Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-09-02
SOLDIERS or aa1a.

The surviving officers and soldiers of tbs
war of 1872, residing in the Reserve counties
met in Convention at Painsville on Tuesday Of
last week. They numbered about 250, and
ranged in age from 60 to 81 years, as appears
by a published roll of the names of the reter
ans with the age of each annexed. The object
of the meeting is explained BY the resolutions
adopted, which are given below. That tbs
claim they make upon the government is just
and meritorieus, no one with a spark of patri
otism in his breast will deny, but We think il
more than likely that most of them will have
answered to tie i" final roll call :" ere any suita
bic act for their relief vii be adopted by Con
gress. The bill referred to in the resolutions pas
sed the last House of Representatives by a large
majority tour worthy member voting for it,
but in consequence of the cutlery raised against
it by many of the journals of the Democratic
party, and the utter depletion of the treasury
by the present corrupt and profigate Admins
~tration, it was defeated in the Senate by being
buried in the deep recesses of a Democratic
standing committee, where it still reposes.-
The following are the resolutions:
RESOLVED, That the first duty of a Republic is
gratitude and generosity towards her gallant
Defenders in hours of danger.
Resolved, That a government that is able to
exPend S30,000,000 yearly to support a stand
ing Army and Navy, should not be too poor
to remember her aged and decrepid Soldiers
the men who in the vigor of their youth prompt
ly answered their Country's call, and bravely
sustained her rights when the enemy's fees
lined our coast, and his savage allies raised
their war cry upon her frontiers.
ResolUed, In the opinion of this meeting OF
Old Soldiers, that it is the duty Of Congress to
amend the Pension Laws so that those who
served the War of 1912, and their widows,
shall be entitled to a pension the same as those
who served in the Revolutionary War and
that where any of our comrades have been kill
ed in action, or died without receiving land,
the nation owes to their heirs, without regard
to age, if there be no widow, 100 acres ofland.
And it is the duty Of Congress to authorize the
issue of said warrants under the same condi-
tons as the heils of the Mexican War are now
authorized to receive and warrants.
ResolUed, That We recommend to the Old
Soldiers throughout the country to Eold meet
ings and to enforce this subject upon the con-
sheraton of Congress.
The Veterans hereupon adjourned for din
ner, after which several of their old comrades
made speeches, and the FOLLOWING recommen-
dation was offered and adopted:
We recommend to cur surviving comrades
and the heirs of those who are deceased, in
every State and county in the United States,
to organize and appoint competent and thor
ough men, who are not politicians, whose duty
it shall be to confer with the committees in
other States, and with all candidates for Presi-
dent, Congress, and the Legislatures of each
State, and ascertain the views of all candidat-
-es. and communicate them to every correspon-
ding secretary of the country. by circular let
tiers, and we hereby pledge ourselves to our
comrades to vote for no candidate for any such
office who is not known to be an open and a.
vowed friend to equal justice to the survivors
of 1912, and the heirs of those who are deceas-
cd