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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
than 400 -- Why, they get only 66 dollars more for staying at home than our boys do for serving in the field -- That is nt right -- That is not justice to the conscripts -- Only 66 dollars to reward those brave men who have exhibited such high moral courage -- who have endured the scoffs of women, the flings of old men and boys for two long years. It is too bad -- The people in Maine should have more consideration. If they treat the early vol-unteers so liberally and do not give the conscripts larger bounties, everybody will want to volunteer and you won't have anybody left to to dig potatoes --
I took this From Press - so you need not send it.
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