Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-08-23

eoldier's uptuion OF Tory Democrats.
A soldier in the Army Of the Unisn
writes from Gauley Bridge to the oinsin-
natl Gazette, giving his opinion Of those
partisans who would sacrifice the cause of
the Union in order to secure political
triumph. What he says of the leaders of
the partisan movement in Butler county
his hOme-might, with slight variations, be
said of the same class Of men in other
parts Of the State, Listen to his patriotic
words;
GAULEE BRDeE Va, Aug. IL.
The grand flourish with which the But.
Ter county resolutions were hsralded by
the Enquirer, is calculated to make us
Democratic soldiers pause and enquire
whether We are not in the wrong army.
Yet ss happen to be q Butler Democrat,
and to know the men whose names appear
in the official record Of that Convention, /
am not going over to JEFF Davis until GER
tfcates are furnished that they represent
the Democratic masses Of old Butler l
might safely offer q premium Of ten suit
lers checks for the sight Of five Democrats
who will indorse E. Vance the chairman
as q sound Democrat or ss their leader.
He has been cast of, dead, buried, snd fos-
siliEed, for these ten years. Besides, he
has for years been talking Of removing
South, 10 look after his Southern property
Who made Steve r. Smith Democratic
leader2 The last I heard Of him he was
in the guard house at Camp Dennison for
drunkenness. he had just returned from
the South, and claimed to oe engaged in
forming Southern secret societies. Nobody
paid any attention to his fancies, for it is
conceded that the bullet in his head has
taken the place Of any brains he may hsve
he'd, and that he is scarcely responsible for
his actions
By what right does E. E Palmer, of
Marylsnd correspondent Of Secession
newspapers, certify that Butler county
volunteers are fighting on the wrong side 2
Who gave 10 G. Hughes, the Breokin-
ridge Elector, the right to speak for 4,500
Democrats instead Of the corporals guard
Of one hundred and sixty-eight who voted
for him last fall ?
John W. Wilson should have waited un-
til the expiration Of the three months for
which be was sworn in as soldier at
Camp Dennison, before plotting treason
against the Government. He is one Of
those valiant men, who, at Camp Denni
son, would neither extend his enlistment
nor let any one else do it whom he could
prevent and who made mutinous speeches
in camp until sent home, with permission
to stsy there until sent for.
But who is NJ NJ. McGinnis, who comes
in 10 divide the hearts of Democrats with
Vsllandighsm? A student at law, who
never found two men with whom be could
sgree, either in law, politics, or religion;
who accepts nothing in politics unless en-
dorsed by ]. c. Calhoun, or in religion by
Tom Paine; who has spent more time
South than North. and who doubts the
oapaeiiysof the people for self government
Thomas Ailliken, Judge CiArk ane Rob
ert Chrisiy are the only names recognize
ss men Of honesty aud intelligence, and
am glad to find that they we're found in
opposition to the reasonable proceedings
Of the majority.
If the men who controlled that meeting
should take up arms, they would be found
in the ranks Of the enemy and confess
as 1 read their resolutions wished they
would do so, thatwe might have the pleas
ure Of shooting at them. .l4,-s s
1t is wonderful to see with what grip
these old political hacks cling to old politi-
cal preiudioes
It is not so in the army There are not
ten men in . regiment Who know the poll
tics of the officers Of their regiment, OF even
Of their own mess. The best remedy 1
know of for them would be to put them on
hard bread hard bacon, and soft planks,
with the duty Of standing two days and
nights in q week on picket guard with
their friends the rebels making targets Of
them. These nice eonsiructionists might
then begin to look for the clause Of the
Constitution which justified that mode of
death, snd, perhaps TO doubt the authority
given by the Constitution to levy war
against the Government. Nothing else
will teach them that rebellion is not consti-
tHtiOnal and that a defense Of Washington
can, in any way, be justified under the
Constitution. GE
Now, Mr.. Editor, am not Republican,
never have been, and hope never viii be
yet if to continue a Democrat il Is hecesE
sary to desert the hsg and help to destroy
the best Government ever yet created, then
am Democrat no longer
I have an abiding faiih in Democratic
principles, that may lay them by to keep
until Government is saved under which
TO administer them and then triumph with
them. II they viii not keep they are not
worth saving. 1 care nothing now for
party or names. Our business is to sx-
change bullets with the enemy with the
least possible damage TO our skins.
It may do very well for civilians at home
on street corners to Wrangle about politics
but it strikes us soldiers that they might
leave rs and the war alone.
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