Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1876-01-12
BLAINE ON JEFF. DAVIS.
The General Amnesty bill coming

resentatives, u sharp skirmish took place
between Mr. Blaine and Randall OF
Pennsylvania on the manner of treating
the same the Democratic side seeking
TO pass the bill under = gag. and the
Republicans insisting upon the right to
offer an amendment AID participate in
full debate. The previous question
having been seconded aud vote being
taken on the bill, and the same being
lost, Blaine moved - TO reconsider the
vote Just taken" and in SIP. port of his
motion proceeded to address the House.
He went over the history Of Republican
legislation in Congress to illustrate tine
unexampled liberality shown by the con-
luerors over the conquered; that every
measure looking TO the lifting Of their
disabilities from the rebels was OF Re
publican origin and Republican accom-
plishment; cited the fact that none Of
the rebels, not even jeff Davis himself,
was ever deprived of = right to vote;
and finally avowed that with one eIcep-
ton he was in favor of making the am
nesty unexceptionsl and sweeping. The
exception is jeff Dayis-not because
Davis was the President of the Confed-
eracy; not because he did any more for
the rebellion than others; but for the
part he took in the atrocities of Ander-
sonsille. We copy as follows from the
report in yesterdays Enterprise Said
Mr. Blaine:
/ place it on that ground and | be-
lievs-so rapidly does one event follow
another in this rapid age in which We
ive-that even those of us who were
contempoTaneously cognizant of what
transpired there, still less of Us who |
have grown up since, have failed to re-
alize the gigantic crime which was there |
committed Since the gentleman from |
Pennsylvania introduced this bill l have
taken occasion to READ some of the cru
elites of the world. 1 have read over
the details Of the atrocious 1nassac.es
under the Duke of Alvs in the low coun-
tries. which are mentioned with thrill
of horror throughout Chris: sndom; have
read of St Bartholomew. which stands
ont as one Of tine atrocities beyond idea;
1 have read anew the horrors untold and
uninaginei of the Spanish Iponisition.
and here. before God, measuring nv
words and knowing their full extent and
import, / declare that neither the Duke
of Alva in the low countries nor the au-
thor Of the massacre of st. Bartholo-
new or thumb screws and cells and
the atrocities OF the Spanish Inquisition
begin to compare in atrocity with the
hideous crime of Andersonviile. Thank
God, Mr.. Speaker that when this Con-
gress WAS under different control from
that under which 1t is to-day. with a
committee composed of members of
both parties, that tale of horror was I
placed where it could not be deuied or !
gainsaid. l hold in my hand story
written out by a committee of this Con-
gress. and by its authority 1 state that
Wirfz. Who is now dead was sent to
with full knowledge of ,
his previous atrocities. and that those
atrocities in Richmond we're SO bitter
and bad that the Confederate papers
the Richmond Eron,iner for one-when j
he WAS hung thanked God that Rich
nond was rid of his presence. We in
the North knew from the skeletons Shat
he had accomplished at Belle Isle or !
Libby. Fresh from these accomplish c
ments be "a. sent by Mr.. Davis, against I,
The protest of others in the Confeder-
acy. to construct this pen Of horrors ut .
OF course it would be d
utterly hey ond the scope OF the occasion q
and beyond the limits OF my hour to .
give the details; but arraignins Davis.
I undertake to say do not ask the gen. t
Llsmeb to take the testimony Of single u
witness. l do not ask them to take the
testimony of a single Union solder. l
oDly ask them to take the testimony Of
he men themselves engaged and en-. D
i-ted in tine Cunfed, rate cause, and il c,
hat testimony does not carry ont and 4
Justify this declaration. which | will
AXE the lihsr,y to read, l vi. safe that | u
have been in error.
Blaine then proceeded to -@sd from >.
be rsport of the Committee oG he Coa- '"
Iuct of the War extracts in reference TO u
be horrors of AndersonviiIe. in which b.
/ is stated that no person can describe, 1,
10 painter sketch, no imagination CON- ,,
,Iebend its fearful iEi9ulty. He then :"
dded: u
undertake to say that this is = mo- u
lersis description of Audersonville. AMI :.
will now read paragraph from the tes- =,
imony of William J. HamIitoD-a man =,
rho never as in the North, Catholic n
,risst at Macon and u Dem ocrat and n,
shep you unite these three qualities In OF
Southern prizes, you wili not find Dnch i'm
strained in favor OF the Re OF
'nblican party. Blaine then read from
be testimony of Hamilton. as given in
vir;z' trial, which witness related the
ase Of young Farrell. from Ireland. Fl
Ibom he saw among the prisoners Al Pl
suffering from a xouni OH |