Morning journal and courier., 1880-07-14
THE MATTER WITH HANNA.

June Il, 1880, Senator Brown, of Georgia, delivered speech in which he said among other things When you finally let us back into the Union, we, of course had to assume our part of the expenses of the war on your side In other words in proportion to our means we had to pay our part of the debt contracted for the support of the Union ar mics, and not only so, but we have to pay our part of the very large sum that is now an- nually appropriated to pension Union sol diers, and grudge not dollar of it to them, for they were gallant men fighting for their honest convictions On the other hand, I think you should sympathize with the poor maimed soldiers who on our side felt that they were fighting in as sacred cause as yours, and believed they were right, and who can draw no pensions because they were on the weaker side" Further on in his speech the Senator remarked that the South deeply de plored the fact that it's soldiers had no pensions, and said that probably the only chance to pay something in return to the South for its losses would be to give pensions to the Confederates who had fought in the Mexican and Indian wars.
 AS one result of the speeches of Brown and other Democratic Senators upon the bill for pensioning Confederate soldiers who had fought in the Mexican war, Robert Hanna, Confederate soldier who did not not fight in the Mexican war, seems to have grown hope ful of compensation for his sufferings for the Confederacy, and has sent to the Pension bureau an application for pension In this application is the following
 am the identical Robert Hanna who was enrolled on the tn day of August, 1861, in Company G of the Fifteenth regiment of South Carolina, Confederate States of Amerl- ca, commanded by Captain McCutchen, and was honorably discharged at Lynchburg, Va, on the 5th of February, 1865, and my age is now 3S years. While in the service aforesaid, and in the line of my duty, received the fol lowing disability, to wit: l claim a pension on account of a wound of my right arm, re- ceived October 19, 1864, which caused the arm to be amputated at the shoulder, and am seriously disabled thereby. was treated at Lynchburg Hospital. I have never been employed in the military or naval service of the United States. Since leaving the Con- federate service have resided in South Caro- lima, and my occupation has been that of a stock herder. Before my entry into the ser vice aforesaid, was of good, sound physical health, being at the time farmer, and am now very much disabled from obtaining my subsistence by manual labor by reason of my disability above stated, and I make this dec laration for the purpose of being placed upon the invalid pension roll of the United States. hereby appoint and empower with full power of substitution, Nathan W. Fitzgerald, of Washington, D. C., my true and lawful at torney to prosecute my claim. My postofhce address is Graham Cross Roads, County of Williamsburg, State of South Carolina.
 Mir Hanna is in too much of hurry. The party which will give him pension, if he ever gets one, has not yet the power to do it, and his premature application will not help his case A large majority of the people of the North still continue to draw the line at the payment of Southern war claims and pensions to Confederate soldiers.