Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-19
MEMPHIS TENN, FRIDAY, JULY 19. 1879

payment of the bonds in greenbacks, TO
I the extent that Morrill, of Vermont told
/ him in the Senate that he went
/ farther than even PendletOn on that
I subject. He very soon turned his back
on that doctrine, and bowed lower at
the golden shrine of Grants adminis-
tration than any one else in all the
/ land. He euiogiZed the treaty with
England, by which indirect damages
were to be obtained in the
ALABAMA CASE.
He turned his back on that ana was the
leader of the Senatorial party which
changed the treaty to suit England. lie
has for years had himself proclaimed as
! the soldiers friend, perhaps, above all
other men in the United States. Has he
not turned his back upon the soldiers
What has he done for them since the
war? Who fill the best Federal offices
in this State under his control of the
Federal patronage? Not soldiers; or if
here and there one has received an ap-
pointment, as in the case OF General
Graham, he has most likely not been
4 recommended by Morton. When / in
srOduced bill into Congress, by which
every crippled soldier, as well as the
WIDOWS AND ORPHANS
Of those who were killed in the service,
should have one hundred and sixty
acres Of land, without being required to
settle on and improve it, did Governor
Morton lend the matter 4 helping hand?
Able-bOdied American citizens are en1-
! tied to 50 much land, because they can
work upon it. The worst sufferers by
the waT-the wounded soldier element
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and Orphans-are deprived of this BEN
eft, on account of those very wounds
and losses which have disabled them
from farming, and have made their
wants and their claims all the greater.
Does not public man turn his back
upon the soldier, when he refuses to him
lin his crippled condition the same aid
which is given by the government to
the stalwart and robust men of the cOun-
try, who were not in the war at all?
Again, has Governor Morton not turned
his back on the soldier in refusing to
assist in
EQCALIzING THE BOUNTY
of the early veterans with the amount
received by those who served laterin the
war 1t is a shameful fact that the sol
dieTs who served nearly three years of
the war have received but three hundred
dollars bounty, while those who served
but little more than one year, near its
close, have received a bounty Of four
hundred dollars for their services. Va
riOus efforts have been made in Congress
to place them all on an equality by pay
ing the additional one hundred dollars
| to the veterans who are entitled to it. \
bill for this purpose has passed the
House, l believe, three times, but has
! always been defeated in the Senate.
HENRY WILSON,
now a candidate for Vice-President, has
all the time been Chairman of the SEN
ate Committee on Military Affairs, and
could have secured its passage. So
could Morton, if he had not turned his
back upon the soldier and his face to-
ward other subjects more pleasing and
profitable to his ambition. / submit,
therefore, that he is not the proper per-
| son to aTTaign me or any one else for
turning away from the past. If am re-
elected to Congress l shall pursue the
same course / have heretofore, only
promising you greater industry in your
service in my attention to the wants of
my constituents. l know no party. IF
a Republican applies to me Cor assistance
\ in his business, he will receive it as
readily as a Democrat, without the
slightest reference as to how he has
voted. hold myself as the
PUBLIC SERVANT
of all the citizens of my district as long
as they continue me in Congress. Let
this fact always be borne in mind, and
let no one hesitate to act upon it.
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