Year: 1873

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SIR An article of yours, whic h
recently appeared in the Charlotte
On. g. Home, Of which your are edi-
tor, find going the Mounds of the
newspapers, in which you make an
attack upon the character OF the late
General Candy and ether. diseased
officers of the United States army.
In this editorial you do me the honor
to bitterly denounce ms. say honor,
for l esteem it an honor for any man
who has been loyal to his country
to be black guarded and vilitied
ty you. Were | so unfortunate
as to be the recipient of your COM
mendation, l should feel like exclaim.
ing, as did Socrates, when applauded
by bad mar like yourself, What
crime have [ committed p.


Yon exult over the death Of the
brave Candy assassinated by savages,
and attribute his death, with that Of
Abraham Lincoln, Edwin NJ. Stanton,
George II. Thomas, Professor Mahop,
Of West Point ex-senator Preston
King. of New York, and the late Sena-
tor Lane, Of Kansas. to retributhon
of God, because in the late cruel war
they opposed the effort to destroy the
government of the Unitod States.


You say Of General Candy that
while he was in command at Richmond
Va. he personally superintended the
hanging of.a white man by the thumbs
Tor kicking an insolent negro" Now
this is your version of Canby's con-
duet, and the whole editorial you have
written breathes so fendish and brutal
q spirit as to make you unworthy of
credit, Besides this, General Hill,
the whole life of General Candy gives
the lie to your assertion that he did
anything vulgar, inhuman, or unbe-
coming high toned soldier. Candy
was man of marked ability, and IA
christian gentleman, as well as a model
soldier. [ am mot prepared to deny
that within Canby's department.
whiteman was tied up by the thumbs.
While he was commanding at Rich
mond, nero, under the constitution
of the United States as amended,
which Candy was sworn to support,
was entitled to all the rights and pri-
vileges of other citizens. AS West
Pointer and an officer of the United
States army before the war, and you
know that to tie malefactor up by
thumbs was common mode Of punish
ment in the army, and Candy failed
in his duty if he made distinction be-
tween criminals on account of race or
color in meeting out the pains and pen
alties required by good order and mill
tary discipline.


While as matter of form and duty
as Department Commander, Candy
would approve the verdict Of military
cour inficring just and necessary pun
sihment upon criminals violating the
laws it was its duty to enforce, he
was above being his executioner. The
management of the details be left to a
man of brutal instincts. like yourself.


Now, General Hill, while your are
falsely accusing General Candy of
brutality, I propose to enlighten the
world as to your military record.
While in command in North Carolina
during the late war, twenty six white
men were tried on the charge Of being
loyal to the United States no other Of
Tense being alleged against them. They
were put on trial late in the afternoon
and, by the verdict of drum head
court martial acting under your orders,
all were hanged till dead, before break
fast the next morning, without even
the benefit of the clergy.


Are you nor beautiful specimen to
assail Candy on the score of brutality !?
I can think of nothing so supremely
ridiculous, unless it would be for you
and your friend Captain Jack to write
treatise On civilization, for distribu-
ton among the Ku Klux of North
Carolina. Indeed, if I did not know
that you were in North Carolina, I
should inter from the brutality of
your assault on Candy, Thomas and
others, that you were in the lava beds
when it was written, and that the ar
ticle was a joint production of yourself
and Captain Jack.


Your assumption that the death of
the noble George H. Thomos, by ap-
oplexy, and the sudden deaths of Lin
coin and other loyal men are a retri.
button of the Almighty for the side
they took in the late war, could be in
inspired only by the malignancy born
of disappointed ambition and the spirit
which possessed the devil, the founder
OF secession democracy, of preference
70 ruling in hell to serving in heaven.


| am happy in the belief that thous-
ands of the honest masses in Tennes
see, North Carolina and elsewhere,
who were misled or coercei into re-
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