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Parson Brownlow On The Conduct Of The War

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
January
Year
1863
Copyright
Public Domain
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Parson Brownlotv, in a letter froin Washington to the Ciiioinnati Commercial, writes : I give it as my that we oan"t íiirlit a successful battlo in the vicinity of Washington. Oommanding Generáis are here forced to yield themselves up to the guidance oí tho weak and ultra, and to a set of men who know nothing abüiit military affairs. Pclitical charlatans and one-idea radicáis pitch in and cry "On to "Richmond !" thus sacrificing th.ousands in the field who bring their lives as an offering for their country. The speotaele of so many Union Generala quarreling among themselves at a time like the present is a disgracaful one for tho country to contémplate. I ara willing, and so are the people, to make fair and reasonable allowance for professional jealousy, but the constant charging and recrimination of military leaders leads the people to suspect that 'cither the gratifieation ol their. vanity is a matter of more importanee than beating the rebels, or that they thomPelves dtsirc to keep out of afighl, ns a tneans of' personal eecurity. There are now no less than six. Major Generáis whose conduct is the subject of courts of .inquiry, and others are talked of. McClelluD is, it is alleged, tho only General who has been deposed frotn comniand without demanding a court of nqüiry, and al! parties are applauding him for it. The people aro sick of all these quarrelc, and feel that there is do time now for listening to the disputes of .these captious officiers. I say bring their infernal eqtlabbles to a elosfi, and send them into tho field to fight rebels ; and if they bjive no ötomai:hs for this, let them resign, so fhat the jipverumeot ma} no longer have to pav their high salaries.

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Old News
Michigan Argus