Evansville weekly journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 184?-18??, 1848-07-20
HENDERSON, JULY II. 1915
Committee Irritation.

INDIGNATION OF THE RETURNED VOLUNTEERS
PROCEEDINGS oFTHE VOLUNTEERS ABOARD THE
STEAMER NJ. B. HAMER.-The New Orleans pa
pers publishes the following card and says the
volunteers are returning home indignant at
the manner in which they are to be discharged
They expected to be discharged at the first port
in this country and TO be allowed there their
pay and mileage, that each might return home
on his own way or go and settle down wherev-
er he wished. Many of them had determined
to fix themselves In the West, aud not 90
home for year or two. But, not being able
10 get their bounty lands and mileage at New
Orleans, they were compelled to submit. The
volunteers aboard the steamer Hamer, from
Baltimore and Ohio, on their way from New.
Orleans to Louisville, adopted'th following
resolutions. Out of 1873 officers and men, l35
signed the proceedings;
On BOARD THE STEAMBOAT M. b. HAMER,
New Orleans, July 3, 1913.
At meeting of the officers and men attach
ed to the volunteer corps and returning from
Mexico, convened on board the steamer M. B.
Hamer, Capt. Nj. X. Taylor was called to the
chair, when the following preamble and reso-
| lutions relative to the character of the recent
orders for their transportation, were unani-
mously adopted:
| We, the undersigned, officers and men of
theyolunteer corps, attached to the commands
hereafter designated, and on board the steam.
| boat Nj. b. Hamer, on our return from Mex
! leo, cannot. in common with other volunteers
withhold the expression of our sense of the
I u icbx bn,-
aggrieved. Directly contrary to all former
/ precedents, when volunteers were disc harged
at the next seaport in the enemy's country, or
the first landing place in the United States,
and their remainder pay and mileage disbursed
to them, we have been shipped for those points
whereat we were mustered into service, with
out more regard for our health or comfort than
is usually extended to slaves or cattle, three
or four men being crowded iuto the space
which should have been allotted to one. Nor
could this distressing arrangement be obviated
by any violation ofour own. We had TO en-
bark in such vessels as were designated by
Government orders received at New Orleans;
and as the stated pay accorded to officers and
/ men while in Mexico, where exhorbitant pri-
ces are charged for the commonest necessaries
of life, rendered economy futile, the disappoint
ment originating from being defrauded of oul
mileage, and for the pitiful purpose of saving
a few thousand dollars TO the National Treasu
~, has but intensified our distress. Add tC
this, that many of US, non-commissioned off
GERS and men, have to journey to our homes
4 two or three hundred miles from those point.
where we shall be left by the Government
conveyances, without money, without shoes o.
Fclothing, and with broken health, like vagrant.
or beggars, covered with rags and shame, and
dependents on the precarious charity oil
.rh h1try,
ton liberal mileage or even timely dis
bursal of our Legitimate pay would have ex-
empted US.
The author of conduct so atrocious, whether
he be Gen. Butler or President Polk, (and WI
consider them both equally culpable, the for
! mer being in New Orleans at the date referred
to above to second the execution of the abom
Unable order received from Washington,) we
must naturally hold in the utmost adherence
therefore,
RESOLVED, That we most Internationally de-
nounce the manner of our transportation from
, New Orleans, as anti-Democratic in every re-
spect, because deeply degrading to the citizen
fI soldier; and
Resolued, That although we have contribu
ted to the elevating into power of the pres
7 ent Administration, and expended our swea
and blood in fighting its battles in foreign
land, we shall earnestly do battleagainst it anc
all falsely styled Democratsat the coming cleo
ton; and
: Re8olued, That we shall use every legiti-
mate effort to advance to the Chief MagistTacy
of our country Gen. z. Taylor, whom we be
lieve TO be sound Democrat, a true patriot
the soldiers friend, the friend of justice and Of
equal rights. And,
RcsoLDed, That the Taylor papers throughout
the country give publicity to the above pre-
anlble and resolutions.