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'ETERNAL VIGILANCE IS THE PRICE OF LIBERTY," AND $l.SO A YEAR IS THE PRICE OF THE CHIEF.
VOL. XL
RED CLOUD, WEBSTER COUNTY, NEB., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1884.
NO. 29
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RED CLOUD CHIEF
EVERY FRIDAY BV
A. C. HOSMER.
RATES OF eCBSCElITION:
Ob eoiy. one year, - - fl 60
0 eoy. six months, - 75.
Ob onr. four month. - 50.
Entered at tho Postofflse in Red Cloud as mat
ttr of the second class.
COUXTY OFFICFRS.
John P. Bayha, County Cleric.
Ch&s. Buschow, County Treasurer.
Geo. O. Yeiser, Countv Judge.
J. W. Warren, Sheriff
tChas. W. Springer, Superintendent of
Public Instruction.
C. P. Rinkcr, County Surveyor.
4.M. Moena, County Coroner.
J. E. Smith, )
Jacob L. Miller, v County Com.
Jno. McCallum. )
Business Directory.
THE
lufing IBIUiiQry ShffB I
J. A. FOWLER, Propreitor.
J"xT First door north of the-National
Bank. Red Cloud.
T D. DENNEY M. D.,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Office and sleeping room over
Cook's drug store.
t DAMERELL, ST. Dn
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
REd Ci.our, Nerraska.
' Orriei: Oyr the new poetoffice.
TQR. C.SCHENCK,
PIIYSCIAN AND SURGEON,
Cowle?. Nebraska.
Professional calk promptly attended.
prricg : At residence near Cowles. S-51
"f S. EM1GH.
J" DE?-iT3$T.
Isperm-ineutly located in Red Cloud.
Neb., overStatpBank. 17-3m
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fW& Dr- h- a- Baird
RESIDEFTDEHTIST.
RED CLOUD, - NEBRASKA.
Frank R. Gump,
) ATTOnN'EY AT -LAW.
USD CLOUD. NEB.
Collections receive Prompt attention.
Orrtcr Over the new portoQco bnilding.
Q R. CHANEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
State Bank block. Red Cloud. Neb
C. W. Kaley. J- L. Kaley.
Kaley Bros.
TTOItKEYS AT LAW.
RED CLOUD. NEB.
Agents for the B. fc 31. R. R. Lands
DWI2f C. 2IAWLEY,
Attorney At Law,
RED CLOUD. - -
NEB
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f. S. GILHAM,
ATTOKKEV AND COUMsELUli AT ua.n.
Office opposite City Dntfj Store
'RED CLOUD.
NEBRASKA
0. O. Caa. J itcNeny
Case & McNeny,
" t TTOP.KEYSi COUNSELORS AT L.AW.
J Will j.ract"oin all the Courts of this Stats
and northern Kin? m. Collection!' yell Iit
istd bnine carefully n4 eeicntlyattend
d to. Otrict:- First door snutn of National
Dank, wstwr. RSD CLOUD. NEB.
LVI "MoORF.
Pro'dent.
"Rob.Y. SniRKT
Cat bier
Stats Bank of Red M,
RED CLOUD. XEB.
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Special Attention Civen to Collec
tion. DIRECTORS:
Eila Garber. Levi Moore,
&. D. Jones. F. "G. Goble,
Robt. V. Shibkt.
But and Fell Exchange. Make col
jlltctionn. Discount Notes nnd do a
General Banking Business.
Interest Allowed ok "all Time
DlPO'ITS.
ltAL ESTATE
LOANS!
On Farm Property ! .
In Southern Nebraska and Northern
Kansas, at 8 and 9 per cent, interest
Without Commission;!
APPLT TO
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I RED CLOUD, MSB.
KgUKKSKtSttililWIhlWi
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Furniture and Undertaking House !
Of R. L. Tinker, Red Cloud,
Opposite Postofflce. My stock of Furniture and Mortuary Goods,
the LARGEST and MOST COMPLETE ever brought to the
the Republican Vallev and my prices can not fail to please.
R.L-. TINKER.
Wi STOO
Come and Obtain Prices before you buy
a Specialty of
PUfifhSnir Pinto
Come, come,
Two Doors North
Nebraska Lumber Co.,
-DEALERS IjY-
LUMBEE, LATH, SHINGLFS,
RED CLOUD,
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DRY LUMBER A SPECIALTY, THE BEST IN THE MARKET AND
box.i atithe:l.owest prices.
