The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1865-10-05
How a Soldier Talks to Soldiers.


is as applicable in this latitude as else
where;
You must not be deceived by the hea
and front of the SO called Democrat,
ticket being dressed in the national uni
form you must not be deceived by find
ing the enemy's column of candidate
headed by couple of your comrades
Didn't Mosby the guerrilla play this very
same game when he stole your boots ?
Didn't he always head his column will
few blue coats ? Didn't this wolf il
Sleeps clothing always approach you a,
as friend, and then strip you of every
thing worth carrying away?
So it is with this modern Mosby party
who, on the 10th of next month, will ap.
proach you carrying the stars and stripes,
and led by blue-coat. When the head
of their columns appears, [ want you to
look well down its ranks and think you
will find, following in the rear, as sorry,
and seedy, and hungry a set of gray backs
as you ever set eyes upon between Peters
burg and Appomatox Courthouse and if
you do not hurl them back upon their
reserves in Virginia and South Carolina,
Mosby Like, they will rob your soldiers
of the hard earned fruits of four years
toll
Talk to me of their advocating an e.
qualization of bounties. Humbug! They
would strip you of all you possess, and
by depreciating the national credit, de-
prive the widow of your dead comrade of
the mite she now receives as pension from
the national treasury
Let me give you few reasons why, in
my opinion, it becomes the solemn duty
of every returned veteran to vote with the
National Union party
First Because, when the question,
"Shall the soldiers be allowed to vote 2"
was presented to the people, the Union
party devoted their time, their voices,
their influence and their means to secure
for you the exercise of right, whilst the
Mosby party as faithfully devoted them
selves to deprive the soldiers of that sa-
cred privilege.
Second. Because, through the evil in
fuences of sympathizers with treason, who
will, of course all vote the Mosby ticket,
our final triumph over armed rebellion
was long delayed, thus causing the USE
less sacrifice of thousands of the best citi-
zens of the republic, who were your COM
rades.
Third. Because the Mosby party, in
Convention assembled at Chicago in 1864,
when the national government required
the hearty support of every man, wo-
man and child in the nation, after care
full deliberation, announced to the whole
world, and especially to Rebeldom, that
the efforts of the dead patriots who had
poured out their hearts blood to sustain
the national honor, and the patriotic eff
forts of the survivors who, with Gods
help, still hoped to save the life of the
republic, had been a miserable failure.
Fourth. Because our Union Leagues,
our Sanitary. Commissions, our Chris
tain Commission, our Volunteer Aid
Societies, were organized and sustained
by supporters of the Union party and
no dollar of the so-called Democratic par
ty ever found its way into their treasures.
Fifth. Because we believe that should
the Mosby party be successful, they will
form an alliance with the leading traitors
of the South, endeavor to repeal the salu-
tary law requiring members Of Congress
to swear that they have never given aid
or comfort to the rebellion, and thus Sc
curing the representation they desire, will
advocate a reputation of the natinal debt,
and the payment of pensions to the wound
ed soldiers of the recent insurgent armies.
Sixth. Because while we were absent
fighting the good fight under Lincoln,
Grant and Sherman, the Mosby party car
ried in ridicule the cf1igies of those devoted
patriots through our public streets.
Seventh. Because We desire the Mos
by party to understand that we repudiate
their sympathy, as declared in their re-
cent resolutions, for the simple reason
that loyal soldiers of the republic ask no
sympathy from those who have heretofore
sympathzed with their enemies.
Eighth. Because we will not vote for
that party which musters in its ranks
all the miserable towards who secreted
themselves to avoid the draft, aud who
now comes out from their hiding places
to exercise that privilege of citizenship
of which they sought to deprive you and
me.
Ninth, and lastly. Because we revere
the memory of our murdered President,
who, in his earnest and patriotic efforts
to save the Union, was thwarted at every
step by these sympathizers with treason.
These are few of the reasons why you
should vote the Union ticket. There
fore, boys, close up the ranks; dress on
the colors, let there be no gap in the line,
as it moves steadily forward. Let us
soldiers be true to our past history, and
let us once more save e-day, as we did
in October, 1864.
Upon the occasion of the marriage in
Fall River, recently, of a son OF Col. hi
y