Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-06
lecessity Incident to Grants Policy
that Starved the Prisoners at
AndersOnville,
Hills Invective on the Floor Of the
Hduhe-The Plumed Knights
Cowardly Flight.
osu 81 the Hour in Arkansas-0aI-
pct Baggers at the Capital
Blaire's Sunstroke.
\ c,orrespondence ofthe Gazette.


aed sAndersonville Horrorsspeech"
8 eminently magnetic. Very
tainly there was mo mortal
vocation for it. 1t was the
itennial year of American independ-
70. Southern congressman, wing
"a sth those most generous and patriotic
iAthe North, had voted with singular
kanimity and even with enthusiasm,
million dollars for the celebration Of
hundredth natal day of indepnd-
&c. Each Southern and Northern
ngressinan addressing his fellow
untrymen had said substantially
AZ this concession of so vast sum
- such purpose was designed to at
Il the restored and perfect unity of
Ne original federal system of free
IAfea. Even w. ID. (Pig irony Kelley,
Tho had been fiercest of avengers of
hnpardonable crimes" and swathed
AZ and night for ten years in the
Us cody shirt, declared that the end of
ctiOnal strife had come and that IN
\, rstate amity and unity and fraternity
VI ere finally perfected. Patriotism
erywhere thanked God. Iaod's
iestawept for Joy. The people were
rfectly blest. Orators and editors
I lbrth and South pronounced eulogies
son the heroes of both sections, and
attestation of this universal Oblivion
Dnlh Interstate griefs million dollars
I'M IRE Expended at Philadelphia
LIGHTNING FLASH FROM BLAINE's
Ia MAGNETISM.
just then, nobody ever knew why,
'Tcmes q. Blaine appeared one morn
Sg IN his place in the house, and
: hen no word of provocation had been
tered, pronounced that memorable
in attestation of his own
durable adherence of Southern CON
lctand character. There was never
speech so full of gross injustice and
lsehovd, OF of incurable viciousness
I'd malignity. 1t did not describe
AJan-a Catallne-but a race of fiends
held Southern people responsible,
for deliberate murderers, for the
ans lguish and intolerable woes and sor-
Errlws of Andersonville. This speech
as made memorable by the occasion.
: Id time and year chosen for
: delivery and by the amaze
emit of those who heard and read it,
ID BY the incurable Indignation of
ne people against whom Blaine in
Nsikhed. Ever afterward the malig-
lntly false harangue, deliberately
Eritten and read in cold blood before
Knle congress of 1876, was known as
lanes
NDERSONVILLE HORRORS SPEECH.
Its wicked purpose was to eX tsperate
10 North against the South aud thus,
preventing peace between the sections,
hA aT
s,ctlonal party. Blaine loved party
ave plotted the defeat of the
purposes of those who voted a
lllion dollars to the centennial
. Worlds Fair at Philadelphia. Never
hFid foul mOuthed prosecuting attor-
ey before an Old Bailey court revile
10 vilest villain as did James &.
taine Southern people, even in the
year of American freedom,
"a I'D this, too, in the very congress of
uasie United States and in the very
LgSresence of listening millions Of our
ICE. The false and foul and brutal
was published in every great
ewspaper of the East and of Europe,
al the people of the South were never
n degraded or despised by the civil
n,ted Nations as when this mOnstrous
lllmagne ticp traducer of his own coun-
ymen had done this slanderOus task.
BEN HILL.
The South never confessed the force
Z splendor of Ben Hills genius till he
D 'as no more. 1t owes him a debt of
vratitude which tears and euIogies and
-slonumental marble can never repay.
remember well how slowly and hest
Atingiy he rose In his place In the
louse. He was unwilling, even after
Halne had done his foul, inglorious
,Kork, TO violate the sanctities of the
Nsntennial by Teopening ghastliest
,ounds made by the unhallowed hand
x war. Sam Randall was speaker.
ble had measured the.forces OF HIPS
-benins and eloquence and knew
nat was coming. He gave
al precedence though dozen fore
lost men of the time sought an audi
ace. Even when Hill had left his seat
yNau was moving very slowly, pale and
'sfeatnless, down the central aisle that
fne might be near and face the speaker,
'nfsn then Bill, borne down by the
hgnt OF responsibilities he assumed,
I'd as hardly erect.
"A dc spoke very slowly and tremu-
l''-@I ~ INV ilGdSuTtu accents.
iufhe Hence that reigned Ina the hall
the house and its galleries
even. painful How un-
DtinngIy Ben Hill spoke
Dlt speh a cause on such an occasion,
rralh such theme, at such atlme. was
uenf In his words, tone and man
sr. a II good men had hoped that
ne War was ended. Most passionate
.smsgogues and party leaders and
lfewepapers had assertt d the criminal
4 Of Blaine's conduct. How slowly.
y lsteiore, and unwillingly did Ben
III descend the aisle to denOunce. in
coming terms and disprove by pal |
able facts, the assertions and calum- |
Veg Uttered by Blaine. II men rotted |
81 starved alive in Anderponville |
'rfHnt refused TO exchange men for |
81 when Davis every day asserted
necessity. If prisoners starved. |
Y DO We're the people outside Of tie 4
aaison naked and hungry. Ifno med |
ms We're dispensed, IL was because |
q blockade was perfect aud there I