The National tribune., 1891-05-21

Comrade H. c. Linss Rcp,Irs TO Comrade W. l..
Gardner.


Comrade H. c. Linss Replies TO Comrade W. l..
Gardner
EDITOR HATIoNAL TRIBUNE: donot make
practice OF answering criticisms up0n
Others. especially when the Others are 80
well able 60 answer for themselves as are Com
radcs Buell. aud =" Cath, but the illumination
by w. J.. Gardner Co u 10th Ohio Second
Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Corps Olga. q. !"
is 80 unjust and uuCaicd for that am impclIed
20 send You my protest ] am q Republican.
and yield 20 none IN my utter dctcsiatign Of
the traitors who defeated in their attempt TO
destroy the Ini0n, took solemn Oaths Of fealty
90 the Constitution amendments and all, in
order 10 get back the citizenship they had
forfeited, and Coolly broke aud are daily break
ing, those Oaihs by their course toward the
freedmen and loyal white men Of the South.
Feeling as / do ] should be pretty sure 10
note anything iH The Caunoucer" deserving
the ccusure Of Mr.. Gardner The following,
ID brief, are his criticisms Of the story:
lst. Tho after absence Of any expressions
Of patriotic zeal, or 81 devotion TO the cause Of
the Onion. lie tells the stories Of battles as if
they had been prize fights" etc
When boy Of Buei's age ~ years. Just
from college, with the home, aud the family,
and social surroundings that were his, volun-
tarly gives up AT 20 serve as a private soldier
in the cause 81 the Onion" il requires few
expressions from either his pen on tongue
90 prove hls devotion 90 that cause Bows who
stood without liuching m Stewards guns I'd
Gettysburg where 40 Of their comrades were
Shot down beside them, need little other evil
dcncc Of patriotic zeal"
"a. lie tells the stories Of battles rs III they
( had been prize Gght." / ask every comrade
who hns read the Caunoucers description Of
/ Gettysburg aud the other battles in which lee
was engaged 10 read that assertion with the
book before them
81. cruising the courage and endurance Of
the rebels often and cordial rs he does that
\ oil bis own comrades lie is lust 10 the rebels
They were Americans, imAucd with American
spirit and they exhibited % courage and en-.
dHTaucc that has been rarely equaled in al
tie annals Of warfare. Bitterly as ] detcst q
continued traitor, ! cau Doc jHst to The Southern
. people, aud can read The story Of Pickett
charge with glow al admriug pride IN the
misguided men wHo made b. for il was the
bravcsi charge ever made by soldiers, and wa,
made by Americans 40 European tro0p,
I could have reached llc point where Armisteat
ieiif no European line could have Tepulsel
that charge
4th. His iHysrablc reference 10 Confederate
official reports, when everyone knows that
these were always either false or incompicte
or bolh Perhaps one person in 80 through
out the United States has heard or read tia
those reports are incomplete and very Offer
unreliable. learn from the "Cannonecr
that they are incomplete, bug DO not know
that they aTc always false OF incomplete. IN,
field reports al Gettysburg aud elsewhere wcr,
undoubtedly as correct Hs such reports could b.
made. and tIc only possible data for estimaiini
the rebel strength aud losses must be thos
reports That D. the most childish, silly, un
reasonable criticism ] ever read.
Tho criticism of The lnel Beams" Is on
par with that OF the "CaunOneern Why n
should vent his spleen at +" Gath il puzzle 1
me. llc don't like Fuei Beams" Perhap
others Of his mental caliber do not Ike il, bu
judged by every rule az literary criticism. th
story 10 a good one.-H. Z. LINES, Great Bend
Pa