The daily gazette., 1880-02-24
SECOND EDITION
n Pension to the Teter0ns of
asly q Mectcasa and Indian
d; w ans. Fa ,..ff..f a. l.,.,....

.ib II y not unlikely that the present Con-
gress VIII put upon the pension roll the
lveterahs or the Mtxican and Indian wars
Why this has not been done long ago,is
a,question more easily asked than ans
wefed. Hon Mr.. Coffroth has submit
ted a report upon the subi-ot Of exceed
ing ability, In which he effectuallv ans
wers and demolishes all the captious OBJ
jectoos TO this long dfllyed act of JUS
tice.a The men Of the Mexican war did
more, perhaps, by their achievements to
add to the wealth and grandeur OF the
republic than all other armies ever lew
led Ia theicouRtry. The report shows
that by that conquest the boundaries of
Texas we're established, and that great
State, wIthits two hundred and sixty
Thousand square miles of territory, for
ever assured to the Union. By the arms
of these men we secured California, Me-
vada, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Col
orado and Wyoming, an area of nearly
million Of square miles, and greater than
that enlbrxoed within the, tyepty-nine
States which tben constituted the Union
Tfe reports Of the burean OF statistics
show that not less than eleven hundred
millions of dollars in.gold and silver have
been taken from the mines in the Terri
tories thus acquired, which still continue
70 yie'd their, apparently, ipexhausti ble
the past thirty years, have given renew
ed Impulse, TO every, department of
American industry, No army of such In
fafi6f numerical strength, certainly ever
| secured such vast territory and such inn
perial wealth for the country that IL SER
| we'd. The reports show, also, that the
ilegislatursb of ftwenty-tbree States have
| for s. ears been appealing to Congress In
behalf Of this seal OF the nations graft
| t..ft "A "A x,uft a ~f ~ 4 nd z.
1uctant justice has been delayed uDtil all
about seven thousand Of the army OF one
hundred thousand seven hundred and
eighty of all arms enrolled for that war
have pas ed away. The moftuary statis-
tics EN- bodied in the report show that of
! the two, Pennsylvania. regiments, mus
| tering .wo thousand i've hunJred and
| three officers and men only Que hundred
and eighty -Une ara now living, that OF
the Second Mississippi, one thousand
and ihirty-five officers and men, only
| forty y-seven survive; that Of the famous
| Palmetto regiment, South Carolina, Of
one thonsand and seventy-seven officers
and men, oply thirty-four are now living
| We might instance also the four regi-
| rnents from Tennessee, of more than one
thousand strong each, not one-gf.h Of
! whom are now hvlng.
single company of the flower
OF our own yOuIn went Out ifou oHcIuy
county, commanded by Captain Sneed,
nun bering niBetk six men, only six OF
whom are now known to be alive. This
is all sad com meDtary on the justice
and gratitude of the American people,
and we rejoice to know that there rs an
excellent prospect of these "broken soli
diers''--most Of them unable now from
| the intirmities of age to make living
being put upon The pension roll; We DO
| hcpe, and The county hopes, that the
| present Congress will take care Of the
old soldiers Of tho Mexican and indian
wars. Surely, the pittance OF eight dol
lars per month to men so deserving can
| nU UIonger fnRnJen the economical Da-
triots who have voted million upon mil
lion to, the able bodied survivor, white
and colored, of the Union army.-Mem-
phis Appeal. .s.
We believe only about forty of the
Delaware regiment that participated in
the Mexican war are now living.-GA-
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