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The Daily Dispatch: January 16, 1864., [Electronic resource], Assistance for wounded soldiers. (search)
pled trials, dangers, and hardships, they have enjoyed, by the mere payment of a sum of money, a total exemption from them all — instead of taking up their muskets like men and doing their duty as every man is called on to do in this day of trial — a large portion of these people are engaged in no other occupation than that of spreading gloom and discontent around them. And all for what? Because they are called on to serve their country as well as the poor, ragged, hard-fighting veterans of Lee, Johnston, and Beauregard, to whom they owe it that they have not long ago been stripped of every dollar that they have in the world, and made the servants of their own negroes and the mockery of the white scoundrels with whom they are associated. Let us not be understood as embracing in these remarks all or even the larger portion of the substitute hirers.--Some of them, a large portion, accept their fate with cheerfulness; others, quite a large body, were compelled to procure substitutes b