The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-02-04
Horrors Of Mil,tarv Despotlsm.

made BY DR.. Sayre, at the instance of May
or 9unther, of New York, and the Mayor
himself after visiting the pen, affirmed the
truth of all that DR.. Sayre has s. Id. II
revelations Ike this will not arouse the
American people to overthrow the odious
power of Black Republicanism, it becomes
} as all to lay aside our assumptions OF man
hood: TO repounce our freedom wholly; and
to pretend 10 no right of life, liberty, prop
erty, family, or reputation, save such as
our Black Republican oppressors may grac-
iously accord to us! American citizens!-
Down on your knees! Put your hands on
your mouths, and your mouths in the dust
Be Observation-Disclosures and your
postcrity forever! Or else arise ia the ma
Ijesty OF your power, assert and maintain
your rights, at whatever hazard, and vim
dictate the liberty you inherited from your
fathers at whatever sacrifice. These are
the only alternatives. Choose ye between
them. Dayton Empire.
The best Government in the World-Hoto IL
Manifests It's Greatness-The black hole OF
Calcutta beaten-Horrors Of the Middle
Passage ESceeied
Read the following official and sworn de-
Iscription Of the atrocity which obtains in
the Administration of the best Government
in Black Republican hands:
/ .- New YoRK, j an. 13, 1868.
To the Hon. c. Godfrey Gunther, Magyar.
ard President Of tho Commissioners Of
Health:
| Dear Sir: In obedience to your request
of this date, have visited the barracks in
/ the Park, and present the following report:
| The barracks on the Broad way are four
hundred feet long, by thirty feet tide, un.
der the charge of Capt. Hicks, who has
three assistants to keep it clean. This is
used as a sort of boarding house or hotel,
for the various soldiers in their transit
through the city to and from the seat of
war. At the present time eight hundred
men are accommodated there, independent
Of the Provost Guard, who occupy the
lower portion of the barracks, and the
number Of which l could not ascertain -
The building is not constructed with suffi-
cient regard to ven tilation in cold weather
or means of warming; and as they have but
three assistants, it is impossible to keep it
clean, with Gig hit hundred men trampiDg
out and in with snow and mud upon their
feet.
1t would require at least fifty men to do
justice to the place; and in camp, under
military discipline, it would take the whole
eight hundred, as each m an would be COM
PEELED to police his own quarters, as should
be done, but here they are simply boarders
or guests in hotel. to be waited on and cared
for, instead of caring for themselves, and
as the superintendent has no control over
them, aud as there is an entire absence of
military discipline, some of the companies
having no officers at all, as a matter of
course the building is much more dirty
than it should be, but Is kept as neatly as
aan 'ho ha oil che mil
the amount of force employed; aud unless
the soldiers are compelled to police their
quarters, the Same as in camp, it will re-
quire, instead of three assistants, at least
fifty, and these, by constant labor, would
not more than do The work in muddy and |
wet weather.
Betwees these barracks and those on the |
Park Row side, are arranged the water
closets, which were constructed for summer
use only: and of course are entirely uDftted |
fer this cold weather, and absolutely re-
quire an entire reconstruction, as they are |
now constantly frozen up.
In the Park Row side q small room for |
the officer in charge and the medica atten-
dant is cut off from the lower corner of the |
building, en- bracing one. half its width and |
opening into the barracks.
Immediately behind this room a part is |
partitioued of, which the doctor very pro-
psrly denominated the pen. This pen is
fifteen feet wide, twenty feet long, eight
feet high to the peak. and eight feet to the
caves, boarded up on three sides tightly, the
fourth, which faces in the barracks, directly
opposite an immense stove, which is heated
20 red heat. is separated BY slate four in
;hes wide, and placed three inches apart.
In this fifteen by twenty there is not
bench, or stick Of wood, or anything to sit
IN, not even post to lean against, except
he four perpendicular sides Of the room
There is not even straw to cover the floor,
Is ahog or horse would have; but the accu-
nulated filth of many months is the only
hing that separates the inmates from the .
laked floor. In this pen are confined at the
present time sixty one men, and the officer
q charge informed me that he had at one :
ime as many as seventy-seven. Some of .
he men have been there from three to four
months. They are thus Imprisoned for
'ariOus military offsnses. breach of disci-
line and desertion-all huddled in this ]
Ommon pen, sick and we'll together. A c
uard is placed over them to prevent escape, a
nd anoth guard is 10 waiting to accom- d
any them to the water closet in the Park, v
ne at a time. The other seventy six b
lust wait their proper turn, no matter bow t
ressiDg the necessity, from dysentery diar- a
lea CT other cause; and of course the re- IL
lit Of such barbarity can better be imagin- C
than described. Ii
These men are fed through the bars, p
king the meat and bread in their fingers, al
knives or forks being allowed. Spoons b
70 allowed once a day, when they have b
up. No blankets are allowed them, I'M Ii
IS they happen TO have one themselves be
hen placed there; and but few Of them are to
us Fortunate; they have therefore to lie e.
ION the naked hoor. with the exception of to
. accumulation OF filth and mud bsfore