The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-08-01


craoy, rather than to any imputed fiendish
depravity of the President of tho late Confede-
rate States9
Thut zone SABINA DIsmUKEs, from States
burg, S. c." should have written letter to
JEFFERSON DAVIS on the condition of tho
prisoners at Florence, is quite eredi.able to
the said lady, but does not necessarily erimi-
nate Mr.. DAVIS. So far from it, the report
shows that this letter was not thrown aside,
but at once acted upon, referred to the proper
officers, with view to investigate tho charges
therein preferred So with other documents.
Yet in the face of this lame apology for
making out their charge, the Tribune says:
"DAvIs himself was Immediately responsible
for the inhum,n treatment of the UnioL
prisoners of war, and, by Inference, was none
too religious character to direct tho des.
perate work which remained" i. O., aid in the
assassination of LINCOLN. Mark the malevo-
lenoe of this sentence, to say nothing of the
bad English in which it is couohed.
OF the treatment our prisoners received
at Point Lookout, Fort Delaware, Rock
McHenry, in the infamous dens at st. Louis,
and in the hulks off the coasts of Georgia and
Florida, we shall say nothing here, because
it were useless. and yet couldw make out
just as strong q case In their behalf, and upon
we'll authenticated testimony, as any true
statement that ever came from the Union
prisoners. And does not history abound with
similar tales of horror in almost every war .
Have the British prison. ships been forgotten,
and the French and the Spanish ? Why take
such tenacious hold upon these unfortunate
conoomitsnts of war; 1t has again and again
been proven that this treatment was not
owing to any wilful barbarity, but arose from
the circumstances of the time.
Was not MCGEE acquitted in Raleigh. after
the most strenuous exertions on the part of
the War Department for his conviction
Major TURNER was kept in prison for many
months because he happened to be command.
ant of Libby Prison. Would he have been
released if it had been possible to convict
him of the crimes charged against him9
We would not impute such neglect of duty
to the United States Department of Justice
WIRz was made soapegoat. He fell VIC
tim to the mob, who would have blood.
The animus of the "report," as well as of
all of the numerous vindictive diatribes we
daily see, is the, same. The Radicals are de-
termined to wreak their vengeance on tho
South in the person of JEFFERSON DAVIS.
They know they cannot accomplish this upon
a nero charge of treason, so they move
heaven and earth to find him guilty of some.
thing else. 4!
The Judiciary UommI,uee Law cot With
closed doors to tho last day of Congress, and
what have they proven9 Hear them:
s'The evidence in possession of the Committee
connecting JEFF. Davis with the assassina tion of
President Lincoln justifies the Committee GO in say
ing that there is probable to believe that he
was privy to the measures which led to the
commission Of the deed but the Investigations
which have been made by the War Department
the Government in possession of all the facts Il
is probable however, that the further prosecution
Of the investigation by the Committee and by the
officers Of the Government toM result finally in a
full development of the whole transaction"
So it would appear that nine months is not
sufficient time, even with the unlimited pow
ers of this inquisition. Was there ever such
an outrage on humanity, on justice, on all
that is decent, fair and honorable =? We know
of no parallel in history. l.