The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-02-16
OURRETURyED SOLDIERS.

OURRETURNED SOLDIERS.
Essat plumbers of our brave soldiers
have returned from the war, after having
Ehonorably served the country for their
full term of enlistment Many of them
have Como through the perils Of score
qofsbattles unhurt. We call them sold
ssoldiers;" they love to be 90 called, though
many OF them arc young in years. We
have veteran warriors, who have yet
scarcely q visible beard on their chins.
But many, also, of our soldiers have re.
turned with the painful marks of war on
their persons, cnfeebled by disease and
mutilated with wounds. We see them
daily in the city; we see them in the
,thoroughfares Of travel, and We see them
in all the towns and villages of the couu-
try.
They are different sort of men from
what the old soldiers of other times have
too often been The old regime Of armies
10 embraced the issue Of liquor ration,
ss regularly as one of bread, was sort of
discipline into drunken habits, and the
recruit was, By daily drill, taught to turn
down his gill of whisky, as well as to
handle his musket according to the tao
tics. Not SO now. Those who enter tn:
army sober men may leave it sober men,
and most Of them do Some, by the alb.
stinepco of years, have emancipated them.
selves from tho dcspotic chains of intern
perate h bits. ~, -, -.-..
Our returned soldiers need and desire
employment. For those who have escap
ed disease ADD wounds, and are qualified
BY trade, or skill, or scholarship, for sit
..uations, the country and city have en-
ploymcnt Ia abundance at reniunerative
wages. Those who have capital or friends
meet with no difficulty in finding an open
door of earerpri-e and usefulness Many,
both officers and privatcs. have resumed
their trades, their clerkships, their stud
les, their Practice their farming opera
tions. The, have become citizens with
as much zest and buoyancy as, from eiti
zcns. they became soldiers. The sword
and the musket are exchanged for the
implements of peaceful Industry Il
d.. But there is n class of our returned
soldiers which claim the special syupa-
thy of our patriotic people: those who
have lost health or limbs in the service.
1t is not an inconsidcrable number. There
are employmeuts which they are capable !.
of pursuing; but the number of such |
callings is not great. The range for the |
men is limited by their misfor.unes-
They should, therefore, in strict justice,
have some preference given to them
within that restricted range. We notice
that this just aud humane principle is
introduced in the employment: of disa,
bled soldiers by the departments at the
capital.
, The energy and courage of some of
these noble young men who have been
seriously and permanently MANNED is as.
onishing-scarcely less so than their uu-
complaining patience under the terrible |
suffering Of their wounds. We met with
one Of our Pennsylvania boys the other
day who had lost his right arm. lie saw,
whi'c on his hospital bed, that he could
not work at his trade or on his fathers
farm again. No ono osn Know HI. deep,
earnest, anxious thoughts, all those sor.
rowing hours on his bed of pain But
he recovered health and strength, and
having fixed on his employment for his
future life. he spent his time during
in qualifying himself for
It. Would our readers like to know
what the brave young fellow chose! If
we ever INDUCED in betting. which we
DO not, We would wager gold pm tina,
not one of them could guess in ten trials.
what this "boy in blu" without "A right
arm. chose for his busioess-Book Keep
ing, learned at one Of our city colleges.
That Young man will get along! Some.
body will give him place. and he, with
the blessing Of Heaven, will do the rest.
-PittsJury Com.