Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-10-01
A RadicaI,s Love for soIdiers-Tbe

A Radicals Love for SOIdiers--The
ISLANDERS of n Shoulder Strap.
We clip from the Morning Journal of yes
terday,, the following, just as it appeared
In thatsheet:
The eDEMoCRATIo Pow-Wow COM
lMENcEDs-Probably for the,frst time in her
history, our city was yesterday disgraced
by political parade on Sunday. About
l30 or f40-me under a blue flag bearing
the words white Boys in Blue" headed
by drum. and fife, marched down High
street about four o'clock for the purpose of
meeting VOORHEES, and Pendleton at the
depot. These persons were mostly Ger
mans and Irish, and claim to have, been
soldiers. 1t is possible that they may have
hung about the army for short time, but
they have foreuer forfeited their title to the
name of American soldiers by doing hom-
age to the men who will be known In all
history as the Arnolds of the Great Rebel
lilion. 1t was eminently fit and proper that
these fellows should violate the establish
ed customs of Christianity while stOoping
to this dirty, work. 1t twas rumored that
500 Gray Boys in Blue from GAINESVILLE
would, arrive on the train with VOORHEES,
and Pendleton. They came, making q
grand display OF just Is men," sa-.ts 3, .,
| The false, malignant and Pharasaical
spirit eviuced in the above is characteristic
of the paper that publishes it. 1t was
terrible desecration of the Sabbath for SOL
diers to visit ouroc city on Sunday to par
ticipate in celebration on the invitation
of their brethren in arms, when the ar
rangements of the railroad trains were
such that they could not arrive on Monday
in time to join In the professions. The sheet
that thus characterizes it, is printed on
Sunday night--thes article, itself was writ
ten on Sunday and the same day it was put
in type. We find no fault with this fact,
for, on all daily papers which publish on
Monday morning, a, portion of the writ
/ ing and the putting of articles in
type, and the press work has to be done on
the Sabbath, but we do object to a paper
so printed, acting the Pharisee, and its
editor. fresh, no doubt, from church, COM
mencing his labor by falsehood and slander
and insinuatioa, even baser, than the false
hoods themselves, tfor these are always the
result Of a craven spirit, protesting to re-
gard the, Sabbath. OF such is NOT the
Kingdom of Heaven, but rather. of that
other place, not to be named to ears politics
The writer. of this was in GAINESVILLE
when the Boys in Blue accepted an invita-
tion ito osend ten representatives to meet
their late comrades at the mass meeting in
Columbus. The fact was telegraphed to
the Franklin Boys in Blue. The number
of visitors was subsequently, augmented to
thirty three times the number expected.
Therefore when the j Journal says there were
.iust fifteen" the military editor of that pa
per stated falsehood, and wrote it and
pl inted it on Sunday. siSle -7pdi al.i
The insinuation that the franklin Boys
in Blue were not soldiers but merely camp
followers. comes with an ill grace from a
man, prete nding to be a soldier. He
knew it to be false. This covert falsehood,
the basest, meanest, most contemplate of
the batch, comes from one whose only claim
to military distinction is the commission
that political influence, not merit, gave
him, and who, as an officer. took care to get
no wound, while the braver, better men he
commanded, were periling life and limb
many of them fillinga nameless grave;
while he, and others like him, unless cash.
iered for cowardiee, get the spoils, the
glory and brevet commissions. 80
Among the men thus traduced, were
those who. because of the eincompetency and
mismanagement of their officers suffered in
Southern prisons, and starved at A nderson-
vile, and because they were reduced to
mere shadows of their former self, for want
of food, the Government for which they
foll chit would not exchange for the reason.
as Mr.. Secretary STANTON said, he would
not swap well men for skeletons. And
men such as these, are traduced and called
camp followers by Brevet Gen. Comfy.
For such a man to slander brave mem
for such a man as Gen. Comfy to insinuate
that men who bear on theirperson enduring
marks of the battle strife, in the shape of
wounds which crippled and disabled them,
and to do this too on Sunday, is character
istic or the man, and of the sheet he edits.
Nor is this the first time that Brevet
Brigadier. has done the same thing. It
seems to be the nature of the man, andT in
that he acts like natural. Gen. JACKSON
once, In speaking of favorite servant,
said, "ToM will speak the truth, for Tom
is brave man, and a brave man aoon't lie"
Tried by, this, Gen. Comfy must be one OF
the most consumate towards that ever dis
graced a. commission, for we have shown
that he has stated falsehoods, willful and
deliberate, to slander as brave men as ever
shouldered musket, in defense of coun-
try's rights and a country,s laws.