The Bloody Shirt

Bod. Maro A. Merrifield, of Union City, in a recent lutter to tlie Quincy (Branch oounty) Berald, gires the ïollowing apt illa tration of tlio bloody shirt, defines the garment, I ella who wore it, and why, and p ruin ntly raggettl that it is a good thing fot thoM who wore the shirt to shako it in tli ¦ laces of the men who caused tlie blood to staiu it. llrad wliat Mr. Merrifield says: "The Demoorat of your place acousea me of .-liakiiií; tlie 'uloody .--hirt. Well, I don't bare to borrow the gartnent. lts poathero friends gre meone years ago, at Milv.ni Mili. I liave never been ashaiued of it, and if it 8 11 v-i-ary to show i t once in a while tu dampen their growing curdand reinuiíl tluni nftlie lesson taught in thoM days, 1 am not avena to bringing it out. 1 ilii DOt forget that a bloody shirt WM tlu' only winding sheet of over one hundred ihooaand lirave boys who died that our nation muht live, aud that it mightbe a Datiorj of t'ri'i' apeeofa and free ballot. There can be no tuore fitting or sacred emblem of the loyalty and devotion that saved our country tlian the bloody shirt. Like my comrade, L. H. Saulsberry, I am willing to shake hands over the bloody chasm, biit the hand that grasps mine must be extended in a pledga of loyalty to our governinent in all its f'undatuerjtal principies, and not red with the blood of men and women whose only offense was their patriotisin. Yours, M. A. MERRIFIELD. Mr. Merrifield is a ibriuer greenbacker but can't stand the Wade Hampton sort of Democracy, and wijl labor to to prevent itstriumph by going for Garfield.