The National tribune., 1883-01-04

veterans are determined to carry their opposi-
tion to the polls they will right about face.
al drew up petition last week respectfully ask
ing the Representative of this district in Congress to
vsc against all IneasuTes looking to the reduction
of the revenues, audin less than two hours time
obtained 40 signatures in this village All the sign
ers were veterans. forwarded the petition to Hon.
| /. IL AnrcH. VINO promptly responded In Il manner
/ which must stimulate and all to renewed
| efforts until the promises made by the Government
to our veterans are fulfilled and the equalization
bounty bill becomes a law. am q constant reader
of your valuable paper and prize It highly, rs do
all my comrades in the vicinity. II is the soldiers
friend, and assure YOU every effort will be made
10 induce all veterans subscribe for it, DR.. :. G..
Thomas, Camden Me
That sounds like business Every one of the
forty signers to your petition ought to be sub
scriber to THE TRIBUNE, for is not THE TRIB-
UNE itself a weekly petition to Congress for the
recognition of soldiers rights?
- thank you for the Christmas present you sent
me III the shape of two copies OF the THE NATIONAL
! TRIBUNE. | wish every ex-soldicr could receive
the same Christmas gift. Every issue of The
TRIBUNE contains something Of interest to the SOL
! dier.'-W. W. Clemons, Geneva Ohio
That being the case, every sample copy sent
you should be the means of procuring new
subscriber.
~ have five new subscribers for THE TRIBUNE
! which look upon the best friend the soldier has
| on this side of the grave."-T. II. Gibney, Lewis
! town, Illinois.
| If every subscriber viii do as well, THE
| TRIBUNE will guarantee to compel Congress to
do justice to our eX-soidiers. and help to keep
| them long while yet this side of the grave.
AS I was reading your last issue / CHANGED to
ace the names of two old tellowprisOncrs at Tyler
| IcXas-A. j. SwanGCr, Co. h, one Hundred and
! Twentieth Ohio vols. and Capt May. Comrade
! Sw;tngcr speaks of the Seventy Illinois:
! am myself one Of the old Scvcnty-sCventh boys
and / recall perfectly all the incidents which he
naTratcs il s impossible to CXa%gcratC the suffer-
inIs one experienced there in the summer of 1861.
| Men died by hundreds, raciled by starvation and
! disease. Many poor fellow, weak and exhausted,
staggered across the dcad-line and was shot down
| by the guards. THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE, | think,
is the best paper in the country and thank it for
the noble course it has taken."-John Terrence,
Raceburg, Kansas.
Comrade TorTence will find brief sketch of
Tyler prison in another column of this weeks
issue. A large number of the survivors of that
horrible pen are subscribers to THE TRIBUNE,
and we shall be glad to hear from any ofthem.
Send us some hard tack in the shape of new
subscriptions.
Enclosed please find one dollar for another
years subscription to TIE TRIBUNE. You can
count on my support rs long you work in the
interest of the soldier. If our Senators and Repre-
sentatives do not remember our claims this winter
and make effort To secure their settlement,
will certainly remember them hereafter at the
polls And
"lf Beck gets to Heaven with the good and great,
He'll be let in at the smallest gate"
j. w. Beatty, Burton, Kan.
Not in his present grayback uniform, we're
afraid. He'll never pass the Union picket
line without the Union countersgn.
Enclosed please find five more solid shot from
eastern Ohio THE TRIBUNE has met with great
success mere 1t Is Just the paper for all old veer-
ans. Keep your guns we'll manned and ready for
action."-Samuel 4. Moore, Deersville, Ohio.
The guns are all right and properly manned,
but we look to our subscribers to furnish the
ammunition. Depend upon it, The TRIBUNE
viii fire low and waste no powder on sky
scrapers.
~ viii try to respond to the calico, 900 sub
scribers for THE NATIONAL TRIBuNE 1t is the best
paper l ever saw. Ny children gather about me
Julius Smith, IHllsboro, Illinois.
That's pleasant picture, and it reminds us
of another picture of twenty years ago:
"Thy voice is heard thro' rolling drums
That beat to battle where he stands
Thy face across his fancy comes,
And gives the battle to his hands:
moment while the trumpets blow,
lie sees his brood about thy knee;
The next, like fire he meets the foe,
And strikes him dead for thine and thee"
Happy the brood that is not bereft of its
protector.
u received a sample copy of your paper last
one dollar for years subscription. ! old
Mexican veteran and also served in the Union
army during the late war. My father, who
aled n year ago, was private IN the
Forty-tifth Illinois, and after we had both been
discharged for disability-he from the Forty-ffth
and from the Ninety-third lllinOis-my Oldest
son, who was then not yet sixteen enlisted in the
Ninth Illinois cavalry and served until the rebellion
was put down. So, between the three of us we
managed TO keep one man at the front during the
entire In fact, three generations of us volun-
teered to defend the old flag. My claim has been
be sixty years old the last day of the present
month.''-WiIliam Il. Bruner, Taylor Ridge, Ill.
And yet there are papers like tie Utica
Herald which have the hardihood to say that
no additions should be made to the pension
roll Just think of it Father, son, and grand
son, all three offer their lives to save their
country, and the sole survivor at the age of
sixty, and nearly twenty years after the close
of the war, still waiting for pension! Should
this meet the eye of Senator Beck it will
doubtless shock his feelings terribly.
Enclosed please find one dollar for a new sub
sCriber. | take tins opportunity of complimentiug
you ON the excellence TuE TRIBUNE, and espec-
ially on the ability displayed il its editorial ar-
ccs wish you great succcssand all the compl-
ments ofthe season. Marx CARL, Dclfar Indiana
Compliments of this sort thankfully received.
BY the way, compliments and cash always make
very pleasant travelling companions.
"Your paper is as refreshing to me as two pieces
of hard-tacl and II slice of pork after IA long
and weary march. ] enclose check for three sub
scriptions."-A. q. Fellows Philadelphia
Refreshments sold here"-THE TRIBUNE
hard-tack is the standard army ration, and is
issued regularly every week. Price one dollar
per annum, invariably in advance.
Enclosed please find 81 for four more new sub |
scribcrs to THE TRIBUNE My good wife and l will |
get you some more soon. Continue the good work |
until every prisoner and cNsoldier who dis
abled in the obtains his just dues The credit |
for getting up this club belongs to X. T. Allen. -
q. n. Allen, Creighton, Nebraska.
The ladies-God bless 'em-THE TRIBUNE |
could not get along with them. If your wives |
are on our side, comrades, there's nothing left |
for you to do but to follow their example. The |
apron-string is power, and no mistake.
Enclosed please find one dollar making three |
subscribers in all that have sent you Do YOU
slider this a club not? | have been sending you |
one at time and out here call one at a time
and shall take If as long 1 ive.'-Daniel Ross,
Marshall Michigan
TWo's good company and thIee's crowd,
comrade-and the bigger the crowd, or what is
the same thing, the bigger the club the better.
Bait your hook again, and let's see what you
catch this time. There are still as good fish in
the sea as ever were caught
AZ would like to ask you if it Is not almost time
Tyrs,.. !