The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1866-08-30
AN OUTRAGE ON soLDI,sHs !.

President johnson, backed by traitors
ISouth and Copperheads North has de-
/ Iterfnined that no action of the present
Congress shall benefit the soldiers who
fought and suffered for this Government.
In filrtherence of this scheme his Secretary
of the Treasury ordered the Second Audi
tor to pay no bounty to Union Soldiers
that was granted atthe last session of Con-
gress. President johnson then follows
up by suppressing and refusing to give to
| the public the report Of the Commission
lappointed to examine the law, ascertain
who were-entitled to recover under it, and
! the best method of adjusting and paying
the soldiers who come within its proyis-
ions. ..a-=ss
This action on the part of our delectahle
President, whom copperheads love so
much. leaves the poor soldier in the dark.
not only as to what he is entitled, but as
to the proper course to pursue under the
law.
1t is said by some that the object of This
move Is to prevent the payment until after
the election for the purpose OF creating the
impression on the minds of the soldiers
that Congress failed to do ything for
them. Another theory is that the pay
ment of all bounties to Union Soldiers is
to be STAYED off until Copperheads and
the President succeed in getting traitors
from the South into their seats in Con-
gress. when it is supposed that a general
BOUNTY LAW applying to REBEL as
well as Union SOLDIERS will be enact
ed, and the widows and children, of de-
ceased confederate soldiers he placed on
the pension list side by side, With those of
our own brave boys.
Soldiers and mothers and fathers of
Union Soldiers, this viii give you faint
idea of the insults and outrages in store
for you, should the policy of. Copperheads
and Johnsonites prevail in this country.
Go to the polls in October and admins
ter such a rebul<e to these, your betrayers,
as will make them call upon the rocks and
hills to fall upon them and hide them from
the gaze of an outraged people.
-E THE LATEST!
Since writing the above the following
dispatch appeared IN the Cincinnati Ca
zette Of the 2Sth inst:
WASHINGTON, August 81.
OF the forty thousand claims for bounty
for discharged soldiers now lying on file
in the Paymaster's Department.. not one is
in accordance with the forms which will
be required. in case it is decided to pay
any Of them at present. 1t is only a loss Of
time and money for soldiers to forward
their claims before the official rules for
the collection of them are published. These
Snles were prepared by Gen. Canby's
Board, butwere suppressed by the Presi
dent; and unless the soldiers can exert a
public opinion that will force the Admin
istration to begin this payment of boun--
ties, these dues wilf be studiousIy withheld
until after the fall elections.
The statement that the Treasury De-
partment stopped the payment af bounties
to colored soldiers, in order to await the
report of the Candy Commission. is simply
absurd. Some time since correspondents
were requested to announce that the De
partment was ready to pay this class of
bounties. There is nothing more certain
than that the Administration is atternpt-
ing to make political capital against Con-
gress by withholding bOunties.
A statement is being prepared at tflt-
Treasury Department.. which is Intended
to. show.vtiiat there Is: TO money in the
Treasury with which to pay, the bounties
to soldiers authorized by Congress. This
is rather singular.as the last monthly state
ment of the public debt showed Balance.
of about S125,0O0,0 600 in the Treasury, and
the receipts this month from internal rev.
enue and customs have been unusually
heavy. 1-t.2 -"