Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-09-02
gDailD ARGUS.
THE MULDo0N LETTERS.
Ambrose Elizabeth Rurnside.

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ljus. after the battle Of fredericksburg
Fellers, Pil bet a canteen of whisky can
tell bigger lie than any man in the Army
Of the Potomac if you will let me tell first"
| Done" cried several patriots.
He risked it on this:.
Burnside is the greatest general Of the
war"
Perhaps you know of some civilian who
can beat that, Mr.. Editor bat none of that
group Of bareback eaters felt equal to the
task.
They knew that Bunny had the knsck of
producing more widows and orphans on the
wrong side of the Potomac than any other
general; but he was hardly believed to be
the greatest general of the war, and instant
ly twenty canteens we're profered the men
dacious sergeant, with
"0h we'll pay"
We can't beat that"
You see | know Burny. And since he
has rushed to the front of the field Of poll
ties, as was not his wont with Hancock ce-
lerity on the field Of battle, | would fain pay
him the respectful homage of the peaceful
heavy artillery.
Bunny has issued an address to the SOL
ders and sailors of the last war asking them
to come up to the support of Leet and
Grant and to make it valuable and effect
i've in the Pennsylvanis campaign he calls
his veterans together at Pittsburgh in Sep.
TEN Der.
And despite the English of this literary
war fragment, like his fighting, is a trihe
desuhory-but then you csn'texpect great
soldier to know much English they only
teach horse ct West Point would skiTm-
ish briefly Herewith.
Bunny says he calls his convention for
the purpose of expressing our unreserved
belief that the destlnies of this country for
she ensuing four years should be under the
pro ection OF men who Iever faftsred il
the hour of our country's greatest danger.
l don't think quite get your meaning
General?
g. The expression Of your "unreserved be
lief would undoubtedly Iroduee as much o
q sensation as the bray of an army mule
bat if you could manage to bring your re-
served belief into action the country would
60 frantic with political Joy.
By the "destinies of this country" you re
fer, perhaps, to the management of th,
Custom house of the port of Providence
although ''ihe destiuies of this country 70
The ensuing four years has so much O
, vsgueness about it no fellsh can tell per
cisey what you do mean.
, Your slusion to the men who never fall
= cred is not excessively modest; but is az
aud pat.
!. You, probably, refer to the supportin
party under your command which did no
support the colored brigade when it hs
charged into the crater after the mine eA
plosion st Petersburg.
= ~
still, it reflects your locality, and entir
willingness TO serve your country in al
office
So does this: "We believe that me
n should be placed n high positions of ssEl
who in the hour of our greatest peril gsN
L tha. intellect, personal reputation, and pc
sonal faith in the business Of our cau'
..t which was necessary to save the country ar
place US in the position we now occuPy.'
las Buruy, aren't you bit mixed on yo
skirmish line?
With one stroke OF your dsshing pen 81
say you want chance to express your 50
reserved belief" in convention, aud with t
- very next you kill English after a mann
calculated TO remind US of those Army
the Potomac procl&matlons with which y
we're wont 10 declmate the Confedera
army.
y Don't you think you pay Grant an ri
- com pliment, when you talk of ''intelle
personal reputation, and faith ~
g Was it not quite commonly believed ii
John A. RawiIns furnished most of Gran
tne intellect in the field
II. Was it Grants personal reputation q
Iov faith that reduced the Confedersey, S
r ea would you have US infer that the loss Of S
I nO -
Pi- in less than a month, had nothing TO do W
it?
sU Grants personal reputation
. 60 lightly there, Bunny, or You will {
turb the ghosts of NancOaver's Island,
Louis, ana GAiena, or the skeleton OF Il
. room into which this man with a perso
reputation was locked for three days By
AdiutSnl-G ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
- Il were better for you to bubble like tn
a "Who has shown so much skill in condI
4 ing our foreign affairs, that we now ssan'
peace with the whole world ?"
Bunny, this is too bad. think | b
you crying cut: "Oh that there were sc
y one here to write me down an ass ?"
= At peace with the world
Had we not sucn peace when c-srt
tered the White House?
And what has since hGr ooraS that r.
NV possibly result in war ?
the A. peace with l. world.
no" can VIC Se otherwise WhatIar
US? '@'
8 4d which one of the foreign nations
loud you contract to crush?
Know you not, Burny, that England
q twisted us, as If we had been an old g
~ to her full iikingP That Spain has Su
US: that Russia, once friendly, is now
M and indifferent; that Prussia hates
u. Fran CO despises us for our double de
and mercensry treschery In the matt
= arm during the French end German
- Eewsboys, printers devils, and N
laaeous children know these things
= yet you pirate of Grants diplomacy.
Bat you ought to be tied, to the
} wheel of caisson for this: ave b
that it will be source of pleasure t
Ts who batted for the Union 10 meet once
and revive the memories Of our old
Mol paigns.'
IGkOi You do? DO you believe it will
source of pleasure to those who surviv
- with to the widows and children of those
To- did not, to revive the memories
d Har- slAug liter pen at Fredericksburg?
Piano Bunny, if Yoa wish 10 get up revi'
'h'ne'' that sort, go into the nearest graysyar
read few inscriptions. or ask of tn
"'c''eS cripple you meet-never mind his
organ-where he was hit.
Cn ladn If you are still nnsatisfed you can
that morning when Franklin, Badly
to 5000 Brooks, Hooker, and the great and 9
ETs to old Summer went to Abraham and sa
couldn's ace it any longer under the
llcAs@ Island prodigy; or that other morning
descrip- Massachusetts men, instesu of cheer
,rmation groans and Kisses.
y es 20 ny ~ With these sugges' .ona you may
g to get up few lrst-olass memoirs
~ might try.
i-dwiy am c." ashamed 10 remind you, Y
thai ,.ere are veterns who don't han
E2zzzs So .ch memories. who are sick OF sueh
e. fres, aod sick Of all military frauds
&C on such memories.
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