Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-10-07
Southern Claims.

says:
'The Government can never pay a debt or
grant pension or reward of any sort for
waging war upon its own existence, nor could
be induced to approve or encourage the
payment of such debt pension or reward"
This he follows with an emphatic
declaration that if he were President
he would veto all such legislation.
So far 80 good, and he goes farther.
He intimates that even Union claims
might "fairly be considered barred
by the lapse of tlme," and if enter
tanned should be subjected to the
"closest scrutiny" Democratic wri.
tiers and speakers affect 10 think this
letter completely disposes of the bug
bear. Let us see if it does. In the
middle of the letter, Immediately fol-
lowing the paragraph above given in
small type, Hancock says: Nobody
expects or wants such unnatural &C.
ton. To propose it would be an in
suit to the intelligence and honor of
our people" These sentences show
one of two things, Either he does
not know that any southern claims"
have been asked for, or the kind that
are asked for are not the kind that by
his letter be pledges himself to veto.
He says "nobody expects" to have
such claims allowed, and "to pro.
pose" it would be insult. Does Gen.
Hancock not know that there are
now on file awaiting the action of
the United States Congress, claims
by Southerners for injuries sustained
by them by the war of the Rebellion,
amounting to about 50, 900, 900, ooo--
sum as large as the present war
debt ? Are these what he says "no.
body expects ?" Does he not know
that sixteen different United States
Senators from Southern States and
ffty-four Representatives from
Southern States, have asked Con-
gress for portions of these claims for
their constituents Does he mean
to say that these men who did "pro.
pose ii" ''insulted the intelligence
and honor of the people ?" If he
wants it believed that he would
veto such claims as are presented
why did he not make himself plain
and unambiguous by applying his
disclaimer to the very claims now
pending in Congress? He could have
made his letter shorter and vastly
more practical by saying, "Tne
claims now pending in Congress
known as Southern or rebel claims,
are insulting to the intelligence aud
honor of the people, and if l should
be President and they should come
before me / would veto every one OF
them, from A to lizard" Alas be
gives us to understand that he
knows of none of the kind of claims
that he wants to veto, for he says
"nobody expects them and none
have been proposed. The millions
on millions of dollars asked for by
the l6 Senators and 54 Congressman
are evidently not the kind he expects
to veto. He did not mean to tell
them, his chief supporters, that they
insult the intelligence and honor OF
our people. And see what one OF
those Senators says about these
claims. Zebulon Vance is a United
States Senator from North Carolina.
In speech in Warren county, his
state, few weeks ago he said this /:
"The radicals up North are endeayoring Ia
excite opposition TO the Democratic party on
the ground that the Southern end of it in
tends to get even on its losses during the
war. This seems to be the war cry Of the
Radicals now, and beats the bloody shirt all
hollow You can see how hard up the Yam
KEGS must be for campaign material when
they have to pick up as small a scarecrow al
that And as if il were denied that we did
not want our homes restored to us, our fire
sides decorated with the same luxuries. and
our tables laden with the same fruits thai
were ours before the war. No, fellow coun.
trymen, the South asks no bold and no I'M
fair thing when she demands her rightfu
compensation for homes destroyed, farms laid
waste and pillaged, property stolen, and
slaves released by the Yankee plunderers who
lived upon us and hen refused us bounty
And it is time that the whole North should
understand this. 1t is time that the North
should understand that it must atone, as fai
as it can, for all the South has suffered in
body, pocket or soul. Our time is coming
boys, and the long purgatory that we have
gone through will only make our paradise the
brighter when we set there"
Nobody expects it, eh! 1t seem:
Senator Vance's expectations are big
in that direction. After being the
leading instrument to take his state
into rebellion; after helping on q
four years war to murder hundred.
Of thousands Of our people and ex-
hausting thousands OF millions of oul
money and burdening our genera.
tons with the great debt, this traitor
says ice shall restore their homes
decorate their firesides with their
wanted Injuries and load their tables
with the same fruits as of yore. The
"North must atone" says this fellow
''for all the South has suffered il
body, pocket or soul" And he look,
Tor the long purgatory to end wher
Hancock is elected.
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In Iowa County, Tuesday, last
week, the Republicans nominated fol
Sheriff, Geo. Psulson for Treasurer
James Cleminson; for Register o.
Deeds, d. G. Jones; for County
Clerk, f. NJ. Goldsworthy for Clerk
of Cont John M Dala FOR D;str;o,