The Plymouth Weekly Democrat

I Can Afford to Lose an Arm for My Country.

At the battle of Kenesaw, a Colonel of the Federal army, gallantly leading his regiment in the charge, was brought from his horse by a bullet from the rifle of a sharpshooter. The wound was a severe one, and weak and fainting, he was compelled to leave his noble comrades, and go to the rear, to be placed under the surgeon's care. He was informed that the amputation of his "good right arm" was necessary. Nerving himself for the amputation, he said to a brother officer, now a resident of Cleveland, who was commiserating him on his misfortune, "I can afford to lose an arm for my country." The wounded officer was Col. James M. Neibling, recently rejected by the Senate of the United States as Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fifth Ohio District. The gallant officer, who was proud to lose an arm for the sake of his country is deemed disloyal by the radical majority in the Senate of the United States, and is contemptuously refused an office, which they desire to give to some able-bodied, stay-at-home radical wire-puller. The treatment Col. Neibling and other soldiers, rejected, have received from the Senate is a commentary upon the boasted love for the "boys in blue" so loudly mouthed a few weeks ago.—Cleveland Plaindealer.