The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-01-14
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Hon. Il. II. Hill on BIalne's AM
nesty Amendment.
A Complete Recitation of the Late
Speakers Connections.
An Important Historical Story Truth
fully Told.
Responsibility for AnderSOnnllle Fixed
where II Belongs.
Mr.. fairfield to Follow Mr.. Hill for
the Republicans.

WASHINGTON, January ll.--lhe We
bate on Blaine's amendment To the
amnesty bill (the question being ON
the proposition to exclude Mr.. Jeller-
son Davis from the benefits of the act),
was resumed in the House this morn
inc, Hon. b. II. Hill, of Georgia, haV--
inc the floor. His speech was listened
to with profound attention, and proved
to he one Of the best efforts of this most
oloouent gentleman. lnthe summing
mn given below the gist Of the argu-
ment is presented.
Mr., Hi! then proceeded to sum up
his argument and said: What nave
we proved? have proved that the
Eederal authorities broke their carte!s
deliberately. have proved that they
refused to reopen that cartel when APP
proached by Mr.. Stephens as
Commissioners solely on the
grounds Of humanity, | have
proved that they made medicine
contraband of war, and thereby Ieit Us
10 the dread necessity OF supplying
prisoners with such medicine as could
he improyised in the C0niederacy, |
have proved that they refused to al
low surgeons "a IiI0ii y" - ~ 'S
COMFY their prisoners to the south !
have proved that the Confederate au-
thorities proposed to return your SICK
and wounded without an equivalent,
in August. 1864, and that you never
deipned TO reply until Decembe 1854
have proved that your high oiilcerS
in command gave AS reason why
thew would not exchange prisoners
that H. would be humane to prisoners,
Int cruelty to soldiers in the field. III
was part of your military policy To
Lot vo,ir prisoners suffer rather IMAM
the Confederacy should have an m
crease in its military force. haye al
60 moved that with all the horrors
which you have made such Il hniSe
about as occurring at AndersoiVhie,
greater horrors occurred III prisons
where you held your troops, aud Vhat
the per oentage of deaths was three per
cent greater among our prisoners III
vour hands than among your prisoners
in orr hands. When the gentleman
from Maine rises again 10 give nlftli
f., that unmitigated efiusion OF genus
without n fact to sustain it, in when
he saws, "And here before my COD,
n,easilring my words, and knowing
their full intent and import, declare
thai neither the deeds of the Duke OF
Alva in the Low Counties, nor the
massacre of st. Bartholomew, nor the
thumb screws and engines OF torture
If the Spanish Inquisition, begin To
compare in atrocity with the hide99;
crime of Andersonville," iet MN auO
20 1t, "And the atrocities OF Anderson
Vile do not begin to compare WIN Ih'
atrocities of Elmra, OF Fort Douglas
orof Fort Delaware OF all atroci
ties both at Andersonville ana Elmi
RI the Confederate Government stsho
acquitted from all responsibility an'
Nh Hill then quoted from the speech
made by jefferson Davis TO the Ioh
faderate soldiers after the retreat o
General Mcclellan from before Ken
mond. in which he said that IN
orowninu glory of the soldiers Wa
their humanity to the wounded an
nrisnners who had fallen into thei
hands, He also referred 10 Tue 'n0
that the Richmond examiner, wnic
Mr.. Blaine had quoted YESTERDAY
authority against MIR. Davis, hau state
that the humanity and generosity ,
Jpfterson Davis would inevitably run
the Confederacy. The gentleman IRON
Maine has introduced that witness
nroye Mr.. Davis guilty of inhumahi'.
and vet the witness said that the III
mnnity and generosity OF Mr.: Day
wonld ruin the Confedernoy. MI. III
also quoted the following rom W
Richmond Examiner: "Ihe eneiil
has gone from one unmanly cruelty
another. encouraged by Their lmpun
tv until they are now, aud nave pee
for some time, intlicting upon the pc
pie of the country the worst horIot ~
barbarous and uncivlllzeu war l.
in spite of all this, Mr.. DAVIS, III y
dealings with the enemy, Is as ZEN
as A sucking dove" And, continue
Mr.. Hill, it is truth. Those OF us WI
were there at the time Know IL 70
fact One of the most perslste
charges brought by the Richmond u
aminer and some others against NJ
Davis was his humanity. over al
over npain has Mr.. Davis been nea
tn say. when applied to to retaiiate
horrors inflicted on our prisoners
nuote his very language: "rhe Inn
mainly of the enemy to our pr ,,snn.,
can be no justification for disreg y
by us to the rules of civilized Wari y
and Christianity Therefore ne p
sisted in it, and this paper erieu
against him that he would run
COnfederaey. ..,o,o "
is always horrible. War always or'i