The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-10-20

Survivors OF those VINO saved the
Union"
On the pension question, he said when
first candidate for President:
''My countrymen, 1t is not time now
to use an apothecary's scales to weigh
the rewards Of the men who saved the
country"
To this faith he has been true in every
public act and utterance, and no soldier
In the country ever stated the sentiments
Of patriotic citizens 80 happily. In HE
first letter Of acceptance of September
18th, 1888, he said:
''It can hardly be necessary for me to
say that l am heartily in sympathy
with the declaration Of the convention
upon the subject of pensions to our SOL
diers and sailors. What they gave and
what they suffered 1 had some oppor.
tunity to observe, and, in small meas.
ure, to experience. They gave ungrudg-
ingly; it was not trade, but an offer
ing. The measure was heaped up, rum
ming over. What they achieved only
distant generation can adequtely tell.
Without attempting to discuss particu-
lar propositions. may add that meas
ures in behalf Of the surviving veterans
of the war and Of the families of their
dead comrades should be conceived and
executed in spirit of justice and of the
most grateful liberality. and that, in the
competition for civil appointments,
honorable military service should have
appropriate recognition"
In his inaugural address on March 4th,
1889, he also alluded to this debt to the
veterans in the following terms:
sour pension laws should give more
adequte and discriminating relief to the
Union soldiers and sailors and to their
widows and orphans. Such occasions
as this should remind us that we owe
everything to their valor and sacrifice. "
Where also can be found more
touching or truthful tribute to the
Union veterans than that in his recent
letter of acceptance of September Sd,
1892? The whole Of our patriotic and
political literature may be challenged
| for single passage more eloquent than
these thoughtful words of our present
noble President:
"The Union soldiers and sailors are
now veterans Of time as well as Of war
The parallels of age have approached
close to the citadels of life and the end
for each, of brave and honorable
struggle is not remote. Increasing in
trinity and years give the minor tones
of sadness and pathos to the mighty ap
peal of service and suffering. The ca,
that does not listen with sympathy an6
the heart that does not respond with
generosity are the ear and heart of ar
alien and not of an American. Now
soon again the surviving veterans are tt
parade upon the great avenue of thu
National Capital, and every tribute o.
honor and love should attend the march
| A comrade in the column of the victor
parade in 1865, am not less comrad'
now"
With such candidates as Harrison an(
Cleveland to choose from, guided b.
their respective records, what Uniol
soldier can hesitate for whom he viii
vote. 1t is not too much to say, .as di(
General Lucius Fairchild four year
ago, that: "The Union soldier who vote
for Grover Cleveland kisses the han'
that smote him and rejects the grasp o
comrade who has never yet failed t.
aid him and his cause. He i
unworthy the sacred name 'comrade
and deserves all the ignominy tina
Cleveland has heaped upon him."