Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-09-21

.hem. 30 lar as my knowledge extends, up
70, 10 lhls time, no one has undertaken the task
therefore, myself although but very hum
PIC woman, scarcely known beyond the street
I'VE IN, will venture to furnish an answer
ANA when have done so, will submit to
lhe just Judgment of the world whether, ON
lne ,lt score OF "suilerings' and sacrifices"
(ll there be nothing else,) your claims to
popular sympathy and support bear any COM
parlson to mine
Before the rebellion, sir, had husband.
kind, loving, industrious, economical, who
FOR myself and our four little ones, made
comfortable provision. Our home was the
abode Of peace and plenty. What has be-
come OF hlms lie mas stdrgcd to deah at
AhaefsonOi,lc, and that by the "chivalric''
men whom your policy" would fain re-
store, without repentance, n the head of cur
Government. Since then have been trying
my best to earn bread for my little ones by
Plytng The needle At times, when that kin1
oi employment has failed me, | have even
peeI oDlged to stand, from early morn till
hlght, over the iodshtuI | had two broth
ers, steady men, kind and gencr. us. Had
the rebellion left them as il found them.
pinching poverty should have never known.
Alasl alasl one of them penshel from expo
sure and want on Belle Island, an the other
had his right arm taken off by rebel shell
at Antietam lie cannot assist me. The
prlVations and hardshiDs | have had to en-
uure have so shattered my own health and
strength, that / feel, at times, unable even
to endure the fatigue of plying the needle;
50 that, except my trust in a merciful God,
l nave sacrificed for my country my ALL
husband, brothers, house, home, livilg-anl
am cast, beggar, On the cold charity #
the worldl And all this owe to the South
glnWnhnlflnrg nd 10. ,nf, t,,sr
tempt to murder my beloved country, as they
dd murder my husband and my brothers.
Now, MIR. johnson, since you invite com
parlsOn, what have gOU suffered? Exhibit
y0ur scars, and wounds, and bruisesl Did
yoU lose leg or an arm, or were yON even so
much rs scratched or bruised? Where is the
blood gou shed? Would it stain white cam
brio pocket handkerchief? How much pro
perty did you loseP Why, if report speaks
true, during most of the time Of tue war you
were living on the fiat of the land" in
Nashville, out of harms way, protected, as
you were, by Union baYonets. Out of Uncle
SANS overlooking cOmmissary stores you
drew plenty to cat and to driRk-the best of
meats, and, what was of still more conse-
quence to you, The choicest IF liquors. Add
To this your handsome salary as military gov
ernor. Then the great Union party, whom
you have since so touly betrayed, made you
Vice President, with salary Of IS, 900 per
annum. Then, to crown it all, John Wilkes
Booth made you President, and there you
are yet, to the tune of $3.50 year, with
'.frias." The rebellion found you, learn,
comparatively poor man. Now you arc
rich, with sound body, not to speak of your
mind, whose soundness is not so certain.
foa, Andrew johnson, talk of your sacri-
fees and your suferngs, and challenge a
comparison. Fie, fie upon youl Why, sir,
upon that score, ought to be Americas
Queen, and gou ought to be sweating over
the Yash-tubl And now, sir, are your ques-
tions as to who suffered more than yoU, who
sacrificed more than you, by reason OF the
war, answered? l did, sir, and know hun
dreds of poor women, tossed from the heights
of aiiluenee into the vale of penury and
want, who have suffered and sacrificed ten
thousand times more than gOU, and are
making no Ostentatious parade Of it, either
Yours, respectfully,
MARY JANE CATHERwAIT,
A Soldiers Widow, and the mother of four
iatherless children.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. z, 1866.