Cairo evening times. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1865-1866, 1865-11-12
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The long agony is over. Wirz has been
hung. All efforts of weak minded women and
rebel sympathizers failed to induce the Presi-
dent to step in between retributive Justice and
the criminal, and on Friday, between the hours
of IL and II, Wirz explated his crime upon
the gallows. During his trial Wirz exhibited
the most abject fear, and at one time 1T was
thought by many that he would not live to the
end of his trial. The recitation of his many
barbarous acts fell upon his ear with frigltful
effect, and made his guilty soul tlutter as though
it would burst from its infamous tabernacle
For some two years he was the influencing
spirit through whom many noble men were in
humanity and prematurey sent into the pres.
ence of their Maker, and the wall of widows
and orphans assembled to Heaven appealing for
justice. God has answered their prayers and
Wirz is now before bar from which there can
be no appeal taken. j.
In the history of the world there is to be
found no individual parallel to tle Anderson
vile butcher. Satan himself stands forth as
paragon of sublimated virtue as compared with
him, and the tortures inflicted by him upon the
poor defenceless soldiers who were so unfortu-
nate as to fall under his charge. equal, if not
surpass, those of the most orthodox hell Ev.
cry system which depraved ingenuity could
suggest was resorted to by him to hasten from
earth the presence Of Federal prisoners of war.
But little food was given them s:.r.a that little
was unwholesome. Filth was allowed to accu-
mulate within the dread inclosure in order to
facilitate the ravages Of DEATH and man was
allowed to so famish with hunger that he ate
of the remains of his fellow, who had sue
cumbed to the pangs and necessities Of want.
1t is fact beyond dispute or cavil, that the
late war has revealed the most devilish as well
as the most sincere and creditabe, traits Of hu-
man character. Men have assumed the air OF
patriotism, or joined the opposite side with
loud professions of sincerity, with the sole view
of enriching themselves at the expense Of the
wealth, aye, even lives, of their fellows.
Their insatiate greed for pecuniary gain, has
rendered hard as granite their hearts, and
whetted their carnate dispositions, and from the
purlieus of society men have arisen to occupy
places designed only for honest, incorruptble
men. On the other hand sincere, ardent, con-
scientlous men have correspondingly suffered,
and their wives and children been hurled from
the heights of alfiuence down into the depth S
of poverty aud dependence. The stain of dis
loyalty to ones country may, and undou btedly
is, deeply impressed, marking the subject for
life, but he should be esteemed as honorable,
and his selfimposed disgrace a creditable
insignia, compared with him who is Il trsiitor
to his fellow man, and in the extremity Of war
seeks to enrich himself at the expense and in
violation Of the nob!er attributes, of his fellow.
man. Well did the poet express it, when he
said, . .... .s ...
ssMan's inlumanity 10 man,
Makes countless thousands mourn"
Countless thousands, born and unborn, have and
vii mourn the inhumtpity demonstrated W
man toward his fellow In the late struggle.
Wirz is but one of many thousands. He has