Employment for disabled soldiers
Wherever occupation can be found for disabled soldiers, either in public or private life, it ought to be given them in preference to any other class of men, native or foreign. The scandalous spectacle may be sometimes seen of able bodied foreigners employed in Government positions, or as overseers of plantations, and exempt from military duty on that account, whilst the wounded soldiers of the South seek in vain for employment and are at the verge of starvation. No Government or people can prosper which permits such unnatural and monstrous ingratitude and injustice. The Scripture rule is as true of nations as of individuals — he who neglects his own household "hath denied the faith and is worse than an infidel," and how much more hideous, not only to neglect your own — those, too, who have suffered and bled for you — but to put aliens and perhaps secret enemies in their place, to take the children's bread and east it unto dogs.
