Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-03
Why the Brevets SIander and
Cheat the Boys in BIue.

Why the Breveis SIander and
Cheat the Boys i'm BIue.
Why is it that the .'Brevet Brigadiers.'
are so down on the soldiers? There is no
good reason for this, unless indeed it is be-
cause the soldiers are down on the Brevet
Brigadiers. -..,...-
Brevet Brigadier Comfy publishes pa
per, which he, and another Brigadier who
fought, bled and got rich in the Paymaster
Department, edits-the latter writing the
articles and the former copying them.
These Brigadiers abuse the private soldiers,
who still go for the Union, as grey backs
in blue-white feather boys, as Jail birds
and Penitentiary convicts-thus SANDER
ing the men who did the fighting. while
they and other shoulder straps got the pay.
The Auditor of State is shoulder strap,
in one respect different from the twins of
the Journal. He did not sknlk danger, for
he was wounded-the twins of the Journal
never received scratch in battle-yet this
Auditor Brevet Brigadier has no love for
the private soldier, or if he has he takes
strange way of showing it.
The law says taxes shall be collected for
the benefit of the INDECENT soldiers and the
widows and orphans of those who fell in
battle. The Constitution says that when
taxes are raised, the money shall be ap-
piled only as the law creating the tax de-
clares to be the purpose for which it is to
be collected. -g.. !ss-..4t -si l,f. J..
The Brevet Brigadier, who is Auditor of
State, reported that there were near six
thousand families of dead soldiers in Ohio
unable to support themselves, and in the
same report he recommended taking the
major part of the money raised for their
relief and using it for another and differ
ent purpose, and the Legislature that pass
ed the Negro Suffrage Resolution gave this
Brevet Rrigadier, as Auditor of State, the
power to make raid on the Treasury. and
to sequester this money, and he did it. 2.
The crippled soldiers unable to work
the widows and orphans VIII ose protectors
are buried in, nameless graves on some
battlefield or in hospital yards, are now
left to starve, and while they are suffering,
and anticipating the dreary winter before
them, ill-clad, ill-fed, houseless, homeless,
unless they find a home in the County
Poor-house, this Brevet Brigadier is ask
ing the people to re-elect him to the office
that enabled him to thus take from the
Soldiers Relief Fund, $sO0,0O0 of the
money raised for the support of the Grip
pied Boys in Blue and the families of the
dead heroes. -z5- fat 'if-
No man ever did wrong to human being
without hating the man he injured. That,
perhaps, accounts for Auditor GoDMAN's
dislike of the soldiers, and as soldiers some
times tell tales which show up officers in
undesirable lights, perhaps that accounts
for the dislike the twin Brevet Brigadiers
OF the Journal-the one who writes the
editorials and the one who copies them to-
make the ,compositors believe he wrote
them himself-have to the Boys in Blue
who still go for the Union, and believe that
they are of better race than all the ne
groes of the earth combined. f-
If these are not the reasons why the
Brevet Brigadiers SANDER the soldiers, and
cheat them out of their just dues, what are
they? Quten sdbe? '.'