Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-13

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 6.--rw0 weeks ago wrote
you OF the embarrasSments and apparent in.
dignties to which Gen. Sigel was subjected.
They have borne their legitimate fruit. Gen.
Sigei has resigned. There is no official an.
nouncement OF the fact, and there is a bare
possibility that it may not prove fact after
all; bur, unfortunately, there is TOO much
reason to believe it. Gen. Slgel is at Rolla.
For the last four or five days we have received
many reports of his resignation, and an officer
of Gen. Curtis's staff, wh1 came in from RolIa
on Friday. states it positively. Other officers
some OF them his most intimate friends, assert
1t with equal eGrnestness. 1t may be that he
has not yet taken the formal step but, from
the best information l can obtain, he has
sent in his resignation, and is only waiting
its acceptance before returning home to this
city.
You might suppose it an easy thing TO oh
tam from official quarters official information
about the matter; but the authorities seemed
determined TO suppress it. The local papers,
neces Sarlly under their immediate influence
are very tender-looted upon the subject, and
give the statement only as Il rumor in the lew
S9t pooSAo'C hOlho. va thursday nIRnt
gentleman attempted to Telegraph it TO a friend
in Cincinnati but it was suppressed in the tel.
egraph Office, while the most OF the dispatch
went through. On Friday he made the en-
deavor AGAIN, but the government censor OF
the telegraph, While virtually admitting that
the report was true, pertmptOrijy refused on
the grodnd that a military order had been is
sued iorb'd,ling The transmission OF that intel
llgence over the wires. We lave seen sumo.
thing OF this kind before, and are getting used
to IT, 40 you rrcOllect that Immediately alter
General FremOnts removal and return TO this
city, the government censor enforced similar
teleIraphlc retccnce in regard 10 him? w e.
| tn Pathfinder arrived here, and was eceiv al
m re like conquering hero than reured
general, by one ol the largest and most emthu-
slastlc aSScmbiaseS ever Witnessed in ST. Lou
/ is, that unrelcnting censorship did not deem
| il prudent t. let the facts be sent abroad to
! the press
The loss Of Gen. Sigel is owing to the fact
| that he WAS PLACED in il position where he itlt
! that lie could mt, consistently with his sell
respect, Icmt lin i'll the service. lie is not an
eXacting, or even a selt-assertmg man On
/ the contrary, we have no general in the de-
parttneut who has borne himself with more De.
cullar aud graceful modesly than Sigel but to
be wholly denied that recognition which is
clearly his due, 10 have the troops he has rails
Ell, expressly for service under him, taken
! away aud glven to others, and to be placed un-
der officers far inferior to him in experience,
to say nothing OF ability, touches not only a
| general PRIDE bur his personal honor.
Among some officers Of The regular army in
tbs department Gen Sigel is not popular
They seem 10 take pleasu in disparaginr
him, and il few denounce him in terms which
should never suy the lips OF a gentleman
| with these few, the fundamental sins of Cen
| Sigei seem 10 be, that lie was not born in this
| country, that lie WAS not educated ut West
FONT, aud that he has gained high and eviable
distinction since the war broke out 1t would
be UNJUST TO our regular officers not to add
that many Of them--perhaps Il majorily-ad-
mt chez rtully Cen Sigel's eminent ability,
AMI rejoice i'll the recognition it has obtained
from the people. Gen. IIaeck is doubtless
too good IL soldier and too lust a man not To
know and honor ms merit.
10 say that the masses have full conlident G
in him would be supertluOus for his fame eN.
tends from Maine TO Minnesota, and all his
reputation here has been honestly earned since
the war broke out. The loyal Germans-of
whom there are 200 000 in Missouri-sprung
to arms upon the tall oil Sumter, months be
lore The natlve-born citizens, as IA ass, led off
talking about armed neutrality" aud other
exploded theories 1t is only justice to say
Hi"', "bV 'oi tiS dll-Ol lllS OtrflaNS the STARS
and stripes would hardly be flying now over a
single foot of Missouri soil. They believe in
SIgel to man, and regard him, TO certain
extent as their representative The rebels
often attempt to ridicule his mastery re.
treats; but any one who accompanied either
Gen. Lyon, or Gen. Fremonts army on its
march through Missouri, has learned from the
conversation OF the rebels themselves that
they fear ST. ell more than any other general in
our army. In 1919 he commanded the entire
revolutionary forces OF Germany, amounting
to $4,000 men and if you desire to know
what his reputation was in Europe, ask any
German who was then in Tie field either mn
der Slgel. or in the PIussian army which was
fighting against him.
1t is said to be Gen. Sigel's design, upon
the acceptance of his resignation, TO resume
his former occupation OF a teacher in St.
Louis. 1t is earnestly to be houed that the
evil may be renledied, and that he may be in
( d iced TO reconsider his determination. II he
has been forced into a resignation, the seouel
| will certainly develop what parties are respon.
sibIe Tor il, and heavy weight OF censure
| will lest upon them. 1t is not a pleasant
subject, but justice to the cause requires plain
| speaking about it.