The Savannah morning news., 1902-06-24
CIVIL WAR OUTRAGES
LAST RESORT OF DEFENDERS OF
ARMY IN PHILIPPINES.
ACTS OF GRANT AND SHERIDAN
FEARFUL PRISON RECORD ON BOTH
SIDES COMPARED.

WAR Is HeII"-AtrOcities of Civil
War No Excuse for BrutaIities in
philippines, Says Neville of Ne
braska Congressman Bartlett
Gives Figures From Secretary
stanton's Report Showing That
Percentage of Mortality in Union
Prisons Was Greater Than in
southern.
washington, June 2S.-Debate upon
the Philippine civil government
bill warmed up in the House
to-day and henceforth promises
to be of much livelier char
acter. The increased interest is due
TO the injection into the debate of a
comparison of the crue1ties charged to
have been practiced in the Philippines
with those which occurred during the
Civil War. The subject has been light
ly touched upon once or twice before,
but attracted little attention until Mr.
Grosvenor of Ohio to-day revived the
memory OF the extremities to which
Grant and Jackson were put during
the secession. This was followed late
in the day by speech from Mr.. Mahon
of Pennsylvania in which he paraded
the horrors of Andersonville and Lib
hey prisons" He predicted that in the
coming elections the American people
would stand by the boys in blue
Mr.. Grosvenor in his speech, also
defended the rules of the House against
the criticisms passed upon them, and
paid a tribute to Speaker Henderson's
impartiality.
Mr.. DeArmond of Missouri spoke at,
considerable length in opposition to the
administrators Philippine policy. The
other speakers to-day were Mr.. Ohm
stead of Pennsylvania. Williams of
Mississippi, Corliss of Michigan, and
W. w. Kitchin of North Carolina.
Mr.. Kitchin opposed the Philippine
bill and the Philippine policy of the
administration.
Democratic Expansion.
Mr.. DeArmond repudiated utterly the
charge that the opposition to the pres
ent Philippine policy in criticising some
Of the acts of the army officers in the
Philippines was slandering and, assail-
ing the army.
The Democratic party Mr.. Dear
ynond said. was not opposed to expan-
sion founded upon American prineiA
PIES. tfSA1JdnSlDn WAS one lulHSs Colo
NAL empire was another. The Demo-
cratic party was anxious to see the
country expand as expansion was I'M
derstood by the fathers. Expansion
upon the American continent, North
or South, vas the Democratic idea of
expansion, not holding by subjugation
100000 people, 1000 miles beyond our
border.
Smith, Grant and Sheridan.
Mr.. Grosvenor said that if every
thing that had been said of Gen. Jacob
Smith were true, if he had issued the
order to make Samar a. bowling will
derness and to kill all over 10 years
of age, he could find it's counterpart on
10th sides during the Civil War. He
then proceeded to read a report from
Gen. Grant to the government at
Washington, telling of the arrange
ments he had made to carry desolation
everywhere through the Shenandoah
Valley, to seize all men under so years
of age as prisoners of war, destroy
crops and make the valley a barren
waste"
BEFORE Phil Sheridan got through he
made lit a barren waste" said Mr..
Grosvenor. He then read from THE
Letters of Stonewall Jackson" edited
by his wife, statement that Gen.
Jackson believed that the black flag
should be raised. and no quarter given
as the best means of resisting inva-
sion, and saying that he had urged this
policy upon Gen. Lee.
He also read a telegram from Gen.
Beauregard. urging the passage of a
bill for the execution of prisoners. By
this means, the telegram read: Eng
land will be stirred to action"
BartIett's Pertinent Query.
When that bill was introduced in the
Confederate Congress- interrupted Mr..
Bartlett of Georgia, had not Lincoln
issued a proclamation to seize the citi-
zens of the Valley of Virginia and try
them by court-martial, and had they
not been seized?"
Il do not know" replied Mr.. Grosve-
nor
That is history" said Mr.. Bartlett.
If that is true" replied Mr.. GrosVe-
nor, lit furnished only another reason
TO excuse those of our soldiers who re-
taliated when the natives in the Phil
ippines sneaked up and cowardly muir
dered their comrades"
Mr.. Mahon of Pennsylvania, speaking
Of the cruelties of some of our officers
and men in the Philippines, declared
that they were not to be compared
with the "barbarities of the Civil
War;" He read from official reports
tales of horrors suffered by Union pris-
oners at Andersonville.
DO not the official figures, show, -
Interrupted Mr.. Richardson. the Dem
ocrat leader, that a greater percen-
age of Confederate prisoners died in
Northern than Union prisoners in
Southern prisons?"
I have the official figures here" re-
piled Mr.. Mahon, IT win put them in
the Record He read an order to
shoot the prisoners at Andersonville If
the Union army got within seven miles
Of the prison.
NeviIIe's Telling Reply.
IF the North was Justly indignant
over the atrocities at Andersonville,
Interrupted Mr.. Neville Of Nebraska,
why should not the American people
now be indignant over the brutalities In
me Philippines? Why parade the civil
war horrors as an excuse2 Demo
cratic applause.) II the administration
was directly responsible for the atroei-
ue" alleged 10 have been committed IN
lhe Philippines, the Republican party
mould be swept out Of power"
While the Union prisoners were SUI
I"lna a. Andersonyille. inferpoaed
Mf Richardson. did not the confed-
'Lais government have up q staining
rIef 20 exchange those prisoners, ofi-
. 'i TOT oiicef. and man for MANI ana
"s. not that proposition rejected
Zee But the men IN Andefsonyiis
'fH broken, emaciafed, many ~ them
tNiafs The North refuses - ~