The National tribune., 1882-12-21
OUR WEEKLY MUSTER
The Editors Familiar Chat with the
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two copies, / will distribute them to the boys
of our Post, and / think we can make good
club here" Ira Creetch. Post Adjutant, o. L.
Morton Post. No. il, Joplin, Mo. Thanks
comrade The copies will be sent you, and
when you distribute them, ask the boys to let
the editor of The TRIBUNE know what they
think of it. We are going to plant Grand
Army Post in every town where there are
enough living veterans to organize one
I'VE always want Sunday TO come so that we
tan read your valuable paper. l hope 1T may
,oOn find its way TO every soldiers home.
Mrs. n. A. Rice, Nenia, III. The writer of the
foregoing is the daughter Of soldier and the
wife of a soldier, and, like many other daugh-
ters and wives of soldiers, can't understand
why it is that Congress doesn't pass the pend
ing pension and bounty bills. Well, one of the
reasons is, that our ex-soldiers have never
hitherto united in supporting newspaper
which had the ability to champion their cause
before Congress. We look TO the wives and
daughters of our ex soldiers TO aid in the work
of building up THE TRIBUNEs circulation, and
in that way strengthen the influence of the sol
dier in Congress.-"I received copy of The
TRIBUNE, and 1T gave me great comfort to read
il. 1 belong to A. w Chapman Post, No. u,
and / spoke TO our commander about club for
it. He advised me to canvass and / shall do
so. ! consider it my duty to do all in my
power TO assist in the cause" VIM. Redmond,
in the battle of Nashville, and writes with diff
ficulty, but as his letter shows, he is good for
another campaign-for The TRIBUNE.-
after reading Commissioner Dudley's circular
TO the clerks in his Office, | must rise to nomi-
nate him TO the presidency. If can get sec
Ond TO my motion, l Will make another notion
and that is that THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE call
8 convention of old soldiers to meet in Chicago
Ia 1854 to nominate a candidate for President.
] do not see a word in President Arthur's mes
sage about the poor down-trOdden soldier" E.
Handy, Topeka, Kan. Our correspondent
means well, but has it ever occurred to him
that after all it is to Congress that the soldier
must look for relief? Nominate the right sort
of men for Congress, and then make sure to
elect them. That is the way TO make the in
fuence of the soldier tell" Please accept
the heartfelt thanks of constant reader of your
valuable paper for the manly fight which ii is
making in behalf of the battle-scarred veterans
of the late war. How any Of our surviving SOL
dlers and sailors can manage to get along with
out its weekly visit is a mystery" Charles
Pherius, Camden, n. J. Can any of our readers
solve the conundrumP For our part, we give
it up!-Mary Z. Coates, Utopia, n. Y, writes
that her father, although his health was ruined
in the war, and he was impoverished thereby,
steadily refused, until a year ago to apply for
pension. She expresses the hope that he will
obtain it before he dies. We hope so, too. THE
TRIBUNE is doing all in its power to bring
about speedy settlement of all pension claims,
and we are glad to know that our correspond
ent, as she says, is going to get some new sub
scrlbers for 1t. That is the way to strengthen
Its lntuence.-We have received a sketch
signed "Tela" entitled Experience and Ro-
nance of an AndersOnviile Prisoner" for which
we are unable at present TO find room in The
TRIBUNE. If "Tela" will send her address,
we will return the COmrade
AUpTSf iCCal of nbaraca y Is So,
teen new subscribers making thirty-four in all
that ne has obtained for THE TRIBUNE. He
says: If any of the readers of The TRIBUNE
could give me any information as TO the where
Ibouts of the ex-confederate soldier that helped
ne to make my escape from Salisbury prison.
n. c., such information would be thankfully
received. He formerly belonged to Capt Free
mans battalion, Alabama His name is Albert
Gillos." COmrade Kissel also sends us a poem
entitled "Will You Leave Us Here to Die?"-
the prayer of a prisoner at Andersonville-
which we would gladly print were the pressure
on our columns not SO great. AS it is, column
after column of interesting matter is crowded
out every week.-Comrade Henry Smith, of
Lansing, Mich, himself an ex-Union prisoner.
writes a long account of his experiences, and
says that no language can do justice TO the hor-
rors OF the Southern prison-pens. His is but
one out of hundreds of similar letters that we
are constantly receiving, all bearing the i'm
press of truth.-Comrade d. Z. Bond, Of
Hartford, Kan, writes US that he was confined
at Tyler prison, Texas, for one year, and still
recalls with horror the cruelties of that pen.
On one occasion one of the guards amused him
self for whole hour by drawing bead on him
with his gun. We shall have something to say
about Tyler prison in future numbers of The
IRIBUNE.-Comrade i. G.. Coulson, Penns- |
vile, o., writes US that such is the magic power
OF IHE IRIBUNE's Gatling gun that while it |
brings joy TO the heart of every true soldier it
strikes terror into the ranks of his enemies. !
) If we can succeed" he says, in properly or |
ganlzing the loyal soldier element of the |
country and arousing the latent fires of patriot |
ism, we shall soon break down all opposition to |
the just claims of the soldier Com |
rades, let US say to the noble editor of THE
TRIBUNE as we did to our martyr President |
Lincoln: We are coming, Father Abraham.
three hundred thousand more.'" Now you're
talking, comrade, but hurry up the reinforce
ments Here is another ex-AndersonviIle
prisOner-W. T. Willhoite, of Windsor, ILL.,
with five new subscribers for THE TRIBTrNE.
He was one Of " Buffers men," captured and
ent TO Andersonville in the spring of 1864,
md ne endorses all that Little Red Cap" has
'ald OF the extra harsh treatment which they
received. Edmund Peale of Laramie, Wy
,ming Territory, remarks in the expressive
anguage Of the far West that he doesn't see |
how any soldier who has passed through
Hades can refuse to take The TRIBUNE after
ooklng 1t over" Our eX-soldiers did have
,retty warm time Of it between '6I and 'G5,
hats fact.-In sending us five new sub
cElbers, ID. II. Davies OfWild Rose, Wisconsin.
mentions that he was prisoner at Libby, and
hat no tongue can tell what the inmates suf-
cred Superintendent Martin of the Nash
lille National Cemetery, who but recently
aW Tor the hTst time copy Of THE
RIBUNE, gives it as his opinion that
is earnest advocacy of ex-soldiers' claims
hould alone recommend it TO every ex-
older IN the country, and by way of proving
hat proposition incloses his own subscription.
--tI. >. Moore, one Of our subscribers at
Jew Lisbon, O., calls our attention TO a recent |
dltOrial III the New York Tribune denouncng
he Arrears of pension act, and says: when |
uch papers as the New York Tribune 90 back
n our old soldiers it is high time for them TO
'rlte Tor their own protection. They should |
lpport THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, the only
lst friend, it seems, that we haven Pass it | !
long the line, comrades !-Hear what a |
lbscriber not a soldier has to say on the same
lbJect: Have been taking your paper but | {
hort time; yet am very greatly pleased with
=; am not soldier myself, but think it an ,
Important duty for each and every soldier to :
AXE paper devoted to his interests. What
ave seen Of your paper makes me wonder that ,
)ldlers are so backward in coming TO the fr. - ,
looks as though they were not wide awTrac. :
IOnder if they were so backward in fighting
II their country's preservation as they are in :
iring for their own interests now?" O. A. Mil =
r, Buffalo Mills Station, Pa-Comrade 7
abb, OF Walden, Mass, renews his subscription, ]
I'D expresses the hope that The Tribune a
may never be found in the rear Tor we in
rrearsj until our final mastering out" No: | =