The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-16

diers. and ns such we honor them far
above the canting whelp who sneaked In
the rear, and now comes forward to slur
and stab in the back. as he did during the
time that this country, which now shelters
him with q home. was struggling for It's
very life.
No true Democratic soldier should be
caught by any such clap-trap or low-down
worthless under the name of brotherhood.
They are enemies to Democracy. enemies
to the soldier and to the best interests OF
the country.
To the ex-coufederates we say that this
is your country as well as ours; yours 10
honor and defend: your rights are as broad
as ours; to act as you think best In all mat
tiers polite or fraternal. Your rights to
organize and keep alive your feelings OF
comradeship are not questioned or denied
by We OF the u. A. r., and We ask OF You
the same courtesy. without being charged
with acting In bad faith to ourselves and
our country. DEMOCRATIC d
ANDERSON. Ind, Dec. Ia.
A Plea in Behalf of the Commissioners
10 the Editor OF the Indianapolis Journal:
Isn't it time to let mp on the monument
commissioners for their efforts to belittle
the record of our soldiers of the late wari
Are not the commissioner simply catering
to q prevalent fadf Is the Union veteran
In it newf Isn't he becoming an object of
derlsion and scorni Aren't his physical
papers and of calumny In partisan
literaturei Isn't his grave the
playground of vandalismf Aren't
his deeds of valor excluded from
the textbooks of history in our public
schools! Hasn's the tide long since set
against hims Poor fellow! didn't he make
@ mistake In putting down che rebelllonf
Didn't he make il possible, by bringing the
solid South back into the Union, for Grover
ate Congress to occupy the Capitol at
Washington In u short time. when the
scheme TO have the old soldier wholly for.
gotten shall have prevailed, will not the
vIndicateds Hasn't the issue dwindled
down SO hat il is now to vindicate the
commissioners rather than commemorate
the achievements OF the old soldlerf
Long live the commission! Would that
it might survive till that far away time in
the sweet hereafter when the monument
shall have been finished and the drawing
of an unearned per diem from q patient peo-
pie have ceased.
II current observations mean anything
the monument will have In history q place
as unique as that of the Sphynx In Egypt.
No person Will know what 1t is here for,
nor whence it came. And IN that day, dim.
distant. the people can interpret the figures
l0AO y " ~ ~ . oA - WYNN
was begun and the figures 1864 to indicate
the time when the object f0r which it was
begun got lost. OF course. such a construc-
ton would be q falsehood, but isn't the
whole monument scheme turning into q
job and q lief If the present idea of desc
Grafton is TO prevail. and more dates are to
be pasted on. let's dissuade the commits
sioners from combining them to figures in com
memOration of Indian sklrmlshes. There was
the battle of Mudsock. fought in 1880, and
the shooting scrape between the Bass and
Tow factions on the MOncn railroad. If
the monument Is to be commemorative of
not work in the dates of some cold-blooded
murders and q few infanticidess
Since the commissioners are apparently
ashamed of their real duty In the matter
of a name for il, suppose we call the con-
summated work and its site THE Apology"
WILLIAM V. ROCKER.
INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. IA.
Action of Commissioners Langsdale's Post
Occasional Correspondence of the Journal
GREENCAsTLE, Dec. 15.-The action which
the home Grand Army post of Commits
siOner Langsdale, and the one to which he
belongs, has taken in regard to the Mexl-
canizing of the monument, cannot be very
soothing to him.. GreeDcastle Post not
only passed a resolution denouncing the
Mexican dates and urging resistance, but il
set forth the grounds of its hostility to
the action In the following declaration.
adopted November 81:
We object to the dates 1S46-1S4S having a
place on the State soldiers monument We base
our objection on the facts as we have always
understood them, VIZ: The articles OF incorpora-
ton of the Department OF Indiana, G.. A. r., the
various reports Of the monumental committed;
their appea, to the G.. A. X. posts OF Indiana and
to the public; their address to the General As
sembiy Of the State; also, upon the common
| everyday, universal and until recently unques-
toned understanding of both soldiers and the
public that the monument would symbolic the
valor of the Union soldiers of this State for the
suppression of the rebellion. We object to any
and all suggestions made at q banquet by any
body as even the shadow of an excuse for the
dates of the Mexican war on said monument.
The protest goes on to declare that the
Greencastle Post objects to having the war
| for the Union and for human freedom
coupled with q war for slavery and against
q weak Nation.
Not only was this protest adopted by
unanimous vote of the members present,
1 Nov. ~, but O request, signed by thirty
two members of the post who were not
present, is attached to the official paper of
the post. with the regiment to which the
signers belonged, in which the aigners re-
quest that they may be put on record as
| Endorsing the same.
The above is q mere outline of the action
and sentiments of Greencastle Post, No. IL,
G. A. r., of which Mr.. Langsdaie has long
BEEN an honOred member. 1t shows that
the veterans of his own post are as bitterly
opposed to his action as are any others in
the State.
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