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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-05-13

CoMRADE VAN DERvooRT said at the
Grand Army Encampment at Cleveland that
instead of JEFF Davis being taken to the
identical spot where he took the oath as
President of the Southern Confederacy, he
should have been taken to the midst of An
dersonville Cemetery and hanged by the
neck until he was dead and had passed away
to the spot where the FIRE burns forever
that he was responsible for the misery,
starvation and wo of Andersonyille and
Salisbury, and that it was shame and dis
grace that children should be brought
heavily laden with flowers to do him honor
in his triunphal progress throughout the
South; that he should while he lived be
haunted by the spirits Of the skeleton dead
who persisted in the poisonous prison-pens of
the South. These sentiments were ap-
plauded to the echo.
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The gentlemen elected to the New York
State Assembly, as a rule, have fulfilled in
spirit and letter the promises they made to
the New York Veterans Rights Union prior
10 the election, but the same unfortunately
cannot be said for Gov Hill, who certainly
lays himself open to a charge Of double
dealing by his recent course.
Among the laws which have been from
time 10 time passed for the benefit of hon
orably -discharged soldiers and sailors Of the
Union army, there was one enacted in 1884
which contained this clause:
For the care cleaning labor. lights salary Of the
Superintendent Of Public Buildings services Of or
derlies and wHtcbmen, and all necessary expenses
OF the public buildings in charge Of the Trustees Of
/ Public Buildings. pursuant 10 the provisions Of
chapter $40 u the Laws OF 1853 tine chapter which
created the Offices Of Trusteesl Sis 600; provided
that the orderlies and watchmen hereafter APP
pointed who shall receive any portion Of said sum
Of $4,000 FOR their services, shall be persons who
served ia The onion army or navy during the late
war and have been honoraby discharged there
from and such hOnorably discharged persons shall
not be subject 10 Ciyi-Seryioc Rules or examina-
ton.
If this clause meant anything il meant a
direct mandate TO the Trustees TO select as
employees Of this class in the Capital only
Observation-Disclosures soldiers Of the Union,
and il would be a direct violation of the
Law to employ any other. This law has
now been in effect two years, an abundant
time, any one will say, TO have complied with
all its provisions and 10 have made the corps
Of Capitol employees consist wholly Of per-
SONS indicated by the law. Instead Of this.
IL is found upon examination that there are
l35 male employees, Of whom but IS are SOL
diers, tho remaining 30 being men who were
generally Of an age that rendered them com.
petent for military service at the time Of
the war, but who neglected TO avail them.
selves Of the opportunity to serve Their
country. OF course a large portion Of
them were appointed without any othel
! reference as 10 their competency than thai
{ which had been furnished by their excellent
political service in behalf Of the members o
the Board Of Trustees, and it il also to b,
i expected that these men would get all thu
8 8 plums IN The pudding. All the higher sala
ries about the State House are paid TO fhes
men, and the soldiers are given the lowe
n salaries. We do not think that Gov. Hi
4 and the gentlemen associated with him O,
u the Board Of Trustees win say that there ar
I not 80 men In the State Of New York VIII
Q. have honorable records during the war, an,
y who are not now needing the employmen
which the law contemplated should be give
them in the State House.
y The character Of the work about the Stat
= House is particularly fitted for this class G
deserving men. SO many OF whom have bee
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-05-13
A SPECIMEN CASE.

An old soldier in EIkhart, Ind, writes
that ii took him less than Is minutes to get
examined as TO his physical condition, and
mustered into the service Of the United
States, but that it has taken the Pension
Examiners more than Is years 10 ascertain
whether he is physically incapacitated from
supporting himself He adds:
IL the United States had been as slow In ex-
aiming into the physical condition Of us fell
lows when the war broke out, in 1861, ms Il Is
to-day in examining our condition when we
ask for a pension. the country would have gone
TO - long ago.
We recommend this comrades case TO the
Presidents attention when he is preparing
his next veto of special pension bills.
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PERSONAL.

Gen. George G. Rogers, Chairman Of the Board
OF Pension Appeals, will be at Belvidere, ILL.,, on
the 9th nst to attend the Reunion of his old regi-
ment the 18th Ill. He hopes to meet all of his old
comrades there. 1t Is also expected that Gen. w.
Q. Gresham will be present
James Everett Alden. Of Springfield Mass, who
served four years in a Vermont regiment and suf-
fered from years confinement in AndersonvilIe,
has fallen beneath the remorseless AK of the Post
Office Department and lost his situation In the
Railway Mail Service. where he has served accept
ably for more than 10 years There were no charges
against him, and he had received many compIi-
ments for the way in which he had performed iiis
duties. specially unpleasant feature OF the affair
which in any less majestic Institution than the
Post Office Department would be described as
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HIS ONLY REASON.
In his speech at Savannah, JEFF Davis

