Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1863-06-27
James Brooks to General Schenek.
A Fow Words TO tho Hero OF tho vi
emma Massacre, from the Editor OF
tho New YORK Express.

A Fow Words to tho Hero OF tho vi
emma Massacre, from the Editor OF
tho New York Express.
New YoRK EXPRESS OFFICE, June ~.
To Mgjor- General Sehenek;
Sir: If you wero not on actor in the midst
Of great tragedy, l would smile at the little
comedy you seem to be playing at "Headguay-
teTs Eighth Army Corps" Pray, cir, tell ia
where, Just now, is the department of the Eighth
Army Corps2 Where It ,oas, when first in
trusted to your puissant arm, we well know
The rich eastarn valley of the Potomac was In
your command. That great link of the East
and West over the Alleghanies, the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, was there. But the last we
hear Of you lie, that while you were wisely bar
Reading yourself In the streets Of Baltimore
with tobacco, Lees rebel legions were reyelinu
In your department, and, generally, robbInr oy.
erybody OF most things valuable to them. All
this ia indeed tragic, and the more tragic because
such actors as you and Mllroy murder the parts
you are put there to act; but what is curious.
too, 10 that. while you summon to your rescue
such New York city regiments aa the Seventh
TO cay nothing OF the numerous, otherc) You
deprive six cut Of seven of the soldiers in them
of papers they are 10 the daily habit of reading
at home. and which inspire them With the pa
triotism and the principles that prompt them to
rueh to cave this " department" of yours, You
thuS beg and pray for Old Line Wings and Dem
ocrats to come TO your rescue, with their bayo-
nets, while you refuse them the mental aliment
and inspiration that brought them to your pro-
lection"
You and |, Gen. Schenck, are old acausins
auc.a. We met first as Wings, In the Con-
gress Of ls49-50-5l. You ran of with Gid
duga, representing the Abolition element. on
one aide, and Burt, Of South Carolina, renres
senting the secession element, on the other, and
voted against oil bills of p,oifcatiou and settle
ment, which, while avoiding the then impend-
ing civil war, nevertheless gave ua California
"lree,"-while followed humbly in the wake
of the great Clay and Webster. We differ now
oDy as we differed then, but that Is no reason
why you should cali the New York Express
"dlsloysl." or shut il out from the people of
Maryland, and the New York regiments now
enabling you to be in Maryland. We meet TO-
gether again In the next Congress, sir, and we
will talk all this over, provided tho New York
TIN and other Democratic bayonets are success.
ful in protecting you from that military genius
Uf yours which first developed itself in the rail-
road train at Vienna, aud which now finds time,
with Lees legions all about you, to open fight
uUUu ubWbpupdEbs 7ut bulDA OUmDIe0eQQ
you. A congregational election is approaching in
Maryland, and it 10 more important TO stop read.
ing in Maryland, and to elect Abolition members
OF Congress there, than 10 10 protect and defend
tho department Of the Eighth Army Corps Hence,
sou consume that precious time of yours in
preparing an Indez Erpurgatorias of news
papers which should be solely consecrated
TO clearing off Rsgerstown, FredericktoWn,
aud other places In your department, to say
nothing of Penney sylvanis. | know not how
II s, but so IL is, that while the Grants and
MCClellans Of the army fad all their time
employed in defending their flag and their
county, you and the Milroys, and the Has
calls, and the BuTnsides, consume the most of
yours in fighting the newspapers! Sir, the true
ambition OF great General should be to stop
bullets, not newspaper pellets! A General that
cannot stand o little paper weddiug oan never
stand an cnemy's battery.
In closiDg, permit me to ask, that If the New
York volunteers from this city, nearly nine
tenths OF which are OF the EIpress way Of
thinking, now enable you to keep your "hosd-
quarters" In Baltimore, do you intend "to sup
Iress' on that great route to the capital, the
editoFs, as we'll as editors' newepap pers--for
may as well assure you in advance that as o
Wing member of Congress, intend TO talk
ever there all that Wing "disloyalty" which
have now been talking for twenty-five years
continuously aud consistently in the New York
Espye,s- juet rs you aud l were disloyal
to James K Polk, during the Mexican war, 90
am dsloyal now to Abraham Lincoln, and 30
intend to be, until he I'D goes back 10 the
Crittenden Congressional pledge and resolu-
tiona. Il, then, editors, as well as editors' news
papers, ore to be Suppressed" in Baltimore, on
route to the capital, pray let us know in advance
80 that menbsrs Of Congress-, not OF the aboli-
ton faith, may stop in New York State. where
tree speech and free press exist, and where the
abolition members can meet us by adjournment
TO share with us this free speech and free
prees. By that time, we see, we shall have one
hundred and tWenty-eight New York militia
regiments and the returned New Yo,k yolun
teers, when even such disloyal papers as the
Baltimore american, the organ of General
schenck himself, may be printed without being
"suppressed." Yours, truly, =
JAMES BROOKS.