The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-06-23
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June q, 1881.
DEAR LEADEH do not head this
on with ''ThOss Desertensp again, but
since the war commenced Let US fight it
ont on this line il it takes all summer.
Regular punished Recruit rather rough
iy in his late charge, but such is war,
stern and unrelentintg war, which,
when once declared, everything be-
comes fair in it. 1 just want to get q
shot or two at Recruit myself, but will
endesyor not to be too unerring in my
aim. l viii shoot low thereby proving
that i am Of a more humane DISPOSE
tion and more magnanimous than my
friend Regular. For his vain and silly
remarks and the CONSERVATION be has
produced amongst the boys Of the
neighboring. posts, Recruit deserves
more than a passing notice; and if it is
one of the amenities of a soldiers life
never to write and to be possessed of q
general style Of a-don't-giye7a-dam-ac-
tiyeness, pardon me as one for being
the exception to the general rule.
1t may be easily imagined tina Re
cruit, from his tone and style. that be
is a naughty, supercilious and would be
over zealods soldier; that is a toplofti-
cal sort Of a cuss in all his undertake
ings, and those unfortunate wretches
who are so far beneath him In station
in life he looks upon in disdain ; those
bad men who never earned anything by
the sweat of their brow, and who never
did anything with a pick and shovel for
''the good of their great and glorious
country" truly are to be pitied, and Mr..
Recruit whose aim is excelsior, is to be
envied for the course and principle he
is pursuing and his wonderful ambitious
patriotism in doing something with the
shovel for the good Of his great and
glorious country. Perhaps some day or
other in the near future old Tecumseh
himself will pat young Recruit on the
head and say to him. "Young man you
have done something for your:great and
glorious country, you have helped to dig
q ditch In a far of western post and l
now commend you to the higher author
tiles for your soldierly abilities" If Re-
cruit is aspiring and he should be COM
nended as above, it will be a great
blessing to all that he has arrived to
the acme Of his ambition. Indications
point that Recruit is a conscientious
valiant and patriotic American. he likes
to see something done for-tbe ooo.y ~
his great and piorious country. tboucb
he does moi Ike to zee desertions. vet
he is in favor of those ~.sbreedinp dis.
coptentn to be swept to oblivion. Ifthe
little army was entirely composed of
such as Recruit. the only alternative
would be to bounce such malcontens !:
but under existing Circumstances the
iron hand of military discipline as ex.
ercised in our Organizations would
in a very short period Of time make
yeritable lambs out Of the tiercest ~
tigers. It is very seldom that such rigid
discipline il carried into effect Int
when the sceptre Is swayed. It Is with a
yipor and don't O forget Il. hat same
being the means of r~econcilipg all to
their lot: nc.ona INT nrecruit~ ever
or complains of malconteuts. bullIes
broken down sports. gamblers and civ
cbaps.
1t il just nineteen years ago to-day
that l was In New York city, and hap
pening. that day to be on the Bowery, 1
leisurely sanntered into a saloon kept
by a very matronly looking dame, and
there happened to be a cencus officer
there at the time helping 1 suppose. TO,
take the cencns of the city and whan
he asked the woman "a II how MANY
bows abe had renlied. ..snre the avn a
bow at all I,ve cot Int one and IL wint
to the war ana nramised Uncle Abe that
he'd stop for tbres bntl the divil
n three davs he stunned he came boma
the other dav and the divil n 6ner rollof
preenbaeks could Won Law vonr eves On
"a be pulled from under his oyster has
around In the IN, min aI,y now. having
a.oame with some other ointleman >
..Bountv iumper. - said I. veg said the
of8cer. .this whole dtstric. ia a nest ~
them, thev cline ,tocpther for mutua,
safety and tits dangerous to meddle with