The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-11-08
extraordinary Confession of the
4,Jn Enemy.

EXTRAORDINARY Confession of the
,l Enemy.
Evidences are rapidly increasing that an
'frrepressible conflict" is rising in the
North on the conduct Of the war. The
scales are falling from their eyes, and they
begin to see the venality and corruption
of the urgers of this war against the South.
We find in the Cincinnati Times, q lead
ing Republican organ, the following ex.
trsordinary article, ono of the most So
we're, bitter and witherng criticisms of the
war we have yet seen. The Times adjures.
"Tell it not in Virginia. publish it not in
the streets of Richmond! lest the Seces-
sionists may hear it," but its argument is
too honest for us to withhold from our
readers. We must give tits too good
to be lost:
| The Conduct Of tic W1-Harc ue a Goy-
misunderstanding Soldiers and Corrupt Poll.
hcidns.-The management of this dread.
furwar has cast a halo of glory over all
the short comngs" of all the military
economy of ancient and modern times.
The conduct Of some of the managers in
Western Virginia has dispossessed the
great actors of former times of chronic
monopolies Of incurable iniquities, and
dignified by contrast the hitherto mac
cessible riches of criminality attained by
the Greeks of the Lower Empire" We
are sorry to speak so plainly upon this
subject; but we must be permitted to say
that the Federal army is the victim of a
host of swindlers such as the earth ,cas ,nac-
qtainted ,oith for nearly sir thousand gears. 1t
seems as though the devil himself owed
America a debt, and was trying to cancel
the obligation by furnishing paymasters,
and quartermasters and various descrip-
ticn of officers to the Federal army.
What is the matter in Western Virgin.
ia? Is our army to be treated as travel
ing circus? Where does the responsibility
rest? Winter is approaching; few weeks
will pass and the deep SHOWS will cover
the mountains; our troops in Western
Virginia are partially clothed and par
TALLY fed; they are without blankets suit
ed even to the present season; what will
be their condition by the beginning of
the next winter. We have heedlessy
asked who is to blame? The correspon-
dence between Governor Morton. of In
diana, and some of the officers in Western
Virginia and in Washington City, throws
o flood of light upon the entire subject
Immense quantities of clothes have been
furnished, and these have not reached the
suffering soldiers. Will not the govern
ment order an immediate investigation of
the conduct Of affairs2 1t is burning
shame upon civilization that men who are
known to be corrupt from the crowns of
their heads to the soles of their feet, are
retained in office-retained in the face of
protests loud enough to obtain responses
from the moldering carcasses Of the
tomb.
Our soldiers are sick, freezing, starving
dying in Virginia, while paymasters are
boarding the money which belongs to
them, to their wives, and to their orphan
children, and while certain quartermas
ters-men whose lives are unbroken re-
cords ofvenality-men who obtained theil
situations because they were corrupt e.
nough to buy them, men who know enough
about certain members of the cabinet to
cause their ejectment from office, if they
would only turn States evidence
while such men are dashing along through
towns and cities, at the expense of the
Federal government, drawn by Federal
horses, and followed, at every step, by ne.
groes, covered with more buttons than
ever adorned the most elegantly attired
marshal of the first Napoleon.
Our sick are sreryohere, our half naked are
everywhere, our hungry everywhcrc, our free=.
ing arc every,ohere, our dead are everywhere,
whilst some of our public disbursing (?)
officers are drawing interest on the public
money, and while some of the clerks OF
these disbursing (?) officers are offering to
purchase the claims of the poor soldiers
in the field. Tell it not in Virginia! pub.
lish it not in the streets of Richmond
lest the Secessionist hear it! lest the
daughters of Alabama hear it and rejoice
-thst we have pecuniary agents in west
ern Virginia, who purchase Virginia bank
money, (which is at considerable of dis
COUNT and pay it to the men who have
left their wives and daughters, and sweet
hearts, and mothers, and fathers, and sis
ters, and brothers, and comfortable, beau
tiful homes in Ohio for the purpose of de
tending the "star spangled banner" and
| exposing their bodies, at the rate of Sls
per month, to bursting bombs, and show
ers Of powder, lead and iron!
"Angels and ministers of grace defend
us" What are we to look for next? Die
the abstract demon of venality and base
ingratitude purposely skip the awfu
events Of six thousandyears, that it might
effect an incarnation in America in the
middle of the nineteenth century! Sup
guards! and at 'em!" Now is the time tc
strike, and sweep in, with tempest O
lava, the avenues of political vice.