Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1876 — The Bloody Shirt. [ARTICLE]

The Bloody Shirt.

The democrats ot Brown county have capped the climax of idiocy by hoisting a soldier’s grey shirt, stained red to represent* blood, on a pole, ami marching with it at-the head of the procession. Of course this was destined to ridicule what is known as the “Moody shirt” rhetoric of the republicans, but it would not have required an ounce of brains to see that it would react with terrible effect erti the democrats No soldier could witness the spectacle without indignant rage. The republicans accept the bloody shirt as an emblem, aud before the campaign is over it will be carried at every meeting. Yankee Doodle was written by a British officer to ridicule the American soldiery. The redcoats got very sick of it before they heard the last of it. Bo it will be with ihc bloody shirt. The bloody shirt represents tire hardships endured ; the sacrifices made; the courage displayed; and the blood shed by the men who fought for the Union It also revives the remembrance of the rebel yell, and reminds us ot the dastards who opened fire in our rear. Let every father whose son was Yard away in some sou them trench wrapped in his bloody shirt, resent the flippancy which now applies the term in derision. « y?./< fforutf.