Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1877-08-08
SOME CA SHIERING NECES
SARY.

We know but very little about mill.
tary science or tho laws OF war, but
viewing affairs at q considerable dis
tance from tho field of the recent on.
erations, we have come to the conclu-
sion that wholesome lesson might be
impaired to those who engage in iii.
ture wars, If little were done in the
eashiering line: when this bis! !s,spsl Z. war
Ex Exwxxyv-e<s-svs,ssussyeru1nn
u OF nhlsnng his California trip
this season, let him order q number OF
Courts Martial and send Tor those gal.
liant (2) members of the NATIONAL
GUARDS Of PennsylySSis, who deliy.
cred their guns and ammunition over
to the mob, and have them explain
why they performed this criminal act.
We are rather glad that the Radical
word National, instead Of State, as the
Democrats insisted that tho soldiers Of
the Commonwealth should be named,
is the title under which so many
"white feathers" were displayed The
taxpayers of this State have paid out
100 much cash for so little protection,
We are opposed to paying towards in
The shape of holiday soldiers, and now
ask some of those shysters who in time
Of peace sailed under a big name, to
rise and explain why their valor oozed
out at their fingers ends when they
came in sight of the mob. The editor
of the Philadelphia Times, in alluding
to this subject, grasps II in this way
"Somc military regulations have been
battered all to pieces during the briei
period of the existing war. General
French fell in the midst Of a parlor car
loaded with whisky bottles and beer
kegs, in West Virginia; Pearson went
down at Pittsburg, just as soon as he
saw the mob was in earnest, and now
there is very severe stain upon the
character for courage of Major Bufling.
ton, the commandant at the Arsenal
in Pittsburg. Whom on Sunday morn
ing, as has been amply reported in the
news dispatches, the Philadelphia sol.
diers, driven by an iniuriated mob
many times their number, applied for
admission to the Arsenal, tho com.
mandant refused it. The act has been
denounced as one of inhumanity and OF
cowardice by all tho leading newspa.
pers of the country, and Burlington
has caused something to bo printed in
his defense. He intimates that he had
no authority to admit the citizen.sol.
dlers to place of safety, even though
their lives were in jeopardy, as if the
discipline of the Federal army could
be made TO excuse such inhumanity.
Burlington further thinks that if the
soldiers had been admitted the mob
would have captured the place and
made use of the arms and ammunition
stored therej besides, the magazine
might have been blown up, in which
event Burlington would probably have
been lost and the world would never
have known--as it now knows-that
such man ever lived. General Brin-
ton, however, who seems to be rather
sturdy sort of soldier, does not propose
to let Burlington escape on such flimsy
preteEts, He says the place could have
been successfully defended against
mob twice as large, and has forwarded
to the Secretary OF War a iull state
ment OF the case, presented formal
complaint against tho commandant
and demands a searching investigation
Of the matter. This it certainly ought
to have, and if there is any chance for
Burlington to get out let him have It,
At present tho public condemns him
on his own statement"