Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-14

enterprise, and MFR. Janney may find the
Major in mood to kick him out of his Bar
racks when he next attempts to make that
place the scene of his philanthropic la
bors.
Fearing that Mr.. Janney's card would
not relieve Maj. Skiles from the predica-
ment. in which he placed himself by his
unseemly course, the services of The State
Journal were required to help wipe out the
stain; and it is fair to say it has done the
best it could. Janney pettifogs the case;
The Journal attempts to carry it by per-
feet deluge of audacious falsehoods. That
paper intimates that Mr.. Bingham "tam-
pered" with the men, which is falschood.
1t says Major Skiles found Mr.. Bingham
stalking to the men," which is another
falsehood. "He," Major Skiles, according
to The Journal, "pOlitely informed Mr..
Bingham that it was against the orders and
he could not suffer it," Major Skiles, i'll
stead of doing anything politely, rudcly
struck Mr.. Bingham upon the arm, and in
an angry, insolent and offensive manner
said :" What business have You here. l
want you to leave here Immediately" Mr..
Bingham attempted to explain, but Skiles
would listen to no explanation, but point
ing to the street told Bingham to leave. If
this is what the Journal regards as polite.
ness, then it is incapable of comprehending
the term. We have the authority of Mr..
Bingham for saying that Major Skiles' de-
meanor was more offensive, insolent, and
uncivil than it is possible to describe on
paper, and Bingham's word is worth more
than the oath of the Journal. 1t is our firm
conviction that to screen Major Skiles The
Journal says that which it knows to be
false. AS to the Camp Chase affair, the
Journal account is as false as is its report
of the Tod Barracks affair.
The indignant local of The Journal, with
upturned eyes and bad grammar, inquiries:
"What can be the motives ofthe Democrats
In thus slandering our soldiers? Is it any
wonder that the soldiers vote against the
party who treats them in such manner"
When we assert that the soldiers have been
cheated and outraged-when we prove the
assertion-when we show how scurvy poll
ticians and insolent officers have interfered
to prevent them from exercising the right
of suffrage vouchsafed to them by law
when we expose the truth and show that
they are bullied by Abolition judges at the
polls and Threatened with punishment for
daring to vote as they please-when defend
ing the soldiers as MEN instead of traducing
them as cattle whose business it is to do the
bidding OF others as The Journal does-then
this pious, patriotic, affectionate "frend of
the soldiers" rolls up his eyes and declares
we are ''slandering the soldiers" Does The
Journal patriot imagine that the soldiers and
the people are such fools that they can't see
through this transparent humbug and hy-
pocrisy? "Curses like chickens" do ''come
home to roost' and the day will come
when these men who, under the
garb of friendship, outrage cheat and
oppress the soldiers, will flee from their
awakened wrath as they now flee from the
public odium and contempt they deserve.
We note these things without any dispos-
sition to misrepresent Major Skiles, for
whom, in common with the Democracy of
Columbus, we entertained great respect,
and whom this paper has heretofor defend
ed when unjustly assailed by journals of
his own party.