Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-03-29

VERY INTERESTING ITEMS.
''''i'' THE AMNESTY.
From the Richmond Di.pntob Of tbe lot

a from the Richmond Dispatch of the lsth.l =
., What are the terms which Abraham Lin
coin offers? He exempts from his amnesty
;, q host. Of the best citizens of theeSou in
the army and in civil life. To others he
offers free pardon. upon condition that
they will take, an oath not only of allie
glance 70 the United States but of obedi-
ence to all the proclamations of Abraham
Lincoln, and TO all the abolition DEGREES of
MS Black Republican Congress. And these
terms ne offersAnot to acknowledge rebels
but to sovereign States; not to crushed
:, rebellion but topa powerful Government,
which has In the field an army so strong
that, after calling for more than two mil
lions Of men TO crush IL, and falling I'm the
effort, he Is now calling for half million
more In the same breath that he processes
q TO treat the Confederacy as a conquered
people. at77 -iST
Is 1t not evident upon the mere statement
of the case that Lincolh's amnesty was
never expected. OF. designed -by himself n
have any other effect than. irritation and
insult to the Southern people? No one,
however, knows better than Abraham Lin
seoln,. that any terms he might offer the
Southern people which contemplate their
restoration to his bloody and brutal Gov
'ernment, would be rejected with scorn and
- execration. IT. instead of devoting to death
our PRESIDENT and military and civil Off
GERS, he had proposed to make jeff. Davis
his successor, Lee Commander-in-C Chief of
the Yankee armies, and our domestic insti-
tutions not only recognized at home but re-
adopted in the Free States, provided the
South would once more enter the Yankee
Union, there is not man, woman or child
In the Confederacy who would not spit
upon the proposition. We desire no com
panionship upon any terms with nation
OF robbers and murderers. The miscreants
whose atrocities in this war have caused
, the whole civilized world to shudder, must
keep henceforth their distance. They shall
not be our masters, and we would not have
them for our slaves. bsr
tFron the Richmond Enquirer, March 1871
birds OF FEATHER" LOCKED UP TO-
GETHER.
BY convenient and appropriate arrange
ments the Libby Prison Is now prepared to
receive and accommodate special as well as
general prisoners of war. Among the spe-
clallties meriting mention at this time may
be noticed ten Yankee officers, some from
negro regiments, the Others from the pitch
and oakum horde that endeavored to get
into Richmond some weeks ago, and four
massachusetts volunteers" of African pa
ternity, all Of whom are comfortably lock-
ed up in the same room where they have
the continuous and uninterrupted enjoy
ment of each others company. They
mess" together, but, as it is to be presllm-
ed, they love one another with all the deyo-
tion of compatriots in the cause of equal
izing the races, they do not experience any
Inconvenience from that circumstance. a
The intelligence Of the darkies is said to
be as brilliant as the characteristic nigger
Of llclimes, and especially this one, usual
ly is. One, upon being asked what had in
duced him to volunteer" in the Yankee
army, responded. "W'll, sar, you see got
compressed" Their capacity for handling
the hoe has not been improved on in vain
by their Yankee masters in favor of the
musket. One of them, at the instance of
an officer of the prison, went through the
manual with tolerable precision. In spite
ofhis expertness, however, he said he would
truther had muffin tall to do wild it. Twas
mighty nice to play wild; but when two un
em got at It, den dar nigger don't stand no
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