Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-08-17
The Union Veterans.
Call by the Executive Committee for Ma
tional Convention of Soldiers and sailors
at indianapolis, September 30.
HEADQUARTERS UNION VETERANS
NATIONAL COMMITTEE, tIFTH
AVENUE HOTEL, NEW
YORK, July IL, 1876.

HEADQUARTERS UNION VETERANS |
NATIONAL COMMITTEE. FIFTH
AVENUE HOTEL, NEW
YORK, July IL, 1876.
tn the Soldiers and Sailors iohO Serred
an the Union army and Nary in the
late Var:
COMRADES: = The undersigned,
committee appointed 10y your Grand
National Convention, held at Pitts
burg. Pa, September 18th and 18th,
1879. hereby invite YOU to meet in mass
convention at Indianapolis, Indiana.
on Wednesday the 10Th day of Septem-
Der. 1876, at 10 O'Clock a. M, to express
your sentiments i'm favor of the princi-
ples for which you contended on
flood and field, and to indorse the stan
dard-bearers of the party which sus-
tanned the Union and your efforts to
preserve it while endangered by domes-
tic foes.
In the war against the rebellion you
offered your services and periled your
lives to maintain and perpetuate the
Union established by our fathers. Re-
turning to your homes after your great
victory over its foes. you resumed the
peaceful pursuits of civil life. but as
good citizens of the republic which your
valor had preserved YOU lost none of
the inspiration of national honor and
patriotism, and abated nothing from
your purpose to perpetaate the princi-
pies for which you have been contend
| ing.
Since the war you have met at the
| ballOt-box the same political OrganiZa-
ton which used its influence against
you while lighting in the field-the par
ty. many of whose leaders boosted in
Congress, even while the war was in
progress, that they had never voted a
dollar or a man to carry on this unholy
war''-the party which in 1854, in ma
tional convention, adopted the resolu-
tion declaring your efforts in the field a
failure, and demanding Il cessation of
hostilities.
1t is the old fight again; the same
party and the same men are arrayed
against you. Upon the issue of the
contest depends the question whether
history shall vindicate you or your OPP
ponents-whether you or they were
fighting on the right side.
The Democratic party are at this
time, as ever, true to their sentiments,
and they have presented two candi-
dates who had little sympathy for you
or your cause That party depends for
its success upon the votes of the men
whom you conquered in the field, and
if successful it will be dominated and
led by the same political element.
! Crippled Union soldiers will be remov-
ed from public offices, as they have
been, and their places filled by Confed-
crates
At such time, and in such a con-
test, the Union Veterans must act to-
gether once more. Let us then come
together at Indianapolis, not as parti-
sans, but as patriots who have once
offered their lives sacrifice to their
country, and who are ready to he its
defenders IN peace as they were in war.
The committee desires to organize
companies, regiments, brigades, divis-
ions, and corps of Boys in Blue, with
uniforms of hats, capes ard torches.
Full details of the plan of organization
will be furnished on application to the
Secretary, with whom all persons who
approve this call are invited to cores
pond. Fraternally yours,
JOHN A. DIX, Chairman.
JAMES a. GARFIELD, Chairman Ex-
ecutive Committee.
l.. EDWIN DUDLEY, Secretary, Fifth
Avenue Hotel, New York City.
DRAKE DEKAY, Recording Secreta-
/ nv