The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1874-05-08
Meeting of the Mexican and Florida
Soldiers.


According to adjournment at meet
ing held in Hampshire, on the 18th o
| April, meeting of the surviving off
GERS and soldiers of the Florida war Of
| 1886, and the war of the United States
| with Mexico in 1916, called to meet al
| Column bia on the 4th day of May, 1874
| Maj. Geo. Lipscomb was called to the
Chair, and T. A. Harris appointed Serre-
| tary. The object of the meeting being
| explained by the Chairman of the com-
mittee appointed to draft memorial.
The following was offered and unani-
mously approved:
To the Honorable ". @. WhitthoY71e, and
Horace Maynard; to the Senate and
House of Representatives. of the United
states IN Congress assembled:
Your memorialiSts, citizens of Maury
and other counties in the State of Ten
nesee, would represent that they are
now old and infirm, and many of us in in
dlgent circumstances; and in the VigOr
OF manhood, they responded to the call
of the Government, and volunteered
and served their country in the war of
1886 against the Seminole Indians in
Florida, and in the war with Mexico in
1916. That said services were rendered
il sickly and malarious climate and
against treacherOus foes. And whereas,
it having been the policy of the Govern
ment to pension her defenders in the
hour of peril; we would respectfully
solicit and earnestly request such legis-
latiOn apon your part as will place US
and our surviving comrades upon the
pension list of the Government, as BEN
efciarieS of her bounty liberality and
justnoss; that the prayer of your petit
TONERS will be granted, we ever pray &c.
Mr.. @. c. Gordon offered the follow
ing resolution, which was unanimously
adopted.
ResoLvcd, That the Tennessee delega-
ton in Congress DO requested unani-
mOusly, and our local Rep1 esentatives,
the Hon. w. G. WhitthOrne and Hon.
Horace Maynard, be requested to bring
the prayer Of the petitioners which ac-
companies this resolution before the
Honorable Congress of the United
States. and to use their best endeavors to
procure the passage of an act placing the
surviY Ors of the Florida and Mexican
war on the pension Rolls of the Governs
ment.
Mr.. James L. Guest offered the follow
ing resolution, which was unanimously
adopted:
ReSoLvcd, That copy of these pro-
ceedings DO furnished each member oil
Congress from Tennessee, and the Co.
lumDia HERALD AND MAIL publish
the same, and on motion the meeting
adjourned.
George Lipscomb, j. A. River, James
L Guest, Il. Smith, w. r. Conner, J.
w. Bates. J. f. Jordon, D. McKennon,
VIM. G. Porter, James Pulliam, w. c.
Cherry, S. w. Smith, Charles w. Houser,
stephen D. HerndoD, John w. Herndon,
James Z. Leftwich, Levi Smith, Samuel
{. Scott, w. p. Nelson, George G. Gor~
don, ii. b. Logue, James c. Cooper, J.
B. Sheriff., j. NJ. S. Mays, George p.
Webster, J. P. Kittrell, Jerry Hobson,
L. A. Harris, James Wilson, J. G. Dun
can, a. 7. HenslY, G. w. Banks, James
w. Devon, J. p. Morrison, James d.
Easley, J. G. Ward, Ransom Dean, L.
Tally, Richard Anderson, Abner Wealth |
erly, Ebb Morrison, Thomas Warren,
Walker, James Lovett, James |
Taylor, Geo. w. Helm, Powhatan Gor> |
don, Edward Sheegog, A. H. Brown, NJ. |
D., j. G. Cooper, Thomas J. Pickens, |
Thomas S. Stratton.
The Memorial can be found at the |
office until Monday next.
GEO. LIPsCOMB, Chairman.
Il, A, HARRIS SecretarV