Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1885-10-30
ONE OF JACKSON'S FOOT CAVALRY. I
He Talks Plain Talk to His Fellow
Soldiers.
LEXINGTON, VA,
Oct. 20, 1885.

With your kind permission
would again, through your valua
BILE paper, like to say a few words
more to the workingmen, and to
those of them that were old soldiers
in the late war, and to call some
facts to their attention as well as
to urge 10 them the necessity Of
supporting the Republican candi-
dates now in the field in preference
to this old rotten Bourbon party,
whose only wish is to ride into
power by the poor white trash's'
votes, and then leave them the rest
of the long and bleak winter with
out a days work or any prospect
of one to take care of themselves
and little ones as best they can.
Can anybody cite me to one single
instance of any legislation passed
by them as a party that was of any
benefit to the laborer or old soldier,
lot him be crippled or not? an
swer, No! Has one of these been
given the smallest Office within
Bourbon gift? No! There is al
ways some hungry Bourbon for
every place, and he has the prefer
ence, Notwithstanding you lost
your limb in Bourbon defence; and
when the Bourbons, as a Legisla-
ture, were asked to give you a
small pittance to enable you to be
a little more comfortable, they
turned a deaf ear to You ana your
appeal, but went on sqnanderlng
thousands of dollars of the peoples
hard.earned money in unjust legls-
lation to benefit some Bourbon pet.
Such are the men who are today
begging you for the corn, whilst
you who bore the brunt and all the
hardships can take the husks and
be thankful that you get even them
and all for the sweet privilege OF
kissing their feet and calling them
masters How can you so lose
your manhood as even to think OF
such a things Arise IN your might
and show to the world that you are
freemen and intend to act az such.
Don't be bulldozed by your en-
ployer. He has no rights more
than you have, if you choose 10 ex-
ercise them. If he says to you Il
give you work. answer him as a
man; tell him you give him your
honest toll, and a dollars worth OF
it for ever dollar in money that
YOU get from him /; and if he did not
want you to be his slave he would
not ask more of you.
was talking to a laboring man
the other day and he said to me
Il am a Republican in principle,
but am afraid to vote my senu-
ments. i'll do, these Bourbons
will take away my living | said
to him as | do to youths world
don't belong to the Bourbon party
and | thank God that 1t don't; and
if it did, they should not take from
me the God-given right Of thinking
and speaking for myself. We are
the ones that have the interests of
our little ones to contend for, and
let us do it like men and Virginians,
as we are. They, the BOurbons,
would not care if all the poor chill
dren in the land were ignorant and
in the poor.houses so that they ac-
complished their ends and rode into
power over the toillng masses OF
the people. Shall it be so? 1t IL
for you to decide on the Sd of No
vember, and think you will never
sell yourselves and little ones to
these hard task masters for the few
good words they may have for you
for the next few days and after
that have you to starve for all they
care. We should need no appeal
to do our duty, and | consider 1t
our first duty to beat these Bour-
bons and establish our schools and
get them beyond their control, so
that the children may all be cduca-
ted and made useful citizens, which
they can't be if brought up in L.
nOrance.
Just, indeed, is our cause, and
we can win, if we will. Let us do
it,-COMPANY II. Twenty-Sevonth,
Stonewall Brigade, in Richmond
Wing.