The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1869-01-17
LET u HAVE PEACE

SUNDAY MV0NlNd, JAN. -,
LET N HAVE PEACDs
WARS the matter Il Des MoinesY Sons.
body has set up man of straw and ia fight
ing it valiantly. He discovers somehow or
somewhere feud bstween ex-oficers and
ex-privates, and he shouts valiantiy for
Shoulder straps to elsar the track, and s~eAfs
that che ex-priyate is the coming man. Nov.
AFTER that Des Moines chap gets over his
alirbt attack Of lunacy, caused BY Post office
or something e.se on the brain. he will dis
cover that his fright and his fight have been
with 1 wind mill. The only Lee county Of
iice held by Republican is held by private
soldier. In no county that we know have
the claims Of the private soldier been ignored
We notice his matter because this Shout
der-Strap %. The Footrank cry is . paltry
dodge, unworthy Of any generous mind. 1t
is trying to make strife wherepo strife exists.
The grand army Of the Union was necessari-
" composed Of officers and soldiers, and
where each done equal, well each deserves
and receives equal honor from the country.
All could not be officers the officers for the
greate part wsre chosen BY the suffrage OF
thsk. bi1hssn ii ~ ranks. By the fortunes
Of war and his own soldierly record, the Pri-
vate soldier was constantly changing from
the ranks 10 the officers place. To campaign
and on battle field each without the other
was incapable The brave men needed the
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out his brave men would have been As moths
ing. Both were parts of glorious whole
and together made the bright history Of the
Union arms in the late war. Companionsin
the same enterprise, each necessary to the
other, tAfts Of the same unit of martial
strength, exposed to like death, pouring kin.
drsd blood on baatls-6elds, insepsrable in
danger, in sufferings, in achievements, and in
gloeyy t. -, NJ repeat, paltry dodgs,-sn
unworthy demagogic dodge, to try now to
make ssgife bet.een officers and men. |. il
evidently an entirely outside party who is
trying it--one who has never been either pri-
vate Or officer. All about US are men who
went in as prvates, by their tried valor in
battle, BY their unfinching soldier integrity,
by the suffrages of their comrades they be-
cane officers; has their valor become dis
grace, their soldierly record thing to be
punished because they became officers?
Shall the soldier boys who went under Sher-
man in that march down to the sea, sharing
With him the glories Of that grandest CAM
paignsin history shall these soldier boys now
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turn against old Tecumseh because he wears
shoulder-straps? Shall the soldier boys
whom Grant led to victories East and West,
who share his glory and whose valor made
his fame, grow enyious Of his lau.
rels snd his fame because he is a
GeneraIf No, welded in history,
in the sane inssparable splendor of soldierly
achievement are officers and men. The
country they saved honors each alike. And
it is only demaeoguery that will now try to
make strife between them, or try to make
the hero that fought in the ranks, envious of
the comrade hero who WAS his officer The
fact is that this ostentation Of espousing the
cause Of the private soldier against his off
GERS, is = suppositious strife and mere off,
ciousness. There is no occasion for it. Every
officer who is any account, recognizes that
whatever m easure Of merit is his, is indisso-
luhly connected with the men he commanded.
What ever Of glory is his is their's also. They
won the battles, and the officer recognizes it.
We don't think there is an officer in the
country who is any account that doesn't
make the recognition. On every battle field
from Donelson to Appomattox wherever the
strength Of treason, was foiled and broken,
our privste soldiers we're the Union strength
that accomplished it. And not one Of the col
der heroes of any OF those fights is enviou.
OF the tame, or would tsrnish q plume Of his
faithful officer who stood by him in the fight.
Mcpherson fell and Reynolds guarded the
dead body Of his general; both are heroes in
their country estimation, and we dont envy
the man who could try to make that soldier
faithiess to his dead chief because that chief
wors shoulder straps. Every private soldier
in the laad understands the paltriness Of this
dodgk Hs is not machine but . man be
puts himself upon bis merits, he doesn't nee
anybody's sympathy or ofiicious patronage
he known that his cohntry honors him !: that
what he can mertoriously claim his country
will gladly grant, ana that there is no strife
between him and the man. whose fortune it
was to be Ms officer in the comm on dangers,
privations and responsibilities of camp and
campaign. We deprecate any intimatiop
thalsthece is an sntagonism between the two;
we deprecate more heartily the effort to be.
get one when none. exists. We don't need
TO mike any proclamation here OF our friend
illness to the soldier, of our recognition Of
the eod6tty Indebtedness tphim We shall
stand by him and his interests in word and
deed. But We write tais for Justice. justice
that no man win more readily recognize than
the private soldier.
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DrsSsniow's vaIedictory ~ jour
IN Aa1sst.
The Knoxville Wing has been reorganized
under the firm name Of T. Haws h Co., and
on the 1st of FebrnaEy will be issued aeaiu
as aaa141 pPasss Ur. ThomsssH. neNrns
he's been deptsd6y he company q pditcal
r3ieiousAnd general writer. and VIM. Rule
has been employed as local editor, and the
brOWnaoW efgh 10 taken d0Wn. he fhct II
snnop3eed in the last pnnber Of the KNOX
Vile Weekly Whig, which contains the vale
dictory. II reads.
"The Wing, a journal have edited for the
last thirty. ysArs, now paAes into other and
more able and vigorous hands. AS mem
Der Of the new company owning the Office,
shall feel daep interest in the success o
the enterprise, and Win do oil in my power ts
promote its success. In reviewing my lon,
and eyehtful career as an editor, | have thu
u ~, thst hAd my lifeto live over woult
pursue the same course have pursued, only
more 60. fMma life ! have been volen
on some occasions, my apology is, that lik,
the Apostle Paul, on many occasions hsv,
fought with Beasts at Ephesus.' In taking
leAse Of 1aay Of my readers, will remin,
thsm that before they were born their parent
we're Subscribers OF mine. have, however
the consoietion to know thae have alway
tln1hf both m rpn{a and ok;ldrnr -. Mid rau