The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1876-01-25
NUMBER 154.

port to the secretary Of war, member.
OF ceurss, of the Cabinet OF Jefferson
Dawn. II 1 am not correct in this I
believe there IL msnbsr Of the Cab
met now on this foor who can correct
me. OF course. being soldier, Col.
Chandler hrst delivered HE report
70 the Adjutant General, and that
officer Gen. Cooper, on the 18th of
August 1864. wrote upon the back OF
report these words:
Respectfully submitted 10 the Secretary of
War. The condition Of the prison at Ander.
sonyille Is reproach TO us as . nation. The
engineer and ordinance department were APP
piled 20, and authorized their issue, and / 50
teiegraphed Gen. Winder. Col Chambers
Neutrality-suspicious. are concluded In.
Not content with that Endorsement.
Col. Chandler went 10 the Office of the
Secretary of War himself; but the Sec.
retary being absent at that moment tho
report was delivered to the Assistant
Secretary of war, j. A. Campbell, who
wrote below Gen. Coopers indorse-
ment these words:
The report shows condition OF things at
Andersonyiile which calls very loudly for the
inierposition of the department. in order thar
change be made.
The report thus lodged with the de-
partment of war, whose chief was one
Of the confidential advisers of Mr.. Da-
visa member OF his official family
What was done with it? The record
shows, Mr.. Speaker, that few days
thereafter an order was made in refer
ence to Gen. .Winder. To what effect7
Promoting himl Adding to his power
in the field of his infamy! He was
made commissary- general OF all the
prisons and prisoners throughout the
Confederacy. That was the answer
that came as the result Of this humane
report OF Col Chandler; and that new
appointment OF Winder came from Mr..
Seddons, the Confederate Secretary Of
War.
A member-By order OF the Presi.
dent?
Mr.. Garfield-Of course all appoint
ments were by the President, for the
gentleman from Georgia says that they
carried our Constitution with them and
hugged il to their bosoms. But that
is not all. The testimony Of the Wirz
trials shows that the Secretary of War
himself became shocked at the brutali-
ty OF Winder, and in q moment of in
dignation he relieved him from com
mand. For authority upon this sub
ject / refer to the testimony Of CASH
myer, detective OF Winder, who was
called before the Wirz court. That Of
ficer testified that when Mr.. Seddons,
Secretary of War, wrote the order re.
lieving Winder, the latter walked over
with it To Jefferson Davis, who imme-
diately wrote on the back Of il, "This
is entirely unnecessary and uncalled
for" Winder appears to have retained
the confidence and approval OF Davis
to the end, and continued on duty un-
til the merciful providence Of God
struck him dead in his tent in the pres
ence OF the witness who gave this tes-
timony.
Now, who will deny that in the for
um of law We do trace the responsible
ity for these atrocities to the man whose
name is before us TO be relieved OF all
his political disabilities? II not, let
gentlemen show it. Wipe out the
charge, and / will be the first man here
to vote to relieve him Of his disabilities.
Winder was allowed to 60 on. What
did he do? I will only give results,
no details. 1 will not harrow my own
soul by the revival of those horrible
details. There is q group Of facts in
military history well worth knowing
which will illustrate the point / am dis
cussing. The great Napoleon did some
fighting in his time, as did his great
antagonist the Iron Duke. In 1909
was fought the battle of Talavero, in
1911 the battle of Albuera, in 1912 the
battle of Salamanca, in 1918 vittoria,
in 1915 the battles of Ligny, Quatrs
Bras, Waterloo, Wavre, aud New Or
leans, and in 1854 the battles Of the
Crimea. The number OF men in the
English army who fell in battle or who
were killed or died of wounds received
in the ten battles amounted in the ag-
gregate to 12.92S. But this Maj. Gen.
Winder, within his horrible arena Of
death, from April, 1864, TO April, 1866,
tumbled into the trenches of Ander-
sonville the dead bodies of IL, 2,644 pris-
oners-only 2S4 less than all the Eng
lishmen who fell in or died Of wounds
received in the ten great battles have
named.
Now. Mr.. Speaker, / have simply
given these results. Percentages pale
and fade away in the presence Of such
horrible facts.