The National tribune., 1892-01-21

Mention Ths National TrinunA
claim that slavery should be forever abolished
wherever the authority Of the United States
should be paramount, nor anything equivalents
to it. He did say that on the lss day OF Jana.
airy. 1863, all persons held as slaves within any
States. or any designated part OF a State the
people whereof shall be in rebellion against the
United States shall DO thencef0rward and for
ever free. And he proclaimed also, that on said
lstd day Of January he would designate the States
and parts OF States where the people were in
rebellion. In the emancipation proclamation
he designated the IL seeding States az being in
rebellion, but even in these he excluded 70
Parishes in Louisiana and 50 Counties in Vir-
ginis, and, therefore, left slavery in those Par
ishes and Counties, as well as in the States OF
Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri.
An Act OF Injustice.
III. w. Phelps, WestervilIe, o., says that the
Soldiers and Sailors Association Of Franklin
County, Ohio, had made arrangements TO I'M
vail monument TO the memory OF its de-
ceased comrades at Green Lawn Cemetery,
Columbus, o., on Sunday, July 5, 1892, because
many members being poor, were obliged to
work every week day, some Of them being
unable TO get released by their employers on
working days. But the cemetery trustees have
refused TO grant the soldiers the privilege to
hold these services on Sunday. The Soldiers
and Sailors Association has expressed its opin-
ion very freely on the action Of the trustees
of the cemetery. The services were to be of
quiet and solemn nature and as many fierce
battles were fought on Sunday while these
trustees, several Of whom were very rich men
and bankers, were counting their coupons on
the U. 5. Bonds, he cannot see why they should
object
Camp MOrtOa.
John T. Lucas Co. K, 18th Ind. CenterviIls,
Wash, says, in regard TO the treatment Of
prisoners az Camp Morton, that having been
home on sick furlOugh, he reported to Indian
apOlis and was assigned by the Examining Sur
geon to duty at Camp Morton, where ne had
an excellent opportunity of witnessing the
treatment given the rebel prisoners at that
place. He knows that they were furnished
with good blankets, and he has seen them
many times eating fresh beef bakers bread, and
drinking coffee. They were as clean looking
lot Of prisoners as he ever saw, and were bet
ter clad than most Of them when they were
captured, and to all appearances were az well
provided as our own soldiers. Their quarters
were roOmy. well rooted. and their hunks were
provided with straw. The writer was in hos
pital a few days while doing this duty and
found that the rebel prisoners from Camp Nor.
ton when sick were sent to the sans hospital,
and their attendants we're rebel prisoners. de-
tailed from the Camp for that purpose. Both
the confederate anu Union SICK were under
the same discipline at this hospital, and all
were fed from the same range and by the same
cook. These attendants were passed out By
the doctors almost any time they desired, and
could go down TO the river and take q bath
whenever 80 desired.
Comrade L. B. Croker, Of Mendoza, H., SAYS
that in the issue Of Dec. 81, 1891, under the
head Of Personal" we note the fact that Col
VIM. Preston Johnston Of Tulane University
La, has been added 10 the Board of Regents
Smithsonian Institute. The cOmrade also says:
'As you say he is a cultivated scholar and &c
may be justly added that he Is also an elegant
gentleman and able author. i desire, however
especially TO refer 20 the statement that he was
on the staff of his father Albert Sidney John
stOn, at Shiloh. This statement is quite fire.
quent and is repeated twice by Gen. Force in
his book From Fort Henry to COrinth,' who,
might SD also kills w. r. Morrison, of Hi
nois, at DOnelsOn. VIM. Preston Johnston was
neither at Shiloh nor in the West at the time
and was never on his iilustriOus fathers staff
at all. He never saw the ground on which Shi-
lob was fought, unless within the last four
years. He served short time as Lieutenant
Colonel, think. in the East, and during the
balance Of the war on tha staff Of President
JET Davis, and made occasional tours Of in
spectiOR under the direct orders Of his Presl-
dent. 10 whom he reported. also entirely
doubt his having lost his hirsute appendages by
any warlike exposure"