The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-06-13

that this interesting specimen of Wiscon-
sin Democracy is circulating an advertise
ment of his paper in the South in which
the soldiers of the Union are foully libel
led and insulted. The Commercial :
correspondent, MACK" writes as fol
lows: .,-5.se.
i The other day I noticed in one of the
news stores in Macon, lithograph about
a foot square in size. posted up as an adj
vertlsement for the La Crosse (Wis. ]
Denocrdt, Brick Pomeroy's S paper.
In the center was an imperial sized
likeness of Pomeroy, with lever thine
and the autograph of the egotistical ass
underneath. Around this were six war
pictures, all intended as abusive SANDERS
of the Union soldiers, and the cause they
served. One was Untitled, How they
restored the Union,' and represented a
couple OF Federal soldiers hating wagon
loaded with cotton, and putting pistol
to the head of the negro driver. Anoth-
er xas,s going to get Legacy for his
Children. Under this caption there
was Union soldier, about to leave home
with his knapsack on his back, and his
wife and children around him bidding
hip farewell Opposite to this was the
Legacy he left, which was presented
to the observer in an old, lame man, sur
rounded by a squalid and want-stricken
family, with grief and despair on every
countenance. / have forgotten what the
other three pictures were, but those I
have spoken Of will sufficiently indicate
!, their character. Fa
/ A one-armed Georgian to whom I had
Si1 kan,, I, I
come along at the time, and pointed to
the infamous libel, l asked him what he
thought of it, and what he thought of
the filthy wretch who, living in state
:, that sent $4,000 soldiers into the Union
army, would print such a thing. We'll, y
sad he, stranger to tell you the truth,
! L think that ere fellow would do most
anything that's mean. I'm a southern
man, and while the war went on I was
the biggest rebel you ever saw. l don t
like the Yankees very well now, but the
fankee soldiers deserve better than that,
even from Us rebels, let alone from north
ern men. l lost my aria on the slzirnish
line at Kenesaw. The man who shot me
was on foot, and | was on horseback. |
rode UP to the length Of this room from
him. tie had a Spencer rifle and | had
a carbine. l thought [ had him sure
Surrender, says l. 60 to hell, says
he. and buzz came a ball that knocked
my horse from under me- | got behind
a tree and loaded my gun, and came at
him afoot. Surrender, saws ]. NARY
a time, says he. I've got four loads in
this nlusket yet, and when shoot them
out, III bust your head with the butt end
OF 1t. He blaZei away at me, and shot
me III the elbow. So had to give ii III
and get to the rear Now, that man
was 10 coward, and although he knocked
my arm of. if | could come across him
to day, I'd take a long drink with him,
and treat him like gentlenaa ior he
was a good soldier: and now that the war
IS over, there are no men in the north
that weilke 50 we'll as the / ankee soldiers.
If they d only leave reconstruction to the
soldiers on both sides, we would fix it up
among ourselves mighty quick. | saw
chat fellow (pointing to i'omeroy picture
! o,' linselfl when he was down here las,
winter. When | heard him talk made
up my mind that he was id coward
o. he have been Sighting on our side in
the war. He wanted us to take his pa
per, and good many Of ua did it. He
said that Ben. Butler had sued him foi
si0o, 900, and we must help him out.
, did mt want to have any thing to DO
with him, but my wife told me | mus,
give him a few dollars to go to law with
Butler--ior you know that the women
{ down here all hate Butler ike the devil >
L stoppe fhe Georgian's flow Of conyer
Satlon Just here 10 tell him that Pomeroy
was base-born liar, and that Butlel
: never thought Of sueing such begger a,
he, because he knew the old proverb
that IT you sue a begger you'll catch .
Brick Pomeroy. | then asked him
what would be done to Southern man
l who, living in Georgia. should publish
:. such pictures about Georgia soldiers
Well, said he, I'VE wouidn't stand il
long. I guess the fellow would be mis-
7 sin very quick and when the old woman
rang the breakfast bell some fine morning
he wouldn' t come to time, We'd make
work Of Ian, you can bet He wa.
: very much surprised that Pomeroy was
allowed to live in the north ''though, y
said he, we d rather he'd be there than
here, for We h; e no use for him We
: think more of old John Brown than we
do of such critters as he is; for old John
was brave man, and died Ike soldier
aud you'll find that the southern people
have more respect for the men they tough!
than for the fellows up north who told us
they could help us out and then stayed
up there like towards. y
What ! have written will doubtless
please Brick immensely, for all he
wants Is little notoriety, land as this puff
} Is given to him gratlously, and as IA free
will offering, he will like it all the better.
The poor devil wants to be villain, but
he cant. Nature and education have
fitted him out for a low-liyed whelp, and
he can t get any higher up than that.
He would be a dirty dog If he could, but
an all-wise Providence won't let him be
more than NANCY cur If the gallant
; soldiers of Wisconsin can let him live
among them after publishing such a libel
upon their patriotic services, | have per
haps, no right to complain. But | can
not let the occasion pass by without warn
ing the Southern people against any
wretch that comes among them to villify
with his foul tongue, the brave soldiers
of the Union army, while he holds out
; his dirty hand to collect from them, as
the price OF his infamy, the few dollars
that are left to them after the ravages of
war. The Southern people to-day have
no better friends in the world than are to
} be found among those men who followed
the standard of the Union in the dreadful
four years after Sumter's fall. Wher
men from the North come among them
to SANDER these gallant fellows, let theu
listen, if they will, but let them devote
their money to better purpose than
paying for the libel.
Reply to Horace Greeley.
The New York Tribune, once the bolo
champion of full and fair discussion ot
all public questions, refusing to open its