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Furniture Store
Four Doors North State Bank,
RED CLOUD,
Fmita, Picture Fraiws,
UNDERTAKERS' GOODS
R. E. HARESNAPE
na & soi,
Dealers' In
Fresh Meats,
Lard,
POULTRY,
Red Cloud, Nrs.
Cash raid for hide k pclu.
New Goods!
A.T THE OLD RELIABLE
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one KflflTe
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will you come, why don't you come ?
GAKBER BEOS.,
of the State Bank.
SASH, DOORS, BLINDS AC.
NEBRASKA
"N'iEIB'RASKA.
tabis d M iros.
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New Prices!
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elsewhere. We
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A. SIMPSON.
Notary Public,
F. A. SWEEZY.
.Attorney at Lair
Hill
Don!.
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SIMPSON & SWEEZY,
BLUE HILL, WEBSTER CO., NEB.
A General Banking Business Transacted.
Special Care given to Collections, Farm
Loans at Low Rates. .School Bonds
Bought and Sold
C0RRE5P0S DENTS:
Kountze Brothers Bankers, New York City
Bank. Omaha Nebraska.
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HEIJRYCOOK.
Xoacor la.
Drugs, Paints, Oils
Notions, Wall Paper, Ac.
Red Cloud, - Nebraska.
HOUSE,
-AND
SIGN,
Ornamental Painter,
Paper Bfanger,
Calciininer,
Grafner,
Decorater,
Ete Etc.
RED CLCUD.
Orders eolicited. Prices reasonable,
and work guaranteed.
JEp
Shoes. Etc.
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The Red Cloud Chief.
A.C. HOSMER,
Proprietor
FRIDAY. FEB. 22, 1884.
OUR JLWS SPEECH.
Mr. Chairman : I move to- amend
by striking out the last word. Believ
ing as I do that that there is no place
where the honor of an American sol
dier ought to be so safe as in the hands
of the representatives of the whole
American people, I desire to say be
fore this vote is cast that I shall vote
first, last, and all the time for 4he vin
dication of the honor of General Fitz
John Porter. Applause.
And let me remark to the gentlemen
who seek to bring the menace of future
punishment to bear upon the discharge
of present duty that if I knew this act
of mine would end my bodily existence
as you say it may end my official one,
then still would I do it : and I would
I thank God thrttmv lovaltv to mv coun
try as I understand her honor, that
my loyalty to my general as I under
stood my duty, that my loyalty to tho
truth as I know it to be, was strong
enough to lift my conduct above the
possibility of ignominious change to
come from cowardly considerations af
fecting my life or future condition.
I do this not because I am guided
by the judgment of the Schofield board
or the statement of Ulysses S. Grant,
for I have not read the one and I have
never considered the other. Nor are
the convictions that I here hastily ex
press the growth of a day ; they arc as
the injustice he has suffered. I do it
because I was with Fitz John Porter
from the siege of Yorkton until the at
tack of the enemy across the Chicka
hominy, from that attack to the battle
of Hanover Court-House, from that to
Mcchanicsville. from thtit to Game's
Mill, and throughout his career except
when I was disabled by wounds ap
plause ; and I want to say, Mr. Chair
man, it is my deliberate judgment,
speaking of what I know of Fitz-John
Porter, that in all the great battles ol
the English-speaking race from Ban
nockburn to Gettysburg there ha3 not
been mide by any soldier a record
which demonstrates greater loyalty to
the cause of his country than that
made by Fitz-John Porter. Having
seen him.on all his battlefields, I be
lieve it can be sum oi him in action as
was said of the soldier of old, "He was
swifter than an eagle ; he was stronger
than a lion ; and from the blood of the
6lain and the fat of the mighty his
sword returned not empty."
Mr. Steele. Does not the gentleman
think Porter had his wings clipped at
the battle on the 29th of August, 1862 ?
Mr. Laird. At least his wings did
not take him to tho rear on that day,
as it did McDowell, who brought the
courage of a quartermaster to bear up
on tusks of a hero : and yet you say
McDowell ought to be promoted be
cause he went to the rear, and because
Porter did not he ought to be shot.
McDowell was ordered to move on
night of the 27th the same as Porter.
So were Reno and Kearney. Reno and
Kearnev did not report until noon :
Porter reported at 8 o'clock in the
morning ; and McDowell did not move
at all. The court of inquiry in his case
condemned what he did, but excuse it
on account of his conduct on the 30th.
You who are so ready to condemn
Porter for his delay of two hours on
the 27th, why is it you never mention
that his corps received orders at Har
rison's Landing at 5 p. m. of the 14th
of August to join Pope, and at 7 o'clock
was under way for Fortress Monroe ?
