The National tribune., 1883-01-11

! siege guns with.
81 wish you would give all the information
! you about Auxiliary Post SOcletes-what rela-
ton they bear to Posts and how they are organized
! We have great confidence in the ladies' God bless
! them! They We're the mothers and sisters and
! cousins of heroes. ."-Wm. A Sllillcn, sydney, o.
You should read the article which Mrs. Sher-
wood, president Of the Forsyth Post Auxiliary,
| of Toledo, Ohio, has written for THE TRIBUNE
on this very subject. 1t appears in another
column.
Enclosed please find So for two new subscribers
Christmas present 10 the editor of IHE IRlB-
! VNE If | had to do without either my supper or
! my TRIBUNE Saturday nights / certainly would
! prefer to lose the former and run my chances
! of a good square meal the next morning. just so
long The TRIBUNE keeps "a strong sfllrmlsh line
in front between the poor frai and decrepit vet
! eran and such hcartcss wrctChes as Senator Beck
shall do all can TO procure subscriptions for It,
| George L. Gowing, sulphur Springs, Ohio.
! You Will be kept pretty busy then, for THE
| TRIBUNE's skirmish line will never be with
! drawn until Congress unconditionally surren-
derS
~ commenced last week TO drum up enough old
soldiers 10 organize Post of the Grand Army here
now have about fifteen names, and think we shall
soon be able to establish Post of twenty-five or
thirty members. You viii hear from us later. =.
! H. Emmon. Ashland Kentucky.
Adiutant- General Brown will please note the
name and address. This is a significant illus
tration of the way in which THE TRIBUNE and
/ the Grand Army work hand in hand.
THE bows saw they like THE TRIBUNE so much
that they would not be without it. 1t has the right
| ring. Nou give them Just what they need. was
! myself eleven months III AndersonNllIe ana nave
had a taste of its horrors Geo. Haines, Middle
! sex, y. y.
1t is pity that the editors of such papers as
! the Utica Herald could not have shared your
! experiences. They appear to have forgotten
! that such place ever existed.
/ Enclosed please find s. for seven new subscrib-
ers, making siXty-sX in all that have sent you.
hope to double that number ere long. The boys all
say that THE TRIBUNE Is the best paper. and they
/ cannot possibly do without ii now that they know
| its value As for Beck and Puck, 1t would not be
well for either of them the editors of the New
orl Sun or Herald, to cmiGrate west OF the Mlssis
slppi. They have no sympathlzcrs IN this part OF
| Gods country. We old soldiers would like to con-
! tribute about twelve feet of rope To such God
forsaken brutes they are, and will freely do 1t If
! You will only send them out this way. Our new
| Grand Army Post Is flourishing. We now number
! thirty-fve members, and there are many more
coming in."-J. A Baughman, Washington, Iowa.
! 1t would be pity to waste twelve feet of
good rope. "Whom the gods would destroy
they first make mad, !" and these gentlemen bid
/ fair to be their own executioncrs.
| ~ wish YOU a merry Christmas and enclose 81
/ for Il new subscriber to THE tribune. OCCASION
ally pick up recruits for you. but have very little
]
can put in shot make ittell." II. Depuy
| Muskegon, Mich.
That's right. If you can manage to get in
shot every week you will have made very
handsome score by the end of the year.
"I am an old soldier, sxty-two years of age, and
want TO see justice done my comrades. We have
! lived on skim milk long enough. ! think we are
entitled TO eat the second table, at least, II the
bondholders and olicchOdeTs must eat at the first
table y. r. Hight Neapolis Ohio
Uncle Sans commissary department is big
enough, it seems to us, to give bondholders and
soldiers both all that they are entitled to. 1t
is the niggardness of the quartermaster-Con-
gress-which makes all the trouble.
"In accordance with the suggestion of THE TRIB-
UEE send one new subscriber Christmas gift.
l hope every eX-soldier will do as much Samuel
B. Armor, Ochtrec, Kansas.
Rather late for the rest of our subscribers to
act upon this advice, but new subscribers are
welcome all the year round.
"The two principal requisites for the suppression
of the rebel lion were human life and money Which
has been most literally compensated-the citizen,
who, at his country call, laid down hS life its
altar or the citizen who laid his money on that
altar stpuating at the time for high rate of
interest, payable in gold, and the return of every
dollar of the principal? IN. B., Red Cloud, Nob.
That is a fOrcible way of putting it, comrade.
We would not, for a moment, have the money
that is due the bondholder withheld from him,
| but it does seem little hard that the soldier
! should be neglected while he is so well taken
! care of. Up TO the present time the bondholder
| has received nearly five dollars for every one
! paid TO the soldier.
''I send you a few clippings from the Chicago
Tribune in which those who fought for the prcser-
/ vaton of the Union are denounced as frauds was
one of the first who enlisted from Chcago-April,
/ SSc
! at ChCkamauga. | boarded nj the PcmhcftOn, An
dersonville Miller Savannah and Blacllshire IIo-
tells for about twenty months, while those editors
| were safe at home."-Franll Z. Shepherd, South
! Elgin, H.
a regular newspaper rebellion against our
ex-sOldicrs seems TO have broken out, but we
! guess they have still vigor enough left to put
/ it down with the aid of THE TRIBUNE.
Having been in the army from October, 1861 to
April 1860, and in rebel prisons twen y-onc months
and eighteen days out of that time think am fully
qualified 10 appreciate the value of your paper.
/ regard 1t the best and cheapest soldiers paper
/ published, and regret that have not done more to
build up It's circulation. IT Is certainly big medicine
/ for such men Senator Beck, Of kentucky, and
many OF our northern patriots during the war, who
hired substitutes to 20 down and face the music for
/ them and now are howling about fraudulent pen
sions. At that time neither money, patriotism,
anything else could have induced one of them to go
TO the rescue of the Government, but they pre-
tend to be greatly interested III lis welfare. Go for
/ them! You have strong backing, assure you.'-
/ i. :. Birchers, Clarendon, Pa.
| Yes, they have very short memories and
! there are a good many things which perhaps
/ they do not care to remember. 1t must be very
annoying to Mr.. Beck for instance, to be re-
minded of the hasty trip which he made to the
/ Canadian frontier at a time when abuse of
/ Union soldiers was less fashionable than it is
| now
Enclosed please find Sc for six new subscribers
/ TO TIE TRIBUNE. Joshua Evclsizer, Junior Vice
! Commander, A Mcdowell Post, No. "a, Lamar
| Missouri
! 1t is very pleasant, indeed, TO note the prac-
! tical interest which our comrades of the Grand
Army are beginning to take in THE TRIBUNE
1t is a sure sign that it is doing effective work
for the Order.
81 have often thought Of enrolling my name
among the subscribers to your valuable paper, and
/ ] now send 81 for that purpose. / find The TRIB-
UNE truly the soldiers friend, and always ready TO
speak III his behalf. l one Of six brothers who
/ served in the for the Union."-E L. Letter.
/ Carleton, Neb.
One of six brothers and all sodiers-that is
they were. Now, we suppose, they would be
classed by papers of the Utica Herald stamp as
! pension sharks" imposters," frauds" "Gov-
| ernment paupers," and the like.
Enclosed please find 81 for one years subscrip-
| ton 10 The TRIBUNE. hope you will keep up the
fire the main line and hold the fort until re-en-
/ forccmcnts arrive Then we will rout them from
! their rifle pits. w. NJ. &. Reynolds Whiting