The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1866-10-19
BRUTAL OUTRAGE.
Eighteen Disabled Veterans Turned
into the Street on Account. of Being
Democrats.
From the Philadelphia Herald, Oct. 8.

From the Phlladclphla Herald, Uct. 8.
Long as we have been in the newspaper
world, we have never been called on to mar
rate more heartess outrage than it is
alleged has been perpetrated by the mana
gers Of the Soldiers home at Sixteenth and
Filbert streets, this morning. A fine home
it is, as our readers know! The home
Is intended for the benefit Of men who have
fought in the service of the country, and
have been so badly injured in storm of bat
tie, as to be totally untitled for the pursuits
of peaceful life. They are men who have
shown their loyalty, and when cannons
Numbered, stood up for the union of sc
states They have come to this city help
less, and philanthropists $50 called) have
offered them the security and support OF a
home The radicals all have been blatant
about their love for the soldier They have
given out that they intend to give Office
only to the soldiers they have, they say,
nominated soldiers. But the occurrence
this morning shows how they treat the sol
der who differs from them in opinion-who
Is not a general or colonel who loves the
negro
The occurrence this morning shows that
tho conservative white soldier is nobody,
an outcast, miserable nothing, when he
chooses to exercise the highest and best
right of an American freeman freeman
by his own good right arm in the midst OF
the battle-the right to think as he plcases.
This morning, just after roll call, the fol-
lowing soldiers were called up, they knew
not why: L. NJ. Holcomb, James Brown,
lst lieut. llth Pa. v, J. G. Cassidy, Viii
liam Chambers, James kean, Jacob Buck
heit, Michael Koran, NJ. Gallagher, Mich
ael Dillon jeremiah Ganey, Patrick Tier
ney, Thomas Green, Peter Heelan, NJ.
/ McMathew, William Kollahan, Cornelius
Carey, Samuel Bactell, Henry James.
They stood there, all gallant men-men
who had faced death and never feared it,
for cause they loved-a cause In which
they had no more interest than the men
who stayed behind, twaddled about loyalty,
and made money out Of their and their
comrades blood. Some were without arms
poor, though noble fellows. All had
wounds which had Slapped their strength
and made them-all neutrality-suspicious.
on others bounty.
Before the war they had been sturdy, able
men, asking none tor charlty-hghting as
well the battles of life as they had the bat
ties on the blood stained soil of the rebel
lious south. Now they were helpless
helpless because they had braved death to
defend the property of those who now are
bringing home to them the fact that the
poor soldiers were beggars depending for
their daily bread on those who had never
dared to breathe the odor Of the carnage.
One man, William Chambers, has four
wounds in his right arm all of which are
still running. His right hand is useless,
and he is unable to gain his livelihood.
They were asked what their political opin-
ions were, and with the same courage they
had displayed on the field, they answered
that they were democrats. Disabled as they
were, they were turned out into the street
without friends, without home to 90 to.
Tonight they will be shelterless, if friends
do not step forward to assist.
They are now i'll Penn square, at Broad
and Market streets, fororn, helpless, home
less, and all for manly expression of
opinion.
This is the way the radicals treat the sol
diers-helpless, armless, disabled soldiers