Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-09
Promotions In ,he MILITARY Service.

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The following paragraph, from the Com
mercidb is q specimen of the insolence of
sensational Journalism:
1.-THE disgrace of General Twipps has mado
q vacancy in the army. Two names are
mentloned IN connection with the appoint
ment to fill it-Colonel Sumner and Major
Anderson. One escorted the President from
Springfield to Harrisburg. The other took
possession Of Fort Sumter and held IL. The
latter service seems 10 be esteemed az the
most important. The President admires
Msjor Anderson greatly, and will doubtless
give him the appointment"
In the anxiety to grind a small sensational
grist out of the popularity of Major Ander-
SOD, another officer, older in the service, and
Of HON il may be said, without disparage-
ment to Major Anderson, that he is quite as
distinguished, and who has been entrusted
with duties quite as delicate in the internal
disturbances of the country, aud discharged
them quite as successfully, is iusolently
spoken Of as ifhis military services and rep
utation consisted entirely in his having been
one of Mr.. Lincoln's escort from Springfield
to Harrisburg.
Colonel Sumner is entitled by seniority to
the post held by General Twiggs; and when
to this primd.tdcie right is added ability,
merit and distinction in the service, to de.
prive him of his legitimate promotion would
be a deviation from the practice of the serv-
ice, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and which
would produce dissatisfaction in the service,
the place where the moral effect of promo
ton is most important.
Major Anderson can receive sufficient pro-
motion to mark his services at Fort Sumter,
without doing injustice TO an equally meri-
torious officer. Mr.. Lincoln will not be
likely to inaugurate his command of the
army and navy by such an injudicious act;
and the newspaper clamor for it is merely
the anxiety of shallow journalists to seize
upon any suggestion that they think has
caught the popular fancy, and grind it into
a sensational grist for their own use.
If Msjor Anderson is promoted above his
seniors, to the highest rank in the service
except the exceptional rank of Lieut.. Gem
eral, what is to be done for Lieut.. Slemmer,
who has discharged his duties just as faith
full, and we might justly say more success
fully, for he has prohibited the construction
of Notifications to invest Fort Pickens, and
has enforced bis prohibition; while Major
Anderson has remained a silent observer of
the erection of Notifications all around him,
and the transportation of materials of war
under bis guns, to be placed in position to
attack him, until he is in a state of siege
where he will soon be compelled to capitu-
late, or must be re enforced by an army
strong enough to land on the coast and to over
come all the force that the Confederates can
raise; for the time required to raise and fit
out an expedition for the relief of Fort
Sumter, would enable the Confederates to
concentrate all the troops they can raise to
resist it.
And if Major Anderson and Lieut.. Stem
mel are given a hoist above their seniors,
and their subordinate officers are favored in
proportion, what is going to become of the
rest of the service2 "Let not him that
putteth on his armor, boast as him that
putteth it off" 1t will be quite time enough
for any extraordinary promotion, which shall
reflect upon other distinguished officers,
when we see the outcome of this Fort
Sumter affair. At present it looks very
much as if the test was yet to come.