Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1866-03-28
BELLEvLLE MARC1 % 1886

Ocrat' dated Lewistown, Wednesday
evening, March 2Ist, 1866. | find a
short article, which boing without sig,
nature, | suppose to have been written
by the editors of said paper, in which,
after quoting couple OF extracts from
the remarks Of Messrs Wade and
Wilson in the T. S. Senate on the 14th
inst, the writer makes the following
comment: "There, soldiers of the
Union,' is the kind of recognition YOU
get from the leaders of the loyal PARTY.
You are only about as good as niggers
generally, but many Of you become
traitors; which niggers never do, and
that enables them 'to bear off the
palm upon all occasions. SO say the
Republican leaders. Are you con-
tent"
Now, Mr.. Editor, I have been sol.
dier, served almost four years during
the late war (three and one half wears
as high private;) always tried to do
my duty; never skedaddled when
could have got away; fought side by side
with cOlOred troops on the memorable
3Oth Of July at the explosion Of Burn.
sides famous mine in front of Peters
burg; and yet | am perfectly content
that he Republican, or any other lead
ers, should make Just such remarks as
those quoted, because | know them to
be perfectly true; but | am not con-
tent, that the editors of the Democrat
"or any other man" should draw Sch
infamous conclusions from those re.
marks, and then parade them as so
much injustice done to white soldiers.
Experience has certainly shown col
ored troops to be, in some things, fully
equal to the whites, and it is "noted
fact that while some of the white
regiments have been reduced almost
one-half by desertiOn, such has not
been the case with single colorcd
regiment, and | do not see why the
"coIored men of Kentucky" NAV not
be as good riders as any body else. nor
do | sec any thing wrong in the state.
ment Of these facts. | think Mr..
Wade or any body else iustifable in
speaking the truth, and ii is evidently
true, "that colored men who wont de.
sert are preferable to white men who
will, though certainly not to white
men who went. The conclusion that
owe are only as good as niggers ger
orally, while many of us are worse"
is not to be surmised from MIR. Wade's
remark, but is clearly the private opin-
ion the writer applies to the "soi-
diers of the Union" which includes
those who have been, as well as those
yet remaining in service. Now who
are the abusers, the calumniators of the
soldier, Mcssrs. Wade and Wilson, or
the editors of the Democrat, tor even
if the latter did not write the article
referred to, they published it, and that
is just as bad; and what is still worse.
at the head of the, very column in
which this piece occurs, appears the
name of Hiester Clymer as candidate
for the gubernatorial chair of Penn
sytvania. Of course these men must
have large amount Of sympathy and
love for the "soldiers of the Union"
who advocate the cause of Hester
Clymer, the man who would not vote
"a man or dollar" for the further
prosecution of the war, who opposed
all the measures of the general govern
ment, who voted against any relief for
the families of soldiers, who reviled
and abused US, and prosecuted our
families while we were far away and
| unable to defend ourselves or them
yet who would now wheedle and ca
Tess US, and if such thing were posi-
pie, would make Us believe that he. the
o''ter oPposer OF all that was just,
right honest and patriotic, is just the
man Tor Governor. Very consistent
indeed are Hester Clymer and his edi-
torial friends, and true is the old adage
which says, "Drowning men will grasp
at straws"