Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-02
MURAT HALSTEAD.
I'm 1868 Tie Gives His Opinions OF
Grant and sherman. Whch
Are Not Favorable.

September 2sth, 1885. we take the iol-
lowing letter. In Ohio it is creating
great sensation. and is generally an I'M
welcome document to the Republican
party:
OFFICE CINCINNATI DAILY AND WEEKLY
CovyrRc1A1,. FOURTH AND RACE STREETS,
CrScrySATr. February 10th, 1S63.-Gov-
ernor Chase-My Dear Sir: | wrote you
n somewhat fantastic letter the other day:
Rut that suppose is not now strange.
write this morning TO send you copy oil
n private letter have from our army IN
front of Vicksburg. 1t is from close OBJ
server. who endeavors to tell the truth.
''There never was more thoroughly
Disguised. disheartened, demorallzed
army than this is, and all because 1t IS
under such men as Grant and sherman.
Disease is decimating its ranks, and while
hundreds of poor men are dying from
smallpox and every other conceivable
malady, the medical department Is al
flicted with delirium tremens. In Mem
phis smallpox patients are made to walk
through the streets from camps to hos
pitfalls, while drunken doctors ride IRON
bar-rooms to whorehouses in government
ambulances. y y How is it that
Grant, who was behind at Fort Henry,
drunk at Donelson, surprised and
whipped at Shiloh and driven back from
Oxford, Miss, is still in commando
Governor Chase, these things are true.
Our noble army of the Mississippi is be-
ing wasted by the foolish,
DRUNKEN, STUPID GRANT.
He can't organize or control or fight an
army. have no personal feeling about
it, but know he is an ass.
There is not one among the whole list OF
retired heterogeneous who is not Grants
superior. Mcclellan, Fremont, Mcdowell,
Burnside, Franklin, even Pope or Sum-
ner, would be an improvement upon the
present commander OF the army OF the
Mississippi. viii you wake up some of
these days and find we have no army Of
the Mississippi?
Then, there is awful Encouragement
at the way the
FOOLISH OLD HUNTER,
Who is thought to be great man be-
cause he is not insane in his prejudices
ON the negro question, is doing. In Gods
name, what is he waiting for? More re-
Inducements? Pity he can't die and get
]
But to stop this sort OF growing and
come to something more practical.
The army west and east is being weak
ened hourly by desertions. 1t is the
great evil. The thing needful to stop il
is for the President to give each com.
mander OF departments power to
SHOOT DEsERrERs.
They must be shot by the dozen. The
Presidents weak, pulling, piddling hui
manitarianism is death and hell to the
army. Can't you take him by the throat
and
KNOCK HIS HEAD AGAINST THE WALL
Until he is brought to his senses on the
war business? | do not speak wantonly
when say there are persons who would
feel that it was doing God service
To KILL HIM
If it were not feared that Hamlin is q
bigger fool than he is.
And yet the pitiful congress twaddles
weekly in private caucus about politica
matters, as ii a
LITTLE MORE NIGGER
Would do everything. Why don't the,
pass your finance measure and the con
script act and mind their own business
The proclamation is positive nuisance
to every truly loyal man in the West. Il
is q weapon in the hands of the Butter
nuts Ii il is made party test Vallan
digham would be elected Governor o
Ohio. Do not think / am talking mt ran
dom. Alas! / know what am talking
about. What is wanted:
/. A general for our army OF the Mis-
sissippi.
=. Deserters shot by order OF command
ers OF departments.
3. Less dependence upon the niggel
and more upon the white man.
4. The consolidation OF the fragment
OF regiments.
3. Arrest and try Henry May ant
Wendell Phillips for treason.
6. Suppress the New York Tribun
and New York World.
NJ. HALsTEAD.
This letter is talked Of everywhere AM
the Republicans are in despair. Halsteat
has been shouting and roaring and way
ing the bloody shirt and wanting to figh
the war over again. He has been doin,
the hardest kind of work for Sherman
and Foraker and now this letter is mad,
public convicting him OF the mos
venomous abuse OF Lincoln, Grant ant
the Union generals.
Halstead admits that he wrote the let
ter, but has not much to say about il
Indeed, there is not much that can be
said,
Arrival