The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-14

has approached within seyon miles Of
This post, open fire on the stookade
With grnpesh0t, without reference to
the situation beyond this line OF de-
fense,p
Here were those $4,000 poor, help
less, naked, starving, sick and dying
men. This Catholic Priest states he
went TO General Cobb % represent to
him that, If he could not exchange
them, they should be taken before the
Union lines In Florida and paroled aud
let 90 free and yet, If the Union
forces were TO get within seven
miles, TINT regular order Of Mr.,
Davis officer was to open battery
Of grape.sh0t on those poor wretGhea,
without the slightest possible regard
to what was going on outside. Now, |
do not arraign the Southern people for
this. God forbid that should charge
any people with sympathizlng with
such mn order. There were many evil
dences Of great uneasiness among the
Southern people about 1t, and one Of
the great crimes Of Mr., Davis was that
he concealed 1t from the Southern
people,
What you ask US TO do is to declare
by vote of two-thirds of both branch
es Of Congress solemnly that we con-
slider Mr.. Davis worthy to I'LL the high
est office in the United States, If he
can get II constituency to trust him.
He IL voter. lie can buy and ho can
sell. He can go and come. He Ia rs
free as any man in the United States.
There Is long list OF subordinate Of.
fees to which he Is eligible, but this
proposition proposes, In view Of the
record which have read, to declare,
by two.thirds vote Of the Senate and
two.thirds vote of the House, Mr.,
Davis is eligible and worthy to fiji any
Office, up to the President of the United
States. For one, | will not do it. 1t
has been frequently said in mitigation
Of Mr.. Davis in the amnesty matter,
that the men who died in such large
numbers--the victims, ! believe, num-
Der l5,0O0-fell victims to an epidemic,
and died of diseases which could not
be avoided. Now, the record shows
that out Of $4,000 men, about thirty
three per cent died, that is, one in
three. or the soldiers who were en-
camped within half mile of the stock
AIDE, and who guarded it, but one man
in four hundred died.
Now, ms to the general amnesty, it is
too late to debate whether it has, in all
respects, been wise or unwise. | shall
not detain the House in discussing,
even il ! had convictions on that ques-
lion. do not know that it would be
productive of any great good to discuss
it, but at the same time it is very
singular spectacle that the Republican
parry, In possession of the entire Gov
ernment, has deliberately called back
into public power leading men of the
South, every one of whom turns out
its bitter, relentless and malignant foe,
and that to-day, from the Potomac to
the Rio Grande, the very men who
have received this amnesty are as busy
as they know how to be in c6nsoldat-
inginto one compact,politcal organiza-
ton the old slave States just as before
the war, and we see the banner EN-
blaHoEed with inscriptions that with n
united South and few votes from the
North, this country can be governed.
want the people to understand that
this is precisely the motive, chat it is
the animus and intent. | do not think
that offering amnesty to the seven
hundred men who are now without IT,,
Will either hasten or retard that move
ment. | do not think that granting
or refusing amnesty to Mr.. Davis will
hasten or retard il. 1 hear it said that
we are going to elevate Mr., Davis into
very great consequence by refusing
amnesty to him.
That is not for me to consider. only
see before me, when his name is pre-
scented, the man who, by a wink of his
eye, by move of his hard, by nod
of his head, could have stopped The
atrocious act at AndersonvilIe. Some
of us had kinsmen there; most of US
had friends there; ali of us had coun-
trymen there, and in the name of those
kinsmen, and friends, and country
men, here protest, and shall with my
vote protest, against calling back and
with the honors of full Amer
lean citizenship the men who organ
lied the murder. Loud applause ON
the Republican side of the House and
in the galleries.
Cox replied in very able speech,
and Hill, of Georgia, was to reply the
next day. We look for one Of the fin
est forensic efforts ofthe age, from Mr..
Hill, since the subject deserves it,