Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1892 — Opposed to G. A. R. Recognition. [ARTICLE]

Opposed to G. A. R. Recognition.

1 notice that every senator and representative who had served in the rebel army steadily voted against giving us any recognition or extending oa any courtesy. That I much regret. We were ever their honorable antagonists. Magnanimously wo have forgiven them, restored them to the citizenship and honors and emoluments of the country which we prevented them from betraying and ruining. We visited them when they did burial honors to their fallen chiefs, going almost so far as to march beneath the flag of a stricken treason. Surely after twenty-five years they should have forgiven us for having vanquished them in the interests of freedom, nationality, humanity, and above all of their own children.—Veteran in New York Paper. I have arrived at the axe of fully threescore aud hare been a lifelong Democrat, but I am fully sat lulled that Cleveland D not the.friend of the aoldlert and should not recetva our support.— General K. O. Beers. When the McKinley law imposing a duty of two dollars a pound on Sumatra leaf went into effect the price of Connecticut tobacco increased from sixteen cents to twenty-six cents, and the actual profits of the farmer were more than doubled. It is estimated that the tobacco growers have already gained 11,000,000 by the law. 1 tell you, sir, the old soldiers will not vote for Cleveland. He cannot carry New York.—General Sickles. Ilcelpro&iy lias addeil over 010,000,000 to Ilia sales vt our farmers and manufacturers to foreign countries lu the few snnptba since our reciprocal treaties with those countries went Into effect.