The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-08-27
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SAN Francisco, Cal, Aug. 10, '92.
To THE EDIToR-One of my republi'
can friends gave me an article to read
which was taken from MURAT HAL
sTEAD's Times Mon in which he quoted
at length from an article which appeared
in your issue of August S, referring TO the
"army" which invaded the South during
the war as "bummers, thieves, libertines,
scoundrels,'' ETC, and praising our noble
standard bearer for his honest action in
vetoing that Infamous steal known as the
Pension Bill. Now, my aforesaid Iepub
lican friend was much Mortified to think
that such language should appear in pub
lie print, and since he happens to be one
Of the kind who are always Haunting the
bloody shirt, ! would kindly ask you to
give Inc your ammunition that may meet
his attacks. In reading the article re.
fered to, | noticed that it was prefaced
with the remark that THE GLOBE had
listened to the republican press cry of
the bloody shirt long enough in silence,
and now it would make its reply, which
you did in a mastery manner. My re-
publican friend said he had never seen
such open hostility and sectional feeling
displayed in the press of the other ire
publican) side, and | would kindly ask
that you send a clipping of the article or
articles which inspired you to answe so
s%cathingly in the article which MURAT
HALsTEAD drew the attention Of his
readers to. Very respectfully,
SAM |. WARREN,
S15 Oak ST.; San Francisco.
We do not care anything about all this
we do not know what MURAT HAL
STEAD said, in The Times Union. We
simply know that HALsTEAD thought
GRANT was a butcher and LINCOLN was
something worse. We know that a re-
publican senate refused TO confirm a very
important appointment because of HAL
sTEAD's miserable treachery in the dark
days.
He is a pretty thing thing to be talking
about the business, when his record is so
much like a seive.
Our San Francisco friend will please
understand that in this country we re-
cognize the fact that there were many
boporobIo up;op col liore PIT ~, -
pose while recognizing that fact, to en-
phasize another fact which is that there
were bummers and thieves, camp fol-
lowers and libertines who plundered
homes and who ravished women, and we
make bold to say and can prove that
half of the pension roll to day is com
posed of just such cattle.
This paper will only tell the truth. 1t
will not go into the business of a general
sation as above written.
Go look at the pension ROLAND then,
hiNN JOuA IoCCJ anu ~ IODh at lut army
Of rascally pensioners.
This thing of telling us that a man who
was in the wal and who was wounded
didn't find it out until thirty years after
the war was ended, and then he paid a
pension agent a hundred dollars to tell
him about it, is moOnshine on a shovel.
1t is the cheapest kind of rascality-en-
dOrsed by a government which PIRATES of
its wonderful and many achievements.
What we want to say is that the truth
will come through these columns-and
when justice and truth are being admin
istered it is not a tin1e for maudlin SEN
timent.
The fellows at the North who work
the sentiment racket are only doing it
for the offices. When the old soldiers
get on to that and ring off, they will be
much better fixed in the matter of con-
science.
The San Francisco republican is sim
ply waiting for an office, that is all.
AS REUBEN SEES IT.