Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1876-01-21

saw to what special cause the NOR
tality on eth er side was attributa-
bic. I say it was attributable to
those horrors inseparable from pris-
ON life everywhere and | simply
entered my protest against gentle
men seeking to stir up those old
past horrors on either side, to keep
alive strife that ought to be buried.
That is all. Applause.
Mr.. GARFIELD. am glad to
hear what the gentleman Sars, and
to give it more force by contrast |
quote again the words he used as re-
ported in the newspapers this morn
ing
1 When the gentlemen from Main ad-
| dresses the IL iuSc again let him add Ia
ii that the atrocities of AnderspRvilt, do
not begin IL cnmptrr with The atrocities
of Elmiri, of Fort Douglas, or Fort Della
Ware; and Of all the atrocities, bnlh at
Anders3nville and Elmira, The cnufeder-
ate government stands acl lifted from all
responsibility aal bI1me.
| refer to it to show why could
not
Dir. HUI. 1 have no doubt the
gentleman's motive Is good /; but he
will permit me to remind Mm that
what he has just read was said by
me after reading Secretary STAN
toms report; ald, of course, while
l mentioned prison places at the
North | did not mean to charge lii
humanity upon any one as a class.
Mr. GARFIELD. But let me say
another word to close this branch of
the subject. The authority intro
duced as to the atrocity at Elmira
was an anonymous letter printed in
the New York World. The Roman
soldiers who watched at the sepul-
char of the Savior of mankind at
tempted to disprove his resurrection
by testifying to what happened
while they were asleep. Bad as
this testimony was, it was not anony-
nous but in this case the testimony
was that of a shadow-an initial
nobody. Stat nonainis ,an6rq.
What the substance was we know
not. But even as to this anony-
nous authority, it would have been
well for the cause of justice if the
gentleman had been kind enough to
quote it all. l read, | believe, from
the very book from which the gentle
man quotcd-The Life of D8vis-a
sentence omitted by him, but which
| hope he will have printed in his
speech. 1t is this
The lacts demonstrate that in rs
healthy II location as there IS in New
York, with every remedial appliance in
abundance, with no epidemic, an with
a great boast of humanity, ths d'athe
are, &c
So that even this anonymous wit
ness testifes that we planted our
Elmira prison in as healthy place
as there was in the State of New
York. 1t ought to be added that
the smallpox broke out in that pris-
on very soon after the date of this
letter, and the mortality that follow
ed was very much greater than in
any other prison In the North.
How we have kept alive our vim
dietiYeness will be seen by the fact
that Congress, at its last session or
the session before last, passed a law
making the rebel cemetery at FL
mira part of the national-cemetery
system and to-day this malignant
Administration, this ferocious Con-
stitution-hating and south-hating
Administration is paying an officer
for tenderly caring for the inclosure
that holds the remains of these out
ragged soldiers I!
Mr.. MAoDoUGALL. And a Union
soldier, Captain Fitch, is building at
hiss, own expense a monument at
Elmira to the confederate dead.
Mr.. GARFIELD. did not know
that. At another place in Virginia,
Finn's Point, we have within the
past few months embraced another
cemetery system. All this out of
the depths of our wrath and hatred
for our Southern brethren
Mr.. HILL. Will the gentleman
allow me to say word on that
point?
Mr.. GARFIELD. Certainly.
Mr.. HILL In response to what
the gentleman has said, desire to
state as fact what l personally
know, that on the last occasion of
decorating soldiers graves in the
South, our people, uniting with nor
thern soldiers there, decorated in
harmonious accord the graves of the
fallen Federals and the fallen con-
federates. 1t is because of this
glorious feeling that is being awak-
ened in the country that l protest
against the revival of these horrors
about any prison.
Mr.. GARFIELD. So do I. Who
brought it here? TCries from the
Democratic side of the House. Blainel
Blaine 4 We will see as to that.
l wish this same fraternal feeling
could come out of the grave-y ard
and display itself toward the thirty
or forty MANNED Union soldiers who
were on duty around this Capitol
but who have been displaced by an
equal number of soldiers on the
other side. Applause
There was another point which
the gentleman made which I am
frank to say 1 am not now able to
answer.
Mr.. REAGAN. Mr.. Speaker,
wish to call attention with the per-
mission of the gentleman from Ohio)
to the exact state of facts in refer
ence to the allegation just made by.
him. This is not the first time the
statement has been made that there
have been thirty or forty crippled
Federal soldiers removed from office
under this House and their places
filed by confederate soldiers. | was
shown yesterday morning by the
Doorkeeper of the House land the
information is as accessible to the
gentleman from Ohio and all others
as to myself a roll showing there
were eighteen Federal soldiers ap-
pointed by the Doorkeeper of the
House during the last Congress,
while twenty-four Federal soldiers
have been appointed by the Door
keeper of the present Congress