The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-12

q single witness to connect the name of
Davis with ,ui lie atrccity Even the
day of his execution w Nv, d been offered
a Communication o. his sentence If he would
impicate, but Wirz answer to his counsel
was "Mr. Schade you k ow that lave
thing about Jeff Davis. He had no con-
nection with me as TO what was done at
Andersonvlle. | would not become
traitor against him or anybody else even TO
save my life," but, said Mr.. Hill what
poor Wirz within two hours of his execu.
ton would not say for his lie, the gentle
man from Maine says to the country for
the sake of keeping his party in power.
rSensation.] Sir, christianity is false.
hood, humanity is lie, civilization is
cheat or the man who would not make a
false charge for his life was never guilty
of wilful murder.
Mr.. Hill went on to argue that on the
logic of Mr.. Blane's speech holding Mr..
Davis responsible for the acts of Wirz,
President Grant might be held responsible
for the acts Of Mcdonald and Joyce lie
asked whether MIR. Blaine meant to estab-
lsh a rule of construction that would au-
thorize the country to arraign President
Grant for completely IN the whisky frauds
Was President Grant responsible, he asked,
for Credit NIobilier, for the Sanborn con-
tract, or for frauds in the District
of Columbia And yet President
Grant had absolutely sent to the
senate Of the United States for con-
firmation for a high office the name
of man aludlng to Alexander r. Shep-
pard Of Washington, who stood charged
before The country with the grossest pecu-
lations aud frauds on this District, after
the charges had been made and while they
were pending. lie, Hill, was neither the
author nor the disciple of such political
logic, but if the gentlemans, Blaines, pro-
position with regard to Davis we're true,
then by the same logic Gen. Grant, instead
of being entitled to a third term, was en-
titled to 90 terms in 20 penitentiaries.
| Laughter Well, the argument was false,
it was libel on the American ruiz of law,
and was without precedent; no precedent
for it could be found III any civilized coun-
try. He (HilD acquitted General Grant Of
completely in the whisky frauds and the
revenue frauds, and facts acquitted Davis
Of completely with any strocity anywhere.
The gentleman from Maine had gone so
far as to say that Davis had sent General
Winder to Andersonville for the purpose
of organizing a den of horrors. The an
swer to that was an order locating the
prison, which Mr.. Hill proceeded to read,
and which provided that it should be in
healthy locality, with plenty of pure water
running stream. and if possible shade trees,
aud in the immediate neighborhood of
grist and saw mills. Tnat he said did not
lock like organizing den of horrors.
Blaine had said that no confederate prison
er in the hands of the fed - authorltie>
Ind suffered, but they Ia always been
allowed to buy whatever they wanted.
The only answer he would give to that was
that he himself had once had the honor ui
being in prison in tho north and
on the first day OF his imprs m
ment the officer in charge Of the prison
had kindly toll him he would put HIM or
AndersOnville fare and would not allow
him to buy anything H. HILL only got
released from that imp isonment after IS
day effort before Gen. Dix of New York
He quoted the testimony of an union SOL
der on the Wirz trial to The effect that
there never had beel any d fficulty in
getting vegetables at Andersonville. He
then proceeded 10 discuss the cause of
the horrors at Andersonville. He
said thai the first cause was
want OF medicine, but whose fault was il
that they could not get medicine, did not
have medicine in the Confedracy, aud that
the Federal government had made medi-
cine contrahand of war, a thing which no
other country on earth had ever done be-
fore ? There was another misfortune. and
that was the want of clothing. Clothing
of course had been made contrab nd of
war. He declares that whatever horrors
had existed at Andersonvile not one of
them could be attributed TO the orders of
the Confederate government, and that
every one OF them grew out of the neces
atty of the occasion, which necessity was
fastened on the Confederates by the con
duct OF the other side
Mr.. Hill went on TO discuss the history
of the exchange of prisoners stating thai
all propositions from the confederates fol
exchange and for ameliorating the condi
ton of the prisoners were rejected by the
federal government.
Mr.. Blaine asked Hill whether he had
, not been a member CT the confederate
senate.
> Mr., Hill replied that he had been.
Mr.. Blaine then proceeded to quote 6
: resolution, offered in the confederate con
4 gress, by Senator Hill of Georgia, to thu
q following effect.
D That every person pretending to he
soliier or officer of the United States VIII
: shall be captured on the soil of CONFEDERATE
0 statts after the list of Jan. 1868, shall b
q presumed to have entered the territory o
{ the confederate states with intent to incit
g nsurrection and to abet murder and thu
c unless satisfactory proof be sdduoed to tb
}. contrary before military court before hi
4 trial shall be had he shall suffer death.
e Ho asked Mr.. Hill whether he was III
n author of that resolution.
9 Mr.. Hill will say to the gentlema
Il from Maine very frankly that have nc
+ the slightest recollection of h ring it be
e fore.
e Mr.. Blaine, persisteutly, the gentlema
!. does not say that he WAS not the author {
:. it.
~ Mr. Hill do not but think | was NJ