The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1864-06-25
The Information cliven'

/ Thus il will be seen that no practical
| Joke was played off in this instance. II
| tho Carion's assertion is right, il is quite Al
easy matter to be proven, for we presume
| that the writer Of the article in which il
lisfound can obtain free access TO the sen
tence OF the court. If the .sentence 81
the court shows that he was. cashiered FOL
some other crime let II be published, and
the question will be settled. Until this
Is done, the ClarioR will excuse us and the
public for not believing its statement
For our part, IL is the first time we have
ever heard he was cashiered for anything
else, .....
The above elegant extract is from the
Mississippian. We had let ID pass as un-
worthy ofnetice. Tut as a correspondent
has thought fit 70 reply,we givehis letter
hoping the subject will not again be
obiruded upon rs: srr
s-~ lcoLUSBus, Miss, June "a, 1864.
EditOs Clarion; Although brave and
true men goto their graveslike beds,
by. scores day after day upon the battle
fields Of the country, while their fall is as
unnoticed as that of withered leaves,
find that you and the editor of the Mis-.
sissippian are wasting much time and
space upon q man of suspected patriotism
A plain story will put the matter to rest.
Lyon was court rnartialed and found
guilty Of conduct and conversation detrimental
70 good diseiplinss This he kncw when he sta
ted in his letter to the Mobile News, that
he had been conscripted, &C., for wri-
ting the Thompson Letter" Heis con-
stantly putting himself before the coun-
try in q false attitude. He wrote TO Mr..
Wright, of Georgia, and assumed the tone
OF q ,ci.lag vetcyan Of the 48th Mississippi,
whiloin fact he was an uhwilliag conscrirt
of that regiment. He did not say in so
many words thathe had shared in. the
dangers and trials endured by part Of that
regiment from the time Of the organiza-
ton Of /" the End Battalion, !" but by di-
rect implication, he claims to have done
SO. Was this to be expected from one
who talks SO necessarily about "justice,p
" truth" "prayerful thought and the
return Of Judgment unto righteous
ness?" According to the statement4of
Col. Manlove, Of the 4Sth--who,. on ac
count Of an old school-day intimacy with
y, telt favorably inclined towards him
he never done days service in the reg
iment, and failed to take part in the
affair at Mine Run, where he had an OK
cellent opportunity to attest his patriot
ism and redeem his name. All the time
he was engaged in the endeayor to get
out of the 48Jh, and at last. he obtained
from the President permission to choose
another command In other words, the
President pronounced that portion Of the
decision Of the court martial which con
scriptcd him, nullity, and early in the
Spring lin March, l believe gave him
until the first Of May TO choose regiment
in which to serve. The first OF May
came, and he had made no selection. He
then obtained from Gen. Polk another
respite until the 10th Of May. The 10th
came and passed, still he could not de
eide where he would go. Then com
menced his game Of hide and seek with
the Provost Marshal of Columbus. lie
fingered and dallied there when the
struggle for national existence was mo
nentarily expected to begin in Georgia
md Virginia. While the, best and bra
rest Of our land we're dying by thousands
,ro dfis ct focis, hswas evading the orders
which he repeatedly received from the
Provost Marshal TO repair to the army
At length, under perem-
DRY command, accompanied by an ASST
ance that his presence in town would
lot be tolerated any longer, he started
or Georgia, not BY the swift route Of the
abroad but on horseback, intending, [
hen he reached the army, to obtain a
ransfer from the infantry to the cav
Try.
This is plain, simple relation OF the
lcts in the case, yet Lyon, or some one
n him, has made the impression on
lie editor of the Mississippian that
Q had willingly and periodically,
ithout being obliged to do SO,
ken his place in the ranks Of John,
on's army.
This is the man over whom you and
le editor Of the Mississippian have been
aking 50 much ado of late. Say moth I
g more about him. He has made rec 1
d which shpald satisfy "the dearest
Q" he has son earth. Let him alone.
VERlrAs. II