The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-08-05
from his fellow-suaerers. as many did,

! from his fellow-suherers, as many did, IN
order to relieve the pangs of hunger, he
answerd, ,-"No, was not brought up to
that |" And so when his weakened system
would no longer receive the cob meal which
was his principal allowance, he set his face
calmly towards death. e
He grew gradually weaker and weaker
and fainter and fainter, and at last disease
of the lungs set in, and it became apparent
that the end was at hand
On Christmas Day, while thousands
among US were bowing in our garlanded
churches or surrounding festive tables,
this young martyr lay on the cold damp
ground, watched over by his destitute
friends, who sought to soothe his last hours
with such scanty comforts as their utter
poverty afforded, raising his head on the
block of wood which was his only pillow,
and moistenng his brow and lips with wa
ter, while his life ebbed slowly away, until
about two O'clock, when he suddenly rous-
ed himself, stretched out his hand, and,
drawing to him his dearest friend among
those around him, said, in a strong, clear
voice. aoH1I sf Yinr sdf
Il am going to die. Go tell my father
] am ready to die, for l die for God and my
country, and looking up with a trium-
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faithful.
And now, men and brethren, if this sto-
| ry were single one, it were worthy to be
had in remembrance but Walter Raymond
is not the only noble-hearted boy or man
that has been slowly tortured and done to
death by the fendish policy of Jefferson
Davis and Robert Edmund Lee. L
No,-wherever this simple history shall
| l. 4 4Lo..o i, of
and women who will testify Just so died
my sonv' $50 died my brother!' $50
| died my husband !" So died my father p
The numbers who have died in these lin
! geriDg tortures are to be counted, not by
| hundreds, or evenly thousands, but by tens
| Of thosands. -e eeI sa
And is there to be no retribution for q
cruelty so vast, so aggravated, so cowardly
and base? And if there is retribution, on
whose head should it fall? Shall we seize
and hang the poor, ignorant, stupid, i'm
| bruted semfbarbarians who were set as
jailors to keepithese hells of torment and
| inaict these insults and cruelties or shah
we punish the educated, intelligent chiefs
who were the head and brain of the mi
quity2
If General Lee had been determined not
to have prisoners starved or abused, does
any one doubt that he could have prevent
ed these things? Nobody doubts it. His
raiment is red with the blood Of his help
less captives. Does any one doubt that
Jefferson Davis, living in ease and luxury
in Richmond, knew that men were dying
by inches in filth aud squalor and pri-
walton in the Libby Prison, within bow
shot Of his own door? Nobody doubts it.
1t was his will, his deliberate policy, thus
to destroy those who fell into his hands,
The chief of a so,called Confederacy, who
could calmly consider among his official
documents incendiary plots for the secret
destruction Of ships, hotels, and cities full
of peaceable people, is q chief well worthy
to preside oyersuch crueltes; but his only
just title is President of Assassins, and
the whole civilized world should make COM
mon cause against such a miscreant.