The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-08
uTbe Andersonyllio League ;

II must not be implicitly believed, be-
cause IL comes from washingtou-for, even
FROM that renowned spot, eGHords have
been known to procced-that an organlza-
tlon. With headquarters aud branches has
been, formed, called the "Andersonviile
League" whose whole mission Is alleged
to be the assassination OF JETP. DAVIS, In
the event that the GOvernment--that Is
0onOress nOw--fails to perform that Christ
San duty.
We propose 70 believe just 80 much as we
please OF such a sensational report-and
that Is just nothing. But, assuming that
there. ls such a League, and tor such an
object, had they not better listen to the
snggestion, before they shoot cat billy or
drown Mr.. DAVIS, whether they are not on
the wrong track, after the wrong man-the
inian whose cruelty, heartlessness and base
inhumanlty iilled 80 many trenches with
starved wretehes, and left so few survivors
TO relate the terrible story OF their wrongs
and sufferiRgs. Was JRPP. DAVIS the de-
non who presided over that awful carni-
lyal? .H. ..a f.nHHs
| Where was SrANroN-he Of the LINCOLN
lWar Otficel Was he not the ghoul who
/ fed on those hecatombs Of starving, famish-
ling, dying and dead thousands Of victims,
who bleached and rotted In that eyer-mem-
orable "pens"
When an equal exehange-man for man
Twas proposed, by the Confederate author
litlcs, what did STANTON, but prevaricate
hesitate and delay, white, at each interview
of the Commissioners. he had the evidence
lafforded Of most imperative demand foi
prompt action, II suffering would b'
assuaged.
| when "Iibby" was running over and
the Andersonvllle "pen was becoming
one charnel-house, and the humane RoB'
ERr OULD--the Confederate Commissioner
lof Exchange-made his strongest appeal
foregoing the rules OF the previous basis
and proffering, In the name Of JEFF. DAvr
and the Confederacy, q universal exchang'
of al prisoners, what was STAEToN's re
IsponseP ...
:, rW"I AN NOT GOING TO EXCHANGE LIvi
MES FOR SKELETONS J"
These may not be his exact words, bu
they are not stronger than hls.) Just her
: at this wrlting-a paragraph, on the yer!
. subject, from the Washington Intelligence
(which had been war-for-the-Union pa
Q PERI fioated up. 1t Is sleeper In Its charge
Iupon STANTON than we have been, and W
Introduce IT.:
g oIt was not JEFF Davis that 'starve
e Union prlsoners,' but the Government q
+, Abraham Lincoln. Davis did the best h
:, could for them in the exhausted cOnditio
d of his country, and warned their Govern
'e ment over and over again that they weT
h suffering and 1t could not be helped.
pleaded for an exchange man for man, an
Il then for an exchange of the alex, WHICH
OF even offered to send home without any n
l. turn of Southern prisoners, but all appea
a fell lifeless upon the cold ears Of hear
,s less Government 1t refused to come
ne the relief OF its o,on suffering and dyin
Us soldiers, and preferred they should renal
y, in prison and help eat out the substance I
Ill the South. These are facts, unanswerahl
.. damning facts, and they will rise up
n' Judgment against the revilers of the Sout
IL sooner or later"
This Is no more-scarcely as mueh-tha
ct what the public records of the War OH
IL afford proof of.
If, therefore, the "Andersonville League
an is not myth lift is body oflive assassin
'r- conclaved to murder an enemy, In revenI
for murdered friends; II it would strike q
ut guilty and spare the innocent, let its vaia
an weapons be turned toward Washingto
Ell STANTON Stfll livesi