, 1864-12-02
Chicago Gribn,re>
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1854.
A GLIMPSE OF ANDEnsoSv1LLE,

a GLIMPSE OF ANDENSONvILLE
The testimony of the rebel surgeons con-
Corning the treatment Of our prisoners at An.
dersonvflle exhibits picture Of sayaccry sur.
passing even the imaginatjons Of those who
have heretofore sought to describc the hor-
rors of that prison house. VIC publish nun.
bcr Of officia! reporls from the medi.
cal officers in charge Of the prison, complain
ing of the want Of food, clothing, bedding.
water, mir, room, md everything necessary to
support LIE, either in sickness or health.
Mcn in the Inst stages Of emaclation from
chronic diarThGa, received no nourishmeut
whatcyer, and starved to death On the coa.se ra
tione which the stomach ofa strong man would
reject. Others suffering from gansrcne md
ulcers, were compelled to tester in putsidlty
without even sufficient water to cleanse their
1oathsome sores. Week ntter week the dis
cased md tho dying were kept without shell
ter, and many OF them without clothing, on
the bare ground, exposed to torrid stun By
day and TO heavy rains at all times, in total
disregard Of the earnest md almost despair
ing appeals Of kind d-hcarted physicians for
their relief One surgeon complains that the
beef served out for rntions to sick men, had
been blown By flies, and WAS crawling with
maggota. Another says that the prison was
go crowded TINT The sick men could not ret
up to the medical quarters to report their
condition. Another states that dead men
had been kept four days unburied.
Tint some allowance must be madc for the
lack of medicines In the South everybody
will admit, but when men die for want Of
food to cat and straw to lie on, when they
nrs poisoned with noxious mir and putrid
water, they arc simply murdered. They arc
put TO death by slow. torture. They are
killed by fnches* The priests Of the Spanish
1nqutation never conceived Of tormcnts 80
horrible. A chapter has been added to the
book Of cruelty which makes barbarism
blush. The testimony Of the Andersonyille
surgeons covers period Of nearly month,
md yet it appears that no attention Was paid
to their nppcals. They asked for things
which wore in easy reach II there had been
any disposition on the part Of the rebel an-
1horities to furnish them they could easily
have done go. The evidence is Irresistible
TINT they designed and intended the death Of
their eleven thousand victims, and that they
adopted the most shocking forms Of cxccu-
tion TINT their ingenuity could conceive
the Government Ct the United States
Should take eleven thousand prisoners now
in their hands, crowd them together in IN
unwholesome marsh, and gradually starvc
and suffocatc them to death, the ends Of JUS
tjce would not be exceeded. Such policy
would raise crf Of horror from tho whole
civilized world. Yet that is exactly the case
presented TO Us. The nations Of the earth
may well wonder what system Of education
has brought human beings up 10 the capacity
Of such holrid work. They may well inquire
what manner of men arc those who ara waging
war on the western con .inent in the nine
tcenth century? Can they be Judged
before the lar Of humanity rs any
thing better than dendsy Can acts like
thrirfbc tolerated anywhere on the face Of the
Garth: Do We not owe it to ourselves, our
postcrity, and all Christian people who now
tnhabit or may hereafter dwell On the Gace 81
the Garth, to cr1dicatc the seeds of such M
tional and social disorder: We agree heartily
with the well considered observations OF our
contemporary Of the Detroit Tribune, that
*'no such barbarous rule as now bears sway
at the South must be permitted on this con
tincnt; nor should the possibility Of its fu-
turc exercise be hazardcd by any omission TO
eradicate everything that might give 1t future
existence. And the atrocities Of that Anacz-
scnvillo prison-sepulchrc should be laid bare
in authentic form to the world, that the
Christian civilization and aroused humanity
Of the asc may blast with their SCOTT the
lorrtd perpetrators Of such acts''