We have just had an interview with a gentleman of high
character, who lives in Hopkinsville. He
says that he heard a lieutenant in the rebel army speak of John C. Breckinridge
as a common drunkard. His intoxication
was so frequent that he was hardly ever able to perform his official
duties. On one occasion a party of
soldiers were sent to destroy some liquors in a doggery, but Breckinridge
ordered the liquors to be brot’ to his quarters, when he indulged in a drunken
revel. When his command was ordered to
march on Rochester, on Green river, he pretended to have rheumatism so badly
that he had to stay behind at Russellville, dead drunk. The rebel Lieutenant added that the
Confederates had lost all confidence in him, and regarded him with mingled
distrust and contempt. Alas for human
ambition and folly! A few brief months
ago, he seemed the petted child of fortune, and to-day he is a detested and
despised traitor, groveling in the very gutter of disgrace. – {Louisville Journal.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, March 8, 1862, p. 2
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