The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-18
The Race Tor Congress.
From the Murfrecsboro News.l

From the Murfrecsboro News.l
We are glad 10 see so many cyl
dcnceS Of the s~'lccess Of our candidate
for Congress-, Gen j. II. Palmer, w,
have no war to make upon Gen. Bright
He is n democrat, and a member o
our party, and we have nothing per
sonal 20 urge against him but be has
been to Congress. 1.-THE district wa.
under obligations to him, either fol
services rendered before the war, du
ring the late unhappy strife, or ever
since The war, Il seat in Congress, will
It's honors and liberal pay, ought tc
reward him. Admitting then that he
has rendered the State some service,
we claim that he has been paid, and
then we ask is it not time others were
getting some recognition OF their ser
vices-aye, their sutferings, exposures,
denlais of Pleasures on weary marches.
dangers and risks Of life and limbs on
the battle fields ofour county, through
q lohS anu DlOOdy war,
A country that does not reward its
soldiers when they have proved them.
selves true, brave and patriotic, when
they have met her enemies and nobly
done their duty in their efforts to drive
them back from their ravages and DIES.
poliNtions, docs not deserve to be free.
When during the late struggle our
beloved land was ovcrridden by a
merciless foe, burning our beautiful eli
ties, and laying waste our lovely fields,
lmprisoning our best and most honor,
ed citizens, and insulting our women,
although Gen. Polmcr had not, like
some others, favored ultra measures
and labored to bring on the war, with
Its concomitants--rapine, theft, de,
vastation, bankruptcy, burning fields.
blazing cities, military despotism,
bloodshcd, abolitionism and ruin.
yet, at the call of his country. he re.
sponded, entering the line with the
common soldiers, and fought his way
through blood to the command of his
brigade His life is written, not by a
stranger, but with his own blood UPON
his own native soil. Here almost
a stone throw of this office, he
was born, reared, was educated, and
fought the battle of his country, shed.
ding his best blood on Murfreesboro's
cory field, there receiving q wound
which nearly renders useless his right
and disabling him for life. OF
humble parentage, without the aid of
Wealthy relations, he plods his way to
manhood. His education was the
ruit othis own labor, for by his own
lands he earned the money to pay his
at school, Gradually he has
lsen from the very humblest walks of
life, where his nan was not known
the narrow confines of the lit
lie nelghborhood where he was raised,
Until by his earnest exertions, his la
efforts, his known integrity,
lis self sacrificing devotion ofhis time
blood to his country, his name is
ow familiar all over his native South
anu, whose cause he so nobly espoused,
hose interest was his interest, whose
were his enemies, whose suf.
were his suflerines and whose
uses were his losses. :
such a mar as this ought to be bro. I
lotcd, and if there is such a thing nc
in the bosom of humanity,
he hrst opportunity to reward him, &.
not reward him, but simply repay !
for his services, will be gladly en- {
raced. We do not appeal to the SOL =,
.ers, or to the influences of that kind. !.
was not the soldiers-who fought 7.
e battles ofthe South, who lost their I
VINO rlsked their lives, their limbs, r,
the greatest OF earthly blessings. Z
'alth, on the battlefield, on the -
7ary march, in the lonely walls of w
me dreary, sickening hospital-who
on the war. They might be
pealed to, and probably most etfec- &
my, but we do not intend to do so. 4
The obligation to reward the soldier g
not altogether on the soldier, but
duty deyolves upon every citizen w
10 has u spark of gratitude in his an
art. an
Then, while we respect Gen. Bright, att an
thlnk he ought to be satisfied with !
at the people have done for him, -
l being thus impressed. we have
yed and sdall continue to urge Gen. ~
S claims to a seat in Congress. NJ
believe that it is due him, and that l
people of the ourth Congressional !.
'trlct will gladly elevate him to that a
ition. -
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