Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-04-30
A Grandson of General Daniel Nor
gan Laid ON the Shelf by Grant.

From the New Orleans Times, 2Ath.l
The Great Belisarius, after many years
of splendid military service, was reduced
in his old age to penury AMI blindness,
aud begged his way through the streets
of Constantinople, which he has more
than once paraded.
We have genial friend and neighbor-
long may he be fer from touching The
depth of misfortune to which Belisarius
sunk-who has afforded almost as strik-
ing an example of the ingrstitude of Re-
publics, and of the people, to whose
glory and victories he has 80 largely con.
tributed. We refer to the genial and re-
nowned auctioneer of Commercial Place,
who has filed so many Offices in the
State and city, and always with dignity
and efficiency-who has been so old and
faithful a champion and devotee to the
Union, and 10 whose veins flows the best
blood of the Revolution of l776, and
who is now packed off into the very
small, cramped and ill-paid Office of pen
sion agent.
Just think of it; grandson OF old
Daniel Morgan, who whipped the British
at Cowpens, and in innumerable skir-
mishes in the swamps of the Carolinas,
and who fought through one whole cam
paign in his shirt sleeves, thus laid on
the shef-given an office hitherto held
by a mere youth, and compelled to per
form the tedious and ill-requited duties
of paying over small sums of money
every six months to poor widows and
disabled soldiersl And this, too, in the
face of record of fidelity to the Union
which can be surpassed by few of the
members of that party, and is certainly
not equslled by any who have been APP
pointed to the best offices in the gift OF
the President
Certainly, as Daniel Webster said to
the Mississippi delegation IN lo4S, when
they came to condole with him on ac-
count of his and their disappointment in
not getting the nomination of the Whig
convention for the Presidency, There
are some pages lacking in the history OF
the country-they have been obliterated,
torn out I" Very distinctly do we re-
member, great many years ago, when
most of the present chiefs of the Radical
marty n this State and city were shout
ing advocates for States rights, and Sc
cession in certain event, that our new
Pension Agent, in the zeal OF his love for
the Union for which his grandfather SO
gallantly fought, rolled huge ball
through our streets, in a great Whig pro-
cession, whereon the words death to
all Traitors" were inscribed, in offensive
propinuuity to the name of South Caro-
lima, which opprobious mepace was taken
in high dudgeon by the chivalric sons OF
"the Hotspur OF the Union" and brought
down on the Whig Sisyphus aforesaid
"curses both loud aud deep"
And so on, through his long career,
as an outspoken and loud speaking
champion of Union sentiments, down to
the commencement of the events which
led "to the war of the rebellion" this
CITY had no more vigorous, valorous and
yociferous defender of the principles
upon which the war for the Union was
fought than the gentleman whose un-
grateful treatment provoketh this jere-
miad. And, during the war, what larger
and more inexhaustible fountain of loyal
sentiments existed in our midst, than
our worthy from whom so many of the
weaker vessels of loyalty and uuionism
were wont to derive all Of inspirations
and vigor which maintained them
throughout the exciting contest. How
many of them would have fallen by the
wuyside if they had not been sustained
and encouraged by his sturdy voice,
counsel and example
And now Pension Agent, passing
rich at forty pounds year."
blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind as mans insratitude.'