Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1882 — The Bloody Shirt. [ARTICLE]

The Bloody Shirt.

This famous garment is folded up and laid away forever. The last stain is wiped away. The patriot’s heart leaps with j'>y as he feels that now at last we have a cemented Union, from which the last vestige of sectional bitterness is gone, thank God, forever. Look at the complexion of the next Congress. The Democrats, wh se victory the hopeless cranks say has bulled Confederate bonds, have more members from the loyal States than the Republicans have altogether. They have a majority of he members from Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, New York and Connecticut, and all the members from California, beside half the Illinois' and Pennsylvania delegations, and four members from the truly-loyal State of lowa.. On the other hand, the Republican gains are in the South, and consist of such fire-eaters and bulldozers as Fort Pillow Chalmers and “Kunuel” Cash, the duelist, and Billy Mahone, the repud iat or. In view of these facts the whine about “rebel claim's,” etc., is funny enough to make a horse laugh. It makes everybody laugh. If that cry is only kept up lowa wll be solidly Democratic next year.— lowa Slate Leader.