Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1884 — JEFF DAVIS WANTS A CHANCE. [ARTICLE]

JEFF DAVIS WANTS A CHANCE.

He Says Southern Soldiers Have as Much Kight to Pensions as Union Men. [Forsyth (Ga.) special.] The Confederate soldiers of Monroe County have just tintshed a reunion at which memories of the war were freely interchanged. Among the incidents was the reading of a letter from Jefferson Davis, in which he complained of the pensioning of Federal soldiers as discrimination. He says: “Though the States are again reunited and all contribute to fill the Treasury of the General Government, the funds there collected are only appropriated to provide for the ex-soldiers of the Northern^States. The Southern soldiers disabled in war and the widows and orphans of those who died can only hope for relief from a second tax, which may be voluntarily paid by the people for whom they fought and who suffered with them. It is not the least of your meritorious manifestations that you meet this discrimination without complaint and brace yourselves to bear the double burden with no ill feeling to the Government for this offensive favoritism. Under all the severe trials to which you were subjected it if equally honorable to you that you have accepted the consequences of defeat and thereafter gone shoulder to shoulder with all who are striving to secure the welfare and promote the prosperity and preserve the honor of a common country."