The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1876-01-12
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charge for his LIE was never SuAty u wlut'
murder.
of Mr.. Blaines speech, holding MIR. Dav
responsible for the acts Of Mr.. Wlnder Pres
dent Grant might be held responsible for th
acts of Mcdonald and Joyce, and he aske
whether Mr.. Blaine meant to establish rul
of construction that would authorize the cour
try to arraign President Grant for complicit
in the whisky frauds? Was Mr.. Grant responf
ible, he asked, for the Credit Mobilier? 70
the Sanborn contract, or for the frauds in tn
District of Columbia
And yet Mr.. Grant had absolutely sent Il
the Senate of the United S ;ates for confirma
ton for high Office, the name OF NAL
[alluding to Mr.. Alexander r. Shepherd. o
Washington who stood charged before tn
country with the grossest peculatlon AM
frauds on this District
After the charges had been made and Will
they were pending he (HilD was neither thu
author nor the disciple of such political logic
but If the gentleman's (Blaine's) proposition
with regard to Mr.. Davis were true, then b,
the same logic Gen. Grant, instead Of being
entitled to q third term, was entitled to TWEEN
ty terms in twenty penitentiaries. Laugh
ter
Extract. Whatever horrors had existed a.
Andersonville, not one of them could be at
tributed to q single order Of tie Confederate
Government, and every one of them grew out
of the necessity Of the occasion. which neces-
sity was fastened on the Confederates by the
conduct of the other side.
He challenged Mr.. Blaine to meet him face
to face and fac. to fact in the discussion OF
the question, declaring that the time was past
when the country could accept the impotence
of assertion for the force OF argument, or the
recklessness of statement for the truth OF
history. Mr.. Hill read some articles regard
ing the prison at Elmira.
Mr., Plat. of New York. asked him who
was the author of the letter.
Mr.. Hill replied that he did not know.
Mr.. Platt declared. as living within thirty
six miles of Elmira, that the statements were
unqualifedly false
General Barnes the ratio was IL per cent Of
Confederate prisoners in Federal hands died,
and less than 9 per cent OF Federal prisoners in
Confederate hands died, said: My friend,
Undressing Mr.. Blaine, with great emphasis,)
who is the murderer would believe Sur,
geon General Barnes in preference to any
politician over there.
The gentleman (PlatD says he lives thirty
six miles away from E!mira. Perhaps he
could have smelled the smallpox that far; he
certainly could not have seen, and | venture
to say that if the smallpox wa at the prison
camp no one could have got him nearer than
thirty-six miles, He is q wonderful witness.
Laughter
Ertrcc-But the great question IT, at last,
who was responsible for that state of things,
and that is really the only important question.
Mr.. Hill went on to discuss the history of
the exchange Of prisoners, dwelling on the
fact that the cartel which was established in
1862 was interrupted in 1868, and that the
Federal authorities refused to continue the
exchange. rat this point of the debate Mr.. |
Hills time expired, but by unanimous con-
sent he was allowed to proceed without any
limitation as to time.
Mr. Blaine asked him whether he had not
been a member of the Confederate Senate?
Mr.. Hill replied that he had been. Il
Mr.. Blaine then proceeded to quote a reso- |
luton offered in the Confederate Congress by |
Senator Hill of Georgia, to the following |
effect:
"That every person pretending to be SOL |
der or officer OF the United States. who shall |
be captured on the soil Of the Confederate |
States after the LIST of January, 1863. shall be
presumed to have entered the territory Of the |
Confederate States with the intent to incite
and to abet murder, and that I'M
less satisfactory proof be adduced to the con-
Erary before the military court, before which
his trial shall be had, he shall suffer death.
He asked Mr.. Hill whether he was the
author Of that resolution?
Mr.. Hill will say to the gentleman from
Maine, very frankly, that l have not the
highest recollection of hearing it before.
Mr. Blaine-You do not deny it?
Mr.. Hill do not know. My own opinion
ion but have no recollection of it. Ii the
gentleman can give me the circumstances
lnder which it was introduced / may recollect
Mr.. Blaine-On the LIST of Oct 1862, the
Judiciary Committee OF the Confederate
congress made report and offered a series
II resolutions, and thereupon Senator Hill, of
Georgia, is recorded as having offered the res
'lution which have just read
Mr.. Hill was chairman of the Judiciary
Committee in the Senate, and very likely.
ike the chairman Of Rules, at the last ses-
ion, / may have consented to that report.
Laughter, at the expense of Mr.. Blaine. |,
Mr.. Blaine-Does the gentlemrn admit that
e made that report?
Mr.. Hill do not know, but it is very !
kelly. [Derisive laughter on the Republican
ide
Mr.. Blaine-The copy which have quoted ,
rom is entitled "Rspublicanism in Ame-
ica." / wish to know whether the gentle /,
nan was the author of that resolution.
Mr.. Hill really do not recollect. IRE \;
ewed laughter on the Republican side. q,
MI. Blaine, persistently-The gentleman )
oes not say that he was not the author !,
{ it.
Mr.. Hill do not But think l was not =
he author OF it.
Mr.. Blaine-I thought as the gentleman's ,
fort was to show The same character of the !.
Congress, this might aid him in
the facts.
Mr.. Hili-With all due Difference to the =
entleman he did not think any such thing. !.
Laughter. He III ought he would divert me :
rom tho purpose OF my argument
Mr.. Blaine, apologetically-O no; the gen.
leman can have all the time he wants.
Mr.. Hill-What measures the Confederate )
government might have thought proper to !,
AXE at that time to protect the women ana
hildren of the Confederacy from the insur- :
cotton do not recollect. bat l shall not be :.
iverted by the gentleman from Maine from !;
be course Of my argument to 60 into the his !,
Dry Of slavery. or Of the instruction, or of