The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1872-05-18
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r,5,aH CALDWELL, Ono, May 10. =
EprFoRs PLAfs DEALER Tho gen:
erals held their annual pow;wow in
your city on the 7th inst. The private
soldiers held their National Convention
at Washington City onthe 9Th inst.
Compare the treatment extended by
Cleveland to our gallant ginerats
with the infamous usage We received at
Washington from the powers that be.
We, the private soldier delegates,
representing over a million of the rank
and file, were treated worse than dogs
by Grant and his dynasty devils.
(Remember, 1 who write this. have
voted with the Republicans from the
formation Of the party.)
For weeks before the Convention. the
committee tried in vain to get hall in
Washington to hold our Convention in.
Everv kau ,oas closed against us. /
wrote to leading Republicans in Con-
grsss whom by my pen, voice and vote
| helped to make, and begged of them
to intercede to obtain q hall for us
They answered me with silent con-
tempt. We had no money or officers
to help US along. l applied to the
Washington papers to publish our call,
and afterwards the programme. This
they never deigned to notice. They
had been turned against the poor
private soldiers, and We had not the
money to buy them back. They
passed US by with contemptuous silence.
The York Tribune, New York
Herald, and all the leading papers,
East and West, that had not been
gagged against us by the oligarchy OF
generals, published our call, and all
the notices we desired. But the Wash
ington Chronicle and Republican dare
not publish a syllable for US, because
they live, move and have their being on
the money of the General Dynasty;
(Dy NASTY it is, aud die it will
nastyD Ny cry wherever my voice
is free, henceforth is, down with
the tyrants. Down with the generals
who gag the press against private
soldiers, bar the doors Of public halls
against our meetings, and US to scorn.
l will be the slave of generals no
longer. By all the gods, | will not be
their dog.
On Monday, May 9Th, the soldier
delegates were soon in excited crowds
about the hotels, on the streets, around
the capitol, unable to obain any hall
in Washington City to hold their Con-
vention in. They had been priUates.
They had worn the toga OF infamy, the
private blouse. No Congressman de-
sired to notice them. Every door was
shut against them. So the day passed.
In the afternoon the editor Of the Star
blessings on the worthy man-con-
scented to publish notice OF a meeting Of
the delegates that night. A small room
belonging to the Union League had
been obtained. Then some hundred.
Of soldiers assembled at $50 in the
evening, and after uttering their indig-
nant protest against the buncombe
soldier legislation of Congress, and the
infamous reception accorded Il EN- by
the powers that be, the Convention ad-
journed sine die, the delegates left bv
the next train, and all was quiet on the
Potomac, except the next morning all
the Administration papers in the civ
wrote us down as "iools and bizzlers.
The President sent us no telegram as
he did to the generals pow.wow at Cleve'
land. We got no banquet except
Washington hash. The hospitaliues
ofthe city were not extensively proffered
US. No "big gsloot' made speeches at
US. The doors OF no hall opened to
welcome us The railroads charged u
full tare. No admirer Of our brave and
gallant soldiers came over from tue
House or Senat TO greet us. Yet in
few weeks these same hipocritical seal
lswags will come home and ask us -
send EN- back to Congress. The fact ia
those whtewashsd scoundrel5 despise
private soldiers as they DO lice, dead
rats, or any loathsome otfal Of course
they get up conventional resolutions 10
bag our votes. But they hate us. We
are trash to them, only fit to vote.
The generals run the machine there,
and private soldiers are treated worse
than dogs. They do not conceal their
utter contempt for US, and, by the gois,
l donot conceal my contempt tor them.
one and all-now and forever!
Yours truly, PRIVATE DALzElL.