Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-08-01

Weplead for the lives of our brave men who
have fallen into the hands of the enemy. They
must not be sacrificed In retribution for the ex
ecution of rebel prisoners.
We are glad 10 hear that the brave WMcox
ia we'll treated at Richmond. 54a7
The cleveland Herald, Leader and
| tsnst - etBroyyn and H." Is q
These two Republican no-party papers are
engaged in nice quarrel over letter written
by Hon. A. G. RIDDLE, relative to the Bull Run
retreat; and after reading the letter, as an i'm
partial reader, we have no hesitation in say
ing, that the Herald has the better Of the con-
troyersy. Mr.. RIDDLE should be ashamed to
see the letter in print. That our readers may
have an idea of the controversy, we publish
portion OF the letter:
The PANIc-Just as the dragons turned
back, cry was raiaed that the "Black Horse,
a formidable body of the rebel cavalry (and
these were part Of them), were charging upon
US, and it seemed as if the very devil Of panic
and cowardice seized every mortal soldier, Off.
Ger, citizen and teamster. No officer tried to
rally the soldiers, or do anything, except to
spring and run towards Centreville. There
never was anything like it, for causeless, sheer,
| absolute, absurd cowardice, or rather panic, on
| this miserable earth before!
Off they went, one and all off down the high.
way, over across fields, towards the woods, any
where, everywhere, to escape. Whetherit COM
municated back to the soldiers still in the woods,
and 90 on back to the regiments who had Just
driven of the rebels, do not know, bat think
| it did to part Of them, for share Of our army
seems to have been demoralized, If not broken
up .., sa.,,4 -, ~. 81.
ened they grew, and although we moved on as
rapidly as we could, the fugitives passed us by
scores. To enable them better to run, they
threw away their blankets, knapsacks, can
teens, and finally, muskets, cartridge-boxes,
and everything else.
We called 10 them, tried to tell them there
was no danger, called them to stop, implored
| them to stand. We called them COWARDS,
! doLuunood them in tho MOST OFFENSIVE
| TERMS, put out our heavy revolvers, aud
threatened TO SHOOT THEM but all in vain;
cruel, crazy, mad, hopeless panic possessed
| them, and communicated to everybody about, IN
| front and rear. The teansters all turned their
heavy wagons, and lashed their horses TO q run,
and mixed and mingled with crowd OF running
| footmen, citizens aud horsemen all raised an
obscurpg cloud Of dust; and thus the tide filled
the entire highway "a macadamzed turnpike)
with Heterogeneous mass of flying madmen,
intert upon nothing but to escape. E '''''
The heat was awful, although now about 6;
| the men were exhausted-their mouths gaped,
| their lbs cracked and blackened with the pow
| der of the cartridges they had bitten of in the
battle; their eyes starting in frenzy--no NOR
| tai ever saw such mass of ghastly wretches
AS we came on, borne along with the mass,
unable to go ahead or pause, or draw out of 1t,
with the street blocked with flying baggage
wagons, before and behind, laundering and
/ crashing on, we were every moment exposed to
4 imminent danger Of being upset, or cruahed, or
of breaking down; and for the first time on this
strange day, / felt little sinking Of the heart,
and doubt whether we could avoid destruction
i in the immense throng about us-and nothing
but the remarkable skill of our driver and the
strength of our carriage, and endurance OF our
horses, saved US. Another source OF peril
beset us. As we passed the poor dement,
ed, exhausted wretches who could not climb
| into the high, close baggage ewsgons, they made
frantic efforts TO get on to and into our carriage
They grasped it everywhere, and got on to IT,
into it, over it, and implored US every way tc
take them on, We had to be rough with them
/ AT first they loaded us down almost to o stand
still, and we had to push them off and thros Y
them out. Finally, Brown and ], with a pistol
each, kept them out, although one poor devil goi
in in spite Of us, and we lugged the internal
coward two miles. finally opened the door
i and he was tumbled out. A poor boy we brought
all the way back to Centreyilie. s.ii s4.-e5 y
That was certsily very braye.,i Mr.. RIDDLE
and his friends SCALED them towards, denounced
them in the most offensive terms, put out ouI
HEAVY REyoLvERs and threatened to shooi
them," etc. OF these soldiers say they, ,'nC
mortal ever saw such mass Of ghastly wretch.
es" 'sTheir lips cracked and blackened with
the powder Of the cartridges they had bitten of
in the battle---their eyes starting In frenzy."--
This was truly 10 horrible sight About thit
time the said RIDDLE "felt little sinking o.
the heart" as 70 how eve could avoid desiruc
tion." That was an important point to him and
his brape companions, who pointed their heavy
Irevolvers" out Of the windows Of the car
riage, and "threatened to shoot them" Ths
soldiers should NOT have hesitated moment
they should have taken them out Of the car
risge. They had no business there. st
But another s'pelil'' beset s'Brown and H.
says RIDDLE. The soldiers wanted 10 get 10 The
carriage, sand one poor devil got 10 in spite o
u.s." and "Brown and I,"fnalls opened the doc
and tumbled him out" What wonderful feat
What bad fellows, 10 .'tumble the poor deyi
\ out. p 'etaispgie sasg aessgp, eaE iaa
The greatest feat Of the fleeing cOngressmel