The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-08-14
Hit Him Again.
w.orieans Times I

Tupfort sse Of REPRESENTATIVES. This for n
% the Ho auIIsosaehusetts Congressman has n
iidaeitss ,oyne to grief" owing to an unfor- +,
again ',ant Of memory regarding certain :, -
tlnate: " ond recorded facts. The circum' Il
stances alo p i was DESTROYS of having
Genera = Committee of Investigation on 0
sppolnynuaa of Confederate prisoners /
the 4tnrsstswent of Union prisoners auri ing
anu n III In course of discussion on the I
the w. wa Hon. Charles a Eldrldge made the
subleC' ..artling announcement that IRON
rather 1' Robert Ould, Confederate Com.
Genera or If Exchange, he learned that
missio a;t;on had been made to turn oyer to
,'sssOseatatives ofthe. United States
the repent without any equivalent what
Goyerllnaruty thousand sick and wounded
ever, ,s wv the Confederates being unable to
prlsone.ia',c care for them. properly General
teeafn ,ros then in charge OF the exchange
Butler mar hut instead of accepting the
OF pfi9onosed "to the rebels to let them
ohel' p ootton to New York, sell it through
SEND s ou,'0 agents, and with the proceeds
ln neenre What their prisoners needed; MI
gET19s saaap statement was ,editorially COM
b snted mon by the National lntelhgen-
men me closing paragraph ofwhose article,
eei ..; go even the calloused Butler to the
Ou is as follows; 49,
qu VA crave point, however, the committee %
a sarv fttingly investigate. General
may may Oils dismal void in this painful
BUZZ snr NV the convenient phrase. There
lns10i tse y, some unavoidable delay i'll it.
a basement Dr upon the operations Of the ar
coL'0fTb; This unavoidable delay is all that APP
my. 70 account for the failure, even if the
wa,' If the rebels was promptly accepted,
oe e.i,o delivery of the. thirteen thousand
ol l; snU in addition to the alleged seven
lhonsand prisoners whom tho rebels had
"Eered TO restore to their homes; and VINO
;,to iudre of delay consequent on the OPP
n,st;ons of the armyp Who knows 1t was
pu,n~avodable? Who knows it was in con-
u un of army operations2 Who puts
S So ths mourning kindred of these perisha-
p1l thirteen thousand with the assurance
W necessity 2 The answer is, this
ornIoded and inglorious muddler in war
s,ra on the floor of the Honse Let 1t De
investigated. ""
.otion for the General to bear the odinm
sfif there was possibility, no matter by
That means, for it to be cast upon the
shoulders Of others, So, armed and pre-
uared for the purposeshe 'irose to o person
al explanation" two days subsequently a1t
Notwithstanding he had "made tia rule o.
his life not to reply to newspaper or scan
dal slanders." He expected to easily crust
md wine out his opponents; hut, alas 1ol
human calculations, evidence from an un
aynected quarter wac obtained, and his ex
violations were doomed to disappointment
Mr., Butler began bis defence or explain
ot;on with an emphatic denial of the TIRE
assertions, viz:
That a proposition to give up invent
3honsand prisoners had been made; ina
be had ever admitted such to be the truth
OF that be had made any counter propo:s
tion whatever. To sustain the poslt,o
thus taken, General Butler read a numo'
of voluminous kilograms, letters anu o
ders all signed by himself, and all tendii,
to proye that he had striven persistent
and enereetically to obtain from the rep
authorities all the Union prisoners ths
we're willing to send forward, ana
whom he could procure transportation
was well prepared er parie defence, q!
tha case lwonld have Stood very well
daoa for the redoubtable hero OF Bermu'
Tnndreds had he been permitted to rema
',ntnncbed after hedlad concluded his
cument. But at this critical ]llnctul
Commissioner Ould steps forward IN !
fence of Mr., Eldridge, and utterly ann
iates the defence, proving Butler to DC
,nost "ipclo,ious muddler" in intellectt
a. we'll as war-like contests. We appe
General Guilds letter, although IT appear
in previous edition OF this paper: zoe,
RICHMOND, JULY IL, 1867
Hon Charles A. Eldridge: 3A II
MA Dear Sir Il have seen your RENAL Pi
10 published. They are substantially
rect. Every word that i said to you
Richmond is not only true, but can a I
proved by Federal officers. | did offer
Lnpnst to deliver the Federal sick
wo1,nded, without requiring equivalel
and urged the necessity of haste IN Sc {,
inc for them, as the mortality was terrll
! Aid offer to deliver from ten to fft'
tbonaand atSayannah without delay
thonoh this offer was made in Aug'
transnortation was not sent for them III
december. and during the interval
mortality was perhaps at Its great
height, If had not made the offer' "
aid tbe Federal authorities send transl
tat;an To Savannah for ten or fifteen til
sand men, If made the OTTER, oased =, y
on equivalents, why did the same u,
portation carry down for delivery
three thousand menY
Butler says the offer wus made IN
fall, according to the newspaper repo
and that seven thousand were Delivers
The offer was made in August, and t
we're sent for in December. then de
erea more than thirteen thousand,
would have gone to the fifteen thousan
the Federal transportation had been su
,ient Nv instructions to my agents v
TO deliver fifteen thousand sick and Wol
Y ed, aud if that number OF that eiass
1 not on hand, to make up the, numpe
4 well men. This offer was made by ID
pursuance of instructions from the Con
erote Secretary of War. / was read.
keep up the arrangement until every
and wounded man had been returned.
The three thousand men sent toS avaI
by the Federas were in as wretched
dtion as any detachment of prisoners
sent foma Confederate prison. =
All these things are'susceptible OF p
| and IAN much niistakenif | cannot P
| them BY Federal authority. | am
1 sure that Gen. Milford will sustain
I allegation here made. -. -
| Yours truly, r. Our
/ P.S-Gen. Butler Correspondent
| all on one side, as | was instructed OF
l date ofhis letters to hold no CORES
| dence with him. | correspondent
| Milford or Gen. Hitchcock. n
l 81 u ! tf+ R. Or
/ Where now mast rest the response
1 for the suferings Of the thousands OF
/ prisoners at Andersonville, Belle Isle
1 Libby? Those prisons were crowde
I excess, and the Confederate authorize
l not POSSESS the means Of properly
4 for the inmates-had even confessed
| hct and urged the Government to
1 these poor fellows to their homes
friends. Whose the fault that this WI
I done-that while il was known they
J daily dying by the score, the pray
relief was withheld from August
Docerlberl Does not the very mamie
garfield statements Of Gen. Butler's dc
oetTay o. guilty cohscience9 This G