Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-06-15
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Yesterday morning the 9th o. V. l.,
consisting of 328 men, arrived at Tod
Barracks. In the afternoon, they were con-
Quoted to Goodale Park, and partook of a
collation. at the tables under the trees. The
address Of welcome was made by Lieuten-
ant Governor Anderson.
Yesterday afternoon there arrived at Tod
Barracks the I2lst o. V.I.-279 men and
detachments from the 66th o. V. I.-155
men; from the 3sth O.V. $50 men; from
the 31st o. V.I.-9 men; from the 18th Ohio
BatterY-& men, and from the 9th Ohio
Battery-17 men. These were also taken
toSGoodale Park at 6 o'clock in the evening,
where they partook of an agreeable repast
at the well-furnished tables.
The excellent Band of the 22d v. r. G..
was In attendance, at the Park, and played
beautiful and appropriate airs. On leaving
the Park, after the exercise, there were
over, the Band struck up "Home, Sweet
Home" which greatly affected the return
ed soldiers who long for nothing in this
world SO much as to see once more those
beloved homes from which they have been
80 long absent.l.1yT ,qliffUIl,5j
After the evening collation. was over,
brief speeches were made by Gov. Brough,
State Treasurer Dorsey, Rev. Mr.. Byers and
Hen. Sam. Galloway. Whatever might be
said of the quality of these addresses, the
soldiers had evidently but little taste for
listening to harangues while as yet uncer-
tain when they would get their pay, and
be permitted to 70 to their homes. There
was. very little spontaneous. cheering, and
none OF general character, till after the
speaking was over, when three cheers, up
on call from the speakers stand, were given
forJGrant, Shermanand Sheridan, and three
for the Buckeye State. ....-, ,a,i ,-o. p;
There were some things in Treasurer
Dorsey's speech that were out Of place, and
did not appear to be at all relished by the
soldiers. The responses of approval, il any,
were few and very faint indeed. DR.. Dorsey
exhibited himself before these war-worn
soldiers as bitter and intolerant partisan.
He said, in his exordium, that while the
soldiers had been fighting rebels in the
South, he and the Governor (turning to-
ward Brough) had been lighting Copper
heads at home" and insinuated that for
this, he and the Governor were entitled to
quite as much honor, if not little more,
than The soldiers who had barred their bos-
oms to rebel bullets. ,-s.. -.E.
Further on in his speech referring to the
duties incumbent on the soldiers when they
become citizens, DR.. Dorsey pressed it as
one Of the first of these duties that they
should vote against the "Copperhead
party,r meaning thereby,as was clearly ap-
parentto every listener, that they should
vote against the Democratic party and for
his (the Dector's) Abolition party. By the
dead silence with which these instructions
as to their political duty, were received by
the soldiers, the partisan State official stood
rebuked, and would have been silenced, had
he any sense Of decency or shame.
The several detachments which arrived
yesterday, will remain at Tod Barracks, un-
til they are there paid off and mustered
out. The 9th and 12lst regiments went to
Camp Chase last evening, to be there paid
and mustered out. These newly arrived
soldiers, together with those that have
recently preceded them, especially the re-
turned prisoners of war, are so very anX-
ious, and no wonder that they are, for Their
payment and discharge forthwith, that it is
to be hoped every exertion will be made
as Gov. Brough promised last evening, fol
their immediate release, so that they may
20 on their way to their homes rejoicing.
In connection with the foregoing, we
learn that considerable dissatisfaction ex-
listed yesterday among the troops which ar
rived in the early part of the day, with the
reception they received at Tod Barracks
In consequence of the neglect or otherwise
Of Capt. Harrington, Commissary of Sub
sistence for Volunteers, there was not 9
sufficient supply OF soft bread, and they
were treated at the Capital of the grea
State of Ohio, on their arrival, with what
in army parlance, is called hard tack anC
so,o belly" This is not the treatment oul
brave Buckeye boys, who have undergone
the privations of the camp, the fatigues o.
long marches and the perils of battle, should
receive at the hands OF the authorities al
home. Fine compliments, and especially
partisan speeches, are no compensation fol
such shabby treatment. ..-.'re
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