The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1892-10-14
TO THE OLD
SOLDIERS.
The Subject Of Pensions as
Discussed by South
ern Newspapers.
The "Dlrty, Lousy BeggarS
at the North, Without an
Honorable Scar, are
Bleeding the
Country"
Eulo9y of the Buffalo "Man"
who Slapped Old SOL
dlerS in the Face"

Durham On. c. Globe, recently:
Between Harrison and Cleveland
first, last, and all the time an
for the brave Buffalo man wht
slapped the dirty pensioners, who
for the most part, are beggars, il
the face There were dirt,
and lousy rascals who came int
this country and who abused women
who burned homes; who stole al
that was in sight, and to-day, with
out an honorable scar, are bleeding
this country, and am helping tC
pay for it. Let the hired Yankees
bowl. | am of the South and fol-
the South; and until my blood il
cold | shall fight for honesty anc
for white mans country.
This led The Inter- Ocean to re
mark: Ii Mr.. Cleveland should bc
elected President again he ought t.
appoint the editor of the Durham
Gl0bc as pension commissioner. II,
would be just the man to do tn,
slapping in the face when pensio
ners appealed to the government
they imagined they saved. +
The clipping and the comment
caught the eye of Major N. G. Wal
ner Of this city, and he penned tie
following to the editor of the Dur
ham Globe:
ROCKFORD, H., Aug. 20. dear
sir: The inclosed newspaper clip
ping is from The Inter- ocean, of
this date. AS an old soldier who
has up to this date voted the Demo
cratic ticket in the belief that the
vlctors could afford to be magnani-
nous to the vanquished, | write to
ask you if the report is true that
your paper published the article
quoted, and if you will do me the
kindness to state the object or pur-
pose you had in view in its publica
ton.
N. G. WARNER.
Instead of replying to this letter
the North Carolina imbecile pub
lished the personal epistle and made
it an excuse for Il second editorial
more infamous and venomous, if
possible than the first. He first
scores Tile Inter- ocean, referring to
the editor, VIM. Penn Nixon, as a
desperate and dirty skunk" and
concludes with the following choice
bon mot of patriotism and elegance
of expression:
But apart from all this our Rock
ford friend wants the victors to be
magnanimous to the vanquished.
We are glad of this. But let us
suppose the case just one holy min
ute. Who were the victors and
who were the vanquished? When
the great Lee IN peace and the great
Grant in love met under the famous
apple tree at Appomattox, then
there was no rancor and no discord
Lee knew that impoverished homes
and homes that had been gutted-
every bit of flour and every pound
OF bacon taken from them-he knew
that in surrender it was merely
the reception by Grant of cultured
people submitting to the brutal
force of a vicious and voracious
North.
Talk about your magnanimous
vanquished, and let the mothers 90
into the closets and bring out thu
empty gray uniforms-and the teal
drops here. Talk about your van.
pushed, in all your ardor, but the
picture of the Northern prison hells
where the brave boys in gray per.
ished, rotted, and had the worms
fed upon them, and what does
Nixon and his Northern ku-kluz
clan care about that? Magnanimous,
indeed. We want the sneaAs and
lousy beggars at the north who
ravished our women and burned oul
homes and plundered our people
to shut their gnat-blown mouths
and let the truth be told. And the
Globe, which despises this burglary
and grand larceny called the pen.
sion system, proposes to see to il
that Grover Cleveland sits in the
saddle the next four years and slaps
all the dirty beggars in the face
Then pension fraud must 90. Co.
and it should 60 to the depths OF
hell, and Harrison and his hirelings
should go with it,"
After the campaign of 1884 had
closed, Mr.. Blaine prophetically
stated that the settled purpose Of
the Democratic party of this coun.
try was to maintain a solid south at
all hazards and to depend upon
New York and Brooklyn to do the
rest. If the foregoing editorial is a