The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1876-01-21
HILLS STATISTICS DISPUTED,

The New York Hut deprecates the
attempt to bring before the public again
the horrors of the rebel prison pens and
says, in reply to the statistics introduced
i'm the rebel Hills speech, that it is sheer
nonsense, and an insult to all reason and
humanity TO say that Davis shall not be
held responsible in the light of these no.
torious facts. The paper says:
There arc few figures which Mr. Hill
needs to be set right about. Surgeon
General Barnes can hardly be good au-
thority if he says (as Mr.. Hill quotes)
that the Confederatts had in their pris-
ons 50, 900 more Union prisoners than
we had of Confederates. And death
rate based upon such a statement is
fallacious and misleading. As we -un
derstand the matter the number of Con-
federates captured and sent to depots at
the North was 222, S37, and the number
of Union soldiers captured by the other
side and sent to depots at the South was
126, $50. It's upon these figures that the
death rate Mr.. Hill wants to establish
should be computed, and so computed
it is found that 1--WE quote DIR. j. w.
Draper the death rate of prisoners in the
prisons Of each side was one in 81 i'm the
Union depots, and one in 3 A i'm the Con-
federate depots. The same authority
expressed opinion that the true ratio will
probably be not less than three United
States soldiers to one Confederate soldier
1t is in all respects unfortunate that this
old ulcer should again be publicly ex-
posed; but the North is not to be slap-
dered and the world insulted by such
tactics for the oyerturning of historical
truth, as those pursued by Mr. Hill To
whitewash jeff. Divis and his gang at
the expense of Lincoln, Stanton, and
their compatriots, is indeed bold pro-
cedure, but truth cannot be crushed out
in any such way.
MIR WILLIAMS, OF Wisconsin, in the
House last Tuesday, proposed an i'm
portant modification of Mr.. Blaine's
Constitutional Amendment on the
School question. A Washington CORE
spondent says of it;
Mr.. Williams proposition is designed
to settle the whole subject matter in
controversy. and forever remove the
school question from National politics.
MIR. Blaire's amendment provides that
mo money raised by taxation in any
State tor the support of publ, schools,
or derived from any public fund there
for, or any public land thereto, shall
ever be under the. control of any relig-
ions sect, nor shall any money So raised
on lands so devoted be divided between |
religious sects or denominations" Mr.. |
Williams amendment adds the follow |
ing: Neither shall any money raised |
hy taxation in any State be appropri |
ated for the maintenance of any secta- |
rian school or sectarian institutions"
The practice has grown up in all he
States of Incorporating ''St. Mary's,"
''St. Peters" st. Johns, y etc charity
schools or institutions. which are simply
Catholic schools. Recourse is then had
to the Legislature, the next year, for ap-
preparations to these institutions for
charitable and benevolent institutions.
LEGAL politicians yield to the pressure,
and vote thousands of dollars out of
the general fund for these purposes.
The evil has become very great in New
York, Massachusetts, Wisconsin, and
other States. Mr.. Blaine's amendment
does not reach this class of cases.