The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-31
ANOERSONViLlE.

The following poem hppttIeu III tht lt"l L
ord. Conn. Courier in 1860, and Will be
cad with interest, now that the romancc'
lbout AndersOnyille are being revived II
Northern magazines.
Some lines on the above subject in a PM
ldelphia paper some time ago attracted M
attention. | have quoted from them IN th'
annexed verses, which, with the notes, ma.
assist in throwing light on subject OF sas
Importance and greatly misunderstood;
Full fifteen thousand men,
The brave, the good, the true,
rs captlves died IN prison pen,
They died Tor me and you!
And shall not truths indlg liant tongue
Declare who did this grieyOus wrong?
On many bloody field
They stood gainsi ltaden halG
And though at last constrained 10 yield,
Their splits dld not quail;
They safely passed Their battles through
Ana yet They died Tor me and you
They pinned for home, sweet home,
And Tor their daily bread,
AlaSi assistance did not come,
And now they are with the dt al!
Zen hard ned rebels felt their grief,
and yet could furnish no relief!
The rebel leaders burst
Not do what We have done.
Though many hearts with anguish burst
Al tales from anderson
For still Mey lei our brave men snare
Their own coarse food and scanty fare.
The sad tale must be told
the brave, the true, the good,
While We were busy coming gold
They died for want of food,
Those fifteen thousand boys In blue
AS victims died-"fOr me and you.
The rebels in their need.
once, twice. and yet again,
Did all that hey could do TO plead
FOrjustice 10 these men;
But deaf. alas. tie nations ear,
The peoples Sert0Hts would not near.
Even Darts felt their grief,
And sent his message forth,
Bv prompt exchange 10 grant relief
10 prisoners south and North.
And why, alasl was this not done?
There was no hedIt IN Washington!
The rebels gave MS leave
10 send down loyal inen-f
Men good aud true, who might receive
Aid for that prison pen;
And tend the suffering inmates theie
Mitha whole nations love and care.
But no. these gallant men
Were left 10 starve nd Die,
That northern banners might again
Mid southern DrccZes ny;
And bold recruits might rush TO save
Their comrades nom prs IN grave.
A wise, SPACIOUS move.
A stroke Of policy.
80 called by those VINO know not love,
or human sympathy.
But all those noble boys in blue
Their blood now rests on me and you.
The rebels, pinched and pressed,
offered 10 sent them monet
JVifhOut sychGHgc-yOu know the rest,
For nome they did not comet
our ships could not De- spared 20 save
our soldiers from southern grave,
VINO did such grievOus wrong.
I'm that sad, gloomy hour
Men who were anxious TO prOiOng
Their influence and fOSer.
Who cares tor fifteen thousand men
IL we the helm Of state retain?
Bow down. my soul, in gfiei,
iefOrc the God Of Heaven,
We failed TO grant our meu relief
That rebels would have given!
And so those soldiers good and true
Died Of neglect from me and you
Too late we feel their woes,
Deluded now no mOre;f
But whitening blight shall rest on those
Who kept these men IN store
As capital TO aid their sche mes
And realize ambitlOn's dreams.
Adown times steepest path
Their names with sc ,rn snail go,
The objects of nations wrath
Those ministers OF wOel
They killed the fifteen thousand men
Who persisted in that prison-pen!
Elm January, 1864, the COnfederates pr
oosed TO allow the Federal authorities
send their own surgeons To the sOuth.
was proposed, also. that these surgeo
shoul act as cOmmssaries, and dl>tribu
whatever either the United states Cover
ment or private beneyOlence should furnl'
OF course the COnfederates would have q
sired "A similar opportunity Ortneir surgcO
10 minister TO southern prisoners at I
North; The United STA es authorities, no
ever, never gave any reply 10 the prOpOsitl'
though the war continued Tor more thAn
year after IL was made.
+In august, 1864, when the mortality "
increasing at Andersonville. the Cont,
crates offered 10 give up from ten 70 fite
thousand men .Ineonditionally, except u
the United sta - authorities were To Sc
for them. After Il delay OF three Tear
months. the most sickly OF the year. they
send and took away thirteen thousand, lea
ing in their place three thousand southern
who were even more squalid and sickly III
the poor fellows they took home.
The Census of Canada.
The populatiOn ofthe Dominion, accord
| IN the census OF 1881, was 1874 800, and
is estimated that by 1891 the figures v
have increased to 5,2I0,3i1. Preparatii