Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1891 — TO OUR COMRADES [ARTICLE]

TO OUR COMRADES

Rensselaer, Ind., July 21, 1891. We, the undersigned comrades, feel it our duty to stand by and live as protectors of the jirinciples that ourcomrades, many of them, gave their lives to perpetuate. They died for a nation to live,; we helped them to save it. Now it would have taken at least 50,000 rt-cular sold ersat a cost of millions of dolla s to have kept this a nation of loyal people since the war But the loyalty of the soldiers who stood touching elbows with those who gave their lives that the nation might live: always meeting in encampments and other places showing by their loyalty their love for the Union, for Liberty, Equal Rights and Justice. Yes, the nations of the civilized world know us and oar principles. And now our sister state of Michigan, at Detroit. has requested us to meet with them in memory of the redemption of aur nation from secession and human slavery. Boys, then, we were: but now we are grny headed <nd almost toothless. But let us remember onr comrades and what they saciitieed for us and our nation, and let us not fret for the loss of a dayor two and a few dollars in money when it is i ecessary to turn out together and show to the rising generation that although we are old, toothless and gray, we have patriotism, morality, Christianity an oharity, and that our nation must e protected. Will you go with us. Signed, R. B. Wilson, I. B Washburn, I. N. Hemphill, E. P. Hammond.