The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-01-11

mony Of Father Hamilton, as given it
WirE' trial, in which witness related the
case Of young man named Farrell, from
the North Of Ireland, whom he saw
among the prisoners at Andersonvillt
suffering very much from q wound OF
his right foot, which had opened like IL
oyster, and which had been simply cauSet
BY exposure to the sun in the stockade
The priest had given him a stocking Il
cover his foot, and when he returned 4
the stockade the following week he in
quired for Farrell. HIS companions
told him that be had stepped across thu
"dead line" and requested the guards L
shoot him. He added that the man wa
not insane when he had seen him the pre-
yious week.
Mr.. Blaine then continued: don't cart
to 20 into such horrors for any purpoa
Of raising bad feeling, but | desire on.
ly to say that the man who administered
that prison went there by the order o.
Mr.. Davis, and was sustained by him
and that this VIM. John Hamilton whose
testimony | have just read, went to Gen
eral Howell Cobb, at the Commanding
Department, and asked that the condition
Of the prison should be Transmitted to tht
Confederate Government at Richmond
In fact there are great many instances
and proofs which show that Mr.. Dayi,
was in possession OF the facts in
relation 10 the prison at Andersonville,
When Gen. Sherman's invasion or some
other invasion Of that portion Of the
country was under way and when there
was danger or supposed danger that il
might come to that neighborhoOd the reg.
ular military order No. Is, dated head.
quarters OF the Confederate states mill.
lary prison, Andersonville. July q, ls6 |,
and signed BY Brigadler. General Winder,
was Issued in these words: "The officer
on duty and in charge OF the battery Of
Florida artillery will on receiving this
notice that the enemy has approached
within seven miles Of this post and open
Gre on the stockade with grape shot with.
out reference to the situation" Beyond
this line Of defense here were those IS, ,00O
poor helpless. naked, starving, sick aud
dying men. This Catholic priest states
that he went to Gen. Cobb TO represent 10
him that II lie could not exchange them
they should be taken before the UniOn
lines in Florida and paroled and le,
20 free, and yet il the Union forces were
to get within seven miles Of that point
the regular order Of Mr.. Davis officer
was to open battery OF grape shot on
these poor wretches, without the slightest
possible regard TO what was going on out.
side. Now don't arraign the Southern
people for this. God forbid that | should
charge any people with sympathizing
with such an order. There were many
evidences Of great uneasiness among the
Southern people about it, and one Of the
great crimes Of Mr.. Davis was that he
conceded it from the Southern people.
Whoever was a prisoner in the hands ot
the Union forces and will say that he wa.
cruelty treated; that he was ever deprived
Of the same rations which Union soldiers
had, or the same food2
Mr.. Cook, Of Georgia-Thousands OF
them.
Mr.. Blaine-Well, take the issue on
that, and say that not one can truth.
fully stateit. As for measures OF retail
iation, though goaded by this terrific
treatment OF our friends in prison by Mr.
Davis, the Senate Of the United States
specially refused to pass a resolution Of
retaliation as contrary 10 modern civil.
ization and to the first precepts ol
Christianity. There was no retaliation
attempted or justifed. It was refused
and JEFF. Davis knew it was refused just
ms we'll as he knows it to-day, BECAUSE
what took place in Washington or what
took place in Richmond Of that kind
was known on either side Of the line
within n day or two thereafter. Now
this is not proposition TO punish Mr..
Davis. There ia no one attempting 10 do
that. I very frankly say that always
thought that the indictment OF Mr.. Davis
at Richmond, under the administration
Of Mr.. johnson, was n weak step, for he
was indicted only for that for which he
was guilty in common with every other
gentleman who went into the Confederate
movement, and there was no reason
for signalling him for indictment, but
will undertake to say this, and with great
dellberation that there il not civil gov
ernmeat on the globe, very certainly not
in Europe which would not have arrested
Mr.. Davis, or which, when it had him in
It's power, 1t would have tried him
for maltreatment Of prisoners Of war and
shot him within thirty days.
France, Ru,ih, England, Germany, any
Of them would have done it. The poor
victim Wirz deserved death for the
brutal treatment Of prisoners, but |
always thought it was a weak movement
on the part Of the government 10 ALLOW
jeff Davis to go At large aud hang WiFz'
He was nothing in the world but u sub
ordinate tool, and therefore there
was no philosophy in selecting
him for punishment. Sin | don't say
he did not deserve it, lie did richl!
fully deserve it, and he deserved no
mercy, but at his execution put IN mind
of skipping the President, Supcrin!cnd-
cnt and Board of Directors ithe railroad
company, in cDs. OF accident, and hanging
the brakeman On the rear car. LhughI-
cr.l There is no proposition here to
punish Mr Davis, nobody il asking to du
II. The time for such actio has & n by
Tho statute Of limitation an common
feeling Of humanity would intervene for
his benefit.
SENATE.
Mr.. Alcorn was present for the first
time this session.
Mr.. Sargent presented a petition oil
60, ,BlG women Of Utah A.kinG the repeal
OF the anti.pOlygamy law OF 1862 aud the
Poland bill, and that Utah be admitted
as u State into the Union. In presenting
the petition Mr.. Sargent said that he did
not concur in the object OF the petition
but he believed in tho right OF the peIi'
,iouer+, and therefore laid the matter be.
fore the Senate, as they had requested
him TO do. Referred.
Mr.. Thurman presented n petition o!
citizens Of Ohio a,king the repeal Of lhr
Resumption Act passed last session, and
also the enactment Of Law to provide
for the retirement OF National bank notes
and the substitution therefor Uf legal
tender United States notes, and for The
issuing OF 365 convertible bond, the
proceeds Of the sale Of such bond to bC
applied first to the redemption Of 4 per
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