The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-02-09
THE DAILY EMPIRE.
n. n. ROBINSON,
PUBHSIIER AND PROPRIETOR r
"They Went Up Like Rockets and
d s Came Down Like Sticks"

The following article, respecting very
large proportion of the officers who played
such high tricks before high Heaven, and
disgusted humanity during the war makes
many haiJ hits and has innumerable per-
sonal applications. The reader can scarce
ly fail in detecting in it some one of his
shOulder-strap acquaintances to whom 1t
is personally applicable. It is an extract
from the Lacrosse Democrat:
We lave before us map, studded like
plum pudding with pufied up raisins, with
pictures of Generals who went up like rock
cts and came down like sticks, after an er-
ratio career. They went up from the posi-
tion they have fallen back TO. They shot
| athwart the sky, sputtering their fire, terri
| flying the dcfencelcss, exploding at their al
titnde falling dark and with n heavy thud
back into the obseurlty and into the marshes
so to speak, from whence they were by po-
| litical petards hoisted up.
Look at the list of officers Major, and
igadier-generals, and see how theirglory
has paled before the fires of events. How
they strutted the hours away, issuing windy
proclamations, robbing the defenselcss, i'm
prisoning the unfortunate, stealing cotton,
mules and silvcrware; mobbing and ar
resting those always their bctters and
swelling into mammoth proportions on pay
thdy never earned-on battles they never
| fought--on conquests they never won--on
benefits to the country never rendered.
| They went up without merit or honesty.
They came down without praise or glory,
and are looked upon as photographs of
some horrid dream, fit only to stain with
terror the ugly legends of a flnatical past.
Not all the officers are thus, but alas too
many. They come and 90 on the streets,
attracting no more attention than nigger
or army mule. They lived too fast. Their
taper blazed too rapidly. Their timber was
worked too green. They were but the tools
of an erring, tyrannical power, and the
people, true to the instincts of liberty, have
already forgotten them except with curses
and ignorings.
A few of these parlor robbing heroes still
drag out u miserable eXistance, but the
great list of upstart generals are no more,
The war has siftcd brave men to the top
and shook the refuse of humanity, deemed
fit for use by the late administration, to the
bottom. The war has given us u few great
names, some good ones-many brave ones,
but more failures. Some generals who
never could get south during the war now
go there TO "report' on the deeds of others.
Some are kept like cast-oG mstresses in
the pocket of the War OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
have sank back to their grocery, their
whisky peddling at the pOlls-tlieir lOafing
about stores aud saloons, their hunting af-
ter offices and struggle to obtaian bread
without work. The work of the hour Is
ended. The goods they stole have been
squandered. The memeRtoes stolen from
private houses-from the home-kept women
and children of the South have been
pawned for ribbons or bread, and down
into. the lap of oblivion, poor, worthless,
useless and forgotten sink the platter
Drained tools oftyranny the ebrass-mouthed
struts of darker days. How few of all the
many are now remembered except with
disgust.