Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-01-21
From the Forty-FIrst.

CANF WIOKLTFFE, Jan. l4th.
EDs. LEADER Our camp furnishes, at the
present time, & great deal Of work for those
in Il and but little news Of interest TO those
out Of it, and write principally to assure
Tie readers Of the Loader who viii look aux-
iously at its columns TO assure themselves
that tho absent father, husband, son or
brother, who in defence Of liberty and law
are braVing the dangers and hsrdships Of q
winters campaign in the tented field, stiIl
lives, and as the sequence endurss and
hopes.
The health Of the regiment Is now 90 good
as could be expected, though the men who
have had the msssles will not be able to do
duty for some time TO come.
Our division iS now being put in trim for
moving as fast as possible. Il will probably
be used as . Aanking division. and SAINT TO
the sas. Of Bowling Green. The movement
viii be made in about ten days. The above
are simply my opinions, and net oficial.-
Take them ct what they are worth.
Our blankets are being exchanged for
some six inches longer and Ons pound heav-
isr. The old ones are returned as unft for
service.
Capt. Stone, Co. Z, Capt Hanblln, Co. G,
Capt. Pease, Co. q, and Lieut.. aisSOn, Co. G,
have al resigned. ....
"E. A. IT," Of HsrAld nOtOristy, Is under
arrest for not showing his letters to the Col
ouel before sending them, he having been
ordered 80 to do. Il will undoubtedly be all
right in due season though have no doubt
his "6aTS" viii ere long be taken Of-and
"sBoElder straps" put on.
We have no seceah in these paFts-those
with such tendencies calling themselves
Southern Rights men. The other day one
Of cur tssmsseTs asked what that phrase
meant. at MsaNs," said stalvGrt con Of
Kentucky standing By, "ta Do a Hey gleqSs,
sHd TO havs US DO as they Sqy." Rave poll
tleians defined Il bsttsr2 have not yet
met a slsvsholdsr who was not either Sc
oesSionist, o. whose conversation did not
plainly shOW that he would Be one If he
dared. to 3
By the way, notice in the Cincinnati
GaEstts statement hat, seeing how con-
tented and happy Tie slaves are, the soldiers
are loaing their prejudicss HEAipst The sys-
tenn, and come 10 regard It Is after all moth.
ing very bsd. mset both the Sisvos end
thsir matters daily-bOth By the waysids
and at tkeir homes, and though upon that
subject Say but little, envy neither the
head Or the heart Of the man who, seeing,
can do auRbt but hpts the System, though
he may pity its unfortuDsts FiotIm5, both
bond and free, black and Whits. It curses
both, and though immediate emancipation
would, in my opinion, be neither just nor
Fis,o neither slaveholders here, nor their
sPolOgists at che forth, need lay the AsttsE-
ing upction 10 their souls thst slaves, &c 3
mass, are either stupid CT cOntsntsd. They
are ignorant and degraded, it is true, but l
have seen and heard enough to cOuYineem
that mans spirit, however crashed, like
Gods justice, though long delayed, will not
always sleep. But have entered too large
field, and will leave It fsr minds oflsisure
70 traverse.
To give details Of our plans at the present
is not desirable, but Of those facts which are
ezpedient to be knoEn you shall still hear
as opportunity offers for scribBiing.
I"E Yours, II.