The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1885-10-08
THE HALsTEAD LETTER.
The Old Letter Which Ohio Democrats are
Blowing About.

OHlCe Clnclnnatf DAILY anu
Weekly Commercial, Fourth and
Race streets, Cincinnati, February
10Th, 1S63-Gov. Chase-My dear
sir: 1 wrote you somewhat fan
tastic letter the other day. But
that l suppose is not now strange.
l write this morning to send you a
copy of private letter 1 have from
our army in front of Vicksburg. 1t
is from n close observer, who en-
deavors to tell the truth.
There WAS never more thor
oughly disguised, disheartened, de-
moralized set of men than this is,
and all because it is under such
raen as Grant and Sherman. Dis
ease decimating its ranks, and
while hundreds of poor fellows are
dying from smallpox and every
other conceivable malady, the medi-
cal department is afflicted with de-
lirium tremens. In Memphis small
pox patients are made to walk
through the streets from camps to
hospitals, while drunken doctors
ride from bar-room to brothels in
government ambulances.
How is it that Grant, who was be-
hind at Fort Henry, drunk at Don
elson, surprised and whipped at
Shiloh, and driven back from Ok
ford, Miss, is still in commando
Gov. Chase, these things are true.
Our noble army of the Mississippi
is being wasted by the foolish,
drunken, stupid Grant. He can't
organize or control or fight an
army. 1 hsve no personal feeling
about it, bat | know he is an ass.
There is not among the whole
list of retired maj or-generals a man
who is not Grants superior. Nc
Cle.lan, Fremont, Mcdowell, Burn
side, Franklin, or even Pope or
Summer, would be an improvement
upoa the present comm ander of the
army of the Mississippi. Will you
not wake some Of these days aud
find we have no army of the Mis-
sissippi?
Then, there is awful discourage
ment at the way the foolish Old
Hunter, who is thought to be
great man because lac is not insane
in his prejudices on The prejuices on
the negro question, is doing. In
Gods name, what IS he waiting for?
More endorsements! Pity he
can't die and get out of the way
as Mitchell did.
But to stop this sort of gro Wing,
and come to something more prac
teal
The army east and west is being
weakened hourly by assertions. 1t
is the great evil. The thing need
full to stop it is for the president to
give each commander of depart
ments the power to shoot deserters.
They must be shot by the dozen.
The presidents weak, pulling hu-
manitarianism is death and hell to
the army. Can't you take him by
the throat and knock his head
against a wall until be is bronnght
TO his senses on the war bust
ness? / do not speak wantonly
when 1 say here are persons who
think that it was doing Gcd
service to kill him, if it were
not feared that Hamlin is a
bigger fool than he is.
And yet the pitiful congress
twaddles weekly in private caucus
about political matters, as if little
more negro would do everything.
Why don't they pass your finance
measure, and conscript act, and
mind their business?
The proclamation is a positive
nuisance to every truly loyal man
in the west. 1t is a weapon in the
hands of the Butternuts. If it is
made a party test Vallandigham
would be elected governor of Ohio.
Do not think l am talking at ran
dom. Alas! 1 know what 4 am talk
NC about. What is wanted:
l. A general for our army of the
Mississippi.
2. Deserters shot by order of
commanders of departments.
8. Less dependence on the niger,
and more on the white man.
4. The consolidation of the frag-
ments of regiments.
5. Arrest and try Henry May
and Wendell Phillips for treason.
6. Suppress the New York Trib
une and New York World.
M. HALsTEAD.