The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-07-01
A AboItttom Libels ON our Soldiers.

A bOIttiOm Libels ON our Soldiers.
The Abolition press Of the country, whiis
eulogizing the negro troops aud anticipating
from their employment In the field the
greatest results, seem bent upon making out
that our soldiers in the Army Of the Poto-
mac are sadly wanting In courage sud efi-
cheney. A correspondent CT the Springfield.
Mass, Republican, a well known Abolition
journal, Immediately alter the recent battles
on the Rappahannosk, instituted comPari-
son between the Federal and Coniederate
troops, much to the disadvantage Of thc fors
mer, and the Boston Traveller, another pspef
Of the same stripe, in an editorial article,
pronounced it humiliating fact that our
troops were overpowered by the superior
vslor OF the Confederate soldiers. .f
The Philadelphis North American, paper
kept afoat by Government patronage in its
issue of Saturday, June s, publishes the fol.
Loving libel upon our troops:
1--WE have very much yet to learn. The
bay onet, OF which so much has been said,
has proved, in fact, almost Q nullity in the
war. Our troops can neither be got TO use IL
nor to stand against It, In many actions
they have obeyed orders to charge, aud dooe
it well; but in all such cases the enemy have
never stood the charge. At the point OF the
bayonet we have done very little actual
fighting. AU the successes Of "Stoneloa"
Jackson 'oere achieved by bayonet charges,
,o]iich our men have refused to atoaIt and re-
ceive. Very much Of what is written about
desperate bayonet charges, and hand to hand
fighting between the contending ranks, is
pure romance, as the surgeons on both sides
hau lIu Vatf fha r,ca nf fho
bayonet IS what we ought to learn, and
must learn il hope for military superiority"
But the above is a. nothing compared with
what is published, as coming from return
ed Massachusetts officer who was taken
prisoner on the Rappahannock. That officer
says or is made to say: q
doubtless great many reasons are given
for our most disgraceful and disastrous de-
feat at Chancellorville. There is only one
real reason, and that the simplest possible.
Our army didn't fight as ,oeN as that of our
enrmtes. We hal euery possible advantage.
Our numbers oe,e more than double theirs, till
Longstreet's reiniorcements came up, which
didn't then bring their forces up to 100000
to oppose our 10000. Indeed, it would
now seem that Longstreet didn't come up at
ALL We had the advantage Of position, and
no inconsiderable Omount OF intrenchment."
Again we are told by the same authority:
awe had men enough, we'll enough equip.
ded and well enough posted, to have deeo,sr>
ed the ragged, iuaperfectly armed and equipped
host of our enemies from of the face Of The
earth Their artillery horses are poor, star
we'd frames Of beasts, tied on to their car.
riages and cassons with odds and nds of
Nha,p II
and ammunition trains look like congrega.
ton OF all the crippled California emigrant
trains that ever escaped off The desert out Of
the clutches OF the rampaging Comanche In
dians. The men aie ill-dre-sed. i'll equip.
ped, and i'll provided, q set OF ragmufins
that man is ashamed to be seen among.
even when he is a prisoner and cant helplt
And they have beaten as fairly beaten sss
all to pieces, beaten us so easily HAT zoe are
oljetts of contempt euen to their coDsnsonest ptt-
cate soldiers, Nth no shirts to hang out the
holes in their pantaloons, and cartridge boxes
tied round their wastes with strands OF
ropes say they beat u easily for there
hasn't been much Of fight up hsre on the
banks of the Rappahannock after oil, the
newspapers to the contrary notwithstand.
ing"
The foregoing are only samples OF the liz
bells that are busily put forth by the Aboli-
ton press to depreciate as much as possible
our brave soldiers, iu order to shield from
merited rebuke the incompetency and want
Of foresight in those by whom our military
movements are directed and CONTROLLED
These wholesale ISLANDERS upon the Army OF
the Potomac are as false as they are slander-
Gus. The army always fought with unfinchA
ing bravery under General Mcclellan. and
the terrible losses it sustained in the bloody
battles on the Rsppahannock, under Gener-
rls Burnside and Hooker, show that the SOL
diers still possess their old courage land de-
termination. After having made out that
our soldiers were inferior to rebel troops,
the Abolitionis.s will probably next urge
the superiority of the negro recruits to both.