Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-08-20

away before that event would be sufficient
to wind up the war and the Yankees too.
A few wears at furthest will suffice for this.
The present generation will more than like
ly see the Northern Republic split to pieces
and involved in ruin and misery. The
Northwest may not, indeed. be involved to
this extent. If it separates in time from
the Northeast, it may preserve its vigor,
establish its prosperity, and become one OF
the greatest people on the earth. But the
Northeast neither deserves nor is likely to be
blessed with such a career. We only ap-
prehend that their country will become so
unprosperous and desolate that they will all
emigrate and carry with them the fOlles and
vices with which they have cursed the old
Union, to spread evil and discord among
the people of other lands heretofore happy
and content.
Gen. Mulligau left in black and white his
opinion of Gen. Hunter. He calls him
'sfiend." He "blushes for his country for
keeping such fiend in the service" Hun
ter is fiend. He is said to be a Virginian;
and we are not surprised at his depravity;
for Virginian that turns against his moth
er must be very bad man. We are never
astonished at any crime that Virginia
traitor is guilty of. But who is, or was,
Mulligan, that he could feel Indignation at
Southerners? He was hardly Yankee,
and could not possibly have been a Puritan.
He was either an Irishman or the son of one.
He had somewhat of magnanimity and hu-
manity, and not particle of either could
enter the Puritan heart. Peace to the ashes
of Gen. Mulliganl He was that rare man
in the Yankee army: a generous adversary.
vIRGINIANs SHOULD NOT BE TOO PROUD.
From The Richmond Sentinel. 9th.
1t is to admonish Virginians that they be
not over proud-a vice they are sometimes
charged withal-that Providence has per-
mitted Gen. Hunter to be half Virginian;
has ordained that some portion of the pale
liquid that creeps through his veins should
have its source in this State of ours. This
General is one of those commanders who
never fights; he never yet saw battle; even
w len the army under his command was be-
lieved to have stolen march upon Lynch
burg, and believing it undefended. was about
to walk in, this General was hot at their
head; he was staying at private house, six
miles in the rear. When that army, finding
some regular troops defending Lynchburg,
and feeling that it therefore had no business
there, turned tail and fled to the mountains,
it had its General once more at its head; GO
ing in that direction he lei the van. Again,
at the fight on the Shenandoah and at Kerns-
town, where the same Yankee force was en-
gagged, and where the same Hunter was no.
minally in command, that force was led, in
fact, by Crook; Gen. Hunter was at Har-
per's Ferry. 1t might perplex some OBJ
servers to determine what is the precise
function of such General" as this, and
what is the use of him. But those ques-
tions are now sufficiently answered by his
own account of the nature of his mission,
very candidly communicated to the lady at
the Sweet Springs, whose house, after being
pillaged, he had just given or
ders to burn up. 1t appears from that ac-
count which he gives of himself, that the
Yankee nation keeps two distinct sorts of
Generals, one sort to fight with men, the
other sort to tame women and children
and that he is one of the latter; to which
class the eminent Butler also belongs. The
lady in question has, in a most affecting
letter, described the operations of the Hun
ter style of warfare at her house; and re-
lates that when her daughter said to him,
"Surely, General, you can not be in ear
nest In saying that you intend that women
and children are to suffer such calamities
In addition to all besides that is the natural
of war"-the General, in the
discharge of his duty, conscientlously re-
plied-and every newspaper in the COnfed- |
eracy will reprint the emphatic words: ~
do intend that the women shall suffer. !
organized this raid for that purpose: the
women of the South are the fiends that
have kept up-this war: they have thrust
their fathers, brothers and sons into the
rebel army; and haye endured everything |
that could incite the men to go on with the
war; and intend to crush the proud re-
bellious spirit of you Virginians. am
n, hanlr fn htIrn U0ur grain Hal1c m
make desert of the pride Of the earth, to
desolate your country, and starve women
and children, but what they shall come
back to their lawful Government; the best
Government on the face of the earth.''
This explains why General Hunter does
not fight: that is not his business. If he
had got possession of Lynchburg without
then, indeed he would have been
in his glory; the ''proud Virginian women"
of that town would have found their mas
ter and tanner; they would have been prop
erly punished for having so obstinately en-
dued SO much to keep up the rebellious spirit
of their husbands and brothers. The cler-
gymen, too, would have met man gifted
to preach to them and catechise them; and
as for the children, they never would have
forgotten their fright until their dying day.
Owing to the inopportune appearance of
arQeU HlPIi. however, Ill JDdb ncISuDOTHOOu,
he was Obliged to forego the operations of
his campaign against the women of Lynch
burg; but in his flight through the West
ern valleys he could at least give taste of
his quality to the ladies left unprotected in
country houses. He proves himself q mas
ter of his profession the house at Sweet
Springs appears to have been stripped and
pillaged with dexterity and completeness
q every crumb of anything to eat'' was car
ried off or destroyed" not so much left as
would feed bird;" the house-linen care
fully torn up; even the very pillow-cases,
the jewelry and the spoons duly pocketed.
No commanding General can exceed this
officer in skill to divine secret draw
ers, and zeal and discretion in smelling
out any little hoard of flour, or contra
band pound of bacon which might feed
rebels, and therefore keep alive rebellion.
Other Generals may breach batteries-t
one tears towels. Others may brave shot
and steel, but he defles women's tongues.
Others can bear the scream Of flying shells,
but he endpres the ry.of a famishing child.
is for .sthis express purpose" he organizes
military expeditions; for their cause was he
born;l to do this work was he sent into the
world; and, as every man feels, satisfaction
in the consciousness that his duty has been
effectually discharged, General Hunters
heart will swell with an honest pride when
he reads these words, written by the lady of