The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1885-07-23

THE Manner OF Men Cleveland Selects to
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PhiIadielph,a's New Psnsioa Agent, Pub-
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at Loyal Men.
Col. A. Wilson Norris, an ex-Union
soldier. who was twice promoted dur
ing the war for gallantry under fire,
was recently displaced rs Pension Agent
at Philadelphia by w. H. H. Davis,
Democrat. Davis first act after as
Stunning the duties of his Office was the
removal of three Republican ex-soldier
clerks and the appointment Of Demo
Gratis in their stead. The first place
was given to a man named Joseph Bar
biere, who was Lieutenant Colonel
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 independent nation. He was also
most bitter and vindictive assailanL
of Lincoln and Stanton and other
leading public men of the North
who upheld the Government and the
cause of the Union during the memora-
BILE struggle. These facts In connection
with Barbiere are not obtained at
secondhand. They are to be found in
a book written by him and printed by
Gen. Davis himself In Doylestown, in
the year 1868. 1t is a volume of nearly
400 pages. filled with the most venom
Gus abuse of the North. of Northern
public men, Northern institutions, and
Abolitionists that ever appeared, per-
haps, from Southern source. In this
book Barbiere eulogizes Jefferson Davis
as "our late beloved chief" He defends
Wirz, the author of the Andersonville
atrocities, as "the murdered WirZ, who
was more sinned against than SHINING"
He assails the late Wendell Phillips, of
Massachusetts,, the great Abolition
leader, as shat dirty dog and fanatic,
Wendell Phillips, the negro-thief and
slanderer of Southern people," He at
tacks Secretary Stanton as shat arch
military fiend of the War Department
of the United States" who "has placed
himself in a position to be shot at, and
of whom at is but fair We should make
a target Again, he pays his respects
to Stanton as that miscreant at Wash
ington, that party gheul, Edwin NJ.
Stanton" He calls Lincoln political
scavenger," who "was fleeter than the
ostrich Gin passing through Balti-
more. }"
Mr.. Davis was himself publisher of
the Doylestown Democrat during the
war, and the Office of the paper was
once sacked and the publication sus-
pended on account Of the rabid rebel
sentiments which the editor expressed.
The removal of Col. Norris naturally
occasions bitter feeling among the ex.
soldiers of Pennsylvania, although
DAYS 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 Davis
new clerk. He calls Harriet Beechel
Stowe Henry Ward Beecher's sister.
"the fanatical and heartless Harriet
Beecher Stowe" He designates Anns
Dickinson as "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:
"He has brains; SO has hog. These
ignorant fanatics worship man, and
that man Abraham Lincoln!"
Here is what he says about the Puri
tans and the Yankees:
"The settler on Plymouth Rock is q
fit descendant of the English politician,
for, while their forefathers were muir
dering East Indians, they were imitat
ing them in destroying aborigines oil
America, despoiling them of their land:
and seducing their women, and the
negro is now meeting with the fate oil
the Indian. The murderer and de-
spoiler-who is he? The author of the
war-who is he? You, the mean,
whining, prying, hypocritical, white
hvered, negro-stealing fanatical Yam.
kee, fit shoat of the round-headed
English politician, that sang psalms
and cut Threats, and who would enchair
the world and make it bow the knee in
homage to the British lion and Yankee
eagle"
All through his 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 republican form OF
government broken up. Such is the
man whom the manned Union soldiers
of this city will now meet when they &c
| TO draw their Dension