The Portland daily press., 1872-08-27
Greeley's Military Partisans.

Greeley's drill sergeants, after many menac-
ing hourishes of their truncheons, have whip
ped in squad of military gentlemen who are
in favor of Anybody-to-beat-Gran They
number thirty-seven, and they are arrayed and
right-dressed in Il single column 1.-THE Tribune'S
editorial column in way which cannot fail to
strike terror to the hearts of all who confront
them. The roll is made up of such illustrious
names as Hancock, the Pennsylvania martinez.
and perennial Presidential aspirant; McCIer-
nand, of Illinois, whom Grant relieved for in
competency and characterization in front of the
enemy in Northern Mississippi; Fitzpatrick, the
Blatherskite who disgraced the nation at Lima,
as Cassius M. Clay did at Russia, by the parad-
the present tears of these two;) Pleasonton, the
d scharged and disappointed Revenue Conn.,
missioner; Blair, the Missouri marplot drunkard,
and wouid-be nullifier of the Constitution;
Buell. the disaffected, who was utterly unable,
during the war, to satisfy the people which side
drum major of tAndy johnson at Doolittles
Philadelphia Convention; Banks, the hero of
the Red River retreat; Slocum, the partisan of
Andy johnson in 1866, and a man with the
seventy-seven years itch for Office; Schurz, of
whom the only record to be found in the 800
pages of Greeley's "AmericantC Conflict" is that
at charlottesville division was sforced
back upon the position of General Schurz, it
was found that has division had already re-
treated-perhaps fled is the apter word-a,d
abortiue. "-Greeley's American Conflict, vol
II, p. 357:] Mcclellan, gentleman who quit
fighting in the middle of the war, and ran for
the Presidency on surrender pplatform, with,
however less disastrous effect on the national
cause than his generalship had had while he
was arrayed on the Union sde;-these, to-
gether with such illustrious military ehieftains
a General l. n Stiles, of Chicago; General
Robert w. Smith, of Illinois; General Conrad
Krez, of Wisconsin, and dozen others whose
names equally illuminate the pages of history,
make up the Tribune S valiant squad. All! we
have forgotten Provost Marshals Palmer of
Illinois, and Hascall, of Indiana, at the latt.-r
of whom the whole Democratic sparty of the
Hosier State was bowling like million hyenas
when, in 1868, he trained his cannon on the
convention of that party in indianapolis.
But wherefore do we find no mention in this
roll of the Greeley forlorn hope of that distins
guished hero and battle-scarred veteran, Major
General G. Augustus Haviland, the poet lau-
reate of the campaign, and the fellow laborer of
Mr.. Greeley in the production of the "Chappa-
qua Songster''? His name would add luster to
this already brilliant roll; yes and symmetry,
too, since General Smith has to train in the
Iribuncs columns without any rear rank man
to make his file complete. Will Major General
Win the drill sergeants flourish menacingly
their truneheons' to keep these obstreperOus
Generals from quarrelling in the ranks, as the
most of them have been in the custom of doing
ever since they donned their shoulder straps?
Will the squad right face without doubling, in
order to make the column "string out" well, Ia
term and a maneuver not known in the tactics,
we confess)? And will the musicians strike
up the following tune from ''Greeley's Cam
paign Songster," in order that these Union
Generals may keep step to the music of the
Confederacy? s.-.. %
"I'm a rale ole Reb, with but one leg left
And I'm afraid cannot raise as loud yell
AS when followed jackson through the Blue Ridge
~ cleft, 4<
t. Or stormed in the ruins of Fort H.
'"- CHORUS.
But the old yell comes, RI
Though silent are the drums:
Whoo-Hoop!
(Gray column in IL yanD
For the first of the Yanks
Who, after we broke ranks,
Behaved like an uncle and man.
Inter Ocean, b.