, 1869-06-25

except 10 NY ouutuooo SotEcopouueut11 Dut NY
silence has not been oecasioned BY indifference
To my WAllA Walla friends. Ny experience and
knowledge of this coast causes me to congratu,
late the inhabitants of Oregon and Washington
Territory. There, poverty has the necessaries
of life here, the the industrious poor are suf.
fsriug for food. Tramp, tramp, from morning
till night, from Monday till Saturday, seeking
employment, but returning empty handed to a
hungry wife and little ones. An Irish soldier Of
the late war told me be had never seen more
distress and hard times in ireland than is now
felt at Washington. Fortune, BY the cunning
handiof the politicians, is concealed in tarifs,
in immense taxes, on stamps, on business Gcen>
ces, 60 that the poor man knows not what op-
presses him. Labor eventually pays all the
taxes. Strike out labor, and whence shall taxes
conner Count up every laborer in the United
States and compute his wages, then deduct the
national, State, county and city tax. From the
residue, deduct the rents and the profits which
merchants make, aud see what q small balance
is left for the support of bis family and the eduS
| cation of his children. At a womans conven.
tICu held at Boston, it was said, and am told
with truth, that women at hard labor on an a1>
eraEe, can make but twenty Eve cents per day.
This will not purchase sufficient potatoes for
healthy person but the enlightened Chffstians
who thus starve their own poor, expend millions
in building churches and gtoundi ii sending out
missionaries, and distributing tracts 10 the saw.
ages. Their cries are full of prostitution and
corruption. woman with starving mother,
sister or brother, may be given good christian
advice and q tract at one corner by the pous old
man, and the old mans son may, for the price
| of her virtue, offer five dollars at the next cor.
ner. This being the only resource she has left
| to save the loved one at home and herself from
hunger, is it wonderful she accepts the price?
"The loyalty and honor of the nation, !" is the
cry of those who oppose the payment of bonds
in currency. The act of July 4, 1864, provides
that every volunteer who enlisted for one year.
or during the war, shall be paid bounty Of one
hundred dollars; those who enlist for two years.
or during the war, shall be paid two hundred
dollars; those who enlist for three years, or
during the war three hundred dollars that one
third of said bounty shall be paid when the soils
dler Is mustered 10, one third when half bis term
of service has expired and one third at the end
/ o. thA time Of service. The war ended sooner
than the terms OF cnlistpents expired, and q
general order discharged these men. No lawyer
could hesitate a moment, ii tie case was be-
tween citizens, to decide that the employer who
discharged the employee without the employees
| fault was liable to pay the whole price for the
full term. What strengthens the proposition, is
that the soldiers enlisted for certain Term, or
| during the tcdr, and the government promised to
pay the bounty for the enListnent not the serYice
| and again, the soldier did serve his full term
to-wit during the rar. Now see the construc-
tion that these howlers for national honor put
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or during the war, and served eleven months,
they allow nothing. To the man who enlisted
| for two years, and served half the term, which
were very few, two>thirds of two hundred dol>
lars; if less than that time, if not already paid,
nothing. similar construction is put on the
allowance of bounty to three years men. This
| is only a specimen of the manner in which poor
soldiers are treated but honor requires the
| the payment of all bonds in GOLD. AlmVst nalf
of those who enlisted in the Eastern States with
the expectation of bounty, were fraudulently
put down as substitutes for some Yankee who
was Loyalty cheating the government out of the
sinews of war. The first the soldier knows of
it is when he applies for bis bounty, he is in
formed that be was enlisted as a substitute and
is not therefore entitled. They never inform
him for whom be is a substitute.
They have had great time here decorating
the graves Of our soldiers. They spent much
money in the affair, while all around them were
tue SUFFERING OTpuhQS hQQ WIDOWS, QeBuLQLo OIL
the necessaries OF life, to whom they had moths
ing to give. To show their extreme loyalty and
nobleness of heart, they issued order that
no one should be permitted TO put flowers on the
graves of dead rebels. The graves of the Union
and rebels are side by side in the home of the
dead. Guards were placed around the Confed-
federate graves, and some friends and relatives
of the Confederates attempted to put a few Aow-
ers on their graves. The guard radely repulsed
them, and yet several punches Of flowers found
their way there, and these noble men occupied
their time in robbing the graves of these flowers
and throwing them away. Grant feasted Gen.
eral Lee at the White House, and appointed
Longstreet to an important office, while these
poor Confederates, perhaps forced into the war
cannot be let sleep 10 their graves without in
suit. Soldiers who fought for the Union, and
who are crippled perhaps for life, apply for
places in government employ which they are
competent aud worthy to fill, but in almost every
case they are refused, while some "counter>hopI
per" who never smelt gunpowder, or some ner
gro, gets the place. There are hundreds of such
examples here. man seeking employment
goes to the officer. The officer asks him if be
is loyal. He answers, 81 fought through the
war; and shows his scars. The officer then
says. "that is not exactly what mean. Did
you support Grant, and will you pledge yourself
to support the republican party in both local and
national matters?" Unless the applicant an
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use for him. He can plead no service, or distress
which will affect the order Practically loyalty,
as far as preferrment for places that will not at
tract too much notoriety, is concerned, means a
man who sluded the draft, cheated the govern
ment and cried loyalty during the war. These
men and their friends made moneT, and have
now the bonds and control the party. Day after
Tomorrow the election comes off here. Prepar-
atory to 1t the radicals passed and ordinance
making it severe penalty to exclude negro
from any place where whites were allowed at
any public house, or place of amusement. They
then nominated a city ticket which has only
three important Offices to fill, on which they put
one Yankee, one IrishmAn and one negro. They
had been so corrupt that they still felt dread
of defeat, so they put negroes at the head of
public works, and employed negroes and turned
of whites.
have little doubt that we shall have q war
with England. Sumner and his ilk are going 10
force it into the radical platforms 10 State aad
local elections. II the democrats leave Il out
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