Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-19
SAINT DAILY GLOBE MONDAY MORNING. JULY 49,
SOLDIER SENTIMENTS.
Il Wordt0 the Veterans of the Late Var
From an ActtUe Can,pGigner.


Il Wordto the Teterans of the Late Var
From an Acttue Can,paigner.
To the Editor of the Globe.
Let us by our actions and our votes at the
coming election show how highly we appre-
ciate tho Minnesota delegation for their
good and noble patriotism in making such q
gallant stand for our old war horse Gen.
Hancock. Let the Democrats every
where say amen to their good work and after
next November the nation regardless of
politics will owe them profound debt of
gratitude which she will be hardly able to
pay.
We can now say ana say truly that you
have given us q candidate who is the very
pride of the soldier, one who we are not
afraid to trust with the affairs of this great
republic even in time of pence, and one
who stands as soldier and statesman
above anyone mentioned as candidate for
the Presidency of either of the conventions
held at Cincinnati or Chicago. And now as
the ball is open and the pickets are already
firing, let us start on the double-quick and
never falter till next November, when we
will be crowned with the greatest victory the
nation ever knew.
But there is another statesman, Hon. W..
FL. English, of whom I am particularly
proud, q native of old Scott county, Ind,
mot Posey). Proud because l was postmas-
ter of the same Office at Lexington during
Andy Johnson's administration. Proud be-
cause was student of the same college at
Hanover, and though not old enough to
vote, was with him through all his con-
gressional campaign, and such thing as
English to be beaten in old Scott or the Sec
ond Congressional district of Indiana was
considered by us as an impossibility. But
later, when the flashes came that our coun-
try was in danger, that our flag had been
fired on at Sumter,6 the Democrats of old
Scott and the Second Congressional district
who had been schooled under w. III. English
and were among the first to the rescue-and
drawer men never crossed the Ohio river-I
had the honor to take 100 men from old
Stott, and am proud to say every man was
Democrat. But it almost makes my blood
run cold when tell you I had only
nineteen to bring home at the close of the
war. But they are nineteen old and
we'll tried veterans who will
rejoice to know they have the privilege to
vote for Hancock and English in November
next, and wish to God that each of them
could cast vote for their old comrades,
whose bones are now bleaching on the bat
tie fields of Stone river and Chicksmauga.
will here say to company D., 81st Indi-
ana, if this paper should
happen to reach old Scott take the
old favorite brass twelve FOUNDER, the one
that lay behind the Gotten bales at New Or
leans, that Gen. jackson, (old hickory as we
used to call him, would not allow to be fired
until the enemy was close enough to see
the whites of their eyes, which was after
wards sent to Scott county as trophy
place it on the hill above the old English
mansion, and let her belch forth the sounds
of victory, such as the old hills of Scott
never before heard. Give her
a little more powder than
we used to twenty-five years ago. She is
safe. She was christened in Democracy by
Gen. jackson at New Orleans, and if con-
venient send us couple of car loads of
hickory bushes firm the same old trees
which we used to consider so essential to
the success of English in his Congressional
days. But let us be at every roll call from
now till November, and keep the step as we
used to, and elect Hancock and English with
such majority as to have no difficulty
about the count. One word more to all
Democrats. A victory won on the merits
of our candidates is the grandest victory in
the world, and such is ours this time. In
regard to Ben Butler and exchange of pris-
oners you will hear from me later.
q liant ~ let Ind