The Waynesburg Republican. [volume] (Waynesburg, Pa.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-04
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Aletter from soldier in the West
lsayss Ae,e7 tlW
think tliea Nest will 90 Demo-
cratic by large majority, on account
olthe ssel0lyFs bsirgdvwn ON this Con-
gress for aot Attending 10 them. and
will go ii forsiis men who1wilINpiyo
them bounties as Nferpe as those that
waited to the end ofthc wa. Z -
Weask, in all fairness Of this yss
diers OF the great West, Isitthi, 3
Ii it be, itomounts simply 6'tllis,
that the patriotic, heroic, resolute men
who enlisted because they were heroic
and resolute, propose to sell them
Selres to the party that spit upon them
refused TO let them vote because they
were soldiers refused them aid where
they could maks refusal good for
anything denounced them as hirlines
mnrdercrs, freebootcrs, and invaders
encouraged the enemy by every arti-
flee in their power, and kept up II fire
in the rear hy riots, bnrnings, and
murders at home, These "Boys in
Blue" having ieturnedto their homes
now propose to Congress TO give them
an additional bounty (the amount is
moi stated, in order to bag their rote
for the parry of union, freedom, and
peace, If this Congress, in the pres
ent embarrassing condition of the
commerce, finance, and industry of
the country, hesi,ates at the task of
adding two or three hundred millions
Of dollars-perhaps five hundred mil
lons-to the debt, these men will sell
themselves to their enemies for their
promise to pay an additional bounty!
Is it true, John A Logan? Is is true,
Stephen A. Ilurburt? Is it true,
William 4. Sherman? Shades Of Ly-
on, and Baker, and Mcpherson. Is
it true, comrades Of the West.
We have on our table the La Crosse
Democrat. Its lteary style is capable
of improvement. AS to its politics,
we submit few of comments ON Pres
ident Lincoln, in order to show our
readers what the leading organ of ode
moc-acy" says
Lincoln is the embodiment, entomb-
ed, of all that is vile, cruel, tyrannical
bloody, infamous, damnable; the in
carnate fend of Radical treason, sent
to bis account with all his crimes upon
his head, sacrifice to appease the an
ger and satisfy the vengeance of a be-
trayed, insulted, and outraged peo-
pie.
Returning his sardonic thanks to a
Union editor for something in which
allusion was made to the assassin Booth
he says;
John Wilkes could do it "more
graccfuller' than we; but johnny, for
obvious reasons, is absent from the
Republic he SO signa,ly and gioriously
bctriended; therefore on us devolves
the pleasing task of saying, "rhank
you" ..
Here is a "Democratic tribute to
Abraham Lincoln, man whose heart
melted with pity over every human
woe, and stopped to hear the plea of a
child, the petition of q poor slave, the
sigh and prayer of widowed mother
of soldier; and in all the cares and
burdens Of bis Office, could hear the
whispers of mercy and love, as he
sought to deal gently with the enemies
Of his country.
From the hour the infamous San
CANNON fanatic sneakcd through Bal
timore, like coward, to irlfic, with
pcrjurcd lips, his oath OF office, to the
time when, with Vaudlin grin, he
passed from a theatre-box on the ami
versary night of the death of our sa-
viour Of men, he was heartless-heart-
less lie lived, heartless he died.
These are but straws blown by the
| pestilential breath of La Crosse De-
mocracy over the prairies of the West.
Is it true that her heroic legions, who
have rendered the soil sacred with
their blood, mingled with that of their
comrades who laid down their lives,
will now swell the recruiting parties
Of a political enemy whose flag floats
over such camping-pound as this.
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