Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-10-29
Correspondence of the Charles City in,clllgenccr
Letter From Washington.
Washington City. October o. 1869

Washington City, October %, 1863.
EDIroR INTELLIGENCER The remov.
al of Gen. Rosecrans from the com.
mand of the Army of the Cumberland
excites a great deal of remark here,
The hero of McClcllan's campaigns
in Western Virginia of bloody Iuka ;
of the persistent struggle at Corinth,
where some of the best blood of Iowa
and Of the country was poured out in
one of the most glorious contests OF
any age ; of Stone River, almost de-
feat but ending in complete triumph
it is painful beyond expression that
such a man should now come to the
lame and impotent conclusion of are
porting to the Adjutant General by
letter from Cincinnati" How differ
ent from the case of Mcclellan, who
reduced imbecility to science and
warfare to farce whose whole
military career was series of fear.
fully expensive and fearfully fatal
blunders, but who, Notwithstanding
such a record on which any drum.
head court-martial Of Napoleon would
have shot him without benefit of cler
gy, was yet continued in command du
ring all those long and dark and drea
ry months which so tried the souls o.
earliest men everywhere. Mark, l an
not now complaining that Rosecrans
is removed. Chickamauga was blum.
der, and he pays the penalty. Ken.
lucky is not here to swear she'll leave
the Union if Rosecrans be removed
But if Chickamauga was blunder, the
Lawrence massacre was red-handed
crime. Yet Schofield is not removed
though fully irresponsible for that mas.
sacre as the hero of Stone River for
the defeat at the River of Death. Sc
you who may take consolation from
the removal of Rosecrans that blunders
are to be paid for with official heads
please rest your souls in patience
With Halleck at the head of the Ar
my, Schofeld in Missouri, and Dix
around everywhere, we havn't got that
far along yet. SAILS ..
| pretend to no absolute knowledge
of the cause of Gen. Rosecrans' remov.
al. presume the country will be
flooded with such stories as Halleck
may inspire upon the subject, and
know that what he says is, prima ia,
c'e, lie. / shall take it for granted
that the President himself ordered the
removal, because of Chickamauga
The President performed a good deed
History is full of instances of men
sailing long prosperously on the voy
age of fame, and being suddenly wreck
ed on the rock of Blunder at last ant
that rock, by the way, is always, Away.
total annihilator." / think of til,
fate of the three great soldiers of TIN
World-Hannibal, a miserable suicide
Caesar assassinated, and Bonaparte al
exile. Henry Clay pumped his hea,
against the Nicholson letter and ney
er breathed afterward, to any purpos,
Webster fouled " fatally on the 1t
of March, 1850, and his statesmanshi
wasn't afterwards worth the pickin,
up. Lloyd Garrison will be in tn
mouths of school-boys, from Maine +
Texas, and from Oregon to Florida
when the defender of the Constitu
ton shall have been forgotten. Ly
man Trumbull has taken to long wind
ed Constitutional arguments in behal
of the Chicago Times. He is lost
War and politics are full of thes
wrecks-along their blunder-ribbe
shores you find them everywhere. TIL
fate of Rosecrans is by no means sil
gular. Bewar the Bari" was TIL
alliterative legend of the stout Baro
Bradwardine, you remember. "B,
ware the Blunder" is the lesson {
history, which the General had faile
to learn. General Lew Wallace pei
ming poems and packing pork in Ind
ana, Mcclellan peddling letters i
Pennsylvania, Rosecrans mutterin,
mass in Cincinnati, are simply til
logical results of heartless history
They Numbered and they fell, but i
the case of Rosecrans not withou
keeping some of the brightness of fol
mer glory. Ipity the man who is no
sorry for Rosecrans.
The elections in Pennsylvania, Obi
and Iowa are still, of course, muc
talked about. Their teaching canno
be mistaken. Even Mr.. Vallandighar
and Mr. Mahony-par Mobile fratum-
might learn hence, if Copperhead
could learn anything countryward, tina
their party has made a fatal blunder
from the effects of which neither god
nor men nor politicians of the serpen
tine species, can save it. There wa
as ;nnch hope for Benedict Arnold al
ter West Point, as there is now 70
the Copperheads. When patriotism
alone elects Curtin Governor of Penn
sylvania, and Stone Governor of Iowa
treason is done for.
Meade, having marched up the hill
is now marching down again. / fea
he is a "poor stick"
Iowa JUNIOR.
/ The Union men Of Dubuque had
grand jubilation OH the evening of th