Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-10-26


Die I'm the South .-- Abe Lincoln the
Jailor of $4,000 Union White Men-..
Buffers Negro Poiicy--.35,OO0W White
Men to be sacrificed for 100 NogrO
LET THE SOLDIERS READ.
A short time since we noted the arrival at
New York of deputation of Federal SOL
diers sent by the thirty-tive thousand suf-
fering, starving and dying prisoners at An
dersonyille, Georgia, to President Lincoln,
to ask his consent to their exchange with
out reference to the few negroes held by the
enemy. The resolutions and memorial OF
the prisoners preceded the deputation,
through the Hilton Head correspondence
of the Herald, and the consequence was
that when the soldiers arrived at the White
House then soere refused admission into the dn-
aust presence of Lincoln, just as the proprie-
tors of the Baltimore Euening Post, whose
paper was suppressed by General Wallace,
were denied an audience few days ago
The Chairman of the deputation, Il. W..
Boate, of the SD N. Y. ". was unable to
90 on to Washington from New York with
his conn ades, In consequence of the state OF
his health, which he thus described In
letter published in these columns at the
siqht so impaired as to be only one degree re-
goved from total blindness, ALL THE RESULT
OF ELEVEN LONG, WEARY MONTHS SPENT IN
THE BULL PENS OF THE SOUTHERN CONFED-
ERACY.n The refusal of Mr.. Lincoln to see
his associates having been reported to Mr..
Boate, he has addressed the following letter
to the public. We ask fer it the cOnsidera-
ton due to the words of one who has fought
for his country and who is the representa-
tive of our suffering men now pining away
in southern prisons:
ACARD FROM Z. w. BOATE.
Editors N. Y. Mercury
Can anybody hear without Indignation
and without shame, the refusal of Mr.. Lin
coin to see the representatives of the thirty
five thousand (now forty thousand) of the
most unhappily situated set of human be-
ings that God or man was ever asked to pitys
These men fought and bled on the Peninsu-
la, at Antietan, at Vicksburg, at Gettys-
burg, at Chickamauga, at the Wilderness
and at Spottsylvania and Petersburg
Wherever the fury of battle was to be Ell.
countered. wherever oceans of fire and
oceans of bullets were to be breasted, these
walls of human flesh and bone moved for
ward with the heroic flrmness and the
steady tramp of brave men, determined tC
| do their duty. No dangers could daunt, NJ
| obstacles obstruct their courage and impet
| uosity. Wherever the "Stars and Stripes
fioated there were these men to be found
Wherever blow was to be struck, or
blow to be repelled, they were in the van
And what is their reward?
| That they are captured is their misfor
tune, not their fault. That they are suffer
ing as no human creatures ever suffere'
before, is now the notorious truth. Every
body understands those sufferings now
Everybody sympathizes with the poor brav
fellows. Their manly fortitude has earne'
well-deserved compliments from their Con
federate enemies. Their courage in prison
which is little less than their courage o.
the battlefield, has extorted praise and com
mendation from their captors. Their loyal
ty to the Union is untarnished. And ye
although the necessity of exchange Is ren
dered as palpable as sword-handle, and
everybody asks: "Why are not our poor fe
lows exchanged?" our kind-hearted Pres
dent s.Honest'' Old Abe, refuses to see tt
representatives of thirty-fve thousand ur
happy men, rotting, fostering and dying
thousands week in the Southern bull pens
These delegated Commissioners were ser
forward to Mr.. Lincoln upon as sacred
mission as ever were the prOpagators of th
Christian Faith--the salvation OF body an
soul being involved In that mission. Mel
fifteen and eighteen months in prison, as
Mr.. Lincoln to hear heirprayers. Thirty
five thousand men ask him to hear the
: prayers.
Mr.. Lincoln refuses to hear their prayer
The public will naturally ask, why
this?" "Why is this" .
Mr.. Lincoln is an arttul dodger, and
wants to dodge the question of exchange.
First, to say "Yes, will have an e,
change at once" would drive the contra
tors political interest wild.
Second, to say "Nay," would arouse Il
, lust and fierce anger of the fathers, son
) wives, daughters, and brothers OF tho
, poor fellows who are so urgently suite
Thirdly, The political crisis. All th
vote of thirty-five or forty thousand SO
diers, if released tomorrow! The artf'
! dodger knows the meaning and Significant
of what they would do.
manity, the kind and tender-hearted syn
pathizer with all that poor human being
endure in this world, keeps the wretche
men who have kept him so long IN Il
White House, in the bull pens of Il
: Soulful
Thus to the tignified occupation of Q
operative in splitting rails, and the stl
more dignified employment of splitting q
,, Union, and the creditable profession of
poor student of Joe Miller's vulgar jok
over the bloodiest battlefields of the wa
even to asking an obscene song from pa
ticipant in the engagement, Mr.. Linco
now adds the enviable roll of being. Il
. TAILOR of thirty-five thousand (nearly fort
thousand) of the gallant soldiers of Il
Union, suffering as humanity never sufie
ed before.
You, wives, daughters, sisters, sor
fathers, and brothers Of those unhapI
prisoners of war, who are starved for wa
of such food as you would not offer to yo
hogs; who are thirsty for want of dril
of water little better than a hog would I
fuse; clothes that do not cover front
rear; half eaten up with yermiD; nev
having change of under-clothes, al
never having bit Of soap to wash ther
selves; sufferings, too, involving thin
that cannot be decently written about
think Of this, friends of humanity. Thii
of this, tender, kind and benevolent Q
y dodger, and when the day comes to pc
n petuate his rule, all you who have vot.
vote for "Honest" Old Abe. On the SEQ
. of humanity he deserves it, still high'
. being the jailor Of thirty-fivex thousaI
q Union prisoners lest they might vo
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