Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1865-10-20

had instituted, between that time and the time
d yea. Wlndcr' arrival, . System OF the most
cruel And tnhuman Punishment He had made
snso, n,s name terror among the prisoners and his
he inflicted II. He had established the dead line
and All It's accompanying horrors He had given
70 70 prisoners fors.hadowlng Of th. stocks, Of
starvation as punishment, and all that black
catalogue Of cruelty and suffering uuknown even
to Draconiau code. lie had declared 10 several
OF the prisoners engaged in the burial OF the
dead: "This is the way I give the Yankees
the land they came to fight for. - He had
scores OF times told the prisoners when
maltreatipg them that he intended 10 starye
them to death. He had boasted that he was do
ing more for the confederacy than any general in
the field. He had paraded the chain gang for tho
amusement Of his wife and daughters. He had
with drawn pistol, told prisoner who dared to
complain Of the rations, Oh you, I'll give
you bullets for bread" Col. Chapman said, are
you not prepared then to believe that at the time
Of Gen; windsr's arrival the prisoner was in tho
edge Of its object, and acting In harmony with
Its chief instrument, General winderR
This is Andersonville In part, the suferings Of
our prisoners In part, and something Of the ,eyi.
dence Of the conspiraey, began and continued up
to tho time Of Gen. winder's arrival, and tho
Court would now see whether the law governing
this question aher the recital Of the facts which
followed do not direct them to hnd q verdict Of
guilty.
The wsy to kill Yankees was well understood
by Gen. Winder when he said TO Mr.. Spencer,
when a protest was made against crowding the
pen, namely, for his own part he would as lief
the damned Yankees would die there as any
where else. That upon the whole he did not
know but what Il was much better for them, and
which he afterwards disclosed to Col. Chandler
In the remark, at is better to leave them In their
present condition until their number has been
su nc GENTLY reduced by death 10 make the present
Arran gements sufice for their accom- modation. -
It was the way we'll understood by the rebel
Government, when in the teeth Of the protests OF
humane officers, and In the face Of the Official re-
ports Of the mortality Of that place, they con-
tlnucd to forward prisoners trsinload after train
load to an already overcrowded prison II was
the way dictated TO the agent OF that Govern
meut, Robert ould, aud revealed by him In his
letter to wnder when he declares, speaking Of
exchanges, "The arrangement I have made
works largely In our favor. We gel rid Qfd set
NJ miserable toretchss, and receive some Of the
best material | ever saw. - Adding, "This, OF
course, IL between ourselyes.r II was the way
understood perfectly by Howell Cobb, when In 4
speech at Andersonville he pointed with terrible
Significance to the graveyard, remarking "That
Is the way would care fer them. -
the bar, who Is shown to have uttered sent-
ments similar TO that expressed by W. .. Winder
on more than q hundred occasions. II was the
way--the only way indicated by the chief Of the
rebel government and his Secretary OF War.
Col Chipman was still engaged in reading his
argument when our report closed. 1t covers
about three hundred pages Of legal cap.