Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-06
THE HORRORS OF REPUBLICAN
| EHARTTY

There is public building in Washington
called the Freedman's Hospital. It was
built, if we mistake not, somewhere about
the close of the war, ostensibly for the relief
and care of poor freed slaves, refugees from
former homes and comfort. This was the
ostensible purpose. The real object appears,
from recent developments, to have been to
provide soft places and bomb-proof nests for
vile set of Republican politicians. It is 8
den of horrors, dead-house of vice and
corruption, reeking prison of torture, worse
than the living tomb of the slave ship, or
the dark, dripping, loathsome cell of tyran-
ny's worst prison.
This hell on earth is presided over by
fiends in human form rewarded for their re-
lationship to Republican politicians, or for
services to the party of ''moral IDEAS and
"Christian craftsmanship The heartless
wretches of Spanish inquisition, or the tor
turers of Elizabeth tore the limbs from, or
burned, at the stake, living victims wearing
their own form, and belonging to their
own race, pitiless, remorseless, merciless,
religious reasons. These Washington fends
have reveled in vice and murdered in cold
blood for the qualification Of their own vile
and abandoned instincts.
The hospital, so called, is filled with men,
women and children, insane, imbeciles dis
eased and dying victims of Republican phi
lanthropy. Disclosures and affidavits by
employees and others familiar with the facts,
show the condition of this place to be perfectly
horrible The poor colored patients have
been treated far worse than brutes. The
mind and heart shrink in horror from the
details. They must be told, however, in be-
half of mercy and justice. These patients
were subjected to every species of cruelty,
kicked and cuffed, scourged and starved.
The sick were allowed to die and the hearty
poisoned with filth and starved. The yard
was made burial ground for mutilated
bodies in sacks. The dead were
exhumed in the sight of the
patients, and dissected by the
doctors in public. The rooms of this
internal building were converted into dissec-
ting shops, and near at hand was a skeleton
factory, where the dissected limbs were boiled
and the bones prepared for sale. This bust
ness filled the whole establishment with its
intolerable stencil. One affidavit states that
an insane man was allowed to run at large
committing unnatural crimes not to be mem
toned. This is only an imperfect picture of
the horrible place.
It all shows conclusively that there is no
sympathy among Republican managers for
the colored race, except as factor in politics
to keep them in Office. One Of the last
official acts, if not the very last, of Mr.
Lincoln, was to sign the Freedman's Savings
Bank bill. It was a Congressional act to
save the earnings of the former slaves. What
was the result? With Fred Douglas, the
colored hypocrite, at the head of it, that
concern robbed these poor people from
Georgia to New York out of millions of money.
and launched thousands of men, women and
children upon the world as beggars to starve,
or to be tortured to death in such hole of
hell as the Freedman's hospital of Washing
ton City.
The perpetrators Of crimes such as here
have been related, and the half has not been
told, should be hung--there is no other word
to express the punishment, and hung without
benefit Of jury or clergy. And yet nothing
has been done. The Interior Department is
trifing and dilly-dallying with it, as with
all other public business Reform is neces-
sary in the treatment of the colored race.