The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-07-14
THE KIND or MEN THEY ARE.
An EX-UniOn Soldier Displaced by vililier
of Loyal People.
Philadelphia : pecial,


Colone! a. Wilson Norris an ex Union soldier
who was twice promoted during the war for gal
iantrv under fire, was recently DISPLACED as pen
sion agent at Philadelphia by ". II. H. Davis.
Democrat. Daviss first act after assuming the
duties of his Office was the removal of three
Republican ex soldier clerks and the appoint
ment of Democrats in their stead. The first
place was given to man named Joseph Barbiere,
who was a lieutepantcolonel in the Confederate
army during the late civil war, and was known
throughout Tennessee and Georgia as rabid
and persistent advocate of the right OF the
Southern States to secede and become an indie
pendent nation. lie was also most bitter and
vindictive assailant of Lincoln and Stanton,
and other leading public men of the North who
upheld the government and the cause of the
Union during the memorable struggle. These
facts in connection with Barbiere are
not obtained at secondhand. They are
by him and printed by General Davis himself in
Doylestown in the year 1868 1t is volume of
nearly 400 pages, filed with the most venomous
abuse of the North, of Northern public men,
Northern institutions and abolitionists that ever
appeared, PERHAPS from Southern source, In
this book Barbiere eulogzes jefferson Davis as
''our late beloved chief" He defends Wirz, the
author of the Andersonville atrocities, as tho
murdered Wirz, who was more sinned agalns,
than SHINING" He assals the late Wendell
Phillips, of Massachusetts,, the great Abolition
leader, as that dirty dog and fanatic, Wendell
Phillips, the negrothef and slanderer OF South
ern people" He attacks Secretary stanton as
'that arch military fend of the War Depart
ment of the United States who has placed
himself in position to be shot at" and OF whom
''it is but fair should make target" Again,
he pays his respects to Stanton as 'tnat mlscre'
| ant at Washington, that party ghoul, Edwin NJ.
| Stanton He calls Lincoln a political scaven-
| ger" who was feeter than the ostrich lin pass
ing through Baltimore)"
| Mr. Davis was himself publisher of the
| Doylestown Democrat during the war, and
| a. r. EAi
| the publication suspended on account OF the
rabid rebel sentiments which the editor ex-
| pressed.
The removal of Colonel Norris naturally oc-
| casons bitter feeling among the ex-soldiers OF
| Pennsylvania, although Davis is personally OF
| high standing.
Even the women Of the North come in for their
| share of abuse from the rank secession pen OF
| Pension Agent Daviss new clerk. He calls
| Harriet Beecher Stowe Henry Ward Beecher's
sister, 'the fanatcal and heartless Harriet
| Beecher Stowe" He designates Anna Dickinson
as 1.-The strong minded, ugly, weak headed Anna
| Dickinson"
Here is an extract from the book to show
Pension Clerk Barbiere's estimate of President
| Lincoln:
''IIe has brains; so has a hog. These ignorant
| fanatics worship man. and that man Abraham
| Lincoln
Here is what he says about the Purtans and
| the Yankees:
The settler on Plymouth rock is a fit de-
scenGant of the English politician. for while
their forefathers were numbering East Indians,
they were initiating them in destroying aborig-
ines of America, despoiling them of their lands
| and seducng their women, and the negro is now
meeting with the fate of the Indian The muir.
derera despoiler-who is hel The author of
the war-wI6 is he' You, the mean, whining.
prying, hypocritical, white livered, negro steal
ing, fanatical Yankee fit shoat of the round
headed English politician that sang psalms and
cut threats, and who would encha;n the world
and make it bow the knee in homage to the
| British lion and Yankee eagle"
All through this book Barbiere seems to take
pains to show that he has turned his back on the
Union forever, and that he wants to see the re-
publican form of government broken up. Such
| is the man whom the manned Union soldiers of
this city will now meet when they go to draw
their pensions.