Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1876-01-20

OF ns9 EXECUTION W1r8 oeo Teen O8ereo
. Communication Of his sentencs II be
would implirste Mr.. Davis, bot Wir.'s
snswer % his counsel was: Mr.
Scbnde, you tbcw that have always
told you that I do mot know ssytbing
about Je6erson Davis. He had no con-
nection With me - to what was doss
at Apdsrsouville. I would not beoo@e
atFsitor agsinse him or anybody elos,
even TO ave my life." But, said Mr.
Hill, What poor wirs, within two houss
OF bis execution, would pot say for his
life, the geutlenae from Aaine says b
the country for the sake a keeping his
party in power. Sensstion.l SIR,
Christianity 10 . falsehood; humanity
10 lie; civilization 10 cheat; or the man
who would not make false charge for bis
life was never guilty Of willful murder.
Mr.. Hill went on 10 argue that on the
logic of Mr.. Blaine's speech (bolding
Mr.. Davis responsible for the acts OF
Mr.. Winder) President Grant might be
held responsible for the acts Of Nc.
Donald and Joyce and he asked wbetb-
er Mr.. Blaine meant 10 establish . rule
of construction that would authorize
the country TO arraign President Grant
for completely in the whiskey frauds !?
Was MIR. Grant responsible, he asked,
for credit mob;lier, for the Sanhorn
contract, or for the frauds in the Dis.
trict Of Columbia ? And yet Mr.. Grant
had also lately sent to the Senate Of the
United States for confirmation for q
high office the name Of . man (allud.
ing to Mr.. Alexander r. Shepherd, of
Washington,) who stood charged Be.
fore the country with the grossest pee.
ulation and frauds on this District, AZ.
ter the charges had been made and
while they were pending. He (Mr.
HID was neither the author nor the
disciple Of such political logic. But il
the gentleman's (Mr. Blaines) PROPOSE.
tion with regard to Mr.. Davis were true,
then hy the same logic General Grant,
instead Of bring entitled to third
term vas entitled to twenty terms in
twenty penitentisries. Laughter. The
argument was false; it was . libel on
American rules Of law, and was with.
out precedent. No precedent for it
could be found in any civilized country.
He (Mr. HilD acquitted Gen. Grant Of
completely in the wbiskey frauds and
the revenue frauds, and the facts &C.
Quilted Mr.. Davis Of completely with any
atrocity anywhere. Mr.. Hill proceeded
to quote the law oftbe Confederate gov.
ernment on The subject Of the treatment
of prisoners. in which it isprovided that
the rations for prisoners OF war shall
I've the same in quantity and quality as
those furnished to enlisted men in the
army of the confederacy. That law, he
said. was passed by the Confederate
Congress. was approved by Mr.. Davis,
and was. SO far as Mr.. Davis agency
was concerned, execu'ed. The gentle.
man from Maine bad gone so far a. tn
say that Mr.. Davis had sent General
Winder to Andsrsonville for the pur-
pose Of ors anising den Of borrors.-
The answer to that was an order locat-
ing the prison, which Mr.. Hill proceed
ed to read. and which provided that il
should be in healthy locality with
plenty Of pure water-a running stream
and if possible shade trees, and in
the immediate neighborhood Of grist
and saw mills. That, he said. did not
look like organising . den Of horrors.
Mr.. Blaine had said that noconfeder.te
prisoner in the hands Of the federal au-
thorities had suffered, but that they
had always been allowed to buy what.
ever they wanted. The only answer he
would give TO that was that he himself
had once had the honor of being in pri.
son in the North, and on the first day
Of bis imprisonment the officer in charge
Of the prison had kindly told him tha,
he would put him on Andersonville fare
and would not allow him to buy any.
thing. He (Mr. Hill only got released
from that Imprisonment after ten days
effort before General Dix. Of New York
He quoted the testimony of an union
soldier oa the Wirx trial to the effec,
that there never had been any Difficult
~ in getting vegetables at Anderson
ville He then proceeded 10 discuss
the cause of the horrors at Anderson.
vile. He said that the first cause wal
want Of medicine. But whose fault Va.
it that they could not get medicine p
They did not have medicine in the con.
federacy, and the Federal governmen,
had made medicine . contrshand oi
war. thing which no other country on
earth had ever done before. Not ever
had the Duke Of Aiva done such thing
Even the federal oa6ccn had received
instructions to examine women passins
through the hnss, to search their petit
coats even. so as % prevent them bring
ing medicine TO the confederacy. Who
he asked. was responsible for that?-
There vas also another misfortune, an,
that was the want Of cls,thiug. Cloth
ing. Of course, had been made contra
hand Of war. He declared that What
ever horrors had existed at Anderson
vile, ncs one of them could be attrihu
ted 70 . single order Of the Coufeaeas
government, ssd every one Of Ties
grew out Of the necessity Of the oceas
ion, which Necessity Vas fastened O
/ the ccnfederates by the conduct cf tb
other side. He challenged Mr.. BlAin
to meet him face 10 face and fact 3
fact in the discussion Of the questics
declaring that the time Was past vbe
|, the country could aeoeps theimpudeee
, Of assert,on for the foscc Of argunes
. or the recklessness Of statemens fog a