The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-26
The Horrors of Fort LAfayette-.-Its
Terrible Cruelty.

The Horrors of Fort Lafayette-.-Its
Terrible Cruelty.
An extract from late speech of DR.. Ed
son B. Olds in the Legislature of Ohio, giv+
ing an account OF his experience at Lafa-
yette: 3
"Mr. Speaker, could there be q military
necessity, that at a time when no armed foe
stood upon the soil of Pennsy1vauia, the
President should send his minions into that
State, and steal Dennis Haick, poor LAHORE
ing Irishman out of his potato patch, aud
carry him in his torn, dirty clothes. and
crownless old straw hat, that had grown
black with the sun of many summers, to
Fort Lafayette, and keep hiu for weeks and
weeks away from his suffering family?
Was it a military necessity because the
children of man in Michigan, had raised
upon a pole rag through which they had
been straining black berries, and because
some malicious neighbor had said that the
rag was secesh flag, that the man should
be seized by the minious of the President
aud carried to Fort Lafay cite, and kept FOX
six monts a prisoner?
Z Was it military necessity, that Kennedy
and Baker should arrest the oung and beau.
tiful and accomplished Mrs. Brinsmade, and
keep her for more than month in solitary
confinement; and deprive her of all comA
municaton with her friends and relatives;
with none to attend to her wants and neces-
stiles, except the male pimps and spies OF
her captors?
Was it a military necessity, that when
Baker, the libertine, with all his appliances
of despotism had failed in her seduction. he
and Kennedy, in order to screen themselves
from the deep damuation their conduct de-
manded, should be permitted by inuendoes
and insinuatons to blacken her character?
Was it military necessity that, near the
hour of midnight, my house should be
broken into by armed rufiaus, and that with
rev divers pressed into my ears l should be
dragged out of sick bed and hurried ouS
of the State and placed in solitary ccnfne-
ment in a damp and loathsome cell in Fort
fayette?
Was it military necessity that should
be taken into room where around me lay
in heaps handouts, chains and manacless
and there stripped, and searched and robbed
of my money, my watch, my spectaeles, and
even the medicine which | was using?-
Was it military necessity that should
be deprived ofisuch nourishment and drink
as my sickness required? Was it military
necessity that sentry should be placed ah
my cell door, aud for twenty-five days and
nights I should be annoyed in my weak and
nervous condition by his continued tramps
tramp, tramp? Was it military necessity
that should be denied the use of Bible?
Mr.. Speaker, I must relate scene that
was once witnessed in Fort Lafayette, that
may inquire of gentlemen if it could be
palliated upon the plea of military necessity
There were at one time confined in one OF
the prison rooms of the Fort some twenty
f1ve or thirty persons; one of these poor fell
lows was very sick. and hardly expected to
live to see another day. When the guard
cams around to lock up the cells, these
prisoners begged that for that one night as
least they might be permitted to have
candle in their cell; and as monstrous and
inhaman as it may ssem, in this boasted
land of liberty, civilization and christianity,
this request was refused, and these prisons
ers were locked up In their dark prison.
house with the dying man. All through
that long dark night they could hear his
dying means; deeper and still deeper grew
the death rattle, until near morning. when
all became hushed and still; and when at
last morning broke in upon that loathsome
dungeon, death had done its work. That
poor victim of despotism had ceased to live:
has released spirit had gone to that land
''wHERE THE WEARY ARE AT REST, AND THE
WICKED CEASE FROM TROUBLING"
Was it military necessity that j ohm w.
Kees, who had become partially insane by
brooding over the troubles that had settled
down upon our country, asked, "if there
was no patriot hand in New Orleans to as
ssssinate General Butler, the acknowledged
Haynau of this war; should be arrested and
carried out Of the State, and confined in the
Military Bastile in Washington city? Was
it military necessity that his paper should
be suppressed, and his Office ordered to be
closod2 Alasl alast + anvv mt the GoVeF-
nor aud President the satisfaction 1t will af-
ford them to learn that their prosecutions OF
this man has forever put out the light of his
mind, and made him the hopeless inmate oil
lunatic asylum, leaving his wife in destt-
tuition and want, dependent upon the cold
charity of the world, for the remainder OF
his earthly existence. sr
Could there be military necessity fof
keeping poor laboring man, a Mr.. Barney,
from Baltimore. in Fort Lafayette until he
became incurably, hopelessly insane?Ss And.
then, without notice to his friends, set him
across the river and turn him loose, without
cent of money or mind enough left to
make his way home?
| Sir, when the history OF Mr.. Lincoin.e
Bastiles shall be written, as written II VIII
| ba; when ell the secrets of his prison neuSes
shall be made known to an astoHlsned World
gentlemen will hang their heads IN very
1 shame that they were over the advocates OF
sncb despotism. and that in this house they
attennpted to justify it upon the plea Of
+ t"military necessity"
i TIE BoMBARDMEKr OF PoRF HoDsoN.4~
The Richmond Whig of the 18th says:
The bombardment commenced on Port
Hudson at 2 O'Clock on the 18th. At II