In his speech at Savannah, JEFF Davis
said:
There are some who take Il for granted that when
] allude 10 State sovereignty want TO bring
another i am too old for fight again, and God
knows don't want you 10 have the necessity for
sighting again. EApplAuse.l However. If that
cessity should arise. know you will meet ii as
you have always discharged every duty that you
felt called upon TO perform.
The only reason he has for not wanting TO
insugurate new rebellion, take millions Of
young men from the pursuits Of peace, and
set them TO shooting each other down, is
that 81 am too old TO fight again." He is as
ready to sacrifice the happiness and lives of
millions on the altar of his selfish ambition
as he was a quarter of a century ago. He
is not inclined to do il, because the oppor-
tunity does not present itself, and because
he is now so old that he is not likely TO gain
any benefit if the rebellion he inaugurated
should chance TO be successful.
However, if that necessity should arise, y
etc,-in other words, should he have the
chance to ruin the country for his personal
advancement, he hopes that his hearers will
be as ready TO be cajoled and duped by him
10 their destruction as they were in 1926
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THE House has passed the river and har-
Dor bill, appropriating S15,OOOOOO. This, in
every Congress, is a sort of omnibus bill" "
which, like charity, covers multitude of
sins" The present bill contains very large
number of items, varying in amount from
$1,000 to 100000. Many of them are
proper and necessary for the improvement of
our harbors and internal waterways, but
many others are nothing but raids on the
Treasury-ostensibly for the improvement"
of small rivers and creeks of no value to the
commerce of the country, but really to get
money from the public pocket to be used by
the Members for political capital in their dis
tricts. Many of those who voted for this
bill are the most bitter and malignant in OPP
posing all measures which seek to do justice
to those who stood by and saved the Nation
in the day of its extremity. Consistency,
thou art jewell"
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MAJ.CEN. NJ. ID. LEGGErr.

The brilliant and graphic description Of the
battle Of Atlanta-fought July p, 1S6i-from
the pen Of Maj .-Gen. Mortimer ID. Leggett, Of
Cleveland, o., will attract widespread and de-
served attention. This action, in which fell
the gallant Gen. Mcpherson, was one of the
most stubbornly-contested engagements of the
war, fought on both sides with an unyielding
courage and determination that has few paral-
lels. The story, so thrillingly told by one Of
its leading participants, possesses an interest
not confined 70 the great army of those who
regularly read THE NATIONAL tribune
Gen. Leggett was born in New York, Of
Quaker parentage. His record proves that q
Quaker can fight when necessary. At an early
age he removed with his parents to that great
nursery of liberal ideas, the " Western Reserve"
in Ohio. He was admitted to the bar at %
but before entering upon the practice of his
chosen profession he devoted several years TO
the work of improving the public school system
of Ohio. To him, as much as to any other per-
son, was due the speedy adoption of the excel
lent system which has continued without ma
terial change to the present time.
At the outbreak of the rebellion he became
at once actively and prominently allied with
the earnest supporters Of the Government. He
soon entered the field as Colonel Of the
18th Ohio. The regiment received its fiery
baptism at Fort Donelson, when the fine
abilities of Gen. Leggett were warmly recog-
nlZed Dy zen. Gr3nL. he was soon placed az
the head of q brigade, and at Shiloh, the en-
gagements around Corinth and during the siege
of Vicksburg he was constantly on duty, often
! intrusted with important command, where dis
erection and trustworthiness were in the highest
degree requisite. At Vicksburg Gen. Leggett
led the First Brigade of Logan's Division,
which for its gallant and distinguished serv-
ices was honored by being designated to
first enter the captured works. He was soon
| afterward presented with Major Generals
| commission, and placed at the head Of diyis-
ion of the Army of the Tennessee. He was
| actively engaged in the Atlanta campaign,
taking prominent part in many of its battles.
He went with Sherman through to the sea, with
| him swept northward through the Car0linas,
and at last rode at the head Of his gallant di-
vision In the grand review at WashiDgton-a
division whose swarthy veterans had never
failed to accomplish what they undertook,
whose flags bore no stain Of dishonor or defeat.
Gen. Leggett served as Commissioner of Pat
ents during portion OF President Grants Adj
ministration. After his retirement from that
position he established himself as patent at
torney at Cleveland. In person he is of mas
| siye mould, and though considerably past 60, is
hearty and vigorous to an unusual degree. Age
seems scarcely to have touched him, in body OF
mind. His whole life has been model Of strict
sObriety, steadfastness, energy, courage, and
unhinching integrity.
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At one town in Alabama J. d. was pre-
sented with couple of rabbits feet, with
the assurance that they were duplicates of
a similar present TO be made to President
Cleveland. There is some Voodoo supersti-
ton connected with rabbit foot which we
forget-and it is no matter. The real point
of the presentation seems to have been that
they were SO magnanimous that they were
willing TO treat the President of the United
States just as well as the President Of the
Southern Confederacy. This is sweetly
touching.
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GEN. ]. P. S. GOBLIN, of the Department of
Pennsylvania, and his Assistant Adjutant-
General, Thos. ]. Stewart, have taken timely
action to avoid some of the unpleasant scenes
which have marred the ceremonies on Deco
ration Day by visit to Archbishop Ryan
at his palace in Philadelphia. They called
his attention to the utterances of the Plenary
Council in Baltimore in regard to the GAR,
and shortly afterwards received from him a
most satisfactory letter, in which the ven
cradle prelate says that there will be no
objection whatever to holding the usual
Memorial Day services in Roman Catholic
cemeteries, nor to Priests taking an active
part in the services. This puts the observ-
ance of the day ON the proper ground, and
enables all good Catholics to take as active
a part therein as the rest Of their fellow
citizens.
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WHEN JEFF Davis says it was the people
and not the leaders who brought on the war
he tells falsehood. as he usually does when
he thinks an untruth viii serve his purpose
better than the truth. The truth is, great
majority Of the people of every State in the
South-exeept South Carolina-were strong
ly opposed to accession, and 80 expressed
themselves by their votes. But the repre-
sentatives they sent to Legislatures and
Conventions were duped and misled by such
scoundrels as JEFF Davis, and led to take the
steps that brought on the war. Then State
pride and State honor were artfully misused
to commit the whole people to disunion.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-05-13

