Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1864-10-20

fail to remember how carefully you have Sc
cretcd that more terrible blundcr than ever
occurred in this or the annals 0l any other
war, by which we have no less than twenty
three monitors, constructed az an expense ,
of over twelvcmilions Of dollars, and which, |
by the nice calculations Of the naval engn- /
GERS brought in after one Of them was
launched, it was determined that with thcrl
armament they would float just FIVE inches
under water. Now, Judge, do not fail to
remember who is responsible for this. -
Again be charitable that, the President and
"Fighting Joe Hooker" carefully concealed
their plans from the Commander-n.C Chief
and the Secretary of War to that extent
that, while the battle was going on at Chan
ccllorsvilc, / was informed directly, By the
best authority in the premises, that Meth
| er General Halleck nor the Secretary of War
| knew more Of what was going on than |
did, " and ''that all the requisitions made
during the preparations for the movement,
instead Of going through The ordinary chan
nels, were ordered directly by the Pres.
dent" and do you know that, TO the pres
ent hour, the country has never been in
formed that, on that occasion, Hooker and
the President fought the best army that
was ever got together, numbering no less
than one hundred and siXty-five thousand
men, against General Lee, with an army Of
filty-seven thousand, lost thirty-fve thou
sand men-were completely routed, and to
such an extent that, as said before, but
for the providential killing of ''Stonewall'
Jackson. our army would have been annihi-
lated? Why has not Mr. Stanton told this
to the families of the thirty-five thousand
so unnecessarily slaughtered, instead Of at
tempting to console them with the pitifu!
story that the Eleventh army corps gave
way in confusion," and that but one third
Of General Hooker army had been brought
| into action?
Why did not your Committee on the Con
duct of the War exhaust few of those five
hundred days, aud a portion of these sev.
enteen hundred pages, devoted to General
Mcclellan, upon the Military successes of
that great leader General Butler before
Petersburg where six thousand of his men
were marched prisoners into Richmond
almost without his knowledge-he and Mr..
Stanton almost assuring the country that
there had been great fog, and that 1t came
fore breakfast =?
BefortI leave your friend, Mr.. Stanton,
L will instance another evidence OF his
treachery to General Mcclellan All know
of the disasters caused by the interference OF
the President and Mr.. Stanton with the ar
my of the Potomac. 1t was necessary to
have victim, and General Mcclellan was
selected and removed A short time after
ward Pope, being placed in command, failed
most disastrously, and Washington was
again threatened The President and his
1 Cabinet were alarmed to that eXtent that a
steamer was prepared to assist in their es-
cape. With earnest cntreaty and suppllca-
ton, Mcclellan was solicited to assume
command and save them and Washington.
He consented-ignoring the solicitation OF
his friends. who desired that he should first
insist upon. the removal Of MIR. Stanton
, which he utterly refused, replying that hi
a would not permit any personal considera
i tons to influence his conduct when the cap
. ital was in such iminent danger. He the
:, accomplished the gaeatest military succes
= of the war. He reorganized the demora
. lied army Of Pope while on the march, an
gained the glorious victory at Antietam.-
Mcclellan star was again in the ascendant
Mr.. Stanton begged forgiveness for the past
and promised his devoted friendship for tn
: future.
n Again Gen. McClelan's trusting natur
S prevailed over the advice of his friends, an
. the treacherous conduct of Mr. Stanto
: was forgiven by General Mcclellan, only t
s be again more wickedly betrayed than evel
/ Washington was no sooner relieved, and tn
# President and his Cabinet safe, than by tn
= influence of Mr.. Stanton, General McCle
/ Ian was again removed from the comman
!. Of the army Of the Potomac, when upo
q the verge of battle, and ordered into retir,
~ ment.
e You call up the ghosts of the departe
l., soldiers. Be assured Gen Mcclellan
'f sleep will not be disturbed by them; br
l. what must be the broken slumbers Of tho.
n who are responsible for the tens of tho1
II sands lost bo Pope, and Burnside, al
r. Hooker, in attempting to carry out VIII
IL hundred and fifty thousand lost since Il
n 18th of May, south of the Rapidan; al
y what must be the dreams Of the Presiden
al who could amid the groans of the dyir
,e that lay upon the CORY field of Antietar
1t call for the singing Of ribald song?
,, In times like these we want some 9th
lc than the week and vacilating President wi
s. assured Mr.. Crittenden, and the patrio
,rr who accompanied him from Kentucky, tn
III they might go home and inform their flien,
TO that he would not violate their rights al
interests by any proclamation of emanc
~ patton. Before these assurance could
le transmitted to the people Of Kentucky, h
to promises had been broken, and just such
it proclamation, violating all those pledge
I'd was issued.
- If any State has done nobly, and earnt
re distinction for pure patriotism under Il
~ most trying, dreadful sufferings of this wa
s. in which u whole people have been dispoi
ed, families embittered against families, an
at members of the same family against eac
ne other, to that extent that harmony can me-
It, er prevail, it is the State Of Kentucky; ar
&C. if there was any one State that should hay
On had influence with the Administration,
a was that State. But her voice, amidst Il
to din and blood of battle, has never bee
at heard, or heard for the moment it was soc
ut lost under the influence Of Massachusett
DO aided by the demon yels of radical me-
Sc who cried out extermination, and in ii
ou same breath proclaimed higher law tha
to the Constitution, which they only denounC
ot as a covenant with hell.
IN The people Of the South are members
by the same national family with us; the
by must be brought back by continued fore
t. if they will not come back by consent, b
n we must respect their rights, whatever the
al are. There is no more power in the Pres
ne dent of the United States to control wha
in ever right of property there may remain
er them in the slave on the day on Whit
they lay down their arms, than the
ty is in the sheriff to insist that the poor Gu
of prit, who has violated the law in the mo
IN outrageous manner, shall be deprived
H. his food and his clothing prior to his exec
ne ton. The military authority of the Pres
u? dent during the existence of the war, CT
it apply only to personal property in the act
4 Of haa