The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-07-25
The Soldiers SoIiIoquy.


The Soldiers SolIlOQuy.
From The La Crosse lWiss) Democratl
Good bye, blue ruin | Go into the dye tub-into
the rag bag, anywhere out of nv sight. For
three years wore those blue duds, and now,
thank. God, they arc OIL, and once moro 1 am in
command of my self
What the devil did go to war for? That's tho
question: What did cat hard tack for-drink
i'll the mud-sutfer in hospital and lose this limb
for? Who knows?
enlisted to savo tho Union.
went to war to put down the rebellion.
fought to punish traitors
killed people tn restore the harmony OF things.
went to war because that was in old times tho
And what was there gained had thirteen
dollars month. l rode Shank's mare from Bull
Run to Red River, almost for nothlug.
when tho is ended, am told that fighting
divided and that Legislation alone can restore the
Union Then why in thunder must lose three
years OF time and q limb il all this work must be
dono by Congress2 Why were a million of us
killed by drunken, theving, ootton-stealng silver
ware-hunting, conceitcd: upstart political gener.
ais, who went up like rockets and came down like
sticks, If Congress can or could restore the Union
by legislation?
1 went to war in good faith.
/ fought of times, and the moro
fought and the less I stole, tho slower came pro-
motion.
1 helped make n doz' n generals. fifty colonols,
and n hundred officers rich.
have lugged many piano, rosewood bedstead,
marbe-tup table, cabinet of books, mahogany
sofa aud such stuff out of southern homes 10 be
sent North tor the use of my superior officer, and
the adurnment of his homo in the North. This
was the big dart TOR putting down the rebellion.
And went to war for less wages than could
have earned ut home. Aud my wifo was often
starving while was away. And my children be-
came ragged and dirty-my farm ran to weeds
my shop ran down-my tools were stolen or lost
my place is filled by another-I came home
cripple, filled with disease, and am now looked
upon by the Same men who wanted me to 90 to
the war, much as people look upon some dead
beat who has gone through them for all their
And the aboitionists who forgot to take care of
soldiers familesthe aboliionists who told us that
the Democrats wanted the Union dissolved-the
abolitionists who said the Democrats we're trait
ors-the abolitionIsts who stayed at homo and
dare not fight, except in the form of a mob in
the attack or some defenceess Democrat, now tell
US that
The late war did not restore the Union.
The war therefore failure.
Tho white men of the North were no match for
the white men of the South.
The war would have ended in defeat for the
North but for the niggers.
This is what abolitionists Tell us. Reckon thew
will have good time getting us returned soldiers
engaged in another crusade for cotton, niggers,
mules, aud stolen plunder, taken by force Of the
bayonet from women and children.
1t seems to me- as if the late war was gag-a
| humbug-a wicked, reasonable, unconstitutional
gag. 1t did not restore tho Union, but it made a
pile Of abolitionsts and war Democrats ich
1t never prevented secession, but left this Union
| in tho shape we did not fluid it.
1t new + benehtted any one North or South ex-
cept thieving soldiers, army chaplains swindling
| contractors, drunken officers, incompetent g.ne-
| rails, and other such pets Of the late administra-
tun.
| 1t didn't help the white people.
1t dld't help he niggers.
1t impoverished half OF tho Union.
1t didn't ma6e the South friendly to Northern
| ideas, interests or people.
| 1t piled big debt upon US, and took from us
| two-thirds of our means to pay it.
Arlyt a, fr, tl,, III
| must pay the most eXorbitant taxes-and to find
| that old Grudgings, mean, narrow minded stay
at-home coward is rich, with safe full of u. g..
notes or bonds, for which must work the balance
OF my life out pay interest ON, while he escapes
taxation and lives in idleness. had hundred
do lars bounty to 20 to war. Now / come home
| the money had-the wealth Of the country is in
bonds-the school-houses in ruins-the court
| houses, &C., i'll runs-all these things to be built
| up-the bonds and their interest to be paid be-
sides all the OH taxes, and the holders OF bonds
living in luxurious ideuess, with large incomes,
and not one cent of tax to pay anybody or for any
purpose.
It was bad enough to fight for such towards.
1t is uad enough to have it said that we could
| not have whipped the South without the aid of
be called our equals.
1t is bad enough to have enormous taxes to pay
TO repair the damages time and war have wrought.
But it's worse than all to have to pay sx hundred
| million dollars year OF interest to the men who
| hold bonds exempt from taxaton-in other words
| to 20 10 war and then come home aud pay our
| selves for being shot at, wounded and killed.
Auohtionism don't pay. Now I'm as good man
as any Of them. No man has right now to lord
\ IL over me. wear no badge OF servit ude, adver-
tising that am fit subject for shoulder strap
ped damns, cuffs, kicks guard-houses, &c. I'm a
returned soditr-a poor man who must work or
starve. love my country. I'm a better patriot
than tho man who makes the poor m N to pay
taxes and interest on bonds exempt from taxation,
aud ga. it boldly that the next time shoulder
mnskrt it viii. be for equal taxation equal rights
! and free country. don't like the idea Of repu-
diatinn, but If government don't tax her bonds,
may be hanged il ever pay cent of taxer for
| my crippled limbs a better and more honorable
Dond than the government issued Ir all ar @
taxed alike, it is well. tnot, it's repudiate, or
| another fight.
| BRANDENBURa AND HApcBURa.-rhe Paris Steele
OF June 10, III an art cIe under this heading pro-
tests against the usual name given to the ruling
b uses in Prussia and Austria, the House OF
| Brandenburg tor the one and the House Of Haps-
bni tor the other, as contrary tn history. It re-
iera To the fact that 1t We Fl 'henzollern who IN
| i4l5 acquired the margrsvitfe uf Branden-
burg, which possesrinn was, in 14l7, couhrmeds O
| them by The Emperor The present King is a
direct descendant of the Hohenzollern, Il d that,
therefore, is his family name, and not Branden-
| burg.