The Morning herald., 1876-01-12
: :, Q OPENING ?, ! j liG Q Old SORES.
BLAINE rHRo,TLED BIZ HILL.


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The Dry Bones Vt tho Confederacy |
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Fidelity tO the Union-Ben.
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W. 81 ,.!i WARRINGTON, Jan. II, 1876.
Yesterday at the conclusion OF Mr..
Blaine's speech Oh the General Amnesty
resolution, Mr.. B. H. Hill, Of Georgia, took
the floor but gave way 10 a motion to
adjourn. l,,,D..N...,. .!.,.,
This morning the consideration of the
resolution was resumed and MIR. Hill ad-
dressed the House as follows: The House
will bear witness that he had not sought
mis- discussions; nothing was farther from
the desire of those who with him repre-
sented that portion of the country now on
rial, than to re-upen this discussion. The
country, he thought, had suffered enough
and they had come here to put aside past
issues and remember nothing but the whole
counLry, and turning their backs upon the
horrors oi the past tind-nothing but it's
common glory in the future.
| He and his associates had come here with
the patriotic ideato remember nothing but
the country and the whole country, and
turning their backs upon all the horrors OF
The past, TO look with all earnestness to
find glories for the future, The gentleman,
MIR. Blaine, who was the acknowledged
leader OF the Republican party in the House,
and was the aspiring leader ofthe Republ'-
can party of the country has showever willed
otherwise, and seemed determined that the
I L sh0 I'M
opened, that the passions. which were
huslied should be reintamed. He Mr..
Hill), wished the House to understand that
he and his associates did not reclprocate
either the purpose or the manifest desire rt
the gentleman, and while they ielt 1t their
imperative duty to vindicate the truth OF
history as regards their section, they did
not intend to say anything to aid the gen
! tleman in the work of elimination and
r.srinllnation , and Of keeping up the war
by politicians after brave men had said that
tie war shall end. The gentleman from
Maine HAD made two points of his speech,
viz the magnanamity and grace of the Re-
publican party, and the brutality OF those
whom he pleased to term rebels.
i As TO THE FIRST QUESTION
He did not propose to weary the House, be-
cause with the history of the last fifteen
wears vet fresh in the mind of the world, it
was useless to speak OF the grace and mag
naninlity of the Republican party, with
master enslaved and intelligence distran-
chised, with society disordered, with legis-
latures deposed, the people could not afford
to talk of grace and magnanimity. If thai
were grace and magnanimity, he prayed
God to save the country in future from such
virtues. The gentleman from Maine had
; made great indictments against Mr.. DAVIS;
that he was guilty of murder and crimes al
Andersonville, and the gentlemen, Blaine
stood before the country with his very fame in
peril, if alter making such Charge, he
, failed to prove it. Mr.. Hill said he would
take up the gentleman's propositions in their
} order, and he hoped no one would imagine
0 that he was here to pass any eulogy on Mr.
Davis, the record Of whose fame must rest,
had been made up and his companions
and friends had remitted that record to
the only tribunal that would give an Impair
4 Cial judgment, to an honest posterity. IN
q the meantime, no eulogy of his could help
p II no censure from Blaine could damage it
and no act of resolution of the House
could affect it. The charge against Mr.
Davis was that he was deliberate, willtul
scheming murderer Of thousands OF biz
tellow-citizens. Knowing the high
CHARACTER AND REPUTATION
+ If the gentleman from Maine, he chill,
e had supposed when he heard the charge fal
d from his lips, that he had certainly made
a recent discovery and he listene1 for the
evidence, but what was it9 Nothing but 9
partial report of Congressional commit
ZEE, The testimony read was exclusively
er parte testimony and without opportunity
. of a hearing. If there was any principle
e held sacred in the Anglo Saxon mind, it wal
that an Englshman was not to be con
. demned until he should be confronted with
!. ! his witnesses, put the testimony was MOI
d only er parte but was mutilated ingeniously
d palpably mutilated, most adroltly mutllateo
8 In this connection Mr. Hill referred to the
! statement of DR.. Jones Of the witnesses or
e the Wirz trial, who had bten sent by the
n Confederate Government to make report
as to the condition OF Andersonville, ou'
:. whose report had never reached the Con
y faderete authorities. That report had in the
4 hands of the Judge Advocate been mutilated
i. and DR.. Jones had called the attention o.
d the court to the fact, one Of the suppressed
statements being, that homesickness ano
n disappoin:ment among the prisoners hac
- heen more destructive of life than any
physical cause. ,,
Nr. Hill couyinued as follows:-The Wir'
trial was trial that lasted three months
o and over one hundred and sixty witnesseI
L. we're examined. The whole country wal
=. under f..
If A MILITARY DEsPoT1sM, ..,
q and every one was seeking favor with tn
II government vet with all these there wa
\ not t a word ELECTED to connect the name o
" v Jefferson Davis with the scenes at Ander
). sonville, but there is one witness who re re
- Iieves AIr. Davis. Wirz was tried, fount
t guilty, CONDEMNED and executed ", Mr.; 1i hli
" held in his hand statement OF Mr.. Levi
Z schade, counsel Of Wirz, which ne read,
was to the effect that on the night neior
X the execution of Wirz 1t was stated that d
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