Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-08-07

trI~ 81 pHD44C Interest IL must b. niitrT-
>;ooL that We are in no Way responsible
for the views. criticisms. plans ac., which
appear i'll this columu.-En. GUARDIAN.
UiYNEsyIIIr, Ia, July, l-7-.
MIR. EplToM
In late number of the Guardian
appeared communication by EN Soldier,
in reply to which We desire to say a few
words. II seems to ia that TX. Soldier EN-
deayors TO place NJ in false light be-
fore the people Of Claiborne in that he
says we have charged tho people with in.
gratitude, i'll which we think he is inista-
ken. We do not think that We alluded to
the people of Claiborne in = special way
at all upon any point that we made.
About the first point We made was an
appeal in behalf of the poor soldier. We
cannot see any thing Objectionable in that.
We followed our appeal with these words:
We would not he Understood rs favoring
the filling of every office high and low
with an e1 soldier simply because h. is an
"a soldier, prcjudicial to the claims of 9th
ct good aud talented gentlemen, but TAX
ing competency and good morals as our
standard, We do insist that determinations
ought of right to be made by the people in
favor Of disabled soldiers in the distribn-
ton of official patronage We find pre-
cisely tho same sentiments III the closing
paragraph Of the communication by Ex-
Soldier, aud we take II for granted they
are orthodox Next: IF our brave but
unfortunate friends are to remain in Oh
security, or BE- rudely jostled aside to make
room for those who ut the beginning Of
the trouble wore the badge II secession,
talked war to the knife and the knife to
the hilt, nudgrd anal clhowcd everybody
Did not vast number Of the Southern
people act in this way: and when things
waxed hot at the front, instead of shout
dcring their muskcts and defending their
homes and property, they turned the earth
upside down to find legal exemption or
some means to cvadc the fight Can cpl
thets he too strong to apply to such peo-
plef Had the seccssionist who raised the
war whoop any moral right TO seek OK
emption by Law OF otherwise from bearing
arms when the war was the result of his
own doing-' | think not. Has not this
class Of men been highly favored by the
people since the war in the matter of
official patronage We incline TO the
opinion that they have. In fact We know
they have.
friend gcts yon into q row with imam
much your superior N point OF physical
strength, and then contents himself with
holding your hat merely, while your cnem,
gives you = sound thrash'ng, would II
not I've very great stretch Of friendship
for YOU to take him on your back and tot'
him around simply because he wanted e
ridef We incline to the opinion that yo'
would call him pet names that wonld pu
scsb, &c, quite in the shade.
The next point that claims our attention
is that in relation TO the invasion OF th'
sacrcd precincts Of the domicile Of tn
absent soldier. This seems to be thu
charge about which our brother soldier 4
greatly exercised, aud upon which w
wish to he clearly understood. The Ian
guagc employed by us, together with IN
framing of the sentence, and Sign
stretch Of the Imagination, would make u
charge the whole ships crew of officers
oycr,ecrs, sc, with the most hcinou
crime against our social system We Ger
tainly intended no such thing, aud our ha
10 of TO all who may have been un
Justly includcd in this charge" but there AT
those who were guilty of the charge abov
alluded to aud we have very little symfa
thy to offer them. Lo"AN'