The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1863-02-20
VIEWS OF A SOLDIER IN VIRGINIA.

HAMILTON, Feb. 0.
EDS. GAZETTE: The following extract
from letter written by an officer in the
Twelfth Ohio, shows what sort of feel
ings the soldier entertans toward the
traitors whom he has left at home.
FAYETrEv1LLE, Va. Jan. IA.
"DEAR BROTHER: A great work Of de-
moralization is progressing in the army
and no wonder. The late reverses al
fredericksburg and Vicksburg, came
upon our men with stunning effect
This they bore up under brayely; bu
when they see such filthy sheets as the
Cincinnati Enquirer and the Dayton EN-.
pire spouting treason, and hear the Leg.
islators and Senators, on the very fool
of the Senate Hall and House Of Repre-
sentatives, denouncing the cause fol
which we are fighting as unholy-cur-
sing the Administration, and openly ap-
plying the most dastardly epithets to the
President-proposing to pass joint res
olution, declaring that he who attempts
to collect the very tax assessed to furn
ish us with out daily bread, is guilty of a
(elony--a crime punishable with death
openly taking the initiatory steps toward
cut-throat proposition to separate the
agricultural districts of the West from
the manufacturing districts of the East,
if need be by open war, and this, too,
when the men of New York and other
Eastern States and the patriots Of Ohio
and Indiana are yielding up their lives
by thousands side by side and hand in
hand on the distant battle field say
when our men see such exhibitions OF
treason and sympathy with the South by
the very hearthstone they have left, is it
any wonder that they are disheartened
and conclude that they have not the
sympathies of the mass at home? In the
name of God why is all this permitted?
Are there not. .strong-armed Union men
enough in the North to subdue treason
in the very heart of Ohio and Indiana?
If not, why need we spend our best
hearts blood trying to suppress it
abroad? Have the Union men of the
North no sympathy with us? Do they
not know that every copy of the Cincin
natl Enquirer or Dayton Empire which
is read in camp engenders feeling Of
in the heart Of every sol
dier who is able to read? Do they not
know that these papers reach the rebel
camps, and that they raj the spirits of
the Southern army in proportionate
degree as they depress oursP Do they
not know that when Senators and Legs-
lators of the Northern houses spout open
treason, and the traitors not only live af
ter, but stalk abroad in the streets of our
cities, that every traitorous sentiment
uttered uppunished, uDrebuked, strikes
chill of vague disquietude into the heart
If every Northern soldier.
Are the people of the north asleep tina;
,hey permit these things? Why do they
lot arise in their might and hurl from
heir position those vile traitors who are
hus indirectly domoralizing our army?
am excited and indignant on this
subject, and so is every man .of the rea-
'oning faculties of monkey, in the army
Il we have friends at home, let them
make it apparent by closing the mouths
If those who utter sentiments in our
State Houses, and that while clothed with
he robes of Congressmen--State Sena-
'tors or Legislators, which they would
lare to utter in the presence of the most
,eaceable, enduring and unmuring pri-
rate of this army. Otherwise our men
must inevitably become suspicious. dis
and worse than all, demoraI-
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