Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1865-08-19

A Damning Record.

condemn an Administration to perpetual
infamy, it is the recently published list Of
our soldiers who perished at Anderson.
vile, The list Of Pennsylvanans, for one
year only, embraces over seventeen hHn.
died names Seventeen hundred Of our
best and bravest left to die by inches,
without shelter without hope, almost with
out food-and why Simply because the
Administration, that base tool, Beast But
ler, refused 10 exchange prisoners unless
the Confederate authorities would &C
knowledge the black soldier 10 be the
equal of the white one; and because the
"loyal" friends of the Adminstration
would not permit an exchange, for fear
that the Rebel army, when reinforced by
the exchanged prisoners, would be too
strong for our forces then in the field, and
that they, the "loyal" men aforesaid would
have to stand their chance in another
draft.
# is said that when Secretary Stanton
was urged to effect an exchange, and thus
save our poo. fellows from starvation, he
replied, "I'll be d--d if III exchange
fat, healthy, men for skeletons!' Wheth.
er this statement is true or not, il is Ger.
tain that our Government could, at any
time during the last two or three years of
the war, have relieved our starving men
We had nearly twice as many prisoners
as the rebels had, and the fact that our
men were lefi to perish by thousands when
they might have been rescued, cannot be
disproved. At one time the prisoners al
| AudersoDville, with the consent Of the
Confederate authorities, sent four OF their
comrades to state their grievances to our
| Government; but these men were Kept in
New York, where they first landed, the
furoughs permitting them to visit Wash
iDgton were kept from them, and but for
the persistent forts Of the reporters for
the New York press, who visited the men
asd had their statement published, the
Northern people would never have known
any thing about THEN arrival. The Gov
crnmcnt was willing that thou ands Of
white men should staryo, if negro equality
could be established by the sacrifice.
Yet the Abolitionists, who aided and
abettcd Stanton, Lincoln, & Co. in their
acts of hcarllcss cruelty, pretend to be the
friends of the soldiers. That any soldier,
or any citizen who ever had relative in
a Rebel prison-pcn, can endorse the poll
cy OF party which has sacrificed thous-
and, of our soldiers. by the most terrible
of deaths, Oh the altar OF negro equallty,is
strange indeed. Better to have more
drafts, more years of war, than to have
tnus condemned our brave boys to lin
geriug death by starvation and exposure.
To glance over the Ii of Pennsylva-
mans is enough to make one heart.sick.-
What then must it be to look over tht
long lis, of thousouds of names, represent
ing every Northern State, in the granc
total! Thousands of half, naked freezing
starving men, lying upon the bare ground
under the open sky, pershing slowly bu
surely, while the shoddy "loyalisls' re
clned iu their easy chair, in the fulnas:
} of plenty. The dying soldier turning hi
} dim aud suuken eyes appealingly north
ward, as he murmurs, "Oh, ye who yo
can gave US, have ye left us here to die Z
while the bloated niger worshirpers sip
bis wine in his gorgeous furnished man'io'
and swears that there shall be no exchaug
until blacks and whites are declare
equal and then even at 'hatP"intls is con
ced d by the Confederate govern meDt
declines an exchange because he fear
that the Rebel army will be too mucI
strengthened by the prisoners in ou
hands What did such men care for til
soldiers Absolutely nothing They wisf
cd to use the bayonets and ballots Of thos
in the felds-tho poor, dying men the
were done with and could use them Il
longer; they might perish for ausht the
cared.
e No nation can prosper while its rule'
have SO much blood and misery to auswt
= for as has the Administration OF the ABB
;, litionists. Shame upon Governmel
6 which would resort to such mean, crue
cowardly expedient to keep out of tn
e Rebel ranks few thousands of men, a
= the starvation of twice that number ot OF
soldiers, while a million or two OF 'loya
, men, who had never carried muske
n were clamoring for "a vigorous proseG
At ton of the war; and more shame up
4 the American people if they countan
4 such actions heretofore