THE Presidents veto and its accompany
ing structures on private pension bills would
be sound and right if his premises were
good. He leaves out of consideration the
root of the whole evil-the absurd and un-
just technicalism of the Pension Bureau
which in the past has denied soldiers their
rights, and compelled them to seek relief
from Congress. So long as the rules of the
Pension Bureau made it more difficult for a
soldier to prove his right to a pension than
it would be to convict man of felony,
recourse to Congress was necessary.
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C. II. HUTCHINSON, MIDDLETovE, DAUPHIs CO.
PA
So you'd rekindle strife
In the land that nurtured you;
That with mercy like Christ's forgsve
Zen you-Iscariot-youl
Traitori with Arnold linked,
In a crime more fell than he,
1.-Two; (since the country so wills it-liys,)
But live where no eye can see.
Hide, like Cain aecursed,
From the gaze of an outraged land
There are marks so deep that times too short
To wipe out the felon brand
Thank God for your worthless life.
That generous foe could save,
When he should have sent your Borgian heart
To an unhallowed grave.
Ask Him. on Bonded knee,
Your blood-stained soul to spare,
And He who granted n Christ to men
Perhaps will hear your prayer.
But we who have fought the fight
And have seen our brothers die
We are not Gods-and we can't forget
When their blood Is scarce yet dry.
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TO GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN.

Though gratitude no arch triumphal rears
To grace the laureled hcFo's late return;
And though no blazing trophies vanly burn,
Or mob tumultuous at thy car appears,
Yet shall thy name. and martial deeds be read,
While Plymouth's rock deies the sea and wind
Thy name-the admiration OF mankind,
The freed slaves pride. the traitors dreadi
Trust to time thy hard and weIl-earned fame;
While some greater It strikes the Horatan Tyre,
On Theirs banks, with more than Roman fire,
And give to endless time thy glorious namel
General! accept this verse and it win be
Immortal. too, because addressed to thee.
BY c. FABE MARTIN. Co. E, I02d U. s. O. T.,
Dowagiae, Mich.
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How earnest JEFF Davis is in inaugural
ing an era of Cancellation and sectional
fraternity" may be gathered from his speech
at bonneville, Ga. He said:
always tried TO do my duty, and If the peo-
pie of the South think 1 did my duty. am
satisfied, and don't care what Yankees say 1
hare nothing 10 ask Of them not ereR q pardon for
he NhO seeks a pardon must profess repentance.
hare not repeItcd The only thing I am sorry for
Is that ue did not succted.
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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-02-02

at last II rested its heavy weight upon
nv soul, and slowly benumbed and par
alyzed the fountains Of my being
"Now no longer rave nor brood =
The daily routine, which at times during
the early part of my confinement was
unsupportable, has become satisfying to
my narrowed faculties, Nv whole rsnge
OF being has become condensed and
shortened sill this lreadmill existence
fills II. Put me down outside these walls,
and should grope feebly and uncertait-
ly in the vide stretching space. Set me
again 10 the world OF commerce, and its
swift.moving wheels would confuse me.
The noise Of men would deafen my
dulled ears; tile friction OF life fret nv
rusty and corroded brain. There is not
much more to say. / am old before my
time; the coming years will deal me
double portions OF age, ard some dav
the end The keeper is getting impa-
tient. Your time is up Don't thank
me; it has neither hurt nor helped to
talk" !"