The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-01-13

mona Is at last rid Of old wnder God have mercy on
those 10 whom he has been sent"
Mr.. GARPIELD then quoted some Of the testimony
given on the wrz trial the condition Of the stock
ade, the dead line, &C. and remarked upon u that IN
the midst OF tine country place had been selected
which had miasmatic marsh in its midst and that
small stream Of water having been found troops had
been stationed on IT, above the sockade, SO that i was
dehled by all the excrements Of the camp before
II reached the stockade Besides that in the
very Of cruelty and as If TO negative every
clause Of the order men had been detailed 10 cut down
every tree in the Enclosure and left not tree shrub
a leaf TO show where garden or forest had been
He then referred to the report made by Colonel Chand
ler who had been detailed 10 inspect the Andersonve
prison and which was by Adiutant General Cooper sub
mtted TO the Secretary Of War with the remark that
the condition of that prison reproach 10 the Con-
federacy so that the knowledge Of its horrors had
thus been brought home TO the political family Of JEFF
Davis But the answer to Colonel Chandeliers
port the issuing OF order few days afterward
promoting General Winder Comnissary General
OF all the prisons and prisoners throughout the Confed
eracy and when the commanding general OF the army
subsequently removed Wnder Davis revoked the order
OF removal and Endorsed it that it entirely
called for. The British army had lost ten OF the
great battles OF the Napoleonc war including Water
loo, not quite 900 men, but this Major General
Winder, within his awful pit Of death from April 1864
to April, 1866, pitched into
THE AWFUL TRENCH
the dead bodies OF his prisoners TO the number OF
l2t44 AS TO MT Hlls comparison OF the atrocities OF
Elmira and Andersonvle, he challenged any demo
cratic member from the neighborhood OF Elmra, Camp
Douglas Fort Delaware to and say that any in
humanity had been practised there. No democrat do
ing so he denounced the assertion as feariuy and aw-
fully untrue
Mr. Plat of New YORK read telegram received by
him from B. +. Tracy, late commander Of the military
post Of Emira, stating that the facts justified him
(Pla In stating yesterday IN his denial Of inhumanity
neglect in the treatment OF prisoners at Elmira
Mr. WALLER, (dem.) OF N. Y, arose on the demo
cratic side of the House, and, stating that he lived
within seventeen miles of Elmira Endorsed the state
ments of the telegram. Applause on the republican
side of the House,
Mr. HILL, OF Georgia disclaimed any purpose in his
remarks yesterday OF charging inhumanlty on any
body about Elmira or anywhere else He bad only
read yesterday the letter from the New York World
evidence OF cruelties nseparable from prison life and
he had wound the statement by saying that the off,
ca record showed the relative mortality be greater
among Southern prisoners at the North than among
Northern prisoners at the South
A MEMBKR-Do you charge that the mortality among
Confederate prisoners at the North was owing 10
cruelty2
mortality either side the line attributable say
that it attributable TO those horrors nseparable
from prison life anywhere and ! intended my point
against striving work up those horrors Of the past
and TO keep alive strife which ought to be buried ZAP
plause)
Mr. GARFIELD remarked that even on the testimony
OF the anonymous letter read yesterday by Mr.. Hill,
the post of Emira mad been located IN as healthy
place there could be found il the State of New York
He called attention to the fact that the place which
the Confederate prisoners who had died at Emira were
buried had been enclosed and cared for by the admins
tion which had been characterized by the gentleman
from Georgia as malignant ierocious constitution hat
ing and South hating.
Mr. HILL remark ed that at the last time OF decorating
the graves the South the Southern people united
with some Northern soldiers and decorated in bar-
monious accord the graves of the fallen ederals and
fallen Confederates and II because OF that glorious
feeling that he protested against the revival OF the his
tory Of such horrors. Applause.
Mr. GARFIELD-So 40 l. who brought IL hereY (Cho-
rus from the democratic members-"Baine, Blame,
Blaine y
Mr. GARFIELD said he wished that the same fraternal
feeling could follow the forty manned Union soldiers
who had recently lost their places about the House
UNION SOLDIER QUESTION
A discussion ensued on that point which developed
subordinate positions the last House only eighteen
were filed BY Union soldiers There we're out OF eighty.
five subordinate positions in the present House twenty
of them filed by Union soldiers and the statement
was made on the other side that in the House Post
Office zine Union soldiers had been dismissed and
their places filled by nine Confederate soldiers.
Mr. GARFIELD, passing from that point, proceeded to
discuss the question of the exchange OF prisoners TO
relate its history and TO detail the causes Tor the inter-
Tuption of the exchange He showed that the central
point OF the difficulty was in the determination Of the
Confederate government and people TO exclude from
the common rules OF war the officers and men Of negro
regiments, while, the other hand, the government
OF the Union had committed itself 10 the doctrine
that negro and not chatte
and that, being man, he had right
to help to light for the Union and that being soldier
the government bound 10 TO II that he was
treated like "A soldier He also quoted passage from
communication from MAJOR Oud, the Confederate
Agent OF Exchanges, General Werder TO the effect
that the arrangement for exchange worked largely in
their favor, as they got rid OF the most miserable
wreches and received back OF the best material he
had seen. Commenting on that letter he referred
exhibition between par Mobile fratrIla
rageous treatment Of the prisoners at Andersonvlle
had therefore, been TO make the Union
soldiers so that when exchanged they
would be valueless II seemed incontrovertible
that the record adduced that subject true and
Jefferson Davis having been the author of that terrible
work Andersonvile the American people still held
him unit TO be admitted among the legislators OF the
nation.
In the course of some further remarks Mr. Garfield,
having reference 10 army and navy officers who bad
gone into the rebellion, said that they had added TO
their other crimes that OF perjury in the eye OF the
law.
The word was caught at and resented by Mr.. Tucker,
OF Virginia who said that it reflected OF the
noblest men with whom the gentleman from Ohio
might be proud 20 be cassed as peer.
Mr. GARFIELD explained that he had merely
said that these men men were; nh in the eye
himself had made the laws or the dictionary He
Concluded his speech with a peroration in which he
thanked God for peace and for the fact that IN the
awful flame Of slavery had been burned to death
Mr. sEELYE, und.) OF Mass, followed him IN few
remarks adverse 10 that part Of Mr.. Blaine's amend
ment which excludes jefferson DAVIS from amnesty,
but favorng that part OF II which requires amnested
persons 10 take the oath OF allegiance.
Mr. RANDALL explained that that unnecessary
nasmuch the bill only removed such political dis
abilities as prevented the holding OF Office and every
person entering Office obliged TO take the OATH
long discussion then ensued on the technical point
in parliamentary law whether Mr. Blame being the in
PRODUCER Of the matter before the House. had the right
The Speaker ruled that he had not, and Mr.. Banks
Of Endorsed the ruling and declared that
no sounder decision had been gwen in the House
The SPEAKER acknowledged the compliment, and
added that he sustained in all points by the venera
Bile general clerk Mr. Barclay, who had twentyeight
years experience In parliamentary law.
Finally compromise was agreed upon by which Mr.
Blaine speak for an hour tomorrow, and then TO
call the previous question.
The House then haltpast four o'clock, adjourned
THE NEW YORK POST OFFICE.