East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1864-10-05
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gentleman, and skillful. officer, who
was MORALLY wounded while leading
his command, was refused promotion,
though his eervices eminently entitled
mm to It, because he was democrat
After he had been killed, shame COM
pelled Mr.. Lincoln to send briga-
her's commission filed with his name
20 his widow.
Lieut. Col. Bowman, an old and
honored officer in the regular service,
was removed from the superintendent
cy Of the Military Academy at West
Point because, as member of COM
mittee, he joined in an invitation to
Gen. Mcclellan to deliver an Grafton
upon laying the corner stone for
monument to West Point officers who
had fallen in battle.
Lieut.. Col Clitz was degraded to
the rank Of major for the same rea-
con. He was an old officer, who had
served in the Mexican war, and was
wounded at the battle Of Gaines
Mills.
Lieut.. Parsons, of the 10th regular
infantry, was dismissed for the same
reason.
Lent Edgerly, of New Hampshire,
who had returned with his regiment
from the front on short furlough,
was dismissed in disgrace from the
service for circulating democratic tick
cts on tho day Of election.
Col. David Stuart, of this city,
whose gallantry and skill mono will
question, and whose services had earn
cd promotion on moro than one hard
fought field, was refused advancement
and by insulting neglect driven from
the service.
Con, e. ft. 6turgis, one of the most
efficient cavalry officers in our army,
is tod ny in retirement because of his
failure to execute orders given him by
Gen. Washburne, and which were of
q character which necessarily insured
the defeat of Sturgis' command in his
last expedition. Washburne is retain
ed in command by Mr. Lincoln, and
Ssurg's is retired.
And so we might extend the list in
definitely had we space for the men
ton of officers who have been abused
and insulted by Mr.. Lincoln, simply
because of their political opinions
Nor has the persecution been confined
alone to officers. Soldiers lying sick
and wounded in hospitals have been
refused furloughs to visit their homes
unless they would pleage themselves
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return. Ihe soldiers of New Hamp-
shire and Connecticut have given evil
dence upon this point which cannot be
controyerted. Think of it, soldiers in
our armies. You who hate despotism
and are fighting to preserve our insti-
tutions. You who are abolitionists,
imagine yourselves approached by
democratic officer, under such circum-
stances, with proposition so insult
ing.
Our armies have been sacrificed to
promote the partisan and personal
ends Of Mr.. Lincoln and his adher-
ents. For this the troops of Seymour
in Florida were devoted to slaughter.
1t was hoped that they might gain SO
much of the state as would Justify an
attempt to erect bogus state govern
ment, and thus secure a small elector-
al vote. Gen. Banks expedition, end
ing in the defeat at Pleasant Hill, was
a cotton stealing raid; and to-day
thousands of our soldiers lives are
exposed in guarding the plantations of
government lessees, and, as appears
from late lottor IN tho Now York
Tribune, it is part of the duty Of |
some of our troops to fog refractory
negroes.
The massacre at fredericksburg, |
under Burnside, and at Chancellor |
vile under Hooker, wore the result of
Mr.. Lincoln's ignorant self conceit in
demanding that his "plan," should
have a trial. These were not suili-
Gent to convince him of his error, and
Grant was sent on the same route with
an army large enough to lose half its
number before reaching Petersburg
and yet steadily beat back the force
Of Lee. He could have reached the
same position without the loss of a
single man in battle. The skeletons
covering the ground between the Rap
idan and James, on the line of Grants
march, are each one Of them witness
os of the contemptuous regard in
which Mr.. Lincoln holds the lives of
tho soldiers he processes so much to
love.
Something might be said Of the
cheerful hilarity maintained by Mr..
Lincoln among the hospitals of Wash
ington, but this subject has lately been
presented in graphic manner by
gentleman in Indiana, and we allude
to it merely to reproduce e calculation
made by him. When the Baltimore
convention adjourned, a majority of
its members visited Washington to
congratulate the president upon tho
result. He entertained them with
amusing anecdotes, and it is estimated
that within sight of the windows where
the company was congregated, three
soldiers died during each one of Mr..
Lincoln's laughable recitals. In hap
Ply harmony with this was the request
for "Picayune Butler" when he was
surveying the wounded and corpses
on the field Of Antietam.
In his heartless POPULARITY amid ]
scenes of suffering and death; in his
useless expeditions for political pur-
poses; in his massacre of soldiers on
the overland route; in his vindictive
pursuit of officers who were politically
opposed to him; in his degradation Of
white soldiers by placing negroes on
nm equality with them; in his demand
that our armies shall be sacrificed to
procure, not the restoration of the
union, but the enfranchisement of ne