Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-07-14
Major General Hunter, Author of
tHe VmvaafOm.

] the Invasion.
The man who Is alone responsible fol
the invasion Of Maryland by the rebel
| hordes now threatening the National Capt.
tai, is the square headed, imbecile, addle-
Drained negro maniac, Major General Hun
TER. All information confirms the univer-
sal belief, that his stupidity, his cowaidice
1 his rapacity and his negro monomania con-
stitute the flrstcause of, and made the only
opportunity for, the Invasion which has
already cost the Federal Government mil
lions of dollars, and may yet result in the
capture of Washington, the total over
throw of the Union cause, and the COM
plete triumph of the Rebel Confederacy.
Major General HUNrER-who had previ-
ously distinguished himself by wasting
with an army whole year before Charles
ton in organizing a negro colony-was
! detailed to make a diversion in favor OF
Gen. GRANT, by swift and vigorous at
tack on Lynchburg--a service which was
absolutely necessary to the success OF
GRANTS campaign. HUNTER started on
the expedition with an excellent and pow
ertul army, moved through the. enemy's
country, defeated the feeble resistance of
fered him at Stanton, and thus had the
door opened for the capture of Lynchburg,
had he followed up his success with ordi-
nary vigor, or had his movements been
regulated by average common sense. But
instead of moving forward with celebrity as
he should have done, HUNTER wasted apre-
cious week in collectinga colony of negroes
with which to cucumber his army and
retard his motions. He also halted several
days to pillage and burn public institutions,
and to cdpture statues and paintings from the
inhabitants. This gave the rebels time to
start force from Richmond to repel him.
He still reached Lynchburg in advance OF
the rebels and could have captured the post,
had he attacked at once; but here again he
lost two precious days stealing negroes and
distributing tracts. When he did attack, the
rebel reinforcements had reached Lynch
burg, and HUNTERS feeble effort was re-
pulsed with ease. The General then col
lected more negroes and ordered a retreat,
leading it himself. He totally neglected his
army, and devoted his entire time to the
negroes. AS an instance of his industry,
there is well authenticated statement that
he horse-whipped a white soldier who took
horse from negro to give to wounded
white comrade. The ambulances and pro-
vision wagons were emptied to make room
for negroes, and the rations of the white
soldiers were devoured by the contrabands.
Starvation stared the army in the face; the
retreat became rout; the army became a
rabble; hundreds perished by the wayside;
and the sufferings of the white men in
.volved in the disaster beggar description
In this state of affairs, HUNTER not only fell
back to his former position. but to the aston
ishment of everybody, he retreated to the
Ohio River, leaving the door of the Shen-
andoah Valley open to the rebels-an adj
vantage which the rebels Immediately inn
proved; and they are now threatening the
National Capital. HUNTER reached the
Kanawha with multitude of negroes, and
a mountain of plunder, including statue
of GEORGE WASHINGTON, taken from a
public yard.
And now, while the anxious eyes of the
people of the North are strained to aching
to see HUNTER moving up to close the gate
he opened, and fall upon the rear of the
invading rebels he admitted upon the sa-
cred soil of the Worthwhile all hearts
beat high with the hope that he would re-
deem his name and wipe out the dishonor
he has placed upon our flag and uniform
while we have been expecting to hear OF
HUNTERS army on the Potomac, or in Mary
land-now, when the fate of the Capital
hangs by thread-what is General HUNTER |
doing? To his own everlasting disgrace
and eternal infamy, instead of making an
energetic effort to retrieve the misfortune
he has brought upon us, he is devoting his |
time to the exercise of a lawless and ruffian |
power by suppressing the newspapers which |
dared to object to his appropriating the |
statue of WASHINGTON and his horse whip |
ping soldier! In this business he has been |
quite successful, almost as successful as he |
has been in sacrilege and vandalism.
On Saturday last, this pig-headed, and |
General succeeded in suppress
Ing The Wheeling Register, a Democratic
newspaper, which contained an item de-
nouncing HUNTERS capture of WASHING
roN's Statue. He had Mr.. LEWIS BAKER and
Mr.. LONG, his partner in che publication of
The Register, arrested, without applying to
law, justice or reason, and thrown into a
filthy dungeon with rebel prisoners. The
printing Office Of The Register has been
closed, and 1t is not improbable that some
creature of the Administration will attend
to the financial correspondence of the con-
cern, and make an equitable division of its
receipts among the pimps, detectives and
spies of Wheeling. The charge against Mr..
BAKERS paper is, ''disloyalty'-the COM
mon veil and shield for any extraordinary
attempt at pillage or outrage. But The
Parkersburg Gazette, an Abolition paper,
devotedly attached to the Administration,
was suppressed at the same time, and its
editor arrested and imprisoned. The Gazette
also expressed Its disapproval of the cap
ture OF the Washington Statue, SO that dis
loyalty, accordingto HUNTER, is reduced to
being opposed to vandalism, petit larceny,
and sacrilege. aiah sf2a'..
General HUNTERS entire time is said to be
devoted tn the business of suppressinp