Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1866-10-05
4 WHITE FEATKER sOLDIEB.

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Col. Reid claims to have induced
, about 600 men. to wit the 12lst Regi
ment, to assist in crushing the rebellion
While persuading these persons to enlist
he certainly believed our cause might be
successful But when he get down into
Kentucky he found an army of Demo
Gratis under Democratic chieftain nam
ed Bragg, and at Perryville he discover
ed, perhaps much to his astonishment,
that these fellows were bent on fighting
He found they we're plentifully sup
piled with pistols, muskets, and cannon
with which they unhesitatingly shot at
Union soldiers, and shot very earelessly,
he found thatthe bullets and shells fred
By these misguided Democrats made
horrible noise much to the discontinue
of a man Of Peaoeable proclivities. To
be brief, Col Reid became convinced BY
these violent demonstrations that the war
was failure-yes, bloody, a horrible,
an intolerable failure. So he says to the
brave men of the 121st: Il perceive
you are in a bad serape. You can never
whip these fellows. I wish you were all
officers so you could resign and 60 home
You are tied here. but am more fortu-
nate. shall go home" And home he
went, and we next hear Of him commin- /
Cling with birds of the white feather In 1
SWeetser's grove at Delaware. We find /
him there proolaiming to the people Of
Ohio in language which insults every
sO OldIar of fba rrlo-so,,C A - q IL ~
berland from which he had Just come,
that all their efforts to prosecute the
war had been failures Donelson, Vicks-
burgh and Shiloh had been failuresl Stone
River, Chattanooga, Resaca, New Hope
Church, Kenesaw, and Peach Tree Greek
had been failures Antietam, Gettysburg.
md Spotsylvania, had been failures, said
JoL Reid And he was a pretty judge
Who Is biguously claimed to have been
n only one fight Heroes of Stone s
River what do you think of It'll What 2
hink you who carried the flag up Mis- Z
ion Ridge and Lookout
But Col. Reid went farther. He sent
rord to his regiment that no more re- a
ruits should be sent them, no more mon a
= spent to furnish them supplies. He
lreatens the men he ad himself taken S,
} the field with starvation and defeat Al
lie tells them they cannot whip the rebels, i
nd the sooner they hang out the flag of
uee the better. He goes farther,-he Sc
the enemy He tells them Sc
le doctrine of State Rights-that is, Sc ca
.sslon-is correct, and that coercion Is
constitutional He tells them that g
yles of money and men to sustain the II
MON armies shall be stopped He -
lis them our Government is incompe Il
ut and cannot subdue them! How such =
must have cheered the hearts r.
the traitors who were at that moment h.
ing hardly pressed in their citadel at ~
lanta
And IS not this strange record to sup =. ~
It claim to the sufrages of the loyal -
'pie of the Eighth DlstrIct Are not VI. :. :
.se strange qualifications for a soldiers ~as
Ldidate? ? If Col. Reid is so blind as to ~
pose the loyal soldiers and citizens g.i
o stood by the flag all through the ma
at struggle, and who were both so ~.
mefully abandoned by him in the vor
nday of their trial,-if he supposes 1Io
these will now turn around and trust tn J
again he will be severely undeceived per
Tuesday next. NOT