The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1868-02-28

pies let him have the Intelligence y to Adopt
the praciplesof his late enemies; and atouce he is
~ longer mercenary, selfish, or an hifeiingi but
free Intelligent American citizen.
Now let every soldier ask himself, II these per
sons are not seeking to mike the fruils'of vieto-
ries won, ia part, by his peril and blood, turn 70
the benefit Of those who were conqured by them.
Let him ask himself why millions Of dollars
should b. paid 10 Contractors who claim to have
siost mouey IN furnishing supplies 70 the govern
ment Tor the army, during tho war.-millions mere
70 reimburse seui-luyal and really disloyal men
for property claimid - have been destroyed BY
the Union army during the war, and still more
millions TO buy a barren coast on our northwest
border; but when he and his friends ask for an
equalization Of his bcanty, his claim Is delayed or
laid aside, because Il takes too much money, TO
pay so many individuals a small sum each.
Let him ask himself why those men who sought
to destroy the nation from 1891 70 1855, and who
now seek to mike the services and suferings Of
soldiers in the army Of the United States, dis
honor TO him, and heritage Of poverty and shame,
instead Of honor and profit 10 bis children -
| why these men should be selected, by the APP
| pojntinp power for positions Of honor and profit.
Let him ask himself why men, whose hands are
red with bO1d Of patriots whose history is his
| tory of oppression of the poor, and murder OF tue
| Innocent, of Efforts at wholesale desolad on BY
plague and pestience, Ofrutbless butehery, syste-
] matte and deliberate starvation of captured ene~
| mes-why do these men not only not remain in
| obscurity, but with noisy impudence demand the
privilege of making laws for the loyal, the patri-
oc, the true, and the good, and in the same
| breath boast with brazen eiirOntery-iu the very
capitol of the nation that the principles for which
| they contended in the field wore rght-iustity
| themselves for a course Of wickeduess, history
of which would send a shudder through the civil
| lied wOrld--and are not only unpublished and un-
| rebuked, but are hattered and petted by the Chief
Executive of the United States. Aud why is il
that the soldier must wait for his hard Learned pay
the small stipend for which lie rsked his life. III
the fruits Of all his risk and toll to be turned
over ~ his enemies) must wait till hope deferred
makes his heart Sick-Onc, two, even three years
after the work Is dime, with no present prospect
that his accounts will be reached for three years to
come. And why, are soldiers Of the Union army
| punished for mere trivial offences for which at
home they would not have leen censured-pUS-
sibly for Knocking down vile or oppressive Off
Ger punished with confinement in the Jail or PEN
itentiary and loss Of all pay and allowances, and
left with stigma on their otherwise fair fame,
while those Who starved 10 death thousands of
msn, and murdered thousands more, are not only
not punished ut all, but honized, petted and hon
ored in the very capital which the soldier perilled
his life 10 save
Comrades Is it not because you have let Il Le so
own lack Of care Tor il Have you not vided your
e rcesP Have you not sought tn stay the enemy.
massed, by deploying your force as skirnshers 2
Grazing all that may be said of the evil intent OF
the persons or " individual " in high places, and
OF the power and disposition they, or he, may
have to do grevious wrong to the patriot SOL
dier, of the Republic, hIs representatives
granting the delay to do justice the Interference
with the Departments, to delay payment OF dues,
the utter confouuding Of and throwing down of the
distinctions bpt RIGHT nd
wrong, loyalty and disloyaly; nay more; granting
what is true that in some places truth is At discount
aud active disloyaIty and sympathy with treason
commands premum-what then? Is not the
remedy in your own hands? No skirmishing
here No going 10 the rear No deserting to
the enemy Shoulder to shoulder as you stood
at Vicksburg, Mt Gettysburg, at Petersburg, at
JJnesboro, at Franklin, 80 stand now; aud while
sustaining the men who contend for the principles
inscribed on your banners, when you bore those
banners to victory, demand with nnbroken front
that those victories shall inure to your profit, and
that this government shall be administering in the
interest OF those who counted not their lives dear
unto themselves, If they mig ht prolong its exis-
tence aud maintain its honor. Your enemies are
united active, unscrdpulous, powerful!
From your supneness, they have grown bold
and exactiug. Every partial success increases
their temerity. Those who in 1855 were suppli-
ants for life, on any terms, now demand the Priyi-
lege and claim the right to rule the nation they
sought to destroy. And comrades. il you sleep at
your posts, G-Gallo lke-you care for none of
these things, they ,cW DO Il! You make these
complaints, many of them just, aud the remedy
is pointed out by your C0MRADE.
DEsM ms, lows, Fob. -. The foliowin i.
dispatch was sent to tho Senators anil
Representatives of Iowa, in Congress IT,
day;
The State of Iowa stands by her repre-.
scniptives in Congress, in their opposition
TO dosnntism and the -nsnrnation of q