Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-10-31
NIiIFOy- y--RUsecrans-- Nemesis"
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RIiIrOy--RUsecran Nemesis"
--RetrtbutiOn.
"The mills Of the Gods grind slow, but
grind exceeding fine" Recent events prove
that sometimes they grind both fast and fine
1t Is bat little while since the De nocracy
Of Ohio aud the Northwest we're continually
outraged by violent, uniounded aud most Of
fensive assaults from the army in the shape
of letters, addresses and resolutions Among
the first and bitterest Of their rev,ers, was
General MuRoY, Of Indiana. Secure in the
post of satrap or petty yrant over Winchester,
under that meaner tyrant yet, General
SclENck be fulmiued his curses against the
"Copperheads" Of his own State, in truly
"loyar' style, to the wondering delight Of
every skulkiug Aboltionist who preferred to
sight traitors at home" In n letter dated
january 30, 1863, this thicl-skulled but bell
cose Brigedier, pitched into the vile and
cowardly traitors at home" after this wise
"I Join with my fellow soldiers Of the Union
everywhere, in warning these traitors at home
(Copperheads, Butternuls, X. G.. C.s, &c }
that when we have crushed armed treason At
thetSouth, and restored the sovereignty OF the
Government over these misguided States,
(Which under God we surely via do) we will
upon our return, while our hands are in, also
extermiuate treason at the North, by arms, if
need be, and seal by the blood of traitors,
wherever found, the permanent peace OF our
country and the perpetuity Of tree Govern
ment to all future generations"
Very brave words these But unhappily,
in the middle Of June following, one-legged
EARNED rebel by the name OF EwELL, who
had to be strapped to his horse in battle, came
down uriously upon MILRoY, who fed instant
ly and ingoriously before him, finding his in
dividual safety at the expense of his routed
and dispersed command, the disgrace of the
army, and terror to neither "armed traitor"
nor unormed "CopperheaIs,
Like another doughty hero, famous in song
He He'd full soon,
In the month Of June,
And bade the rest Keep fighting.
So much FOR MlLRoY.
Above MILRoY in command and equal to
him in presumption, was the late Major Gene
raj WILLIAM s. RosEcRASs, Familiarity and
afFectionately known as sold Rosey." Sue
ceeding that brave soldier and true gentle
man, Major General BUELL, in command of
the armyof the Cumberland, he determined to
win the utmost favor Of the Administration,
first by treachery to the party to which he had
protested to belong, and then by the most
servile and degrading sycophaney He at
once fell in with the entire radical policy of
the Administration aud especially signaized
himself by his bitterness toward all who dif-
fered from it OF home
He may or may not hove been subject to
"epilepsy" but he certainly was violently
afflicted, or pretended to be-, with the disease
of cuprophobia, and aspred to be recognized
as the chief enemy of the "Copperheads, -
And he is in fact entitled to the bad eminenee
Of having written the meanest and most cow
ardly letter of all from the army, against
Democrats,
As badly beaten in the FIRST days fight at
Murlreesboro, as at Chieaulanga, but enabled
at last by reinforcements, to hold the field, he
assumed all the arrogance of conqueror, aud
III ieltet uAteu reOFuafy - loO0i auu al.
dressed to the Ohio Legislature, he denounced
the men Of the party which he had deserted,
as Slaves aud traitors who deserved the scorn
and contempt of all honorable men" From
this hour, the hatterers around him, persuaded
"0ld Rosey' that he was the coming man.
for the Presidency, His camp at once be-
came political seminary in which merit was
measured by the intensity OF ones hatred Of
the "Copperheads Nearly all the officers
wers compelled to iorswear Democracy All
discipline in camp was lost and the time OF
the officers spent in poisoning the minds Of
the soldiers against their fathers, brothers
mothers and sisters at home, as TRAITORS and
butternuts.
Said Col S, who resigned in Juge: at is
daily sight to see Major-Geueral or a Brig
adler, surrounded by other officers and squad
Of private soldiers discussing politics, all over
the camp"
The chief business Of RosEoRASs chiefo
staff Gen j, A. GARFIELD, one of GIDDIE0s
successors in Congress-, was to attend TO tn,
Ohio election, and keep correspondence will
the Abolition State Central Committee at Co
lumbus.
RosEcRASs himself replied ihsuldngly Il
the respectful inquiry Of the Democratic stat'
Central Committee, as to Democratic doeu