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


TO pass it, came up IN the House, and
1t was defeated by the Republican
vote. Blaine took advantage of the
occasion TO make one Of the most Bit
terly vlndlctiye speeches Of his life
against Jefferson Davis, and because
his amendment excluding him from
amnesty was not received, he mar
shalled his cohorts around him, and
killed the bill from the lack OF the req
ulsite two-thlrds vote. The following
are extracts from Blaipe's savage
TRADE:
In my amendment, have excepted
Jefferson Davis from It's operation.
Now, ] do not place that exception on
the ground that Mr.. Davis was, as he
Is commonly called, the head and
front Of the rebellion, because on that
ground do not think the exception
would be tenable. Mr.. Davis was Just
as guilty--no more 50, no more less
than thousands of others who will get
the benefit of grace and amnesty.
Probably he was less efficient rs an en-
envy OF the United States, probably he
was far more useful as u disturber Of
the counsels of the Confederacy. II is
not because of any particular or special
damage which he above Others did to
the United States, or because he is par
ticularly of any special consequence
that ! excepted him, but ] excepted
him on this ground, that he was the
author knowingly, deliberately, willful-
ly guilty, of gigantic murder and crime
mt Andersonville.
A member. And Libby.
Mr.. Blaine continued: Libby pales
in insigniflcance rs compared with
Andersonville, place it on that
ground. | believe that so rapidly does
one event follow on the heels another
in the rapid age In which we live, that
even those of US who were cotempor-
aneous and cognizant of what was
Transporting there, are those who have
grown up since, and have failed to
realize the gigantic crime which was
there committed. Since the gentle.
man from Pennsylvania introduced
this bill, have taken occasion to read
some Of the historical cruelties of the
world. | have read over the details.of
those atrocious massacres, under the
Duke of Alva, in the Low Countries,
which are mentioned with a thrill of
horror throughout Christendom /
have read the details of Saint
Bartholomew, which stand out AS
atrocious beyond imagination have
read anew the horrors untold and
imagined of the Spanish lnquisition;
and here, before God, measuring my
words, knowing their full extent and
import, declare that neither the Duke
of Alva, in the Low Countries, nor the
author Of the massacre of Saint
Bartholomew, nor the thumbscrews
and dungeons, and atrocities of the
Spanish Inquisition begin to compare
in atrocity with the hideous crime Of
unreasonable. Sensation in hall, in
galleries, and remark by Mr.. Rob
bins, of North Carolina, unheard by
MIR. Blaine, that it was an infamous
SANDER. Thank God, Mr.. Speaker,
that, when this Congress was
under different control from that
under which it is to-day, with II
committee composed Of members of
doth parties, this state of horror was
placed where il could not be denied or
gainsaid. | hold in my hand the story
written out by a committee of this
Congress, and by its authority state
that Mr.. Winder, who is now dead,
was sent to Andersonville with u full
knowledge of his previous atrocities,
and that those atrocities in Richmond
We're so bitter aud so bad that the Con-
federate papers-the Richmond EN-
aminer Tor one said when ii was
done, that they thanked God that
Richmond was rid Of his presence. We
in the North know from returning
skeletons what he had accomplished
at Belle Isle or Libby. Fresh from
these accomplishments he was sent by
Mr.. Davis, against the protest of 9TH
ers in the Confederacy, to construct
this pen of horrors at AnGersonville.
Of course it would be utterly beyond
the scope of the occasion and beyond
the limits of my hour to give any de
tails E; but on arraigning Mr.. Davis
here to say thatI do not
ask gentlemen to take the testimony of |
a single witness, | do not ask them to |
take the testimony of single Union |
soldier | only ask them to take the
testimony of men who themselves
were engaged and enlisted in the Con-
federate cause, and If that testimony
does not entirely carry out and justify I
this declaration which will take the
'lhprtu N | NriI ptn I
been entirely in error in my reading.
MIR. Blaine then proceeded TO quote
from the report of the Committee of
The War extracts in reference to the
horrors of Anders0nvile, in which it
s stated that no pen can describe, no
painter sketch, no imagination com
1rehend, its fearful, its unuuerable in
guilty.
He then went on to say: Iunder-
AXE to say that that is moderate de-
cription of Andersonville, and | will /
low read Il paragraph from the testi-
nony OF William John Hamilton, a
nan who never was in the North a
'atholic priest at Macon, and n DEM
crat, and when you unite these three
Qualities in Southern priest, you will =
lot lind much testimony strained in
avor of the Republican party. Loud /
md continuous laughter.
Mr. Blaine read from the testimony
I Father Hamilton, as given at the I
Virz trial, in which witness related Y
he case of young man named Far {
ell, from the North of Ireland, whom i
g saw among the prisoners at Ander-
,nville, suffering very much from
'ound on the right foot, which had h
pened like an oyster, and which had v
cen simply caused by exposure to the a
IN in the stockade. The priest had Q
lven him stocking to cover his foot, II
nd when he returned to the stockade /
he following week, he inquired for c
prrpll III ia Gamma n ion told him, that