Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-07-29
HALsTEAD's FAMOUS LETTER.
Tho Field Marshsps Opinion of Grant In
Front of Vioksburg.
OFFICE CINCINNATI
DAILY AND WEEKLY COMMERCIAL
Fourth and Race Streets,


Fourth and Race streets, Z
CINCINNATI, Feb, 10, lseS.
MY DEAR SIR; wrote you some
what fantastic letter the other day. But |
suppose is not now strange. write that
this morning TO send you copy of a
private letter have from our army In
front Of Yicksburg. 1t is from close
observer, who endeavors to tell the truth /:
"There never was a more thoroughly
DISCUS ted, disheartened, demorahzed
army than this is, and all because 1t is
under such men as Grant and Sherman.
Disease is dominating its ranks, and
while hundreds OF poor fellows
are dying from smallpox and
every other conceivable malady,
the medical department is afflicted with
dellrium tremeDs. In Memphis small
poX patients are made TO walk through
the streets from camps to hospitals, while
drunken doctors ride from bar-rooms TO
who're houses In government ambulances
How is IL that Grant, who was
behind at Fort Henry, drunk at Donelson
surprised and whipped at shiloh, driven
back from oxford, Miss, is sill in com.
mandgn
Gov Chase, these things are true. Our
noble Army OF the Mississippi is being
wasted by the foolish, drunken, stupid
Grant. He can't organize or control or
fight an army. have no personal feel
ing about 1t, 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 OF Sumner would be an improve.
ment upon the present commander Of the
Army of the Mississippi Will you wake
up some OF these days and lind we have
no Army Of the Mississippi
Then, there il awful dlscouragement at
the way the foolish old Hunter, who is
thought to be great man because he is
not insane In his preiudices on the negro
question, is doing In Gods name, what
is he waiting for? More reinforcements2
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
weakened hourly by desertions II Is the
great evil. The thing needful TO stop II
is for the president to give each com
mander OF departments power to shoot
deserters. They must be shot by she
dozen. The presidents weak, pulling,
piddling humanitarlanism Is death and
hell to the army. Can't you take him by
the throat and knock his head against
wall, until he Is brought TO his senses on
the war business? do not speak wan
tony when | say there are persons who
would feel that IL was doing God service |
TO kill him, II 1t were not feared that
Hamlln is bigger fool than he Is.
And yet the pltiful congress twaddles |
weekly in private caucus about political |
as II little more niger would |
do everything. Why don't they pass
your finance measure, and the conscript |
act, and mind their own business2
The proclamation Is positive nui-
sance TO every truly loyal man in the
West. 1t Is weapon in the hands OF the
Dutternuts. II 1t is made party test
yallandlgham would be elected gov
amor OF Ohio. Do not. think am talk
ng at random. Alas know what am
.alking about. What is wanted:
/. A general for our Army OF the Mis-
ilssippi,
2. Desertcrs shot by order OF com.
handlers OF departments.
8, Less dependence on the niger end
more on the white man.
4. The consolidation of the fragments
If regiments.
8. Arrest and try Henry May and Wen.
iell Phillips for treason.
G. Suppress the New York Tribune and
New York World. M. HAfsTEAD.
GOV. " Chase,