The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-11-11

: Christ taught his disciples was: ''Ot
e Father who art in Heaven LEAD u
NOT INTO TEMPTATION" But her
: We see Trues dali and his tools, wit
= develIsh ingenuity, first tempting, an
: then plundering a woman. Mr.,
Yargin did wrong, but what being
: who has the soul Of a man, or even til
: spirit Of a dog, would not ten thou
: sand times rather act the part she wa
9 tempted to perform, than stoop to tn
} degradation of Truesdail?
Just about this time, while Trues
,. dali was using extraordinary vigilanc
to prevent a woman from crrryin,
medicines and clothing, hougl at Ii
own urgent request, a lot of dry good
to the value of NINE THOUSAND DOL
LARS was shipped from this place tt
Muir reesboro, to a firm of army ira.
ders closely connected with Truesdail'.
oihce. The goods sere sold freely tc
the rebels round Mmfrees boro, and,
doubtless, found easy access to the
Southern Confederacy.
The army, as we'll as citizens, was
under Truesdail's espionage. "What
do you think Of Truesdail's police?'
We once asked of a Kentucky Major
of high character. His response was.
"When | catch one of his spies in my
camp, lput him in the guald. house"
We asked the same question Of I'M Ohio
ottlcer OF untarnished reputation, and
lie replied: "Its q id swindIing,
thieving organization, and curse to the
army. 1t is a perpetual insult and
annoyance to any gentleman The
police was popularity spoken of in the
army as "TruesdaiI's S Forty Thieves.
Of course Truesdail was cunning
enough to employ seine very rospecta-
bic men to give character to his gang,
and gull the public, but they never
were allowed to fathom the mysteries
of the office. 1t was his intention to
brlte lieutenant in every company,
a Major in every regiment, Colonel
in every brigade, a clerk in every
quarielmaster's Office, subordinate
IN every hospital, and an employee in
every Government office or hca(onar>
ters in this department, to actts spies, |
informels and detectives upon their
fellow officers, and give him such in
formation as would enalle him to hold
every man in the army coiopely at his
mercy, alhough he himself he'd 10
commission, and was totally unknown |
to the rolls Of the army.
The Army of the Cumberland was
to be under the control, not of the
President of the United States, but of
Wm. Truesdail. ex-mcmber of the St.
Louis police, and its officers and sol
liers were to be the humble servants.
tributaries and humble vasaals of
harper, who had been disgracefully
xpellod by General Grant from tt
Department Of the Mississippi for his
!scality. The official business, social
)nduct and private morals of the
lajor Generals, Brigadier Generals,
iolonely, Captains, LieutenaAts, non
commissioned officers and priyates of
he United States army, were to be
cclet!y scrutenized by the censorship /
f this man Trucsdail. Who so nridcd ]
lmself on his succcss in cheating and I
obbing woman, that he had the stu
id efirontery TO publish his iafamy to c
lc world in a gilt backed book, en-. 1
ellished with steel engrayings. Army +"
I the Cumberland, what do you think a
t your CENSOR MoRUM? S
Even this was not all of the gigan- :
c web-work of jesuitical intrigue. !
. proposition was actually made to )
Ioy. johnson to proclaim martial law {
yer the whole state, so far as our a a
nes extended, and to have military
RIUMVIRATE established, which should Z
egln forthwith the work of indis- X
'lmlhatc cohtlscatlon, exile, impris-
lment and execution. They assured I
lc Governor that matters Would pro- II
ress much more rapidly under this .
arrangement than they could by en-, II II
cavoring to re. establish the machi- Il
esy Of the courts, and the supremacy D
civil law. Governor johnson in
ignantly responded to the impudent
nd infamous proposal that he had no
over to proclaim martial law, and G
lat if he had hewould not exercise it. rt
} it was his soic aim to restore civil
lthority as soon as it could be safely E,
one. Beyond all doubt the plot was 8,
Introduce an era of piunder and fc
oodshcd in Tennessee, under the y, W
III OF, mysterious inquisition, su.h f.
would have delighted Philip II of Il
pain, and his ministers of death, q,
'rdinal Granville and Duke D'Alya, +,
ring the devastation of the Neither -,
nds. The rebel Vigilance Commit. e
e OF Nashville expands and rises to II II
netting of decency, justice and Il :,
gnity by the side of Truesdail's pro- r r
'sed Triumvirate, which would have +"
en- q greater scourge to the State =
an "war, pestilence and famine. = / /
ais tIiple-headed Cerberous, lineal ~ -
lelp of "the three-headed dog Of -
Il, would have bathed its fangs in 4.
Q blood Of all classes of society, and II II
ide Tennessee from Nashville to h.
lattanooga, hideous with its unearth- T.
howlings. x * * de