Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1862-01-25


such expressions as these: What do YOU North |
ern men come down here afterl WHY don't Won
STAY a. home and mind y0ur own busiuessl You
want 70 steal our niggsrs, to rob us Of ogr prop
erty, do youl lou are set of Abolition
thievesT Tie masses are more disunion than
tie leaders. more bitter. After remaining nile
AZ Norfolk, the prisoners were transferred to
Richmond. and placed in great tobacco ware
house IN this there were fifteen hundred pris
oneFs, among them Ely, Corcoran. &c The
prisoners were as well treated the means OF
the Government would enable them TO. They
were fed with beef. bread. &c and the sick were
just as well attended as were their sick Col.
Wilder was in command. A guard shot ole of
tie prisoners for breaking the rules Of the prison,
but COL Wilder had the guard arrested, impr.on-
ed. and he was iE prison for the act when he
(Har.) len.
Bishop Sehon of the Methodist Church. whom
Hart had known in the North. called on him in
prison. Hart asked him if there was not a Union
sentiment among the people an the South. The
Bishop had travelled all over the seeded States.
and he assured him that there was no Union sen
timent among the people. They believed the
Republican party we're AbolitOuists and wanted
to deprive them of their property and Constitu-
tOnal n ghts. tie asked the Bishop il the ne
groes would not rise. The Bishop answered that
there was not the least disposition on their part
fighting for their rights; they were united and
determined, and would fight till the last man was
I killed. They cheerully gave up erythlng-
I they stripped the carpet from their paTlOrs and
cut them up into blankets for the soldiers-they
gave up their ewelry and silver plate to purchase
I arms and provisions for them. Their Govern
I ment treated its prisoners just as the Northern
Government treated theirs When the news
came that the crew OF the Savannah were to be
hung, the Government ordered the prisoners IN
/ Richmond to draw lots for equal number, TO
! be set apart for hanging. in retaliation Ely
drew the lots. Corcoran and others were drawn
mostly Eastern and prominent men, Capt.
/ Hart said the hand of Providence was in this as
4 il prevented the hanging of the crew OF the yes
+ sci, and thus saved the Northern prisoners. II
/ tie lot had fallen OH Western men, the crew
would have been hung ami the Western men
/ also
Captain III said a certain day six hundI cd
and thirty prisoners were marched into the ware
] house. On being asked whese they came from,
/ they replied that they taken the uniOrtu-
nate battle of Balls Buff The prisoners were
allowed to have newspapers, &c. Owingto the
great numbers OF them, IL was difficult To get
provisions for them in Richmond, so the Govern
ment had distributed them in North and South
! Carolina. Tennessee. Louisiana, &c. Provisions
we're very high, ana some almost necessary art-
cles scarce. Salt was hardly to be obtained
at all. Medicines were scarce. Qunne was very
/ difficult to obtain; but what there was was dv-
/ ded between their sick and the sick prison
ers. When told that they had quinlne when in
the Union. thet replied:
Nv e don't want Your qunne; YOU may keep
! il at the North. Our mothers used to cure the
cbills with boneset tea, aad can again; and we
can have plenty OF that"
Such is an outline of Captain Harris speech, as
| II remains ia my memory he Captain expects
/ to return again into the service. with view TO
restore the obedience and affections of the South
ern people to the Union by the sword instead of
that other foolish way in which the same result,
without cost, might have been accomplished, viz:
by giving them constitutional guarantees that
their rights should be respected.
One other topic: An awful amount of corrup-
minismtion This is an admitted fact: but il
has been claimed that Mr.. Lincoln and the party
generally. opposes il. Now what do we see! Why,
4 Lincoln appoints the ring leader in these frauds
Minister to Russia; and when Surgeon New is
court martiaed tor the same cause, Mr.. Lincoln
(and it is said by request of Gov. Morton,) re-
stores him to his position; thus showing that cor
! ruptOn is no objection To qualification for
office with Republicans and the Republican pa
pers What has become of their denunciation of
! Wizards penltentlary commissioners Was it
all lesg | think il may be safely said that there
Is not a Democrat who has been denounced by
! the Republicans corrupt-falsey, | admit
that has not been appointed to some military
office 10y this Administration. a Government
can not be upheld and carried on by corruption
and corrupt officers.