The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1872-10-12
What Greeley Knows About Ander.
sOnville.


sOnville.
Greeley is happy 2 He has stood
on the soil Of Kentucky, and re-
ceived the cheers of those who
would have rejoiced to hang him .
few years ago. He tells his con-
federate friends how humane they
were during the war, and how mis-
taken we Of. the North were in
charging them with cruelty to our
prisoners of war. Listen to his
silly twaddle at Newport, Kentuc-
ky:
The American name is dear to
US all, and ever in our struggles
we were friends. We did not tear
and rend each other; we did not
destroy prisoners; I do not mean
to say that come prisoners we're not
unjustly treated, but l really be-
lieve that the people on both sides
meant to treat them With humanity,
so far as they could do SO. and
and where crualties took place
they were not understood to be
approved by the great body of the
noo,.Io Moth or G1,,<l,
Here is discovery worthy Of
the benevolent Greeley! We we're
friends during our late struggle.
We sacrificed a half million of SOL
diers and s5,OOO,O00,0Oo just to
express our friendship for one an
other! If this be friendship, the
Lord deliver us from enemity.
The American name may have
been dear to our Southern breth-
ern in arms, for we know that its
preservation was dear to US. The
less we have ofthis dear friendship
the better.
"We did not tear and rend each
other" says Greeley. Who SUPP
posed we did2 There is so little
difference between death by the
civilized bullet, shell or bayonet,
or by the fangs Of a beast of prey
that there is no need of wasting
words over this tearing and rend
ing" feature of the rebellion. I,
was bad enough as it was without
dragging in metaporical expires
sions TO revive its horrors. w,
certainly draw it mildly when W.
say that it was not very afriendly'
on either side.
"Some prisoners were uniustly
treated" 'Unjustly' is good for
Presidential candidate for rebel ia
vors. Why didn't Horace say 'sun
comfortably treated" This would
have answered his purpose as well
and sounded little more liberal
The horrors o! Andersonville
and Libby, and Salisbury, ant
Belle Isle were only little ''unjus
treatment on the part Of ou
''friends." How this fact will soft
en- the feelings of the poor fellow
who left these prison pens walking
skeletons, and tone dowc their re
memberence of the horrible bar
barity which they were designed,
forced to endure.
Whether Andersonville was
Northern prison pen or Souther
could hardly be determined fror
Greeley's speech. Its crueltie
were not approved by the peopl
orth or South, he tells us. If "
remember correctly, Mr.. Greele
once had clear idea of the exae
location OF this horrible pen, sn
used severe language in comment
ing on its infamous crueltics an
the character of its savage keepers
We know it never met the approvs
of the people of the North. VII
Mr.. Greeley tell US at what tim
the people of the Souths expresse
their disapproyal2 1t was nc
during the war; it has not bee
heard of since. If Mr. Greele
keeps on talking We may expect t
hear him soon apologizing for ou
"unjust treatment 10 the bloc
hounds OF the South, who sho
down, starved, or kicked to deaf
our poor boys, whose only Grim
was that they loved the old fal
and the nation it covered bette
than the comforts of home. Gree
ley may forget and forgive for b
has suffered nothing to remeIabel
but retributi, justice lives for
ever.