The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-08-25

DV 49, - esaosS
The Prsss dsmands the txial of DAyD
= well q Wzsn Soe the murder Of our
soldiers q Andsrsonvills and % DO W, Il
there IL evidences Of his rsspondbility suf.
ficient to justify . grand jury in finding an
Indictment against him. But Ct the same
time we believe that Epwm II STANTON,
Who prevented an exchange Of prisoners
and left our brave soldiers to die or drag
out miserable existence at Andersonville,
after the South had conceded every point
in reference to oolored troops, is just as
culpable as WuR1z or DAVIS. Mr.. J. 81.
BROWNE, q 1si5.ne correspondent, who.
with A. D. RloHARpsoS, was for nearly
two years imprisoned at various points Of
the South, says:
Mr.. Richardson and myself spent nearly Q
week In the National Capital after our escape,
endeavoring to do all that was possible for the
release Of the brave men In the hands of the
enemy; and every one we met there told the
same story, that lie Secresoy Of Wdr scas tie
obstacle IN Re ssay Of ass sesuosptsos of the ez-
Moreover, General Butler in his speech at
Lowell, Mass, stated positively that he had
been ordered by Mr.. Stanton to put forward
the negro question to con,piscdte and precent
tie epekmge. Colonel A. B. Straight, of In
dianapolis, Indiana, fellow prisoner with
us in the Libby prison. told Mr.. Richardson
after our return 70 freedom. tnat IN an
the former declared to him that the goUernasat
could ,.not afford to czchaRge able bodied men for
skeletons. Other officers and civilians, whose
names cannot now remember, have assured
me that he had used 10 chem the same language
IN effect and there is no doubt whatever that
that was his policy and bis determination until
the clamOrs of the people compelled him to
retire from his barbaroas pesitica.
Every one Is aware that, when the exchange
did take place, mot the SLIGHTEST alteration had
occurred In the question, and that our prison.
ers mightas well have been released twelve or
eighteen months before as ct the resumption
Of the cartel, which woslA have saved 70 the
That they were not saNed Is alone dae TO Ed
win II Stantons peculiar policy, and dogged
obstinacy; and, q I have remarked before,
ke e enthusiastically 6be oi1eer Of tie atea0se9
qropss tat croscd ake r;ciasy IF every Southern
prison s;sA Hstosic asS seger to Be forsofass
kosrors. - Il, ct.,,..,
M. BRowss, who is . radical Repuba-
can, further says that his cole motive for
impeaching the 6ecretaey IF War was that
the people Of the loyal North might know
to whom they were indebted for the coci-
blooded and needless sacrifos Of their f.
theirs and brothers, their husbands end
| their sons. e.sasr
Ben. Bur1xR, (not 90 good authority -
Baowxs,) in his spsechat Lowell last vim
ter, said that in August, 1854, III. OuIn
the rebel Commissioned, finding negotia-
tons were broken Of, end that no ex-
changes were made, wrote to Gen. Hroa-
COOK, the Commissioner at Washington,
that the rebels were resdy to exchange,
man for man, all the peisoRers. held By
them as BurlzR had proposed in Decem-
Der. Bu1IxR, under instructions from the
War Department wrote xr. OuuD 9 letter
haunting him with abandoning Ids
ground, and conceding the exchange Of
black men employed a. soldiers, on an
equal with whites Butler In his Lowell
speech, confessed I've quote his language
that " these questions were argued OBJ
trusivsly with Ould, not for the purpose Of
furthering an exchange of prisoners, but
for the purpose Of preventing and stopping
the exchange, and furnishing ground on
which We could fairly stand"
| We say, therefore, let WERu and DAVIS
be hung if they are convicted Of tie muir
ders at Andersonville, but at the same time
do not let EDwm n. STANTON escape the
infamous doom which he deserves.