Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-10
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starving the prisoners at Andersonville.
That raeu, themselves guilty of crime
VIII, 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
MIR. STANTON. f9reT bae yIscT bnery
Time and time again, ALBERT G. BROWN
a United States Senator from Mississippi,
has charged that EDWIN M STANTON was
q secessionist just before the war COM
menced, and that he (STANToN) gave him
(BRowN) aid and comfort by counsel to go
out of the Union, declaring the right OF the
States to do so, and assuring Gov. Brown
that the cause of the South had his high
est sympathy. EDWIN M. STANTON has
never dared to deny the charge, because it
could be proven upon him. So much for
sympathy with the rebellion isIi7a ...l.-
When the brave White Boys in Blue were
starving at AndersonyiAe and other pris-
ons of the South. and the Confederate GEN
erals, because they had no means to feed
Them were anxious for an exchange, a sim
gle word or line from EDWIN M. STANTON
would have procured their discharges
single word from General GRANT, nay, If
CIR Mt 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'an and
STANTON could not afford to swap well men
for dying ones, and General GRANT, who
would not have dared to do it without the
sanction OF STANTON, gave an explicit or
der against the exchange. ar D.. fr-sfqo
"A Aocorrespondent of the Neo York Iri-
bune, Mr.. ALBERT d. RICHARDsoN, writing
to that paper during the time, placed
the brand upon STANTON for preventing the
exchange. r,- Since its publication, Mr..
RICHARDSON, who was a prisoner in the
rebel army, in his, work, THE Field, the
Dungeon and the Escape" page All, says: ::
"The Government held large excess of
prisoners, and the rebels were anxious to
exchange man for man; but our authori
ties acted upon the sCOLD-BLOODED
THEORY OF EDWIN M. STANTON.
OF = WAR, THAT WE
COULD NOT. AFFORD TO GIVE
RUGGED MEN, FOR IN
" LIDS AMI ShELE IONO - bAl
PRISONERS WERE IN
MORE VALUABLE TO THE
REBELS THAN TO us BECAUSE
THEIR SOLDIERS WERE JINEXOR-
ABLY KEPT IN THE ARMY, WHILE
MANY OF OURS, WHOSE TERMS OF
SERVICE HAD EXPIRED, WOULD
NOr RE sENLfSTH 81 13s 81 ir-
On page 457 this Radical author, in
speaking of the graves of Union soldiers
at Andersonville, saws: r1is
icsThoseT five thousand loyal graves will
ever remain fitting monuments of, rebel
cruelty, and of the atrocious inhumanity-
of Edwin NJ. Stanton, Secretary OF War,
who steadfastly refused to exchange these
G9yJ7 5E i9sisS1V l7uo.E ri !
1t is right that the men who put forth
what the Tribune correctly characterized as
the ''cold-6looded theory of EDWIN NJ. STAN
TON, 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 as the
siamese twins are by the ligament that
binds them.
The exchange of prisoners. was broken
off by this letter from Gen. GRANT to Gen.
BUTLER: q .-sf-pi,e II y y0-;iy!Tf; q ~ i
WASHINGTON, IL P. NJ, April IA, 1864.
& Major General Butler: s}a4q= itH
IS Your report respecting negotiations
with Commissioner Ould tor the exchange
)f prisoners of war, has been referred to me
md ny orders. ..,r-,s..-s, x0.,-,+.
Until examined by me, and my orders
thereon are received by you, decline all fur
her negotiations. -'e
"U. S. GRANT, Lit. Gen.
In August. of the same year, Gen. BUTLER
Gen. GRANT that Gen. OULD,
he rebel Commissioner OF Exchange, au-
horized him to state that they had not suf-
icient food to prevent our prisoners from
and offered to exchange 10000
nan for man.9ls11s0 III , THfGEIls-E wal
General GRANT replied :as'E D5ss
cit is hard on our men in Southern pris-
ms not TO exchange them, but it is humili7 |
ting to those left in the ranks to fight our
,attles, as every man released on parole or
otherwise becomes an active soldier against
Is at once, directly or indirectly IF WE
A r SYSTEM gsOF EX-I
CHANGE WHICH WILL LIBERATE
ALL PRISONERS TAKEN. WE WILL
HAVE TO FIGHT ON UNTIL THE
SOUTH Is EXTERMIN ATED. IF WE
VA L hE L
AMOUNT TO MORE THAN DEAD
MEN AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME"
This refusal to exchange the sick, wound
d and suffering Union soldiers in prison
It Andersonville, may, have been ''good
,olicy" on the part of Secretary STANTON
nd General GRANT, but, to US it always
eemed, as it will doubtless strike the read
#, heartless in the extreme. Of course
STANTON supports GRANT. They are hail
elbows we'll met. us.
The Radical Organs I'm Cleveland.
The city OF Cleveland is blessed, or cursed.
With two Radical papers, one called the
Leader, the other the Cleueland
Herald. which, like FoRNEY said about his
wo papers, are "bothl daily" They are
Ultra Radical. laf .gf a
Occasionally these sheets attempt to
raw a notice from the STATESMAN, by |
1elping at it as silly puppy barks at
. locomotive. The character of these |
heets can be seen by the following:
Early in the war, after DAVID TOD was |
elected Governor, and before he was in
lugurated, DAVID, thinking he had, as
a1aof oil ap,ninntanf v,1r,o,