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The editor applauded the valour of the 

 visitor, told him there were hundreds like 

 him, and took the communication under 

 advisement, where it still is. 



Song and story glorify the patriotism of 

 the Northern soldier during the Civil War ; 

 yet this glory is sadly dimmed by the scandal 

 and greed connected with the Pension Roll, 

 its barefaced corruption and fraud. That 

 thirty odd years after the War the number of 

 pensioners living on the country should be 

 970,678 proves that patriotism, like other 

 things, has its price. No doubt our Jingo 

 friends' patriotism is after the same order. 

 For the thousands of gallant soldiers who 

 merited pensions for themselves or their 

 families, there are other thousands who by 

 their covetousness have disgraced the Union 

 for which they fought ; and in nothing has 

 Mr. Cleveland shown greater courage or 

 endured greater obloquy than in his en- 

 deavour to relieve the country in some 

 measure of the burden imposed on it by 

 so-called disinterested patriots. 



