The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-02-14

Arp Receives q Grand Army Cir
Cular.
AND HAS SOMETHING TO SAYABOUTI IT.

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watchful old fellow with the striped pants and
bell-crowned hat. The pictorials always have
him standing around when any big rascalty is
going on at Washington. | wonder if he has
seen this circular of the National Tribune A
copy has been sent to me and it says, Com
rade." We'll, I'm no comrade Of that sort, and
il was | would be ashamed to have such a
circular sent TO me. If that concern can carry
out its schemes we needn't worry any more
about the surplus, nor about the tariff, nor the
internal revenue, for it will take them all to
foot the bills and they viii last forever more
OF less for pensioners increase as the years roll
on But few die and none resign. 1T takes
eighty millions now for pensions but not
dollar for Dixie, and we have helped to pay 1t
for twenty years and made no fuss. The whole
of this one-sided business is as mean as dog
and as yindictive as Satan. GLOW long, oh,
Cataline, wilt thou abuse our patience"
"Comrade: We have 125, eco subscribers to
our paper and wish to number you as one of its
friends for the good work it is doing in behalf
OF the veterans. The coming national en-
campmcnt viii take action Of great importance
TO those who wore the blue and will be followed
by legislation in congress Tor the passage OF
the arrears bill j." which will distribute mil
lions TO the veterans and bin for bounties
which will pay many millions more and the
dependent pension bin and other similar
measures etc, etc
YOURS ~ r, G. AND IT,"
which / suppose stands for fraud cheating
and lying, or some other dcvihneut. wonder
If they want the earth and the fuluess thereof,
Now, we have had about enough Of this ras-
caiity and if Mr.. Cleveland don't stop it tho
country will be ruined. Let the invalid sol
diers be pensoncd just like they have always
been, and when one dies let his widow draw it
and when she dies let it stop.
But there viii never be any real national
peace and brotherhood in this country until
our soldiers are pcusoned, too, andbut on an
equal footing. Like the old fellow and his
bull we can pass and repa5s but there win be
no ahcctlonate familiarity. Back pay aud
arrears viii have TO come, and Islander will
have to stop Onr boys did just rs much fight
ng as thry did. II was a family quarrel thai
the north had been bringing on for fifty years.
We DIDN'T want to fight uohow. We Just I
wanted 70 dissolve the partnership and be let
alone, and they wouldn't let us alone They
invaded US on our own territory, and we never
ma put hostile foot upon theirs but once, and |
then We found their lands posted and intrudcrs !
warned oil and no shooting allowed and so we !
dldn't stay very long and came back with
aiaerity We thought we had some state
rights but they said we didn't. We think so !
yet, aud maybe they viii think so, too, sooner
or later. When congress takes protection oil |
OF lumber Maine wllb fighting mad. When
wool is made free, OHIO will shoot off her mouth
If she don't her guns. Cid Billy Young was a
along and took his corn and fodder
and mules and cattle and didn't pay nor stop
to give receipt, nor say I'm much obleegcd |
to you, Uncle Billy" but just went on like he
didn't live there, and then he got desperate
and called FOR his gun, and swore he'd be dad
blasted II he didn't fight EN- forever and ever
before ho'd be horn-swaggled in any such a
way.
Look at our record. Our title goes back a
hundred and ten years, when our forefathers
mgton. The first rebellion was fixed up at
Mecklcnburg, in old North Carolina. and the
second i'll old Virginia, under jefferson and
Lee and Patrick Henry, who fired up the
country to resistance, and it was all about a
little tax on tea that nobody drank but the
yankees, and little stamp act that charged
two Shlllngs on deed. But itwas principle
principle they fought for and so did we. They
rebelled and recedcd ana so did we
In 1874 Old Virginia gave to Uncle Sam all
her northwestern territory, which was q belt !
OF country 500 miles wide and extending to the
Pacific ocean.
Georgia gave him territory TO the Mississippi |
river. North Carolina gave HIM Tennessee. |
Yes, sir, our people set them up with land and |
farms, just like a father sets up his children !
when they marry and leave him. and now |
some of these ungrateful children have got so |
uppity and biggity they would shove us off on !
a plank II they could For % years ourinvalid |
soldiers have been living on roots and drinking |
branch water while theirs are pensioned and |
living comfortably on the very soil we gave |
them. The billions of acres of public lands all |
came from us. In 1912 old England took the |
Mississippi river, that mighty artery OF north !
western commerce, and we sent General Jack
son down TO New Orleans and whipped old |
Packonham and got it back again. Later ON
we had to send General Taylor and jefferson
DAVIS down to Mexico and WhiN them ont and
later on we gavc Texas to Uncle SaIn--a state
big enough to give her 200 United States
senators, if she had MS many in proportion rs
Rhode Island 1t is the big-hcartad, unselhsh
south that has been foremost in scculiuu the
land and building the house, and because the
north has put in the furniture they are !
claiming the whole concern. The declaration
OF independence is ours, and the Fourth of
July and Washington and Jefferson and
Madison, and Patrick Henry and Randolph
and focahontas and John smith, and all the
LccS, and Clay and Calhoun, and General
jackson. and Stonewall, and states RIGHTS
too, II there are any left. And We have
clothed tho world with our cotton and civil
ized all the negroes the yankees stole and
brought over, and we have since raised up
SIN millions more IN good order and condition
aud are making democrats of them lust rs
fast rs we can. see that the republicans
NOW want them all sent to South America
and coloilcd. Wen, we don't care. May
bc II will be q good idea. We can
get AS many more from Africa Us we
want AMI will ciyihlo them too. and will keep
GA importing and CVjlikiug until all Africa is
redeemed from baroariSm. The yankees tried
Liberia and failed, but We never failed.
see that Mr.. Clements has put in bill to
get pas for some damages Tire tcderals did TO a
church. in Marietta, | wonder what that
means Don't he know that he can't get that
bill throTgh' Was any such bill ever paid9
lhcte are scores OF them mp there now. in the
Pigcon-EolcS or some Old box. We seat three
from Rome eighteen years ago. and the proof
was al made jam up, and il was certified 10 by
General andiyer, OF Maryland. the very mau
WHO did the damage; but they never got
further than the VeStihulo, and were switched
OF on a Stdc-traCk. Ii MIR. Clements has any
encouragement, | wish he would hunt up the
old papers that came from all along the line,
and then press all alike. There
were two colleges and three
churches burned right here in Barlow, and
ii WAS SAID that rs churches and colleges were