Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1861-05-22
COL. JAMES B. srsEDMAN.

COL. JAMES 3. srEEDMAN.
We copy the following remarks, relating to
Col. Steedman, from the Toledo, Ohio, Herald
and Times. Col. Stcedman is brother OF
Mrs. e. R. Barrett, of this place. This brief
sketch will no doubt. be read with much inter
est by the CoIonel's friends in this county =
ssDnring the last year or two, it has been our
| fortune to know (GeneraD Col. Steedman in
| timateiy. Now that he has demonstrated the
peculiar faculties Of his nature in swaying the
| masses, and has exhibited a patriotism and
| loyalty to his country and his couniry's flag,
unexcelled by any, and shown that he is ready
to lead where any dare fellow we may be ex-
cused in indulging few personal remarks,
regarding the man who at this juncture, is the
leader Of the host from this section-march-
ing to the battle field.
In the first place he is ssbrave as Cesar. +"
He recognizes TO the fullest extent his ac-
countability to his Maker and his fellow man
his government and its flag. That he should
have been chosen by the unanimous voice of
the One Thousand and Sixty Eight stalwart
men who flew to the standard of their coun-
try, planted here, at the first call made, is not
in the least strange. That he was SO univer-
sally conceded to be deserving OF the conf
dence SO feelingly extended to him by men of
all shades of opinion, was compliment point
ing to the highest pinnacle of his ambition.
As partisan, he has uniformly been posi-
fire man, ever since he was old enough to en-
list in the political arena; and that lie should
not have had viruent enemies, would have
argued a supple genality of temperament,
which he never cultivated, and for which he
would hold another in contempt. Affabe and
courteous, he has ever been with aU-eyen
his most earnest and wanton defamers; with
scarcely an exception while no man was ever
| more ready to give credit TO those politically
opposed to him for every exhibition of earn
H. "a
was no uncommon thing for his political ad-
versaries to seek counsel from him regarding
the science of political ethics-a compliment
to his political sagacity, of no uncertain
meaning.
Such is the man, who leads the First North
Western Ohio Regiment on, to the deadly
confiict,--if conflict must come-the man a.
round whom the hopes OF so many thousand
hearts cluster. Would to God we had more
men of like calibre-ready and willing to throw
themselves into the deadly breach and peril
their all for their bleeding country. With all
the respect we have entertained for the man
in the past-the full limit of our admiration
was reached, we saw him yesterday morn
ing receive the stand Of regimental colors pre-
sented by the ladies of this city, at the close
of the brief but sublmely eloquent preSenta-
tiof speech made by NJ r. Waite, Esq; when
his whole frame quivered as he looked abont
him and witnessed the heroic confidence re-
posed in him by the thousands of glistening
eyes-when his speech so nearly failed him.
For him, who would neither quail or blanch
before the belching fury OF the dogs of war;
for him, whose lips were wont to glow with
words of burning eloquence to loose his self
possession for the moment-at such moment
was credtable to the heart that beat respOn-
sive from within. az
No man in these exciting times, will be so
greatly missed, whom ruthless war has torn
from our midst. 1T is arelief and consolation
to know that the burden of sighs and fears
which oppresscs the community will be so
greatly relieved by the knowledge that he is
the chosen leader of the regiment-on whose
shoulders they will be manfuliy carried
Constitutonaliy created to bear grieS with
heroic endurance, and endowed with the tact
and tinesse to constitute gallant leader, we
shall expect to hear that he is the idol of his
command and the guiding star of their ambi-
tion. No more fitting words could have been
spoken than the closing sentence of his re-
marks on receiving the flag: Good prosper
the Right"