The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1864-08-17
Gen. Darlington and his Mares
Nest.

Nest.
Few men are better known In this reaion
than the man they call Gen CarTington, and
few men ever lived in this city of whom so
little good could be said, or who was more
generally looked upon with contempt He
was always in hot water, breeding distuT-
bance, aud rushing about the streets Ike
hen around the barn yard after losing her
chickens A bloyiating nUmbskull whose
word one would ever take more than
once, and then only to be cheated: lie
could not live after getting on his regiment
ais without proclaimiDg martial Law in Col
umbus, and to get pretext was continually
parading his soldiers through the city 10 get
up an excuse to seize the city and put il un-
der military rule An arrant coward, afraid
of his own shadow and everybody elses shad-
ow. Like all towards, he was sure somebo-
dy was going to hurt him, and like all liars
he knew somebody ought to hurt him If he
had justice done. A Know Nothing, 10y
al Lacquer, mar-plot without brains or
courage, he was a fit instrument to conjure
up in his dreamy imagination, chimeras dire
and schemes of horror.
When sent from here to Indiana there
was universal rejoicing, and the city has
been quiet and peaceable ever since. lie
promised his regiment, the 18th u. 5. Reg
ulars that he would lead them into the
thickest of the fight, and where he did not
go he would not ask them to venturel-
But did be fulfil this avowal? Not a bit Of
it. He never saw his regiment after it was
sent to the front and never yet smelled pow
der, except at the muzzle of a pocket pistol
after it had been fred off Last year when
ordered into the field to pursue John Nor
gan, he got so drunk he could neither walk
nor ride, and was put under arrest for his
conduct This is the man who has under
taken to manage the political fortunes OF
Gov Morton, of Indiana and was Gov.
Morton either wise, honest or sober as he
should be, he would, for his own safety.
drive him beyond the lines.
But enough of this. We refer the read
er to Report made by this doughty Gener-
al who takes his ideas of Hero from old
Fallstaff, as he can find his SAMPLES nowhere
else A military man who would make such
a report and publish it to the world in the
face of the enemy, can excuse himself on no
other grounds than that he did not believe a
word of it himself. Just suppose for one
moment that this rigmaroe of stuff was true.
| Then Gen. Darlington and Gov. Morton
make themselves party to it by giving it
| publicity. But it was gotten up for politi-
cal purposes and nothing else, and for that
reason it was made public. Hence instead
of discovering plot of tredSon-he had
Morton invent romance for political effect!
What shallow humbugs.
So far as secret organization is concern
ed in opposition to the oath bound and
bloody Loyal Leagues, Darlington and Nor
ton must be the greenest men out, if they
never knew it before But men who were
in the Know No hing Lodges first, and the
still more wicked and disgraceful Loyal
Leagues now, dared not make an issue a
gainst secret political organizations without
condemning themselves. This was their un-
pleasant predicament, and hence they had
to pretend that they had Just made new
and grand discovery, and that the "Ameri-
can Knights" or Sons of Liberty were in
secret league with the Coniederates of the
South in arms This is the invention OF
Darlington to make it stick and save the Sc
cret oath bound Order, Of which he and
| Morton are themselves members.
We know nothing more about the Ameri-
can KNIGHTS than we do about the Loyal
| Leaugers--not so much for we have pub
lished very fully what we knew to be their
organization, their oaths and their 'Gum
Thus and Myrrh' incense
But judging from what has got out and
said to he true, the American knights is a
States Right, Union organization, including
every body, North and South who are pre-
nared to unite these States, or as many OF
them as can be got peaceabty together, and
thus once more have "a government" OF
law, order and freedom. That there are
now from half million to million of men,
banded together, pledged never to give up
constitutional government and the old fash
ioned freedom of our fathers, come veal, or
Woe This is what we draw from the pub
lications and testimony taken at St. Louis,
and given to the pnblic by the Republicans
themselves. If they have made false state
ments for political purposes, it is with them
to correct them. We take the exposition
as it stands, made by themselves, and made
too for polttical purposes by Military au,
thorities. We may have some hopes Of the
Union yet, if this organization if half as
large as reported, as it includes men every
where who are for a reconstruction of the
States IF this be their purpc>c the Ordcl
ought to be doubled i'll numbers, and thel
their purpose would very likely be accom-.
plished. .-C ColaMbus Crisis.