The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-02

tsry board and IncomPetcnt MILITARY
| Officers.
/. The members Of the Military Board at AL
bany still persevere in their ruinous policy II
place their sons, cousins and relatives in com
mand OF regiments, in spite Of the fact Of thsil
total ignorance of military matters, thus mo-
only delaying and endsngering tn cause tha
they have been chosen by the Sta, Legislature
to prosecute, but placing thou,a nds of Aer
in position to be slaughtered, by planning
the election Of incompetent a2d ignorant Off.
GERS to command them. They seem to be Ia
boring under the impression that any half wit
ted youth who has marched half dozen
timee in the Wide Awake raHks is capable o:
leading regiment Of men into battle. They
may be able to order them to march to q hos
tile engagement; but if the Military Board sue.
ceeds in forcing upon volunteers come of the
would-be politicians that they arc bending
every energy to have promoted. the men under
them will never be able to meet the enemy but
once but will be mown down like grass by
their opposing forces led on as they ere by
educated and experienced officers.
| The officers Of an army, from major general
down to the staff Of re giment, have, to great
extent, the lives Of their men in their hands.
An experienced colonel can take his we'll
drilled regiment through an important engage:
ment with but little loss Of life, while an officer
inexperienced in military tactics would enter
precisely the same hOstilites, and, with his want
of military knowledge, come out with hardly
men enough left to tell the fate Of their com
rades. II any reliance can be placed upon
history and the detailed accounts of battles in
the past, there lie fully that much difference in
the loss of life in armies commanded by ex-
perienced and inexperienced officers. Yet, in
face Of these facts, we End the Military Board
at tho State capital plotting and oouuter-plot.
ting day and night to defeat men who are
veIsed in military affairs and foiaing upon the
soldiers relatives who do not unders tand the
FIRST principles of military science. 1t would
appear that they were studying to sec how
many gallant sons Of the Empire State they
could send to their graves in this war. We're
the men whom they are trying to place in
high positions rs officers the only persons tibet
would be sacrificed, the public would
by thousands through their plottings is more
han forbearing public is willing quietly to
submit to. 1t is rumored that inssmuch 40
four fftbs of those who eulist have heretofore
voted the democratic ticket, this is the
mode that the republican Board have adopted
to get them out of their way in the future
The reports that daily reach us of the action
o. 49, N,cur nj thSa
extreme, and show conclusivels that the Statc
Of New ORR has q parcel Of sixth rate township
politicians at the head of the State government
Thus the Attorney General, ii is said, pipe
Ieyea ana buttonholed tho volunteers compes--
ing Colonel Townsend's regiment, which Left
this city yesterday for Fortress Monroe Until
he.supposed that he had made sure thing for
the election of his son so Lientelaat ColoEoL
faen aud not uatil then would he allow the re-
g!ment to be accepted. But 1t seems that the
regiment willing to promise nything tc ges
out of the hands of the military humhug-
elected officers to suit themselves as econ as
they were inspected and accepted, and refused
70 accept young Myers as one Of their officers.
1t is charged that since then the attorney
General has thrown every barrier in the way
of this regiment thai lay in his power; and in
stead Of their beine equipped and the way
to the seat OF waa two weeks ago, as they
might have BEEN they have been detained until
the present time. The Attorney General has
| persevered until he has secured his soc the
Office Of Major II Colonel Jackso2!s Cor, SIS It is
| sometimes called, the Schenectady regiment
| differed throughout by the special pets Of the
Military Board; aed If the regiment ever en-
cages in a battle, tho public can judge Of the
work of incompetent officers.
The State Treasurer, NJ Dorsheimer, has, it
appears, been playing the same game, in plot.
ting TO place General Gustvus Adolphus
Scyoges and his own son in command of the
Buffalo regiment recently organized st Elmira
1t is stated that he went so far as to make six
companies Of the regiment give him guarantees
hat they would choose SOroggs for Colonel and
young Dcrsheimer for Lieutenant Colonel, he
fore they could be accepted by tue Board But
as soon as they were accepted they disregarded
heir promises, and elected Colonel Rogers, an
excellent military officer, to command; and
now we find Dcrsheimer doirg all within his
power to embarrass the regiment 1t il
also stated, upon reliable authority, tina,
be Is importuning the Governor to ge,
his son appointed Brigadier General, and that
too, in face of the fact that he has not mill
tary knowledge enough to take charge of q
company. In order to carry out all Of these
plans the Military Board are OBTAINING men in
Albany, with rations fixed at more than double
the sum allowed in the United States Army
making heavy cost to the State, to carry out
their political schemes.
These are some of the operations and short.
comiDgs of the Albany Board, which has earned
for itself the name of Military plank. An aw-
full day Of reckoning awaits these men, and
when the smoke of the battle fades away the