| Show WHITELAW REMI while wo we are giving to our renders readers a series pc ries of articles on oil tile the republican record of the last four year iivo involving irvinc n tile the many public scandals which 11 have abc marked tile the lion linn of benjamin irarra II arrison soll we will NY not sligh 0 thiB running mate 11 heid le d the republican publican nc candidate fur for vice president 13 at present the editor and the proprietor of the new ne iv york tribune and it lid was formerly connected c with the gazette gazelle of cincinnati ohio during tile the civil war this journal politician did his fighting figlia tin 0 with vi ith liis his pen 1 ell believing it to bs be mightier iiii elitier than his sword this was well i vol enough but liis his energy vr was as directed aaa against hist thoc whose cause lie pretended to espouse ile iio criticised criticized mr lincoln severely and proceeded to attack grant gran t and other oilier union generals with more than usually characterized his slaughter CD of the enemy so far lid did this knight 0 of the quill go 0 in trying to expose every alleged allege 0 mistake of general grant in order weaken the administration it iu tile eyes of liis his readers that ono one day lie published in direct violation of a 1 promise something told him in confidence fi As a result he war arrested and escorted out of the lines on 01 the change of revealing re vealin 0 important information to the enemy this little incident may hava on y 3 to sharpen the pen ile of his criticism says bays tile world correspondent at any rate lie wrote up ill tile battle of pittsburg landing under date of april 14 1862 in a manner which reflected severely on the generalship of grant lie ile declared the hie attack of the rebel forces to be a complete su sti grant dollied denied this in ill the most emphatic terms whitelaw reid responded ridel on april IS 18 1862 by casting insinuations insinuations upon alio moral character of the great reat commander these arc his exact D words as published in the gazette Ga elle it if ft worthless officers had biad attended 1 to eu forcing this eort of discipline as the regulations require irstead of paying euchre all aal drinking lri iliin whiskey tile baloi of 0 f the men inen murdered in their r tents that sunday morning not no noa be rest amr on 0 u 1 I 1 cir heads lint but itis it 1 is cliatt fi stir ea fiers fie ic rs TE till pro of attack took no visit oisille to inca measures to prepare tor for it I 1 have hare heretofore spoken of uen gen graut grant a saying ii a earl early is as friday frail ay iy that clial ile he thought an attack cry iery probable kumi knowing ing tile forces orvea at corinth Corint li mil anti that thai liis hig troop thus wore between bet cen an overpowering euena ili in front and a jeep deep river in ii I 1 lie rear frob probability ability of attack was certainly set ious to demand preparation but chit the war correspondent did not confine his conta contumely niely to sold nold aers alone lie took the administration to task for its method of conducting the war ire he would take from lincoln ill all tile the glory of emancipating anci the slaves by thi 3 letter which ho he wrote from froidl washington 1 I C july 29 1862 Cor congress gress lias has accepted tho asue fill an at one lilje lis has decided the extinction of slavery avery in the cotton 1 state Is tho manly enough to fico face the inevitable result now or must we spend a few more inore scores of rn millions illions anti anil sacrifice a few incisi D thousand of lives only then to start in at the at lucli w we now stand wa s all know how mr clr Liti lincoln colit maits n aits for the popular demands to push him forward mr lincoln is willing will ilig ellough 11 that otan theis ia shield take tile bi lity 0 lie ile lias scrupulously avoided ardern ordering ig the mayes to be enit enlisted and armed but gen on hunter flouter ig now paid to leave increased liia his re i betit of them to a whole brigade whiff whity the ident complacently looks on oil in commenting on the appointment of gen II alleck as comman der in iii of the reid saul said that tho the action WAS a i confession of error in attempting to fight so long with out a military lead head but it was lone done whitelow whitelaw says in fucali a shrewd manner as to reflect no discredit on oil Lin lincoln colit where it should 11 havo avo rested mr leid i in this letter of july 24 1862 said further till all this is practice it would acet certainly ceita do honor to the pleading I 1 cal ing in in 11 illinois lawsuit whether it is ill 1111 to tn the rif rd tin nil em at ta e states man hip nl at HO trying a crisi Is is a buos tile tion aliat deffet cut wen N ill ainger dif ji in ili another letter written from washington july 28 tile the present republican candidate cand idilo fur for vice taid noone no one needs to 0 o lie told that tile the presidents courte has lit ay iy to alie iol puli ny evol of tile pa parl rt ibid faw lio aie not now eat isel that but fur that 2 arlicy r icy the var itar might light by this time be endea rn lil mr hai nil all the time li il iloie influence over the president arcs than any other ancin berof liis cabinet Cn binet coi soral SM alive lve denion tion liv by the dent atle mortification ot of ill disapproval of allun hunter te r the persistent promotion 1 roi notion 0 of f trien like cuel who are ra inous among tor for their apal in protecting robel property than in moving against rebel armies to the impo ilant c com 0 M manon tile threatened note latoof of the con I 1 act anti and tit alic halting manner in ill bich provision liaa has been made by aro iro clai nation for carrying out its brov i ions iong it might lie be said tho hand of jf job b is ig in this thing thine S st cretney seward reward his mark was wa visible in every one armin again 0 mr hei rem 41 expressed his disappoint disappointment mentin in Lin colins sti PU cess as a 1 president on dec 12 1862 lie ho wrote tito the president gave fill brorn promise csc of nl at the start but the iho pei for innace hardly matched the piot niEc his J is letters to deml Ie ml 13 ania yen nen orleane oric ine adil 1 tile report that norfolk and nil tho surrounding counties unties ro ot of eastern V virlina argilla are to lie exempted frum from tile Ol operation crAt of 0 the tire aro carelia care lil stances there is n no lei igina that ti a lew felt it eels litre Jian idt a markli n aled change that tatt the Poes president ident is raa dually backing down 11 in ili another week thc jhc 1 precocious whitelaw had lost all patience in the C great lincoln and on oil the of december 1862 in ill a letter describing ill 0 burnsides defeat at freericks burg burlie said it little to fir far f ir as tile people was concerned concern etl or history concerned NN hal burnside did or atiat Il allock ilij did the administration had in its hands tile the means to insure success with those meins in its lianda hands it il failed we were viere ie defeated it it was wai self damnation again and acain tile the administration had exhibited exhibit feebleness when hen tile die time demanded R strength th it II has now low demonstrated its folly bolly in council and imbecility in action it other letters reid characterized lincolbn Lin colin as weak and wavering and declared that lie must either eatn her reorganize liis his cabinet on resign i mr Lincol ns imperturbable good humor hilmor annoyed the fierce safe distance fighter 0 very much and so 0 o lie he wrote on oil the lay day of april 1833 als alas for the lie people in ill tile the midst of a 9 1 eat I 1 tion u lien their ruler is a joker reid tried to force mr lincoln from tho the ticket after liis his in 1864 his efforts revealed in his letter published publish edin in the JOURNAL time ago dut but lincoln remained on and was elec ed cd explained it on oil nov 17 1804 in this way there was no personal enthusiasm men voted for the causland cause cau seand ind not for mr lincoln three fourths of tile the leading speakers it at the alio could not have lave been induced to give ive tile tho administration their I 1 we will have maia to OUN 1 1 acid |
