Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1880 — The Mexican Veterans and General Hancock. [ARTICLE]

The Mexican Veterans and General Hancock.

A AVashingtou special of July 3 says: “A regular meeting of the National Association of Veterans of the Mexican War was held here to-night. This society was originally formed w ithout regard to party polities. Tonight a preamble and resolutions were adopted declaring that the time had come for a change of policy. Leading Republican Senators and Representatives are charged with having prevented the claims of the Mexican veterans to be placed on the pension rolls from consideration in Congress. The preamble continues: “A leading Republican Senator who presided over the Republican Convention at Chicago offered as a proviso to a bill before the Senate that before the Mexican veterans shall be pensioned, they shall first make oath and prove themselves paupers. Selfrespect and the common instincts of manhood, therefore, require of us that we should combine our influence and endeavor to enlist in our cause by earnest appeal the sympathy and aid of our fellow soldiers of all wars in which the country has tVer been engaged, which have a common heritage ia the glory and prosperity of the Nation to properly rebuke this arrogant party grown insolent by overfeeding at the pub |i crib, at the polls in the forthcoming contest for political supremacy: therefore, “Resolved, That we recommend our kindred associations of Alexican veterans throughout the United States to organize campaign clubs, aud cordially invite the ex soldiers of the Republic in the North and in the South, in the East and in the West | o enroll their names with us, and rady around the old flag in a grand army of American warsmen in suDport of the nominee of the Democratic party for the Presidency, General Winfield Scott Hancock, a gallrnt soldier and statesman, in whom every patriot who ever bore arms in what he honestly deemed to be right, may, with confidence hope to find a friend and wise counsellor.”