The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-01-17

cessity was fosIered on the confederates by the
| conduct OF the other side. He challenged Blaine
| discussion OF the question. declaring that the
| lime Was past when tue countrS could accept
IT recE lessness of statement for the truth OF
history. He tHilD did not want to unfold the
chapter on the other side. He was al Amer1
| can who honored his country an his whole
| country, and IL was not pleasant To- him 10
c5uniry had ben guilty of wilful crime or the
will III maltreatment OF poor, manacied p lson-
ers Most OF tIese horrors Were inseperaoie
| to recollect that, so that hereafter they should
not Do hurried into another war. rtill, as set
about Andersonville. he would read some
extracts from letter written D.
| OF war at EImira. tie read portions of that let
ter, la which il was stated that
THE MORTALITY AT ELMIRA
was no less than at AndersonvilIe.
| Mr.. Platt, OF n. V, asked him who was the
author OF the letter.
Mr.. Hill replied that he did not know.
MIR. Plat declated that he was living within
80 miles of Elmira and that the statements were
| Mr Hill replied that he did not say that the
statements were tue. but only that they We're
| as good as the statements quoted on the other
/ side H merely used them as set-oh But,
after ali, mat was the test as TO the degree OF
| III iseTy suffer q ia the Northern and southern
| prisons. The test Was the result. The report OF
/ MIR. stanton, secretary of Wharf.-The republican
1
| e. hibited the fac that of the federal prisoners
In the hands Of the confederate authorities dur
ing the war 2, ,76 had died and that of the con-
| federae prisoners in federal hands 70, 50 had
died. Surgeon General Barnes-he supposed
| the republicans would believe him slso-had
given the NUMBER OF confederate PRISONERS
in the federal hands during the war as
| 10000, aud of the federal prisoners in
| the confederate hands at n 900. Therefore, out
OF the $4,000 prisoners in the confederate hands
only y. 376 had died, white out of the 220,UtO
confederate prisoners in The hands of the federal
| hands "a. ABS had died The ratio twelve
cent of the confederate prisoners in the federal
hands who had died, aud less than nine per
confederate hands, and my friend
addressing Blaine with great emphasis) who
Barnes in preference % any politician over
there. The gentleman lPlatt says he lives 81
na ieS t Away snIald tba dIIlnn ,h ne
far. He certainly could not have seen it aud 1
venture to say that IL the small pox was at the
| D ison camp, Oae could have got him nearer
than S6 miles. He is a wonderful wi ness. Qaugh-
teri But 1T is not equal to the mutilaled
troduced yesterday. We know how our prison
ers suffered in the fed raj hands, If we choose
fellows e o,m thousands SSSe Of from our poor
Fort Delaware and other places with their
fingers frozen off. with their toes frozen off and
ton is at last Who was sn E ggSs Siss
for that state of things, and that is
He Gent on to di -cuss the history OF the Change
of prisoners, stating that all the propositions
from the con 'eQerateS Tor an exchange and for
the ameliOration OF the condition OF the prison
ers were rejected by the federal government
Mr.. Blaine asked him whether he had not
been q member OF the confederate Senate.
Mr.. Hill replied that he had ben.
Mr. Blaine Blaine then proceeded pro to quote resoIu.
t BY senator " Hill, Of Ga., to 1ons the
folio ing effect, that every person Pretend g
be d S or oeer OF the Hpited states
iederste states after the first of January, 1861
shall be presumed TO have inferred the territory
Inf hn xrif fnfa 10 fn0i ito
| instruction and to abet murder, and that, I'M
less satisfactory proof be sdduced TO the con.
tTary before the military court before which his
trial should be n d,
/ HE SHOULD SUFFER DEATH.
He asked Mr.. Hill whether he was the author
of that resolution.
Mr.. HILL will say to the gentleman from
Maine, very frank Y, that have not the slight
est recollection OF hearing it before.
Mr.. Blsine-You do not denyit.
Mr.; BILL do not know. My own opinionIis
that never was the aut or OF that resolution,
but have no recollec ion of IL. II the gentle
man can give me the circumstances under
which H. was introduced may recoll, CT.
Mr. Baine-On the LIST OF October, 1862, the
ljudic airy committee of the confederate congress
and thereupOn Senator Hill, OF Georgia, is re-
corded IS having offered the resolution which
have Just read.
Mr.. Hi IL was chairman of he judiciary com
mtttee In the senate and, very likely, lie the
chairman Of the committee on rules at the last
session, may have consented TO that report.
GLaush e. at he expen Sc OF Mr.. Bainel
afr. Bi aine-Does the gentleman admit that he
made that report:
MIR HILL do not know, but II is very likely.
lDerisive laughter on the republican side
; from is entitled "Repubiicanism In America" /
wish to know whether the gentleman was the
. Mr.. Hill really do not recollect-(rene wed
laughter on the republic n side.)
Mr.. Il ne. pers stently-The gentleman does
notsay that he was not the author of It,
f Mr.. Hull do not but think was not the au-
Mr. Blaine-I thought that as the gentleman's
efforts was to show the humane character of the
: con moderate congress, this might aid him in
Mr.. Hill-Wtth all due difference to the gentle
! man, he did not think any such thing,
, fron the purpose of my argument
Mr.. Blaine (apologetically)-O Oh, no. The
gentleman can have all the time he wants
Mr.. Hill-w hat measures the confederate
! government might have thought proper 20 take
! at hat time TO protect the women and children
of the confederscy from instruction, do not
, recolIect. But shall not be diverted by the
! gentleman from the course of my argument TO
) ins1rreetion, or OF John Browns raid. 1 know
; this, that whether any other man
zion, which / think more than probable, our
purpose was not to do injustice 10 any man,
Sa Oh stpn1eo or out 70 a1ept
our wives and children from sci vile insurrec-
. ton and slaughter, while our brave sons were
in the field. (Murmurs of applause on the DEM
ocratic side) Mr.. Hill then continued his re-
: marks relative TO
THE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS
! and said that the confederate government of
, ficially proposed in August, 1854, that II
| the federal government would send
steamers and transports to Savannah,
the confederate government would re-
3 turn the sick and wounded prisoners
on its hands without an equivalent. That
= proposition, which was communicated to the
federal authorities in August. 1864, was not an
, swered until December, 1864, when some ships
4 were sent to Savannah. The record will show
that the chief su 7eriDg and the chief mortality
I al AndersOnvill6 was between August and De
' cember, 1854. We sought % allay that suffering
, by asking you to take your prisoners
; of our hands without an equivalent and with
/ out asking your return Ola man for them, anc
, you refused to do so. Mr. Hill went on 10 quote
, q series OF resolutions passed by the fedora