The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1885-10-06

A Prominent Republican Ed
itOr, abuses Lincoln and
Grant, Shamefully.
"Rebels" and "COpperheads''
Thrown into the Shade. Some
Fine Reading tor Republican Edi-
tors.

! lhtO buO JHduCs SoIIse
Fine Reading tor Republican Edi-
| tors.
CINCINNATI, o Sept. 27.-The sensa.
ton here TO-DAY was the publication 10
the K quirer f fac smile letter of NJ.
Hal tesd, edit Of the Commercial Ga.
,tte, written in 1868, aud making the
most monstrous charges and assertions
about Grant. Lincoln and the Union
G nerals The publication of this let
ter has fallen like bombshell into the
Republican camp and has
ABB oLUTELY STUNNED
the party leaders. The letter occupies
the whole firs' page of the E ,qrirer and
is reproduced 10 fac smile. The letter
is as follows:
Office Cincinnati Daily & Weekly
Commercial, Fourth and Race,
Streets, {
CINCINNATI. Feb. 10, 1863
Gov. CHAsE.-My Dear Sir:
l wrote you a somewhat fantastic let
ter the other day. But that suppose is
MT now strange. l write this morning
to send You copy of private letter
have from our army in front of Vicks-
burg. 1t is from a close observer, who
endesvors to tell the truth.
"There never was a more thoroughly
disguised, dsheartened, demorslized. ar
my than this is, and all because il is un.
tier such men as Grant aud Sherman.
Disease is declmsting its ranks, and
while hundreds of poor fellows are dy-
ing f ON small pox and every other
conceivable malsdy, the medical depart
ment is aff1 cted with delirium tremens
In Memphis small pox patients are made
to walk through the streets from camps
to hospitals, while drunken doctors ride
from bar.rooms TO - houses 10 gov.
eminent ambulances. How is il
that Grant, who was behind at Fort
Henry, drunk at Douelson, surprised and
whipped at Snilob and driven back from
Oxford, Miss, is still 10 command ?"
Governor Chase, these, things are
true. Oar noble army of the Mississippi
is being wasted by the foolish,
DRUNKEN, STUPID GRANT.
He can't organize or control or fight an
army. I have no personal feeling about
it, but know he is an ass.
There is not among the whole list of
retired major generals man who is not
Grants superior. Mcclellan, Fremont,
Mcdowell, Burnside, Franklin, even
Pope or Sumner, would be an improve.
ment upon the present commander of
the army of the Mississippi. Will you
wake up some of these DAYS aud find you
have no army OF the Mi,sissippi2
Then there Is an awful discourage
ment at the way the
FOOLISH OLD HUNTER,
who is thought TO be q great man be.
csusa be is not insane in bis prejudices
on the negro question, is doing. In
Gods name. what is be waiting for
More reinforcemen,s Pity be can't
die and get out OF the way as Mitchell
did.
But to stop this sort OF growing and
come TO somsthing more practical.
The army west and east is being weak.
ened hourly by iesertions. 1t is the
great evil. The thing needful 10 stop it
is for the president to give each com.
mander of departments power to
"a, SHOOT DEsERrsRs.
They must be shot by the dozen. The
presidents weak, pulling, piddling hu
nanitarianism is death and hell to the
army. Can't you take him by the throat
and
KNOCK HIS HEAD AGAINST WALL
until be is brought to his senses on the
war husiness9 / do not speak wantonlv
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 8
bigger fool than he is.
And yet the piti'ul congress twaddles
weekly in private caucus about political
matter, as il
LITTLE MORE NIGeER
would do everything Why don't they
pass your finance measure and the con-
script act and mind their own business ?
The proclamation is q positive nui.
sance to every truly loyal man in the
west. 1t is weapon in the bands Of the
Butternuts. II il is made party test
Vallandigham would be elected govern.
or OF Ohio. Do not.think am talking
at random. Alas! l know what I am
talking about. What is wanted:
l. A general for our army Of the Mis-
sissipp.
2. Deserters shot by order of com.
uanders cf departments.
8. Less dependence upon the niger
and more upon the white man.
4. The consolidation of the fragments
Of regiments.
5. Arrest and try Henry May and
Wendell Phillips for treason.
6. Suppress the N.w York Tribune
and New York World.
M. HALsTEAD.
This letter is talked of everywhere
and the Republicans are 10 despair. Hal
stead has been shouting and roaring and
waving the bloody shirt and wanting to
fight the war over again. He has been
doing the hardest kind OF work for Sber-
man and Foraker and now this letter Is
made public convicing hin Of the mt st
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