The National tribune., 1883-02-01
TIE EDITORS TABLE.
A Glance at the Contents of The
Tribune'S Mail.

! look for it we do for daily bread In one of
your recent numbers / notice allusion to Tyler
prison, by one of your correspondents. / was con-
| fined there myself and remember very well how
/ the prisoners managed to escape in dirt cart. L
would like to know the address OF Tom Feason,
| formerly of Bradford, England. He was taken
prisoner at Sabine Pass, and it has occurred to me
| that perhaps some of your subscribers might know
| his address. | want to return his kindness to me
| while was a prisoner.'-S John Bywater, 0Iazo
! Marie, Wis.
Can any of our subscribers furnish the de-
! sired address? Or, must we call the roll of
| Tyler prison survivors? 1t isn't as long as it
used to be-make q note of that, Senator Beck.
81 guarded rebel prisoners at Camp Douglass,
| Chicago, from January l, 1864 until some time in
| May, 1865, and | think L know something of the
! treatment which they received. They certainly
! came out fatter than they went in and enjoyed
| better health than the majority of those who
! guarding them."-Alonzo Cuttings, Chhoure, Mo.
! Yes, and that is why the COnfederates were
always SO ready to agree to an exchange of
| prisoners. They sent US skeletons, and we re-
turned them able-bodied men.
~ have been q reader of your paper ever since
| the Union Pcterdn was merged with it. ] think it
is the best soldiers paper that ever read. L
| for three months prisoner Mt Lynchburg and
Belle Isle, and should these lines meet the eye of
any of my comrades who served with me in prison,
any member of my company Go. l. Twenty
ninth Ohio volunteers 1 should like to hear from
them."-John Rutt, DOwagiac, Michigan.
THE TRIBUNE has proved of great service in
bringing together old comrades, and those who
desire to obtain the addresses of their old COM
panions-in- arms cannot do better than adver-
tise in its columns under the head of Addresses
Wanted"
81 wish could persuade every ex-soldier in the
country to take THE TRIBUNE For my part,
shall discard all other papers rather than IT, for
know it will continue to fight our battles until the
last old wreck gets his just due. AS for such men
Senator Beck let them howl. What does it matter?
If they had to go to the front and face the music as
we did twenty years ago they would change
their tune. Can you tell me where can get pic
ture Of Anders9nville prison and price Of the
same? Jacob Jones, Iuka, Illinois.
Write to Comrade Felix La Baume Chicago,
III. He publishes sketch of the interior of
the prison, but no pencil can do justice to the
horrors of that pen.
Blake Post, No Ia, was organized at this place
on December 22d with twenty-five members. We
have four churches in this town, two of which
opposed to secret societies, but only violently
the Reformed Presbyterian, better known cove
nanters The members of this church do not vote
because the of God is not in the Constitution,
and they refused to volunteer in the late unless
threatened by draft They cannot hold office be-
cause they will not take the oath to support the
Constitution of the United States. l cannot find
words strong enough to express my contempt of
their creed "-Subscriber, Morning Sum- Iowa.
These people have right to their opinions
| tons. There are almost as many creeds as
there are blades of grass, but only ono Star
Spangled Banner, and fidelity to that flag is
whole religion in itself.
4" In these days of party descriptions 1t is great
relief to the harmony existing among ex-sol-
diers, and honestly think THE TRIBUNE is entitled
to much credit for this harmony You certainly
| doing grand and good work, and do not see how
one soldier can afford to do without The TRIBUNE.
Alexander Leeds, Grafton, West Virginia.
What is the growth or decay of parties COM
pared to the prosperity or poverty of the SOL
der? THE TRIBUNE cares nothing for the
spoIs of ofIice-it is the recognition of soldiers
rights that it is battling for.
81 am now an aged man, cripple for life and
have been seeking pension with an honest con-
viction that L deserve one. L managed to
few dollars from my humble avocation, and spent
in trying to obtain that which know is mine in
the true sense of justice. l implore Congress to
legislate in such way that poor soldiers may
be treated as well as the bondholders The testi-
mony furnished in my satisfies the Pension
Bureau. What, then, Is the cause of the delay in
settling it? My case is certainly deserving one,
yet all the encouragement receive is that it has
not yet been reached."-Wm. Seven, Detroit, Ill.
Patience! "The mills of the gods turn slowly,
but they grind exceeding fine" and you will
yet get your grist. The House has just sp-
appropriated $S6OOO,O00 for pensions, and Com
Element of claims in his Bureau.
"Of course think it would be just to give our
one-legged and one-arm veterans $40 per month,
but is it fair that the soldiers widow and orphan
should only receive IS? / getting old and
feeble and have almost lost the use of my left arm
on account of being forced to do outdoor work,
which would not have been obliged to do had my
husband lived. have only one daughter left, who,
by hard work, obtained enough education to teach
school, The salary which she receives is not
enough to keep the grim wolf-pOverty-from the
door, end l ask my brother soldiers to petition
Congress in the interest of the widows and orphans
of their former conrades."-Mrs. Lefty Blair Bon
aparte Iowa.
Yours is certainly trying lot, but think of
the thousands of applicants for pensions who
as yet have not received one penny from the
Government!
"I send you 81 to renew my own subscription
and pay for sending a copy to one OF my COM
rades. We mean to have Grand Army Post
here soon, and you can look for more subscribers"
Il. b. Colburn, Emmettsburg, Iowa.
This is the good old story the circulation
of THE TRIBUNE and the membership of the
Grand Army growing hand in hand.
sit is too bad that am compelled to lie here in
my room and am not able to leave my bed half the
time | cannot but shed tears at the thought that
am not able to go out and recruit regiments-yes
even a whole army-for THE TRIBUNE. 1 hope it
will be Gods will TO open the eyes of our soldiers
and their friends and that they will yet rally en-
Don't put it Off any longer, or it may be too late;
and when election time comes around be sure you
make your votes tell. am not able to do an hours
work i'll year, and am dependent on the eight dol
lars a month which receive from the Government
to support myself and family, but shall stick to
THE TRIBUNE as long rs live."-F c. Wolf, Lewis
ton, Penn.
An appeal like this ought to touch every
comrades heart, for it evidently comes from
the heart.
AZ saw in THE TRIBUNE the other day reference
to the large number of members of one family who
had enlisted in the war, and thought you might
like to have family record. 1t is follows
John Kline, killed at the battle of the Wilderness;
George Kline, shot i'll both legs at the same battle;
Jacob L. Kline, died at Annapolis; Joel Kline,
wounded Mt North Anna River; Reuben Kline,
wounded at North Anna River and leg amputated
above the knee; Daniel Kline, returned home safe,
and the writer, who wounded at the Wilder
in the left Leg Charles Kline, Forest Hill,
Pennsylvania.
This is indeed a noble record for a single
family. Yet it is only one of many such. When
Lincoln called for three hundred thousand
more" our veterans did not stop to consider
whether or not the Government would keep its
promises. They took that for granted.
"Your reference to Dan Voorhees, made me feel
i used to when we got the rebels on the run.
God bless his tall, manly form and sandy mustache.
l am an old time Republican, but am for the tall
one of seven brothers who served in the Union
army."-C. Y. Jones, Clinton, Illinois.
Shake on that, comrade; Senator Voorhees,