The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1868-10-22
TFom the Ohio statesman.1
Grant and Stanton and the Starving @
= White Bows in Blue at Anda1sonNiiIe.-

[Fom the Ohio Statcsman.l
Grant and Stanton and the Starving of
white Boys in Blue at Andessonxifie.~
The late Secretary of War, Edwin
NJ. Stanton, is now stumpings Ohio for
Gen. Grant and accusing the Democra=
cy of being in sympathy with the late
rebellion and with being. parties to
the crime of starving thes-parties at
Andersonville.
The men, themselves guilty of crime
will, in order to escape detection,
charge the crime on others, is fact
of such common occurrence that it
has passed into a proverb, and the
:" stop thief" cry is initiated by Mr..
Stanton. -1as>- s=-5s,as=A
Time and time again, Albert G.
Brown, a United States Senator from
Mississippi, has charged that Edwin
NJ. Stanton was secessionist just be-
fore the war commenced and that he
(StantoD gave him BROWN aid and
comfort by counsel to go out of the
Union, declaring the rights of the
States to do so, and assuring Cover
nor Brown that the cause of the South
had his highest sympathy. Edward.
NJ. Stanton has never dared to deny
the charge, because it could be proven
on him. So much for sympathy with
the rebellion. :" s-< no st'.D9Q H!Jd1 :
When the brave White Boys in Blue
were starving at Andersonyille and
other prisons of the South, and the.
Confederate Generals, because they
had no omeans to feed them, were aiix-
ious for an exchange, a single word OF
line from Edwin NJ. Stanton would
have procured their discharge sin
gle word from Gen. Grant, nay, if
Grant and Stanton had not prevented
the exchange, these: gallant soldiers
would have been returned to the army
and to their friends. But these living
skeletons were not to be thus returned
Grant and Stanton could not afford
to swap well men for dying ones, and
Gen. Grant, who would not have
dared to do it without the sanction of
Stanton,ga gave an explicit order against
the exchange. i''' .'.'5 i''''' 'i'7'.i.
IS a CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Tribune, Mr.. Albert d. Richardson,
writing to that paper during the time,
placed the brand upon Stanton for
preventing the exchange. Since its
publication, Mr.. Richardson, who was
a prisoner in the rebel army, in his
work, " The, Field, the Dungeon and
the Escape" /" page AZ, says ;asit .tasm
''The Government held a large .ex-
cess of prisoners, and the rebels were
anxious to exchange man for man /;
but our authorities acted upon the
COLD-BLOODEDi THEORY OF
EDWIN M. STANTON, SECRETA-
RY OF WAR, THAT WE GOULD
NOT AFFORD TO GIVE WE'LL
FED, RUGGED MEN, FOR INYA-
LIDS, AND SKELETONS
RETURNED PRISONERS WERE
INFINITELY MORE VALUABLE
TO THE REBEES THAN To us,
BECAUSE. j. THEIR SOLDIERS S
WERE iINEXORABLY KEPT IN
THE ARMY. WHILE. MANY. OF
OURS, WHOSE TERMS OF SER
VICE HAD EXPIRED WOULD
NOT OTRE-ENLdST.Ht 70 3,jo3q 3ft -lfi
On page 457 this Radicalauthor, in
speaking of the graves. of Union SOL
diers at AndersonVille, says:
'1SThose five Thousand loyal graves
will ever remain fitting monuments
of rebel cruelty, and of the attrocious
inhumanity, of Edwin NJ, Stanton,
Secretary of War, who steadfastly re-
fused to exchange these prisoners. y IS
1t is right that men who put forth
what the Tribune correctly character
lied as the "cold-blooded theory of
Edward M. Stanton, Secretary of
War;" should support and make
speeches for Gen. Grant, for the facts
given below show that, in this 'cold-
blooded theory they were as united
asrthe Siamese twins are by the iga-
ment that binds them.
The exchange of prisoners was bro
ken off by this letter from Gen. Grant
to Gen. Butler: aHpYaHy rant 4.;.
"WAsnINGToN, II P. NJ, April IA, '64.
@Wdio4 General Ba1tle,. = . -
"Your report respecting 'negotia-
tions with Commissioner Ould for the
exchange of prisoners. of war, has
been referred to me and nay orders.
"Until examined by me, and my or
ders thereon received by you, decline
alt further negotiations. ~
suofta.f+sfsHU. S. GRANT, Lit. Gen."
In August, of the, same year, Gen..
Butler telegraphed Gen. Grant that
Gen. Ould, the rebel Commissioner of
Exchange, authorized him to state that
they had not sufficient food to prevent
our prisoners from suffering, and of
fered to exchange 10000 man for man.
Gen. Grant replied:
"It is hard on our men in Southern
prisons not to exchange them, but it is
hnmiliating to those left in the ranks
to fight our battles, as every man re-
leased on. parole OF otherwise becomes.
an active soldier against us at once,
or indirectly. IF WE CONF
MENCE A SYS TIE M: OF tEX-
CHANGE EFIWHICHtiWILLrLIBER-
ATE, ALL. PRISONERS TAKEN,
WE WILL HAVE TO FIGHT ON
UNTIL THE SOUTH rs EXTER-
IF VIE HOLD THOSE
THEY AMOUNT % TOlI
MORE THAN, DEAD, MEN AT
THIS PARTICULAR TIME"
The refusal to exchange the sick,
wounded and suffering Union SOL
dieFs in prison at AndersonviIle, may
have been "good policy On the'paft
of Secretly Stanton and Grant, but to
US it always seemed. as it will doubt
less strike the reader, heartless in the |
extreme. OF course Stanton supports
Grant. They are hail fellows we'll
met.g aah oI uai.'gr.., I'll aHgc.as Natj
.lisa An Expensive. Luxury,,. .s,I
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