The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1866-09-20

stencil which it exhaled, and which
corrupted the air which they had TO
inhale."
Comment on the above Is unncccs.
sary. Thirty-six thousand four hun.
dred and eighty strong men, haddled
together in stockade, with everything
purposely withdrawn that they could
live tpon-doomed TO a slow DEATH
death by starvation and diseaso.@-
They died by thousands and wero thus
Inferred
"No box or coffin was permitted no
decent shrouding even in ragged blank
ct was allowed. When about
twenty feet OF mortality was huddlod
side to side, lime was scattered upon
the bodies and tho earth care
lessly thrown over all. A few days of
rain, or the depredations Of animals,
would here and there leave exposed
some luckless leg or arm of the dead
ones, and, as the torrid heats Of the
summer suns poured down their decay
ing powers, a taint Of effiuvium and
corruption would pervade the atmos-
phere for miles around. Here, over
this ghastly spot, could be seen at al
most any time countless hosts of slug
gish buzzards."
There were a few people in Georgia
who pitied the starving men and sought
to alleviate their sufferings. They ap-
piled for permission to convey food
and medicines to the sick in the hos.
pital and were thus met by Gen. Win.
der:
"G-d d-n your mission of mer.
cy.' | wish that you and every other
id Yankee sympathizer, and every
Cd id Yankee too, were all in
hell together"
The sympathizers were not of course,
allowed to enter tho prisons. Why
should they? To have admitted them
would have been to thwart the designs
of the Confederate Government. If
their intentions, tho interference of
citizens was unnecessary. for there
was enough corn outside the stock
ade to have fed thrice tho number of
men.
Both Gilmor and Spencer were at
different times prisoners in the hands
Of the Federal authorities. Spencer
says:
"Here in our prison (Fort Warren)
the word was, every man must bo
clean and wash himself from head to
foot, constantly, and not a night pas
sed but you might see five or six men
bathing and scrubbing."
Contrast this healthful bathing and
scrubbihg with the efforts of the poor
fellows at Andersonville TO rid them
selves of the filth that was consuming
them, only when the rain fell
Gilmor, at Fort Warren, lived o life
of comfort
"Each of the Confederate prisoners
had straw mattress and ono blanket,
which were frequently aired and shak-
en- and every effort made to keep tho
hunks clean and the floors well swept"
And not only comfortable, but lux
uriously lived Gilmor, Read =
81 had been at Fort Warren but q
few days, before numerous messages
and letters from kind sympathising
friends in Boston and elsewhere,
brought me offers of money, clothing,
provisions, and whatever else might
need, but as l was within reach of rel.
atives in Baltimore, 1 had to decline.
X x Thanks to our fair guardians
in Boston, the time latterly was made
to pass more pleasantly by frequent
presents of strawberries, currants, and
other delicacies to u.s."
Strawberries, currants and other
delicacies! Lucky Gilmorl At that
time the brute Winder was, with hot
curses, forbidding the few tenderheart-
ed Georgians who would alleviate a
little Of the misery before them, en-
trance to the hell at Andersonville fear
ing that they might, perhaps save from
death one Of the doomed.
The men whose souls are loaded
with these crimes are to-day, clamor-
ing for the control of the Government.
With their hands red with the blood
of its defendcrs,-with these murders
unrepented of, they demand tho
right to rule tho fathers and brothers
of their victims. On the 18th of this
month they were in force in Phila-
delphia, there laying plans for the
subiugation Of the country-to try to
do by political maneuvering what they
were striving to do when they mur-
dered the unnumbered thousands at
Andersonville.
They have debauched the President
and have won him ovor-they have
seduced others high in position, and
have won them over, and they doubt
not of success. Northwestern Ohio
had its representatives in Anderson
vile, and those who murdered thom
ask their fathers, whose eyes are not
yet dry, and who have not yet ceased
10 mourn their loss, to give thcm now
all that they demanded then, and to
gain which they committed crimes so
horrible.
Alexander H. Stephens, the Vice
President of the Confederacy, and who
was privy to these atrocities, were in
Philadelphia, the captains and col
onels who executed his decrces were
there, Vallaudigham who gloried in
them was there, and the men who the
other day, nominated Gen. Commager
were there, all acting in harmony-all
working together as brethren.-zoledO
Blade.
The Presidents Policy Endorsed.