Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1885-12-04
WRONGS nlGrrTED UP.

Arny w,ro hns received M l,oncrable die.
ctsrge, eight dollars ger Wsonlb and One
Huadveh aad Sixty ncreH ot government
sn,ri eccurcd 10y deed frosn all cwcuo,-
brnwcer ncccrTng 10 contract, st tire time
of enijrmc,t. We have secr ulat Tire boys
fultilled ti,eir pact OF the coniruct. There
can I've so goud reason why the people
shopvd not induce the government TO ful-
Oil iis part. Tire contract wss made Ivy
the government nad received Ivy tlrc soed.
iers in good faith. What Il thus payment
does reflect dishonor upon the deeds OF the
defunct Confederacy> Tia, was foul
combia alton OF ambitious men to dissolve
the union Tire plot was deep s it was
foul, and backed mp by fgh,,g men who
cos,ld and did fight with vengeance.
These bounty fghters were met Ivy Unim
men and ltcmmed in on all sides by biisi
ling bayoncts aud might have been sln,gh
Tered by hecatombs. But no, they were
pardoned and received into the Uuion
again as brothers. Let the men who con-
quered aud paidoned such men be honor.
I'd and paid for the vnlies,t mud generous
deed. Soae deeds cannot be forgotten, nn'i
ought not TO I've II they could. Some
memories are fond, and soa,e II not fond
are nevertheless profitable When justice
is cnled into question we should indalge
IN no slckly sen,imeninlism.
But say some, the country Is III debt and
too poor TO pay such large sums TO the
army. II the country is So neni the ragged
edge OF bankruptcy why did it make sncl
large promsies? 1t is no poorer now than
II was ia sixty one. Even taking the debt
into nccount the country was never 20
rich in money and resources ns il is TO day,
In his message 10 Congress President
Arthur reconimeaaed tho scd'tction u the
revenue because The treasury was already
iull 10 over4iowrng. We have money
eiAoagli tu build Bos,ons and Chicaeos and
to blow mpall tire HeRgnics IN the Union,
aud a sufficient balance IN hand TO pay
every soldier Six cen Dollars during his
life time and his grand and great grand
children for ever more. We certainly
have land enough. Over one hundred
millions of acres have already been given
railroad king receives millions of acres
from the government merely for the ask
ing, neither is he obliged TO "squat" ns n
deed free from all encumbrances. English
Syndicates are buying up whole counties,
millions of acres in the South and West.
What these foreign capitalists are going TO
do on American soil remains To he seen.
Perhaps they are about to establish British
colonies on large estates sud ns rich mo.
noplTes reduce the price Of labor to its
minimum value Ms il in in the old RON
nrchies. or perhaps Golden clubs will
make deposits near ut hand so as ihe more
conveniently 10 bay np voters with Brit
isli gold, :ohtrOl American politics and
Establish free trade in aid of foreign man
ufactories, or perhaps it may please the
Queen to know that her subjects can own
government, land in the Unued States Sc.
cured by 2 warrUtee deed free IRON all
cwmbraaces. hefo,e they have even gone
through the simrle fo,mnliiy OF taking
The oath OF allegiance. Would 1t NOT he
well to iorestsll them or any cliqres oi
foreign or home mOnopolies ly putting
each soldier of the Geand Army in actual
possession Of a hundred and sixty acres
according TO agreement? Some OF the sons
| of these veterans could then go out West
and take up lands which their fathers had
received as bounty from the government
their valor had saved and make for them.
selves and pnsteriiy homes that would
keep in remembrance the heroic deeds of
their ancestors and keep alive the spirit OF
patriotism through succeeding genera.
| tions.
We have word TO say TO the Solid
South. Brothers, this Union cemen,ed by
the blood of patriots is yours as well as
ours. The Interests of the North and
South M well of the East and West are
one. Ii was well that the dark sin Of
slavery should be exp,aled and wiped
out. II il befiliing the stars and stripes to
float over II roll unpolluted by the fonlstels
Of single slave. The proclamation oi
emancipation WAS a boan Of mercy and
averted the wrath of Almighty God who
in all ages has doomed oppressors ant
lyranls to the lowest hell. Gen. jackson
was under spell of inspiration when h'
threatened hy the eternal to hang every
South CarIlinaian who dared TO commit m
overt act of secession in the inlerest q
slavery. No chlvalry or force of our.
could annul the fiat OF high heaven. Op
pressors shall die and the oppressed shal
go free. The constitution of the Unite,
States acknowledged and projected th,
system of slavery. Daniel Webster n
we'll as Abraham Lincoln and other emf
neat statesmen, both in the North unc
South, understood this. The system o
American slavery was recognized and in
corpornled in the constitution and law
in order to secure the Union OF the slav,
holding States. No one then thought tha
the element of slavery would prove NOR
disas,erous TO the Union than gun powde
or dynamite. In that act of Introducing
the system of slavery TO secure the Unioi
of the States the illuslrIous statesmen o
that day forgot God and did not thinl
much OF The higher law. When Soul
Carolina ared on Fort Sumpter and tn,
war began in good earnest, snch men NJ
John G. Fremont, the Path Finder, bega,
TO see what WAS the matter. 1t was no
i, until after the frat and second Bull Run
Burnside's defeat at Fredericksburg, nm,
, other disasters that Abraham Lincoln be-
gan to think that God did have something
10 do in these battles. And even after th
President had written out the proclamation
/, he needed to lie reminded by Wm. II
Seward, the higher law man, that emanci
patton was not only an act of necessii
but also nm act of justice, pleasing TO God
, AS soon as good, honest, old Abe, as th
God md promised on hiH knees that II u,
4 Soou bNV WI" 'hS'oi
lie would proclaim liberty to every negr
, !, slave +; victory followed victory in qnic
succession till Leessurrender at Appomat
tox. God wns in that war and punishe
|, , the nation, for we were all guilty. The
let there be mutual forgiveness. Gentl,
men of the Soutl, remember The generor
terms of Lees Surrender-we know yo
will abide by those terms. Scout JOh
y c. Calhoun's doctrine OF secession--lho'
+ miserable sqnibs of notification. Dis
> courage treason in all its iorms-teac
u your children TO he patriots and join III
citizens of the United States in askir
Congress TO pay the Grand Army of Il
: Republic according to agreement, Tor ur
der God il saved the nation. o. A.
"They have discovered footprints, thr
!. feet long in the sands Of Oregon, Snppos,
n to belong 10 lost race" II is impossib