Show rosecrans since the de deposition polon of gen rosecrans from the high command held by him as the head of the cumberland department efforts have been mad by sonic some of those capels which always laud the tha lisi lising ng sun still but cannot refrain from kick kicking afir a dead lion to lessen the gallant hero in the minds of the people we have noticed the statement going tho the rounds of the E eastern astern carping pi ess ass that Kose Rose cram erans had stated in a public speech at cincinnati that if he had received the forces he be might have hail bad lic he would have ir akca the back of the rebellion now such stich an exhibition of vanity and aso so alarin w an all attempt to throw the blame of a hii own shoulders shoulder rs on the i greatly surprised his bis friends and would have been highly improper in in one who had just been relieved from hi high 11 command we are gratified to find that the spec speech cl from which tile the miserable sentence was taken can bear no such construction as that placed upon it taken in the connection in which it WM was sai said ld great injustice has been done rosecrans in thus extracting a single sell sentence t a no a without als giving givin the context here is what he really did say t in his speech to the merchants of cincinnati taff f whole speech is a model of modesty and unpretending 6 patriotism and we i legret egret we have not spare room to P publish it entire speaking of tho the enslaved con condition aaion of the south ho he sa saad lah I 1 see sec that the best blood of the country is being acin shed in a war that the victims did not bring about the people deplore tile the war but they aie held by tile the neck tile the military power has got them under its heel you cannot therefore make peace with them tb alic a only way is to keep heel tightening ther the cords around them to get them so broken that the cot conservative people a ot the south can b help ip them sch cs this they na w ill not attempt until we ve throttle the military power powel then they will turn to the I 1 leaders and say we have had enough of this and will give it up lip accordingly 1 I seer see no hope except in prudently and ste steadily ally crowding upon theol them as we have been doing and tho the termination natii a of the astl aig at last ill ac be in it ca 0 with tile tl great interests of our country ind and the world applause I 1 had bad hoped within a year we could havo have accomplished the ic le of tho the rebellion I 1 will say in conclusion th that it had wo we received the for cos eight 11 weeks ago that wo ive ought to have had lia wo would have broken ther the back of the rebellion before now Is it not clear from the context that the obnoxious t tem remark rk oil out t of which his enemies have sought to 1111 condemn dellin him had reference to those copper heads who milo resisted the draft and those laggards of the north who fail failed ad to place in the field tha w soldiers ho much needed in virginia south carolina missouri and tennessee to enable the admill to crush out this accursed rebel liall Roos rosecrans cerans was no doubt relieved of his position in ift tennessee for good 1 camons lea sona but that removal docs not necessarily ills his and standing as a a patriot a soldier until then it shall appear that lie he ht his been faithless in bis trust or nc hesli gant of his hii hi i dumica ties let not the ill wrath of carping scandal cl seek to malign tho the fair film fame of tho the brave general who wl until overwhelmed by numbers only met the enemy to conquer him |