Year: 1861




To hs Editor Of Tie Wig:


/ am not a newspaper scrbbler nor do desire now
to appear in your columns over my own name not be.
cause shrink from the responsibility Of this article, or
anything else say or do citizen of Virginia. bus
because leave articles and letters for newspapers
TO those whose taste for fame aud notofey may induce
them to appear in the columns Of public Journal.


Ny object at this time is to ak you in an editorial
article to urge upon Congress- at the earliest moment
after organZ liop to authozs the increase OF the pay
of the soldiers and nou-coumssoned officers At pres
ent Of pay and oommuLatoD, tie soldiers who have
families to support cannot do it, In my section hue
dres have gone to the war withot leaving anything for
their families VI 1.-Two upongUos, patriotic rnechaniee
and laborers whose families were supported by tho
daily efforts Of husbands aud sons, non all gone 10 the
var to fight the battles of their county, IA good cause,
true Lut should the poor soldier rot be cared for and
his family fed and clothed while the moneyed men, who
possess large property TO be protected aud money peI E
to speculate on and do stay at home for the purpose
q specua,ing ON the necessities Of the poor soldier and
his starved and naked family Such oppression never
before in land Of liberty would have been tolerated
BY American citizens. Every article that sustains life
is now bought by spectators at such prices that the
soldiers family can't touch i HE pay won't reach over
half way Factory goods for soldiers clothes that cost
70 cents per yard last April, must now pay 81 per
ward for sogy boots S. in April las! s. 80. lsthcre any
reason why the allowance for soldiers clothing should
not he doubledg Tie pay Of commissioned officers
think sufficient Officers have been generally selected
whose condition in life better than the mass OF
people, and If their families poor the salaries will
secure support to them We have cause TO complain
of the Vandalism of the Yankees but the speculaors
here at home are ten the worst Vandhs our poor
soldiers and their families have to contend with. If
something ia not done by Government in the shape OF
an increase of ply fear this winter will freeze out the
patrotsm of thousands of best soldiers when they
will be most needed Winter has begun-this is the
time people in the country have TO provide for months to
come. Government should pay her soldiers promptly
up TO the lst Of November that their families may sup
py themselves 30 far as their small pittance will reach
They oaut supply themselves from the market as you do
in the cities they must do as the squirrels do lay in for
the winter or die for want. EVerthng in the country
will be in the hands Of spectators by Christmas, and
You know they have neither souls nor sympathy.


have three sons in tho army-a Lieutenanaut Colo
rel Lieutenant and orderly, and will try to take
care Of them aud their families whilst have anything
am aot pleading tAs:r cause. | think the soldiers
SHOULD be paid all that ia due, and again on the Ist
OF January, promptly, TO carry their families through
the wintor Il payment could be made for aix
months thereafter trust you will take this sui up
and keep It before the authorities until you accomplish
the ends of SUBSCRIBER.


PSI am row 81 years Of age, and never witness.
al ,;mo an nreunant with misery as the coming winter
Wha. will become Of the families of many poor soldiers
God only knows Spectators are paying the people, or


farmers four prices for produ,e In their own con printed
at the Register ofcr signed by themselves, and pa
out for produce as good money.