| Show THE RELATIONS OF OFFICERS AND MEW MEN it was a very proper rebuke maich president li arrison administered to I 1 the officers with whose 77 1 1 military por per mie mission sion and under whose authority private wilds incensed lieutenant wa en enabled abbed to veil vent t h his is person personal a 8 spite pi le against that freethinking free thinking and somewhat high spirited soldier the govern men not pay its defenders 13 a month to act as its hired men to freh fresh lieutenants neither loes does it pay its lieutenants or captains majors colonels etc their res respective ve salaries for brutally the men they are employed to command com manil at the same time it is to tar be hoped that bat file he presidents order will not have the effect to make the men rebellion rebellious against proper discipline or captious in their 0 presumption of authority to decide which orders from their officers shall be b obey obeyed d and which shall not there is a prospect that for some time to come there will be a great deal of 0 this sort of thing impudent and ignorant men will be inclined to show their swaggering contempt for officers whose decisions they have learned may bo be overturned petitions in behalf of I 1 soldiers eol diers who think them themi elvea wronged written either by those victims or 6 by zealous friends will crowd the r Preel dents post office box and a recital of the contente content 0 the petitions 1 will burden the tile newspaper new paper columns I 1 jas las a nation our oscillations if it the expression may be allowed go too far wo we allow matters to proceed and be pushed to the limit in a certain dire direction cLion until all at once we see that they are a national scan dal and then than the revulsion of feeling is so owe sweeping that we crowd them back far beyond the per perpendicular le until they aro are as far short of righteousness in this direction as they 0 were beyond it before much I 1 harm is done and much substance and anti time are wasted before the equilibrium is 4 again reached 0 As to army discipline and find army abuses the line of distinction im in between the two is too broad to be mistaken absolute obedience is he file first 8 sity in the one and it must be rendered without reluctance and without any sniveling for the correction of the tile other one such order As that of the tile president Pre eident in the recent cage of r lieutenant steele ought to be enough to last for a good many years |
