Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1864-09-28
From the South carollnIa,n.

MEssRs.S EDITORS: Your article in Sat.
urday s'issde, q Detailed Men," deserves the
utmost. attention. The subject merits The
most thorough ventilation by the indepsn'
dent ntpress.v Most of these "young, lusty,
ablebodied men," clerks and contractors,
have crowded the Government Offices ever
since the battleof Manassas. Thersst con.
|iaole themselves sith having =seens a few
months service in the beginning, when il
was mere play to be in the "tented field :
but as soon as real hard work commenced
they drew ii their. feeders and retired t.
their holes, where, they have! ever since
reposed Gum dignstats upon their laurels
|. growing fat and slusty.". They talk boast
ingIy of:nseryice," are great military critics
Eand despiss the soldier on aactiVe sdsty,'
as something entirely, too low for them
snub. oil those, citizens and soldiers, who
are SO unfortunate as to haye anything te
do with them, and thrive SO amazingly that
there are some who, while before the wal
they could not get credit at any bank fol
ONE hundred dollars, count, their gains now
by thousands. g. -
/ There are probably some two hundred
thousand disabled soldiers in. the land
thousands Of them without |. home or pen.
ny, and for whom the country is not able ai
present to make any adequate provisions fol
their future. While it is the highest duty
Of a Government to, provide first Of all fol
these men, men who have Voluntarily and
gallantly shed their fe,blood and lost limb
and health, the resources of the country are
squandered .upon those who have health,
wealth and powerful connections, without
the slightest claim upon thegratitude Of the
country. On the contrary, should the war
close tomorrow and We gain complete indie.
pendence; they Will be scofed and pointed
Thy the returned veterans; should We fail,
they will lave "a scurse7 upon their heads
more awful and everlasting than any earthly
doom, for the vengeance of those who have
fallen in a sacred cause, which the aid Of
Those exempts and favorites,sif timely given,
might have saved, will pursue them unre-
lentingly to their miserable graves, and no
suffering or degradation heaped upon them
by their Yankee taskmasters would be too
severe. On the other hand, the gallant vet
eran, who shall have given his all, save his
'ifej for his oountry's cause, and who can
show his faithfulBess by many q scar, will
then stand a proud, though perhaps, solitary
pillar; wherever there beats yet a heart
generously for him who loved and fought
for liberty, he will find home, and where
ever prowess on the battle-6eldis is held in
high admiration, he will find his daily sub.
sistsnce, be it ever SO humble ;tbut the 9TH
er-the covard-he will be an object too
low for contemplation, as he will be unwor-
thy of any commisseration, however hard
be his lot. .sEs, - - - 20 o..
But the heaviest curse must Of necessity
fall upon the Government which permits
such abominable favoritism, and which has
not, nerve enough to check it and to carry
into effect the laws of the land. Our armies
must be reinforced by next spring; all the
rat-holes must. be cleared, orI, would not
give one fig for the success of the spring
campaign. DISABLED SOLDIER. :.