Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1878 — We Voted Our Sentiments. [ARTICLE]

We Voted Our Sentiments.

Gen. Shields a democratic Union soldier tried to beat Gen. Field a Confederate brigadier dor door-keeper of the House of Representatives, the other day; but he couldn’t do anything of the kind. And Gen. Shields is an Irishman, too. The republicans are finding fault as usual. We have no apology to offer for the democracy. It was that obstinate old infidel Ben Butler that got us into a place where we had to vote our real sentiments or suppress ’em by giving a Union soldier the preference. And we voted our sentiments.— Seymour Times. ~