Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1891 — To Our Soldier Comrades. [ARTICLE]

To Our Soldier Comrades.

We the undersigned, comrads, feel it our duty to stand by and live as protectors of the principles that our comrads many of them gave their lives to perpetuate. They died for a nation to live; we helped them to save it. Nqw it would have taken at least 50,000 regular soldiers at a cost of millions of dollars to have kept this nation of loyal people since the war; but by tbe loyality 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, thowing by their loyality, their love for the Union and for Liberty, Equa Rights and Justice. Yes, the Nations of the civilized world know us and our principles, and now our brother state of Michigan, at Detroit, has requested us to meet them in memory of the redemption of our i Nation from Secession aud Human Slavery. Boys then we were, but now we are gray headed and almosttoothless But let ns remember our comrads and what they sacrificed for us and our nation and let us not fret for the loss of a day or two and few dollars in ; money when it is necessary to turn out together and show to the rising generation, that although we are old, toothless, and gray we have Patriotism, Morality, Christainity and Charity and that our nation must be protected. Will you go with us ? Signed: R. B. Wilson. I. B. Washburn. I. N. Hemphill. , E. P. Hammond.