At sunrise on the 18th, though delayed
forty-eight hours to guard bridges and
trains, it encamped after a march of
sixty miles at Hampton, having cover
ed sixty miles in thirty-five hours, and
by its rapidity reached Fortress Mon
roe on foot ahead of the divisions of
Reynolds, that came by transport.
I will give the geutleman another il
lustration of what I mean, and it is
-with pain that I am obliged to refer to
the fact that in all this debate there
has not been on your side a single
mention of the gallant conduct of Fitz
John Porter and his corps on the 30tb
of August 1863. When the fith corpse,
headed by General Porter, moved to
the assault of Jackson's troops in the
sunken road, and when the effort to
deploy, the column had resolved itseff
into a great rush to get to the front
where men could fire not at the ene
my behind earthworks or a railroad
embankment, but in a cut where noth
ing but their heads was visible, nnd
when the column was being cut down
in platoons by the confederate artil
lery, firing over the heads of their own
men, there came ringing through the
din of the battle the order of their
general : ''Fix bavomcts and iump in
to the ditch and bayonet them," and
in a moment more, had not Longstreet
swept across our rear, the bayonets of
of the Fifth Corps would have been
warmed in the -marrow of the troops
of Jackson.
Was that the language and the con
duct of a coward? Since the Dutch
king proclaimed that he would tear
down the dykes and let in the ocean
there has not been a braver speech.
On the question of discretion I wish
to say a word. I will cite an instance
that will perhaps come home to the
gentleman from Michigan Mr. Horr.
He said their is no discretion, and
there ought to be none, on the part of
subordinate over the orders of superi
or. When the columns of the confed
erates at Gettysburg were advancing
acioss the flank of the second brigade
of the first division of the Fifth Army
Corps, Colonel Jeffers, of the Fourth
Michigan, holding the right of the line,
asked leave of General Switzer to
change front, hnd Switzer asked Gen
eral Barnes, commanding the division,
and that general sent back word "Tell
General Switzer to advance with the
second brigade." And when the re
quest was repeated nnd Barnes had
again ordered the advance it did ad--vance,
to certain and senseless des
truction, for the right of the brigade
was surrounded in a 'minute, and the
Fourth Michigan, as brave a regiment
as ever leveled a musket, was annihi
lated without an opportunity to return
an effective blow, and Jefiers fell stab
bed to death with bayonets while fight
ing with a naked sabre over his colors.
Let the advocates of "no discretion"
tell me if their science of war teaches
that subordinates in the face of a bet
ter knowledge shall obey murderous
orders, and slaughter thousands, and
stand guiltless in history. We asked
no immunity from death, we did ask
that our lives should not be thrown
away, and that we be not put where
we were to be shot in the back. And
when the "gentleman from Michigan
heard, this did he go and stand before
the battle-graves of this regiment, and
looking into the gaping bnyoneC stabs
in the body of Jefiers. sing, therein be
ing assisted by the gentleman from
Indiana
Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to question why,
Theirs but to do. and die ?
Laughter and applause.
One word to the gentleman from Irf
diana. You say that Lincoln approved
the sentence of the court-martial with
a full knowledge of all the evidence. I
deny it. Abraham Lincoln, "so slow
to smite, so swift to spare, so great and
merciful and just," never approved
that sentence with a knowledge of the
evidence. I loved the memory" of the
dead Lincoln and all who died with
him for the greatest cause that ever
moved mankind, and I love the honor
of the flag and the nation for which
they died, and because I do I vote for
the passage of thi3 bill. Applause.
NOTES.
California is at present producing"
not far from $18,000,000 of gold and
silver bullion annually.
About 2,OSO,000,(MX) feet of lumber
were cut by the Northwestern mills
handling Minnesota" and West Wiscon
sin pine last year.
Cleveland's population inclndes 20,000
Bohemians, and no other city in the Un
ion contains so many except Chicago,
In the former city they maintain two
newspapers, several churches' and one
theatre.
Iftheplancts are classified in the
order of their rising during the present
month, Neptune will take first plfjce.
The other evening stars during Febru
ary are Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and "Ven
us, while Uranus aud Mercury are
morning stars
California's canned fruit product has
largely increased with the last decade.
The product of 1875 aggregated in value
about $500,000. In 1878 it had reached
$1,250,000; in 1880, $1,300,000; and in
1882 the product if set down as worth
$2,600,000.
Four cents a piece was the price
promised a sewing girl in Brooklyn for
making eight dozen shirts, and then
she had to bring suit to get-tire money,
her employer alleging that the sewing'
was defective. Judgment for the full,
amount and $5" coss was rendered k
her favor.
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