New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-10-12

trTeIn the philadelphia Herald. 4
Long as we have been in the newspaper world
we have never been called on to narrate a more
heartess outrage than it is ALLEGED has been per
petfated by the managers Of the Soldiers Home
At Sixteenth and Filhert streets. this morning, a
Ane nome II IS, as our readers know! The
home Is intended for the benefit Of men who
hAFe fought in the service of the country and
aaVesheen SO badly Injured in the storm Of bat
sle, q So ns totally untitled for the pursuits Of
s They are men who have shown theirloyalty,
@Ed when cannons kthunderea, stood M for tie
4 ssnion Of tnlrty-six States. They have come to
ss.as Wy neipsess and philanthTopists tsooaled)
home. Il ~ 80. - l'ete = :
The radicals al have been blatant about their
snye for the soldier. They have given out that
nave, they say, nominated soldiers. But the Cd
cuTTence this morning shows how they treat The.
soldier who differs from them in opini6n-yybo ii
Aol z general or acolonel who loves the negro.
the occurrence this morning shows that the
eanseryative white soldier is d nobody, an ont
cast p llserable nothing, when he chooses to ex-
eTcIse the highest and best right Of an American
sseenaan--a freeman by his own good right arm in
d rseases.
Ihs morning. just after roll calI, the following
SOLDIERS were called up, they knew not why :73
~ e. & &. Holcombs James Brown first lieutenant
4ltn IL h, ] G. Cassidy, William Chambers, JAS
+ Aean Jacob Buckheit, Michael Horan NJ. Gala
gnsr AHehael Dillon, Jeremiah Ganey, Patrick
4AerneYs Thomas Green, Peter Heelan, NJ. MehIa-
NEW, William Knllahan Cornelius Carey Samuel
sBactell, Henry James.
~ They stood there, all gallant men-rlen who had
faced death and never feared it, for cause they
goved-a cause III which they had no more interest
than the men RHO stayed behind, tWaddIed about
loyalty, and made money out of their and their
comrades blood. Some were without arms poor
slough noble fellows. All had wounds which had
capped their strength and made them all unwil-
Ting, pensioners on others bounty
Before the war they had been sturdy, able men
asking none for charity; fighting as well the battles
OF te as they had the battles on the blood
sol Of the rebeliions South. Now they were help
aess-helpless because they had bTaYed death CO.
saefend the property of those Rhowere nov bring
ang home to them the fact that the Door soldiers
we're heggarss depending for their daily bread on
Saose who had never dared to breathe the odor Of
Che carnage. One man, William Chambers, has
1our wounds in his right arm, all Of which are still
zEanElng his right is useless, and he is unable to
gain his livelihood
X They were asked what their political opinions
were and with the same courage they had dis
played on the field, they answ cred that they were
Democrats Disabled as they were, they were
turned out into the street. without friends without
n = home to go to-. Tonight they will be Shelter
less, il friends do not step forward to assist.
They are now in Penn Square, at Broad and
arkst streets orl0rn, helpless, homeless, and all
Tor manly expression of opinion.
This i the way the radicals trent the soldiers
helpless arnaleas, disabled soldiers. a