Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1884 — G. A. R. RESOLUTIONS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

G. A. R. RESOLUTIONS.

At* regular meeting of Rensse) ■ rer Pest, No. 84, held Feb, 9tb, 1884, he committee oa resolutions d back the following preamble and .•solutions, which havkig been taken <p, and exhaustively diseussed, seeiion by section were unanimously depted, and signed by all the memo ers of the Post, and a copy ordered ent to each es our Congressmen and Senators. Whereas: The Union Soldiers and Sailors of the war of 1861*5 are con' -clous of having performed their tuty in defense of the government; -tnd

Whereas: Tne Government has not et redeemed Its pledges made to dem; therefore. Resolved, By this Post, that the rovernmeat owes its soldiers and allots more than giatitude, and that {should fully meet and discharg ts pledges to its defenders. Resolved, That it is the sense of this Post, that the present 'Congress )f the United States should prompty proceed to nut in forca the pledgmade by the Government, to the men who enlisted and fought in its defense. Resolved, That we demand the equalization of bounties. Resolved, That we also demand that every soldier and sailor, who served for three months or more, shall promptly without further deiav, be granted a Land Warrant, for a full •me quarter section of land, Resolved, Tn at the enlisted men are entitled io, a d claim that the ■Government should make good to rhom the difference between the depreciated eurrency, in whicu they wore paid while in the field, and the par value of money, at' that time. In other words, that the soldiers were entitled to have received pay in money worth omb hundred cents on the dollar. Resolved, That it is the sense of - this Post, that the time has now oome when every soldier and sailor, who arvsd the Government throe months or more during the war of the Great Rebellion, should be granted a full pension, whether disabled or not, and that tn addition to a fall pension, the ox-prisiosots of war are entitled to, and should receive a just and fair eompensatioa for the time tuey were Ln rebel prisons. This compensation to be at least two dollars per day for the whole time of their mprisenment. Resolved, That w 4 do not ask those as a favor from the Government, but demand them as outright, because of their justice, and sos the reason tnat Government Is uxpeeted to mace good its solemn pledges to the|soL diors as well as the bonq-holders. Resolved, {That we dxmamd of the present Congress, elear eut and uno* qnlvoeal action on these demands. Resolved, That the services of the nobio women, who sacrificed home and ta comforts, and took upon themselves •• the onerous task of ministering to the ueede ’ot our soldiers in the hospitals, mrsing and caring for them in the ime of their desperate need, should be

•cognized in the substantial form of a >en»lon, that shall correspond to th* ervicee rendered, the same as granted o soldiers. And, finally, be it not only Resolved, but Remembered, that as in the dark h«ur of our country’s danger, .ve sa Patriots sank all partlzan interest tnd affiliation, and United stood for ine Union, we new sink all minor considerations, and once more Unitid stand or our just rights and demands, as the , lefenders of that U mon. . JA3. A. BURNHAM, P’.C. W. W. Reeve, Adj’t.