The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1872-12-13
SUMMERS "sTRyK1NG our, nEso-
LUTON.
ALBANY, Dec. 10, 1872.

LUTON.
ALBANY, Dec. 10, 1872
4 Editor Democrat
In the Congr essional proceedings
Of the 1st inst, the telegraph informs
! us that Mr.. Sumner had introduced a
resolution "to strike from the United
Estates flag and Army Register all OF
athe records of battles fought with fel.
low citizens" The precise purport Of
sMr. Summers resolution cannot with
acertainty be determined from the tel
Segram quoted above. Your cores
1pondent is not informed that the
4" United States flag" contains any
written record Of any battles fought
3during the late civil war, and hence il
Ills not likely to be defaccd by the op.
seration of Mr.. Summers resolution if
iii should go into effect. But how
about the Army " Register The
greatness (if any they have) of Grant
fisherman, Sheridan, and others, rest,
aentirely upon their war record "witt
stheir fellow citizens They, except
sSberman, are signal failures in every.
thing else; he, l believe, succeeded
flor time as banker. The tele
3graph may not have given us corrcc,
ainformation in reference to Mr.. Sum
sner's resolution. 1t may be some
athing else connected with the histor,
Sof the late civil war that the Nassa
.achusetts Senator desires stricker
afrom the files Of the war Office, and
mot the records Of the Army Regis
Ster." 1t may be that he would have
sblotted out the orders emenatine from
athe Secretary ofWar, in August, 1862
to Gen. John Pope, and perhaps te
1others, to "seize upon whatever wa.
Qgaecessary or c0nrenient for their com
smands, rit/io,@ compensation to tn,
sowners." Or, it may be, that Genera
1Popc's order that all non-com batant.
+ who could not give security for thei
L. loyalty" should be sent beyond tn,
federal lines and if found again at theil
5homes should be shot down" in cole
Iblood, may so disturb the tender
ss.consciepee of this humane and pro
aggressive Senator to that degree tba
4he would rather it should be wipet
Sout and forgotten. Or perhaps it i
general Sheridan's ms sterly cam
Rpaign in the Shenandoah upon non
ombatants-women and children
I when, to make conquest upon the Oh
Elects OF his attack doubly sure b,
Sburned scores of mills with their con
sltents of grain and flour, and almost az
4hundred and fifty barns with farming
implements, grain, hay, etc, that hc
1would like to have stricken from th,
Z Army Register. Or it may be some
thing connected with Sherman
s. March TO the Sea''-the burning o
& Atlanta and Rome, IN Georgia, ant
SColumbia, in South Carolina, with
sthe untold and wanton destruction
|ssof private property within the line ot
zhis widespread, desolating march
that has suddenly disturbed the sto
Isicism of this otherwise serene New
England Senator, and for the credi
aof the American arms and country h,
awould have its history expunged.-
4 Y our correspondent has not time mo-
sspace to refer to other and equal,
|,weighty reasons that may have actual
ated Senator Sumner in his laudabl,
Though it be illjudged) desire to hid,
atrom the rising generation the acts o.
4 the military, sanctioned by the civi
darm Of the Government, during on
Hlate civil strife-such, for instance, a.
Hthe seizure by the military and i'm
Hprisonment of about ten thousand citi
zens of the loyal States for no offeno
Z to the known law, and their ultimat
s. CELEBRATION without being informed o
Hthe cause of their arrest and deten
Htion. l would humbly suggest to tn
kSenator from Massachusetts that I,
strike from the records all scritte,
history of other events might be easi
s ly accomplished, but to blot then
from the memory of man would re
qnire that herculean effort necessar,
to strike the nooa-day sun from it
+ assigned path.
q BLUE MOUNTAIN.
n PRESIDENTS MESSAGE.