Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-03-21

first day of the new year, planted his
banners at Murfreesboro' in torrents of
blood, and in tho moment Of our extrem-
est peril, throwing himself in the breach,
saved by his personal valor the Army of
the Cumberland and the hopes Of the re-
public? 1t was General Rosecrans. From
the day he assumed command at Bouliag-
Green the history Of that army may 1e.urtt-
ten in one sentenee-n aduanced and main
tanned its aduaneed position, and 'ts last
campaign under the general 1t loued 'eas the
bloodiest and most brilliant. The fruits OF
Chickamauga were gathered in November
on the heights of Mission Ridge and
among the clouds of Lookout Mountain.
That battle at Chattanooga was glorious
one, and every loyal heart is proud OF it.
But, SIR, it was won when We had nearly
three times the number of the enemy. 1t
ought to have been won. Thank God that
it was won. I would take no laurel from the
brow of the man who won it, but l would
remind gentlemen here that while the bat
tie of Chattanooga was fought with vastly
superior numbers on our part, the battle
of Chickamauga was fought with still
vaster superiority against us.
Chickamauga, be it remembered, was
the termination Of the "great cam
paign," whose object Mr.. Garfield points
out so clearly, and the substantial sue
cess " of which "against overwhelming
odds " he pronounces unexcelled in the
war. To Rosecrans in this speech he
assigns the high credit Of organizing,
disciplining, and leading the army and
planning a campaign which resulted in
the most substantial success of the war.
1t was ROsecranS whose personal valor''
saved "the hopes of the republic. :"
Under him the army advanced and
maintained its advanced position '-this
army, whose commander, he had written
to Chase, lacked live and earnest de-
termination -" to make its power felt
in crushing the rebellion" And " this
last campaign in which he had written
to Chase that Rosecrans was 'singularly
disinclined to grasp the situation with Il
strong hand" he declared seven months
later on the floor of Congress was the
"blOodiest and most brilliant " Of an
army whose history was one continual
advance and maintenance of disposition.
The disparagemento of Rosecrans in the
Chase letter, and the eulOgy of him by
the same person in the congressional
speech, are as utterly irreconcilable as
Mr.. Garfield's profession of love for and
fidelity to his commander are inconsist-
ent with his act of maintaining a CORES
rondence with 4 cabinet officer rhich lc,l
to that commanders rcmOral.
II it be true, as is alleged, that the
letter to Chase was followed by another
from the same source, in which, referring
to Gen. Rosecrans at the battle Of Chick
amauga, Gen. Garfield said his brain
became crystallized - this second letter
can still less be read in the light of the
speech in Congress without convicting
their author of perfidious double-dealing.
Certainly the persons and newspapers
which are now trying to defend the Gar
| field Chase Letter by aspersions on Rose
Grams and his conduct at Chickamauga,
and which praise Garfield for effecting the
removal of general whose 6 heart was
not in the cause" will be silenced by the
production of Gen. Garfield's speech, de-
Iivered when he was fresh from the
scenes to which he refers, and which has
; a tone Of frankness and truthfulness that
does not pervade his mousing letter to
Chase.
In the wealth of honors which are heaped
upon Grant, lot it not be forgotten that
Lancaster too has street named for him
Alas. it leads from the lookup to the
jail.
PHILADELPHIA journalism has a right to
indulge in self-laudation. The history of
the Times is a seven years war" and an
amplitude Of triumphs over manifold mu-
nicpal corruption. The Record razed tho
bogus medical colleges to the ground, and,
with the Press, did good work against
graveyard insurance. The Press has routed
the detective thieves, exposed bogus
license sureties and fought other good
fights. There is plenty yet to do for all.
ALREADY there are cheerful souls, peep
ing out Of garrets and sitting astride CHM
neys in the submerged regions of the
Mississippi valley, who declare that "at a
very early day the floods will be subsiding
everywhere, and as usual it will be found
that the crop-bearing capacity Of the whole
region has been materially benefited by
them." This view of the situation is,
however, more general with able New
York editors than with their professional
brethren whose editorial rooms have been
washed up into the forks of the cottonwood
trees.
HENRY WATTEEsoN's article in the
April Century, on oddities of Southern
Life " is very much the same as the lect-
ure which he delivered once in this CITY,
The story of the killing of McKissick and
of Billy Drivers SCARED neck is the same
which Proctor Knott first told in private
company in Lancaster and Watterson
afterwards related in his lecture. 1t is too
good to ever get stale, but it loses some
thing in print which Knott and Watterson
give it in their telling by their peculiar
twang. Knott's inimitable description of