ourselves down before tho the triumphal car of every temporary ore or en permanent a celebrity who may for tho the time occupy the public mind and when it is i considered how much we have lost in actual ear effice aney in prestige and in credit both nt at home and abroad by our excessive tendency to over estimate and over overlaid laud those who nho rode on oil thc jhc popular breeze for tho the time who shall 8 say ay that the result will not be a very great gain to our country at large and to tho the individuals composing it il speeches presentations of tile tho freedom of cities aldermanic festivities prince sprince of wales balls and the like may be sometimes good but are arc in point of fact mostly silly pastime e what is wanted of our public menis roen is the speedy itna nd pr prompt perform performance nn ce of their duties and of our people a steady constant and ile persistent rs I 1 support of them in so doing it is tile performance of these duties that tell un on tile the future of the nation not the claptrap clap trap addresses and fulsome adul actions of an admidin admiring 9 throng far from the scene of labor or c conflict and which e experience has shown to have such a fatal facility for turning against and decrying the late object of their homage |
