The New Orleans Democrat. (New Orleans, La.) 1875-1876, 1876-01-16

about as occurring at Andersonyille,
gTeater horrors occurred In the prisons
where you held our troops, and that the
percentage Of death was three per cent
greater among Our prisoners in your
hands than among your prisoners IL our
hands. When the gentleman from Maine
rises again to give birth to that unmiti-
gated ef1usion OF genius without a
fact to sustain It, In which he says,
And here before my God, mea-
string my words, knowing their full
intent and import, I declare that neither
the deeds of the Duke Of Alva in the
Low Countries, nor the massacre OF st.
Bartholomew, nor the thumb screws
and engines Of torture OF the Spanish
Inquisition begin to compare in atrocity
with the hideous crime Of Andersonville'
let him add to 1t, land the atrocities
Of AndersOnville donot begin to compare
with the atrocities of Elmira, Of Fort
Douglas, or vt Fort Delaware" and oi
oil the atrocities both at AndersOnville
and at Emira, the Confederate Govern
nent stands acquitte2 from all RESPONSE
bility and blame q
A MESSAGE TO BLAINE.
War Is always terrible. War always
brings hardships, death, sorrow, ruin,
devastation, and he Is unworthy to be
considered statesman, looking to the
pucificatiOn Of the country, who will par
ade the horrors inseparable from war
for the purpose OF keeping up the strife
which produced those horrors. My mes
sage to the gentleman from Maine Is
this: There are no Confederates In this
House. There are no Confederate am
bitions,. desires, Of, purposes In, this
House, but the South Is here, and here
she intends to remain. Enthusiastic
demonstrations on the Democratic side
and In the galleries Let fanaticism do
trample on the Constitution, abnegate
the pledges of the fathers, incite raids
on our people, multiply infidelities until
they shall be like the stars Of Heaven OF
the sands of the sea shore, without mum
Der; but for all your iniquities the South
will never again seek II remedy In the
madness OF another secession. Renew
cd applause. Weare here and are In our
fathers house. Our brothers are our
companions and we are at home. thank
God Enthusiastic applause.l We come
to crafty no vengeance, to rctaliate nc
wrongs, to resent no past insults, to re-
open no strife. We come with patrio-
tic purpose to do whatever In our politi-
cal power shall be best to restore an
honest, economical and constitutional
administration OF the Government. We
come charging on the Union no wrong
to u.s.. The Union never wronged the
South. The Union has been an unmixed
blessing to every section, to every color
in America. We charge oil our wrongs
TO that higher law, fanaticism,
which never kept pledge 81
obeyed a law. We sought to
leave the association Of those who
would not keep fidelity. to covenant.
We sought to go by ourselves, but so far
from having lost our fidelity to the con.
stitution, we Rugged It to our bosom and
carried 1t with us. Brave Union men OF
the North. followers Of Webster and
Fillmore, OF Cass and Douglas, you who
fought for the Union for the sake OF the
Union, you who ceased to fight when
the battle was ended and the sword was
sheathed, with you we have no quarrel:
We felt your heavy aim In the midst OIL
the struggle, but above the roar OF can.
non we heard your voice OF kindness
calling
"BROTnERs, COME BACK"
We are here to cooperate with you
to do whatever we can, in spite OF all
our sorrows, to rebuild the Union, TO re-
store peace, to be a blessing to the coun'
try, and to make the American Union
what our fathers intended 1t should be-
the glory OF America and the blessing. OF
humanity. But you, gentlemen, who
prosecuted us by your infidelities until
You drove us out Of the Union; you, who
the Union which you had before de
nounced as d league with hell and q
covenant. with death; you, who follow
up the war, when the soldiers wht
fought 1t have made peace ant
gone to their homes, to. you WI
have no concessions to make. Mar
tyrs owe no apologies to tyrants
and while we are ready to make every
sacrifice for the Union, secession, how
ever defeated and opposed will confess
no sin to fanaticisin, however bigotet
and exacting. Yet while we make to yol
no concession, we say that we come ever
to you in no spirit OF revenge. We have
but one ambition, and that Is TO add oul
political power to the patriotic Union
Men OF the North, in order to compe
fanaticism TO obey the laws and to liv,
| i'm the Union according to the Constitu
ton, we do not propose to compel you b,
oaths, for you never kept them. Th'
South did the Union one great wrong
and we come IA far as we, can tn repair 1t
We wronged the Union grievously wher
We left it to be seized and rent and tori
by the men who had denounced 1t as 9.
lcagI,ed with death and covenant witt
hell" We ask you, gentlemen OF thu
Republican party, to rise above all you
animosities and to forget your old sin
Let us unite to repair the wrongs thai
distract and Cypress the country. Lei
MS turn our backs on the past, and let Il
be said in the future that he shall be the
greatest patriot, the truest patriot, thu
ablest patriot, who shall do the most tt
repair the wrongs Of the past, and t.
promote the glories Of the future. Lout
and sustained applause on the Demo
| cratic side OF the House aed III tht
crowded galleries.
Speech of Mr.. Kelley, Of Pennsylvania