The National tribune., 1883-02-22
STAND TO YOUR GUNS!
How Our Veterans Return the Scattering Fire OF Q
CeMardly Foe.

"I am a soldiers daughter, fifteen years old. MY
mother says that she would rather be a soldiers
widow than towards wife."-Mollie Hopper,
Rciter, Kan.
II have stopped the New York Tribune and will
never have any paper III my house again that is
opposed To paying the soldier the pittanee that
IL due him '-C;corgc b. Pike Rensselaer, Falls
Ny
"Our old soldiers should stop buying and read
ing such papers as the Boston Herald THE Ma
TIoNAL TRIBUNE is true friend OF the soldier in
every respect, and should receive their support. -"
Philip t. Greeley. Cambridgeport, Mass.
"The Colorado boys would like to round up and
picket Senator Beck on an ant hill some hot day
and give him II cactus bed at night: II YOU see fit
to let him through your lines will meet him at
the front e. y. Studevant, Greeley, Colorado.
"All hail to John A. Logan. and men of his
stamp. They talk and act as they fought. The
small fry that are now bowling at our ex-soldiers
hOwled at them during tho war. Give us fair play
gentlemen. john NJ. Puderbaugh, Ozawkie, Kan.
Il have acted on your advice not to give aid and
comfort to the enemy. and have discontinued TAX
ing the New York Weekly Herald and hope all
ex-solders will follow my example. Success to
THE TRIBUSE.'-James Connell, Yankton, Dakota
Territory.
"The Utica Herald got off its base this fall on
politics and in flounderng around in one of its
trenchment spasms il struck the pension bill
What it said was merely the echo of the New York
Sun, Tribune and the like but did not expect il
of the Herdid."-J p. Abbott, Frankfort Hill, Ny.
II hold il to be not only the duty bat the inter-
est of every ex-soldier to sustain such a paper
THE TRIBUSE. What probability would there he
of their ever obtaining justice, If the current OF
public opinion should once set in against the recog-
milton of their rights? M. J.. jackson, Ridgeway,
Ill.,
"I remember the time when ex-soldier was
looked upon a hero, but that was when the life
and property of the Nation were in danger / am
glad To that while many papers are denoune-
ing the pensioner and his friends The TRIBUNE is
steadast in its devotion to the soldier. The Old
Tug.
II am thoroughly Disguised with this newspaper
cry of fraud and the attacks that are being made
on the $40 pension bill j do not wish them any
harm. but if such persons the editors of the
Chicago Tibune, New York San and Herald, could
be deprived of limb for short time only,
think they would sing different song. Isaac F.
Baker, Rose Bud, Ill.
''I have taken the New York sun for three years,
but L have borne its abuse as long as i can. Its
editorial headed. Pensions "a Monstrous Abuse
was more than / could swallow, and wrote the
publishers to discontinue my subscription, telling
them that could endure their abuse no longer
advise any of my comrades who may be subscribers
TO the Sun to do as have done Bean, War
rem, VT.
1.-THE soldiers of this Nation are beginning TO
understand with the aid of such papers as yours,
that this Government is only to serve the interest
of bankers and bondholders. and that 1t viii only
dole out to the soldier what the syndicate thinks
will keep him quiet. As soldier want no charity.
want only what every other honest sosiier wants
even handed justce"-H. G. Baldwin, Manga
tuck, Conn.,
Enclosed please find an item clipped from the
is made that one-half of the new pensions now be-
ing paid are fraudulent. Itreminds of the hun
ter, who fancying he saw some animal IN the brush,
and being unable to tell what it was concluded to
aim at it, to kill it if it deer and miss it
if it was calf Occasional, Toniea, Ill.
What pity it is that the editors of the news
papers that slandering our pensioner'
could not have had taste Of army life themselves,
marching through mud up to their knees, Drawing,
the drenehing ram ana clustering WIND on ,ss
Grand Army should withdraw his subscription
from such papers."-E B. Lowering, Springfield,
Mass.
"What strikes me most forcibly is the attitude Of
the Northern press to the soldier. see in it more
likeness to Judas Iscariot than anything in history
Coming from Southern journals, such expressions
would not excite my surprise, but am astonlshed
to them in papers published in the loyal North,
whose gratitude to the soldier in 1865 was so IN
bounded Soldiers, remember that the st. Paul
Pioneer Prees is your enemy, and vote and act
aceordingly."-F. w. Drake, Albert Lea, SIinn.
81 noticed the statement in recent number OF
THE TRIBUNE that there are 1,027 pensioners in
Oneida county, N V, and it seems strange to me
that they would permit such eowardly bushwhaek-
the Utica Herald and ObSerrsr to prowl at
pleasure about their lines their predecessors did
twenty years ago among the Southern pines. TX
any of them were in the One Hundred and Forty
eighth New York, ask them if they remember
BlacSwater and woods around ca.n-Robert r.
McRae, Jarrolds Valley, W. Va.
Enclosed please find S3 for three more recruits,
making eighteen in all that have sent yon. There
three things that would like to see accom-
Every ex-solder of the Union subscriber to THE
TRIBUNE. I'd. Every ex-soldier of the Union a
member of the CIR, nd Army. 3d. A convention OF
ex-sOders called meet in the spring of 1854 to
nominate Dan voorhees, for President, and an ex-
soldier or true friend of the soldiers nominated
for Congress in each Congressional district. Il.
L. Travis, Waverly, N Y
'The signs of the times truly encouraging,
now that ex-soldiers awaking to the danger
that threatens them. There is doubtless one mil
lion of left to do battle at the battle box Let US
vote for man party that is not favorable to-
our interests and under no circumstances support
any paper that directly q indirectly makes war on
the just claims of the Union veteran. For myself
will say that withdrew my support from paper
published by personal friend because it copied
without comment from other papers articles abus-
ing our ex-soldiers. 1t is strange that Southern
Senators and Representatives in Congress are so
blind to the fact that by opposing the claims of tho
soldiers they are keeping from the Sunny South
hundreds and thousands of industrious and enter.
prising citizens whose labor is much needed TO
develop its latent resources. Subscriber, Lock-
hart, Texas