Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-06-06


COUNTRY"
SISTERS AND CoUNTRTWOMEN: In
asking your aid to the fond mother
and devoted wife in the plous work of
removing the dead bodies Of her slain
from more than alien soil, we feel
that to every sympathetic heart We shall
not appeal in vain. In asking your
aid in rearing to filial devotion and
heroic womanhood a monument less
white than the purity Of her character,
we feel that every gencl Gus heart who
has heard the story of Cornelia CHS
ohm will eagerly respond.
''FOr this Woman'S work we ask that
in every city and town in our land
where this appeal reaches, women will
call meetings, at which the book which
tells the story of the Chisolm tragedy
will be for sale. 1t viii! be obtained
through application to James NJ.
Wells, Chicago. ILL.,, agency of the
Chisolm Monumental Fund, and by
the appreciation of Mrs. Chisolm all
proceeds of the sale and subscri ption
for the monument will be transferred to
him.
1t is desired that at these meetings
there should be speakers who believe
that our government should protect its
citizens on every foot Of the soil where
our flag floats who believe that the
blood Of man who lost his life be-
cause he was faithful to political duty,
should not sink into the ground in
vain; and if the result Of these meet
ings and of the circulation of the book
should be that American citizens
arrive at clearer views of the state Of
their whole country and of their polit-
zeal duties, both as citizens of the
state and citizens of the nation, then
American women will have performed
a service to American voters in which
every patriotic heart will rejoice.
"God grant that women will help to
raise once more the flag Of scathless
principle, remembering always that a
great struggle is never finally settled
until it is settled right.
Signed, Mrs. s. j. Lippincott( Grace
Greenwood), Mrs. John P. Hale,
Mrs. VIM. E. Chandler, Mary Glenn
mer, Mrs. E. IT, Rollins, Mrs. Thos
L. Tullock, Mrs. S. L. Ames, Mrs.
Senator Wadleigh, Mrs. John Bailey,
Mrs E. G. Sargent, Mrs. Ii. c. Ing
ersoll, Mrs VIM. Window.
WASHINGTON, May Is, 1878.
The name of Mrs. Senator Howe
was also affixed to the above address
but was accidentally omitted in publ
cation.
| heard few days since that Judge
Tarbell, the Deputy Controller of the
Treasury Department, said to Mr.
Chisoim, after he had testified before
the Senate Committee in relation to
the democratic intimidation in Miss.
issippi: cit will not be safe for you tc
return home, as the democrats will
surely kill you" Mr.. Chisolm re,
piled: "Everything have in the world
is there, and [ must go back"
[ met hin, few days before he left,
and the danger of his return being the
subject of conversation, he said, ''that
for some time he had had a PRESENT.
| ment that he was going to his own
funeral"
The Hon. John Reagan, of Texas
; the Confederate Postmaster Gen
eral, is blessed with most convenient
memory. He, upon the score Of econ
omy, moved to reduce the salaries of
Generals Sherman and Sheridan, after
his vain efforts to have the govern ment
pay for the services of southern mail
contractors, which we had once paid.
for, while in the Confederate service,
but which he had no recollection OF
having paid, as it occurred so long age
that he couldn't remember anything
about it, and even denied having paid
them until the positive proof Of his
having done SO was presented upon the
floor of Congress. What spectacle
for loyal eyes to contemplate! A man
who used his utmost efforts to over.
throw the Union, rising in his seat il
congress, to move the reduction Of the
salaries of the Generals who periled
; their lives to defeat his traitorous
efforts.
l am surprised to see SO many ole
republican papers condemning the
c course of Senator Howe. They insin
: uatc things in general sort of way,
but avoid designating any particular
instance of his dcsertion Of republican
principles, knowing that the falsity OF
the charge would be shown at once,
They, while condemning him, know
, that truer republican cannot be found
in the Union. What one republican
principle has he deserted or ''gone
| back" upon? His defamers cannot
peint to one True, he does not be-
lieye in the Presidents policy Of put