North Branch democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Pa.) 1854-1867, 1866-08-08
;Bergner VS. the Soldiers Convention.
OF BERKS.

uay evening" AuS. lot, 4oOOs ohO vi Ih0
most unscrupulo1s sheets of the radical dis
union persuasion, and devoted to the in
terest of Geary, the Forney, Stevens, ne
gro suffrage candidate, for Governor, con-
tains an article (editorial) on the soldiers
convention held at Harrisburg on the lst
of the present month, which for orfoulness,taIse
hood, sander and abuse, could scarcely be
equaled by any breathing thing, except the
parasite whose name stands at the head of
the Telegraph as editor, This Hessian, or
rather Hessian spawn, doubtless wrote the
article in question for the one purpose,
among others, of melting the soldiers, who
were present at the convention, to some
act of retaliation upon himself for his
Wholesale abuse of them in order that he
might exhibit Ia Sumner, a sore head, and
also, that he might with some show of truth
accuse the soldiers there assembled of dis
turbing the peace and committing acts of
violence-but no such thing occurred, Burg
ner was disappointed. every thing was Or
derly, peaceful and quiet, SO much so, that
his, Burgner's, disunionist, may initiate
the example there set, to their advantage
and future credit. Burgner with his usual
veracity, says of the conv ention, that it was
only "corporals guard that "the real
grit of the army was absent from the con-
clave,' thatit was made up prominently
of Bounty jumpers aud deserters,' that
many of them were as scaly a set of roughs
as ever hung on the outskirts of a camp to
pFunder its commissary stores while the
troops engaged the enemy" that one dele
CATION staggered up market street eagerly
inquiring for Lager Beer saloon and won
dering in audible terms whether there was
a sweat cloth in Harrisburg, at which
strangers could gamble for pennies" that
another delegation "made the morning
hideous with their yells and terefed the
country women who at that hour reached
the city to attend market" that many of
the soldiers were ''old men who were dis
qualified from military service by reason of
age and many of them young men who
are not at this day qualified to vote, and
who, during the war, were not of an age
to be mustered iuto the army" Bergner
also states that be gathered another fact.
viz That ''two thirds of the soldiers who
were present, were either three months, or
emergency men, none Of whom were under
firc"-that they were all "decidedly drunk,
definitely drunk, drunk from head to heels"
and then concludes by saying "thus ends
our truthful description" &c. &c. And
this is the character given by this descend
ant of a tory to the men who periled their
lives for the preservation of the union; the
men, who, while their vilifer Bergner was
getting rich on his Camp Curtin specula-
t;oss, and his Postmastership at Harris
burg, (both fat placcs) were suffering all the
hardships' and privations ola soldiers life,
and now, when they return crowned with
the Laurals of Victory, when their manned
lodics and honorable scars attest the fierce
ness of their struggles. to have such pam
pered thing. a thing with such present
character and with such autecedents as this
Burguer insult them by calling them or in
timating, that they are towards, knaves,
robbers. rowdvS gamblers' and drunkards
is specimen notification of what they are
all 10 expect and receive at the hands of this
Burgner and Others of his negro worship
pipg strife. flour brave soldiers would
consent TO submit to the dirtation of Thad
Stevens, Chas. Summer and their toady
Burener and suffer themselves like dogs to
be led in the leash by them and theirs, would
forego all Independence Of thought and ac-
ton, would fall down and worship the ever
lasting negro, would submit to the dictation
ofthe raAical disunionist and oppose Pres
idrnt johnson in his noble efforts TO accom-
pills. that foT which they so noblv battled,
10 wit: the restoration Of the union, then
aou'd tory Rurgner bedaub them with the
slime of vile fattery, which in truth, would
he more damniug than volumes ofthe bit =
tercst C usure But as they sce fit to ex-
ercisc some independence of thought aud
action-they must expect to be denounced
slandered and vlliied. Blow few more
such notes on your Hcssian "Bagpipe" Mr.
Rurguer, and our brave soldiers will teach
you lesson that no pachydernata could
ever forget.