Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1867-09-04

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President. How much would you have
given for his chance? Not much, |
guess. We know just what he would
have done by what he did. General
Arnold undertook to sell out and 60
over to the British Government. Major
Andre, who had come into the United
States to make the arrangement with
Arnold, was caught. Gen. Washington
said to the British Government: "lf
you will deliver to me the traitor Ar
mold, I will surrender Major Andre
unhurt to you. l want to get that
devil of a traitor. l don't seek the
blood Of Andre; he is foreigner. and
/ don't want to execute him so If you
will surrender Arnold, you can take
Andre" That shows what Washing
ington would have done with these
men.
WHAT WOULD WASHINGTON HAVE DONE
WITH .vALLANDIGHAN!
What woald he have done with Val
landigham? Vallandigham went as
far in eneavoring to betray this nation
as General Arnold ever went. That Is
to say, he did all that his deYilish abili-
ty could find means OF doing, in the
cause of treason. and if he had fallen
under the jurisdiction of Gen. Wash
ington, he and the whole accursed posse
of the leaders of this rebellion would
have lost their neeks. Applause. 1t
ought to have been done.
This nation is suffering to day, be-
cause it was not done-it is suffering as
the Jews suffered when the Almighty
commanded them to slay a wicked na-
ton for some reason and they deliber-
ately failed to execute the just decree
of the Almighty. They never got out
of the difficulty for that disobedience.
They were reminded of it as long 81
their history remained.
tell you, when men commit the
most hagrant crimes known to thelaw
and the law provides for their punish
ment, it is G weakness and a wicked
ness to spare them. Applause.
How many have fallen because We
did not do itl A man may seem tC
act with humanity, but really, while
he is dealing len;ently with these devil:
who have done such mischief, ne IS do
ing great injury to hundreds and
thousands of others.
But, says Thurman aud Valandig
ham, you are erecting adespotism over
them; you won't let them come intC
Congress to aid you in the administTa
ton of the Government. Did you evel
hear such a plea as that beforel Is il
not a little marvellous that this nation
has never visited the law upon the
head of any traitor? Sir, the blood o
hundreds-I was about to say millions
of your young men, the flower of oul
youth, has been sacrificed to this rebel
lion, and blush to say the retributior
of the law is not being visited upon 8
single one of their heads, until from
the perfect immunity they enjoy, treas
on begins to be respectable. l fear anc
tremble for my country, when | tnc
that this most accursed treason that haI
accumulated such q debt upon ou
shoulders, and cost US the lives o
hundreds of thousands Of our brsV'
boys-that yet these accursed scoun
drels who have done it all, are the oh
iects of sympathy from such men a
Judge Thurman and Mr.. Valandig
ham.
HORRORS OF ASDERsoNvILLE, LIBBY, AM
BELL ISLE.
know l use, as Quakers say, plair
language, but cannot talk gingerly o
the traitors who have caused the death
of the flower of our youth Throughout
the land. If you had gone with mi
into those hospitals where the prison
ers from AndersonVille, and Libby, anC
Belle Island, and the other places
were, and seen what saw there, yOr
you would view this matter as | do.
was appointed by the Senate to perform
this work, and to 60 and visit thest
hospitals. had to 60 there and TAXI
these statements from their own lips
I had with me stenographer, a mar
of strong, iron nerves, who had seer
a great deal of the war; but when b
came to such scenes as those, suct
misery and such suffering, the etfec
upon him was such that he could no
proceed ten minutes at a time h
had to stop and 60 away, such was the
effect of these horrors upon him. Their
were scenes there that l cannot rehec
upon without making me feel nervous
now, when l think upon the accuses
cruelty of these men whom Thurman
1 Ranney and Vallandigham are askin.
your sympathies for. Sir, if you sym
pathise with such men, for Gods SAX,
let me have no part or lot IN your ser
vice. l would not serve such men,
But then know there are none sucl
among you. 1t is the depraved worl
of that old accursed Democracy, tina
never was enliYened with a single sparl
of humanity or just principles, so ia
as know, and now their speeches ar
inveighing continually against the ty
ranny and oppression that Congress Ia
brought upon the heads of these men
1 am not naturally a cruel map, ant
don't like to see misery suffered by 9th
ers, but eanRot bear to think of tn
things L have been speaking OF withod
my temper rising against those who in
flicted such awful cruelties. l tried
get our Executive to take measures 70
the relief of our prisoners, sutferin
those terrible evils have alluded tc
and called on the President and trie'
day after day, to have some means ta
ken to relieve these men from thos
bells in which they were imprisoned
but could not get anything done.
RETALIATION PROPOSED.
/ Atlength introduced a resolution
,,I k-1n1 10.
through, to treat their prisoners just q
they treated ours. l did not propos
to retaliate upou the private prisoner
{ of the rebel armies, but we had 10
of their officers and wanted to tax
those sprigs of Southern aristocrac
and place them under the same hard
ships they were bringing upon our me
until they would consent to releas
them and let them go. wanted {
give them fair notice and say to them
: we have taken so many Of your me
and we have put them in the sam
! situation, under the same style of treai
: ment, that you are visiting upon ou
} men, and the moment you treat our
, well yours shall be released and treate'
: like prisoners of war ought to be treat
ed. That was my resolution. Wa
there anything new about itl Wa
there anything barbarous about it ?
Not at all. No, sir. 1t was backed u
by the writings of every publist VIII
had ever written upon the subject o
war. Vattel and ali of them had lai
down the doctrine that if any bellig
erent abused the rights of war in tn
maltreatment of prisoners the remed.
was retaliation. Retaliation was on
only remedy then, we had no other.