Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-10-02
MURAT HALSTEAD.
In 1868 He Gives His Opinions of
Grant and Sherman, Which
Are Not Favorable.

From the Cleveland Plain-Dealer o
September 2Sth, 1885. we take the fol
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
COMMERCIAL, FOURTH AND RACE STREETS
! CINCINNATI, February 10Th, 1863-Gov-
ernor Chase-My Dear Sir: 1 wrote you
a somewhat fantastic letter the other day
But that suppose is not now strange.
write this morning to send you copy Oh
a private letter I have from our army in
front of Vicksburg 1t is from close OBJ
server, who endeavors to tell the truth.
"There never was a more thoroughly
disguised, disheartened, demoralized
army than this is, and all because it 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 af-
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 from
bar-rooms to whorehouses in government
ambulances. x X 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-
inu wastad bv tha 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. Will 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 preiudices
on the negro question, is doing In Gods
name, what is he waiting for? More re-
Inducements? Pity he can't die and get
out of the way, as Mitchell did.
But to stop this sort of growing and
come to something more practical
The army west and east is being weak
ened hourly by assertions. 1t is the
great evil. The thing needful to stop it
is for the President to give each COM
mander of departments power to
SHOOT DEsERTERs.
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 a
bigger fool than he is.
And yet the pitiful congress twaddles
weekly IN private caucus about political
matters, as if a
LITTLE MORE Niger
Would do every thing Why don't thew
PASS your finance measure and the con-
script act and mind their own business?
The proclamation is positive nuisance
o every truly loyal man in the West. It
weapon in the hands of the Butter
nuts. Ii it is made a party test Vallan-
llgham would be elected Governor of
ohio. Do not think am talking at ran
[om. Alas I know what [ am talking
bout. What is wanted:
L. a general for our army of the Mis-
issippi
2. Deserters shot by order of command
re OF departments.
3. Less dependence upon the niger
nd more upon the white man.
4. The consolidation of the fraoments
regiments.
.. Arrest and try Henry May and
Wendell Phillips for treason.
E. Suppress the New York Tribune
nd New York World.
M. HALsTEAD.
This letter is talked of everywhere and
he republicans are in despair. Halstead
as peen shouting and roaring and way :
g the bloody shirt and wanting to fight !
le war over again. He has been doing
le hardest kind of work for Sherman s
10 Foraker and now this letter is made S
lbllc convicting him of the most v
abuse of Lincoln, Grant and
e Union generals.
Halstead admits that he wrote the let tt
r, but has not much to say about it.
deed, there is not much that can be