Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-09-23
For the Daily State Sentinel.
The s. Barba rian Nelson"

EE. SENTINEL The barbarian Nelson in
command !" is one OF the captions OF the Extra
Journal of today Why does the Journal edi-
tor exhibit such malignant and yindlctive spirit
towards one of our abest and most efficient Gen
erals? Who is General Nelson, that in this hour
of our countrys peril. heis ioully stigmatzed and
abused by OF the leading organs of the
tional cause? Is he piratical and theving John
Morgan Is he enemy to the Union cause
Wherein has ne offended the Scion of the Jour
nal and his satellites
| remember him as the chief savior of Ken
lucky When for obvious reasons the policy of
neutrality was adopted for the time being in that
glorious Commonwealth, he went TO Washington,
and with the assistance of the Hon. Garrett Da-
Wis and others, he obtained some 10000 stand of
arms and distributed them 10 loyal companies OF
home guards, to drill and prepare themselves.
nevertheless, to maintain kentuckys loyalty
against the arrant traitors in midst. This
had a most salutarv effect in hushlng up the
mouthngs of the Secessionists.
Again: when the time had come to break that
neutrality, by virtue OF threatened inroad OF the
SecessiOnsts from Tennessee, he appreciated the
crisis by boldly organizing Camp Dick Robinson,
where he gathered some IL 600 men. and organ
lied them into regiments.
Subsequently, at the battle of Jay Mountain.
he freed Eastern Kentucky from the rebel army
OF Cerro Gordo Williams. lie made Kentucky
an active Union State instead of neutral one
into State which now has more men in the
Union army in proportion 70 her loyal population
than any OF her sisters. And who does not know
that TO him we principally indebted for the
glorious victory OF our army on the bloody held
of Shohl Yet this man, who, for his glorious
services in this war, Is now entrusted with our
forces in and about Louisville, and who Is stand
ms between Indiana and danger-yea, this very
city-is Wiley traGuced tor the reasonable pur-
pose OF impairing confidence in him. He Is stig
matized as not even being civilized being, but
barbarian by of the public prints of this
cityl This is aiding the imperiled public cause
of our neghbors and OF this State and of the
country, with vengeance. Ii this is not laid
ing ana aDetting" the rebellion, | would like TO
know what Is.
But the Journal has been insisting that at the
battle of Richmond, Kentucky. General Nelson
cut a young man from Indiana with his sword,
aud presume this Is the pretense for his vile bill
lngsgate OF that officer. The young man lives
IN Terre Haute, and If the charge i true, his cut
and mutilated head will testify TO the same. Now
| asseverate and defy contradiction that the whole
charge is untrue-nobody cut by him-no-
body was shot by him; if the reverse IS true, il
is easily proven by the victims OF Gen. Nelson's
wrath
am not an admirer of the social qualities of
Gen. Nelson, nor of some OF his characteristics,
but know him to be of the abiest men in the
American army. a good officer, and man OF the
most heroic courage: and ! can lot submit 81
lently 10 see such man traduced in this crisis,
aud when ne can not vindicate himself, by
journal of the day, without replying. Doubtless
II General Nelson was presenting himself in the
anomalous attitude of a sectional AbOlitOnist 10
put pown the seci0naiism of the other section, II
would be all right with the Journal man.
\ hENTUcKIAS.