The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1894-04-19

doing 80, however, are very dlnerent
from those given iu the petition and
approved by Governor Campbell.
1t is impossible to avoid the impres.
sion that the ostensible reason given is
only an excuse and that to rob pension
roll to placate or purchase Democratic
voters is the real motive. The inme.
diate pressing reason for which speedy
and favorable action" is urged, is that
Lambertson is sick Democrat, and they
are "soon to have a Congressional elec
tion," and the matter is ''going to cause
trouble and lose Democratic votes in
the shop district where he works"
where he has the sympathy "of all that
Democrats" and that the party "is
going to suffer" unless it is fixed up.
Now do not believe in robbipg pension
rolls, or any other rolls. l do not be-
lieve in bribery either with your own
money or with money stolen from pen
sion rolls, or from any source whatever.
do not believe in purchasing votes for
the Democratic or any other party. l
do not believe in the DIR. Jeckyl, who
hates the soldiers and hates the pension
and all reference to the war that saved
the Union, when he faces his party
friends; or in the stultifying Mr.. Hyde,
when Congressional election" is ap.
preaching.
My faith in human nature staggars at
the thought that this harmonious aggre.
cation of moral Offenses is found in this
one petition of M. o. Burns, City Solic-
itor, and is strongly approved and urged
by Democratic Ex-Governor. leave
that kind of harmony to Governor
Campbell and his party, who claim all
the political and moral virtues, and to
be the only safe and proper guardians
of the pension rolls and the ballot box.
I notice that the victim is a worthy
soldier of the Union army, old and feeble
and in distress, who is to be seduced
into voting ticket he has reason to
loathe, with money already his by law
and right, and only withheld by mon.
strous crime.
Now, while you are pushing this claim
to a speedy and favorable" conclusion,
because he is Democrat, permit me to
present, with an entirely different OBJ.
ject, another name, and add that it only
represents thousands equally worthy
who have been similarly "shut off,"
Cyrus E. Brown, of Company d, 147th
Regiment, New York Volunteers, was
one of the noble band that left his farm
home and enlisted just after the disas-
trous battle of second Bull Run. He
was in the prime of early manhood
strong, vigorous and ambitious. He
fairly represented the typical American
farm boy soldier.
Soy" and / enlisted about the same
time, and became companions. l loved
him for that true, unselfish, sterling
worth that made him the friend of all
the boys in Company d.
In the days and months that followed
we marched together, we tented together
and drank from the same canteen. In
physical strength and endurance he was
far my superior. When weak from
and my knapsack, haversack and can.
deep into my shoulders, and seemed
dure, "Cy" would insist at times on car
rying my gun and, as far as he could, in
tightening my load.
What he did for me he was ever ready
to do for others. Never sick or COM
planning, he was continual source of
encouragement. In their first baptism
of blood at Gettysburg, where under
Reynolds the old l47th held the advance
and was the last to retreat, "Cy" fell
wounded in both legs, aud was carried
from the field.
AS soon as he recovered he rejoined
his regiment, and in the Wilderness,
while charging rebel battery, he was
struck in the left breast by grape shot,
which, crushing through his left lung,
lodged in bis shoulder, blade. In the
| hurried retreat "Cy" was left for dead.
When the field was finally recovered he
was found alive and carried back to the
hospital in the rear of Fredericksburg.
There the surgeon carved out the
grape shot, which was nearly as large as
hens egg, weighing three fourths of a
pound, which "Cy" still preserves.
His recovery was one of the miracu.
lous incidents of the war. Nothing but
the pure life he had llved and most
wonderful vitality carrie him through.
After the war he returned to his
fathers home, and as we'll as he could
picked up the broken thread of life.
But that last terrible shock was too
much.
His left arm is nearly useless. With
it he can not remove his hat, or feed
himself, except with pain. The bright
luster of his eye has long since gone.
His general health gradually failed.
Instead OF that splendid physique which
he presented to his country in its dis.
tress in 1862, he is now far along in an
irrecoverable decline, and a devoted
and accomplished wife is obliged to re-
sort almost to drudgery to support them.
selves and the children God has given
them.
Some years ago a pension of $S per
month was granted him.
Later, under General Raum, it was
raised to $14 Now, under an Admins
tration of Union soldier haters, it has
been reduced to Sc.
Human credulity staggers at the
thought, and yet it is true.
The records of your Office prove the
essential facts here affirmed.
General John @. Black, once a bril-
liant soldier, draws a pension of 500
per month, voted him by party polit-
ically opposed to him. With the selfish
instinct of the brute he uses his we'll
advertised intirmities as commercial
and political commodity, forgetting, or
remembering only to vilify, the equally
brave and deserving comrades who stood