Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1865-07-24
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The Republican party, from the moment
the war commenced, began 10 cheat the sol
der The pets Of that party we're given huge
contracts and were permitted to deliver, at
great prices, shoddy coats, and pants and
blankets--goods which almost crAWled apart
Of themselves. For the loss OF hundred
thousand troops who died from cold aud ex.
posure in the winter OF the frst year Of the
war, the shoddy party was before God respon.
sible. We onrself saw upon soldiers, blank.
cts which wore partially composed Of cows
hair, mixed with jute or some vegetable fibre,
and with not a particle Of wool 80 far as we
could discover, The poor fellows who we're
clothed with such garments by the shoddy
party, and who we're fortunate enough to
survive the cruelty, are now coolly asked to
vote the shoddy ticket, white washed with a
"Union" name.
The War Department, and each shoddy Of.
| hccr below, seemed to forget that the poor
private had as tender feelings as any-and
that he had a mother, sister, wife or child,
left weeping at home. But shoddy said men
we're cheap Shoddy said Il we're cheaper to
use men up and get more than take care OF
those they had. Hence, shoddy introduced
dog tents, and forced the soldiers to sleep in
the mud all one winter-gave them by thouG-
ands to be experimental with by shoddy gen.
erals aud aughtered by shoddy clothing
Shoddy kept the war going for years, when
any other Government would have wound it
up in few months, So certain were the Re.
publcans that the war would last, that the ed.
itor of this paper had fourth share in con
tract to furnish wood to the army offered TO
him as guarantee that said contract would
last three years And yet the shoddy party
we're pretending all the while that they want.
ed to wind up the war, and that It would be
over in few months.
Shoddy's last game consists In keeping the
soldiers for months longer than they nre need
ed, and for weeks after their papers say they
were mustered out
Shoddy's final effort is yet in reserve, in
this State. They are trying to delude few
soldiers with the idea that the shoddy party
has been the soldiers friend all the time dur
ing the war. After having swindled the sol
diers first, killed of as many as they could
and cheated the rest out Of their money a:
long as they could, and used them more like
dogs than men, they have the cool impudenct
to tell them now that they are their bes
friends and tried to get chance for them to
vote. H,s Ny
Why, all they wanted to get the soldiers
voting bill passed for, was to keep thsmselve'
in power. They have no more love for th'
soldier, than when they we're guilty of Showing
on to them shoddy blankets, and feeding then
with rotten pork ard mouldy hard tack, Tht
shoddy party loves the soldier as the spide
loves the fg--n order that they may suck ou
his very life-bood and fatten themselves
They thought that they could get chance Il
perpetrate great fraud, and elect their Stat
officers by those frauds, and hence they stroy
10 pass q law to enable them to open poll
outside the jurisdiction of the New Jerse.
tourts. 1t was only love for themselves, au'
. love for the soldiers, which moved then
to the proposal. As when soldiers came HON
to Jersey and voted against them, we a.
know how mad they were because they coul'
not have the law all their own way, so tha
they could make out bogusreturns, or preveu
Den ,Ocrats from voting in the army.-Pate'
son N y Guardian.