Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-11-05
The warrior - W,Ison

Some three OF four weeks agosit was an
nounced in all the Northern papers that vii
\ son, OF MssSaehusetfs, the notorious Senator
| from that Stale. had raised a regiment of the
shoemakers of Lynn and Natick. and was
coming down South to exhibit his martial
proves and valor, and exierminats the reb
| els at once, without bidding or foolng about
/ it any further. Wilson, it seems, was dis
| gns:ed at the slow progress Scott and Nc
Clellan we're making in crushing ont the re
bellioD, and couldn't stand it any longer.
Moreover, he wanted to remove the reproach
of the South that none OF tle politicians of
| the North who brought on the war had taken
up arms, and 10 prove, in his own person,
that however rare was the combination of
great statesman and great general in the
same individual, the thing was nevertheless
possible.
The regiment was raised and had a grand
ovation in Boston, Mr.. Robert C.. Winthrop
so far demeaning himself as to be the orator
of the occasion. Then, when they reached
New York, there was big dinner at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel, and speeches made by
half dozen warriors, Wilson himself ma
king two, IN which he promised thai whatey-
er the soldiers from other States might do.
those from the old "Commong erltbr of Mas
sachusetts Massachusetts people always call
that State "Commonwealth'') would al
ways be found in the front of the fight and
the last to show their backs t. the enemy. -
We really thought that there was some
sincerity in all this, and that Wilson had at
last plucked up little courage, though il
was virtue he was never before accused of
possessing. We thought that foeman some
what worthy of our steel had entered the
martial ring. and that no man could boast of
his own prswess as Wilson had done unless
he meant fight. Imagine, therefore, our dis
gust at seeing, among soue late items of
news, the following brief but astounding an
nOuncement:
Senator Wilson has resigned bis Colonelcy.
The Northern papers laugh a. his short cam
paign, and charge it to cowardice.
So, all of this great warriors threats have
come TO this lame and impotent conclusion |
In four weeks from the time be started out |
with his reg iment, breathing death and de- |
struction to the rebels, he throws up his COM |
mission. and skulks back to the Common |
wealth" OF Massachusetts,! Without ever set
ting his squadron in the field, or the division |
of q battle knowing, he turns about, aban-
dons his fellow cobDlers 10 their fate, and in
glOriously seeks personal safety in the secure
retreat OF the shoe shops of Naficki What a
brave and heroic Wilson it is, to be sure!
We think it likely that about the time Will
son was getting ready to cross over into Vir-
GINA. march down to Richmond and hang
JEFF. Davis, he heard OF slight circumstance
near Leesburg on the 21st of October. Some
hundreds OF men from his own Common
wealth" on that occasion were killed, woun-
ded. taken prisoners and drowned ia the Po-
tomac. The prospect before him was not near
so pleasing as it was when he was the hero /
of the hour in Boston and New York; and
like the man who got whipped in the flee
fight, he preferred being counted ont If the
stout farmers from the interior of Massachu-
sets were unable to stand up before the reb-
els on that memorable 21st, still gloomier
was the prospect for the spindle-.hanked cor
lonniers OF Lynn. No wonder that, penetra-
ted with a conviction of this sort. his courage
oozed out like Bob Acres. and left him the
limp and whining craven that he was before.
But Wilson is like all the rest. They are t
al going to whip Us on paper. but we notice /
hey don't whip US on the teld-which is re- !
yarded as being much more important. Blu. /
1 all of them act as Wilson does, how is the O
little affair" of the Southern rebellion 60
ng to blow over in ninety days, as Seward {
promises? 1t is all very well for Wilson and
he like to say that the rebels must be crush
d out, but unless somebody does the crush
ng, how is the thing to be accomplished? We :
'enture confident prediction that Wilson, 2
q the next Congress, will be the most loud n
nouthed advocate of the war, as Shameless
IS has been his own coWardice, and as das- :
ardiy rs he acted, the moment there was
prospect OF danger 10 his unclean carcass 6
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