Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-10-09
Halstead's Lotter-the Monstrous
Document in Cold Type,
I From the Enquirer

WEEKLY COMMERCIAL,
CINCINNATI, Feb. 10, 1867
Governor Chase:
My DEAR SRI wrote you a
somewhat fantastic letter the other
day. But that l suppose is not now
strange. write this morning to send
you copy of private letter l have
from our army in front of Vicksburg.
1t is from a close observer who ell
deavors TO tell the truth.
"There never was more thorough
ly disguised, disheartened, democrat
lied army than this is, and all be-
cause it is under such men as Grant
aud Sherman. Disease is dccimating
its ranks, and while hundreds of poor
fellows are dying from SINAI! pcx and
every other conceivable malady, the
Medical department is afflicted with
delirium treinens. In Memphis small
pox patients are made to walk through
the streets from camps TO hospitals,
while drunken doctors ride from bar
rooms TO whore-houses in Govern
ment ambulances,
= How is it that Grant, who was
behind at FIT. Henry, drunk at Donel-
son, surprised and whipped at Shiloh,
and driven back from Oxford, Miss,
is still in command ?"
Gov. Chase, these things are true
Our noble Army of the Mississippi is
being wasted by the foolish, drunken
stupid Grant. lie can't organize oil
control or fight an army. l have nc
personal feeling about it but l know
he is an ass.
There is not among the whole lisl
of retired Major Generals man who
is not Grants superior. Mcclellan
Fremont, Mcdowell, Burnside
Franklin, even PoDc or Sumner
would be an Improvement upon thC
present commander of the Army Of
the Mississippi. viii you wake NJ
some of these days and find we have
no Army of the Mississippi.
Then, there is awful discourage,
ment at the way the foolish old Hun
ter, who is thought to be great man
because he is not insane in his preju-
dIces on tie negro question, is doing
In Gods name, what is he waiting
for? More reinforcements F? Pity hi
cart die and get out of the way a
Mitchell dill.
But to stop this sort of growing
and come 10 something more practical
The army West and East is being
weakened hourly by assertions. !
is the great evil. The thing needfu
to stop it is for the President to Civ,
each commander of department
power to SHOOT DESERTERS
They must be shot by the dozen. TIL
Presidents weak, pulling piddlini
humanitarianism is death and hell t.
the army. Can't you take him b,
the throat and knock his heat
against a wall, until he is brought I,
his senses on the war business !? | d,
not speak wantonly when say Their
are persons who would feel that i
was doing God service 10 kill him,
ii were not feared that namlin is
4 bigger fool than he is.
And yet the pitiful Congress twad
dies weekly in private caucus abou
political matters, as ifa little NOR
Niger would do everything. VIII,
don't they pass your finance measure
and the conscript act, and mind thei
own business?
The proclamation is a positive nui
sance to every truly loyal man in tn
West. 1t is weapon in the hand
of the Butternuts. If 1t is made ;
party test Vallandigham would b
elected Governor of Ohio. Do no
think l. am talking at random. Alas
know what / am talking about
What is wanted:
| |. A General for our Army of tht
Miss.
3. Desertcrs shot by order of com
manders of departments.
3 Less dependence upon the mig
ger, and more on the white man.
A. The consolidation of the frag
ments of regiments. -
5. Arrest and try Henry May ant
Wendell Phillips for treason.
6. Suppress the New York Tribune
and New York World.
M. IIATSTEAD