The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-04-22
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NUMBER XIV.

Lnore was desperate COnIllcG aG OtOHo
River, Tennessee, between the forces of
Generals Rosecrans and Bragg The troops
on both sides exhibited great bravery, and
fought with the determination of heroes.
In this fight Gen. Rosecrans' forces sus-
tanned loss of ninety-two officers killed,
and three hundred and eighty-four
wounded; one thousand, four hundred
and forty-one enlisted men killed, and six
thousand, eight hundred and sixty
wounded. Gen. Bragg had about nine
thousand killed and wounded, including
two General Officers killed. In this one
conflict of the war, nearly eighteen thou
sand men were shot down. We are proud
to say, upon the side of the Union, that
our fallen fell in defense of their country
but it is evident there were many thou
sands of those killed and wounded met
fate filled with ignominy rather than he
roism. Throughout Kentucky and por-
tions of Tennessee-for there were great
many true Union men in each State, eX-
traorinary efforts were made to arouse an
enthusiasm for the Confederacy. Pomp-
Gus declarations concerning Invasion by
the Northern hordes," and similar express
sions were indulged in by the Democrats
of that portion of the country, for the
purpose of arousing public sentiment
favorable to the schemes of the traitors.
But these attempts signally failed of their
object.
| AS a specimen of the regard in which
the high-toned Democratic traitors of the
South held the friends and defenders
of the Union, we give this little extract
| from Gen. Braggs's report of the Stone
River fight
ga hot and inviting breakfast of coffee
and other luxuries to which our gallant
and hardy men had long been strangers,
was found upon the fire, unserved, and
was left, whilst we pushed on to the en-
| joyment of a more inviting feast, that of
captured artillery, flying battalions, and
hosts of craven prisoners, begging for the
lives they had forfeited by their acts of
atrocity and brutality"
Strange as it may seem to some of the
young men of to-day, the opinion of the
Union Soldiers here expressed by Gen.
Bragg was the identical one expressed by
the Democracy of the North. The same
sentiments were expressed by the Democ
racy of Jackson County. True, the Opin-
ions held by many of these regarding the
| Union Soldier has been somewhat modi-
fed since then-just as the opinion of
Gen. Bragg was very materially changed
afterward, for these same "craven cow
ards" sent him spinning off of more than
one field at such speed that his horse
could scarcely keep up with him. The
towards" of Stone River were they who
assisted Rragg to get away from Lookout
Mountain and Mission Ridge. The ter
rible invaders who shocked almost beyond
endurance the people-or small portion
of the people-of the neutral common
wealth of Kentucky permitted Gen. Bragg
to view the elimination of the dangers
which were threatened according to the
prophecies of the Southern statesmen.
The only hope of success the Confeder-
acy could have, was in infaming the pre-
| judices of the people to the extent of a
bitter, uncompromising hatred toward
the North. Upon this hope was based
| the whole scheme of the conspiracy. The
men of the North were to be despised as
beings of an inferior civilization, to use
such term. The lazy Southerner, who
lived upon the product of the labor of a
colored man who was vastly his superior
i'll point of industry, was to be regarded
as the true type of citizenship in this
great, free, progressive land! This was
the teaching of the conspirators who Or
ganized the Confederacy-this was the
teaching of the Democratic party. The
people of a portion of the country were
educated to believe that anything which
did not tend to maintain their political
| supremacy was to be regarded as grounds
for destroying the Government, and slay-
| ing thousands of good and brave citizens.
Was ever a political party before known
to advocate such monstrous doctrine?
The Democracy which sneered through
Bragg's Report of Stone River, sneered
at the soldiers in Jackson County, and
throughout Ohio, and hoped that "the
Old John Brown Raiders would never
get back" All along the history of that
party it's precept has been bad-its exam
pie horrible.