The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1864-03-16
Mr. LincOIn's Kirkpatrick Raid.

| Inc country mas been cursed again with
the fruits OF President Llncoln's military
meddling. We do not alude to the Florida
Massacre, where fifteen hundred brave mems
lives wuse sacrificed By Mr.. Lincoln in the
vain effort to advance his own re election
| by securing the three electoral votes from
Florida, and q membership in Congress for
his youthful private secretary, John Hay, so
that if the election went to the House the
vote OF one full regiment might countsrbal-
ance the vote of he Empire State with her
| four million inhabitants. All the Lincoln
organs are dsclaiming in concert, and by
official inspiration, Mr.. Lincoln's RESPONSE,
bility for that wretched military hlunder and
the fruitless slaughter which it invited. But
they discaim in vain. General Gilmore
might as we'll bear the shame OF the Florida
massacre as his conspicuous failure at Charles
ton. But the fact is, and all these officia
denials admit as much, that the order fol
the Florida expedition went from President
Lincoln to Gen. Gilmore, without the
knowledge of the formers military advisers
Whoever else counseled with Mr.. Lincoln
on the subject, his authorized and mos
competent counselors did not. Mr.. Lincoln
ordered the expedition. That is the essen
tial fact. 1t was mainly of his planning
and the political purpase Of his plan is OBJ
Yious.
The country is not yet recovered from the
shock which the knowledge of these facts
had given it, but it must submit to learn thai
for still another military President Lincoln
is directly and personally responsible
President Lincoln is the responsible au
| ,bnr;ty Of tho K,potr;ol- Pad W.
prepared to assert that it was planed by
Mr.. Lincoln, Mr. Kellogg, of the Military
Committee Of the House, and Gen. Klpat
rick. The latter is a gallant and brave
officer; but the dashing qualities which III
exhibits in the saddle are not those of SOUND
Judgment and prudence in counsel; Mr. Kel
logg, to say the least OF it, IS not known te
the world as Carnot or Wellington; and
and as for Mr.. Lincoln. he is the same mar
who, Just before the crisis oil the pensulal
campaign, which he had crippled at the out
set, sent Blenkers force to Fremont, sem
half OF McDowell's forces flying across the
country toward the Shenandoah, and with
held the Iest from effective co operation with
the main Army of the Potomac; he is the
same man who, alter Grants successes, apol
| OBlLeu W nm iOi tuC dlulOoI
blunders OF his attempted interference II
the western campaigns; he is the SAINT
country lawyer who writes to trained anC
able soldiers about "my plan Of campaign
the same military meddler and blunderel
everywhere and always. 70 his Floridi
massacre, where fifteen hundred men were
lost, the country must add the Kilpatriol
raid, in which the cavalry Of the Army o
the Potomac were uselessy knocked up, anC
five hundred men lost. ....,-. ..
The late raid was not undertaken will
the advice or at the request Of ony Of hi
military advisers. Neither Gen. Hallecl
} nor Gen. Meade, nor any OF the bsst officer
of his army, were ever such greenhorns a
to suppose that Richmond could be captured
by few cavalry regiments. The raid wa
undertaken without the advice Of some, an,
ragainst the advice of others, who knew tn
science OF war by heart when Mr.. Lincol
was arguing fiitv.dollar suits in the Illnoi
courts. The damage done by the bod rider
was comparatively trivial, and is already re
paired. Mr.. Lincoln cannot as easily &c
the cavalry into condition for use, or restor
TO life the dead five hundred IN. Y. World