The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-10-26
federaIs Put on the Same
Footing With Confed | t,
HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS.
Activity Of General Lee and Of
President Davis.
FAULT WITH THE FEDERALs.
their Failure to Accept an oaer for the
Exchange of Prisoners One OF the
Leading Causes of Their Suffer
Committee cri,ic;ses
Action by State Board
Of Education.
FAULT WITH The FEDERALs

Z. crate Veterans, presented at the meet
Ing OF the Grand Camp last weak in
wytheville by Judge George L. Chris.
Ean. chairman of the committee, is a
historical paper of great value and in
terest in its valiant defense of the South
In relation to the treatment accorded
Northern prisoners.
The provisions made by the confed-
crate government for the care and
proper confinement OF Northern prisoners
ana carefully reviewed. are those hu-
xnantartan efforts OF General Lee and
President Davis to establish such eN-
change Of prisoners as would insure the
minimum OF hardship to those who were
captured in battle. Many letters are
given in full attesting the position OF
Confederate officials in this matter.
The report contains friendly crit cism
Of the State Board OF Education tor the
adoption OF Cooper. Estell. and Lemons
history, which is regarded as not suiflcl-
entity clear and positive in its forms OF
statement in connection with the causes
and progress OF the Civil War.
To the Glaiid LAMPS Oh SoiiAeae4 A o.
Veterans OF Nllglnla:
Your History Committee again returns
its thanks TO you and the p4plic LOT Tic
very coroiaI way in which you nave
shown your appI ecianon OF ITS iapoIs, as
G. detained in its last three reports. II
NAV ints4 Test you To know That whist
these reports have been published ano
scattered broadcast over this land. 10
:,-.empt has been made to controNert CT
deny any principle commended for. or tact
asserted in any of them, 50 far as We
have heard. We think we can, threiore,
l,.s.I.s claim that these things have been
es;al.ilslled:.
a. That the South did not go to war
10 rlaintain, or TO perIetuate Inc iii7 tieu
zion of slavery.
ca The right Of secession fthe real
,s:s,,e Of the war;. and that this llsht
was first asserted at the North, anc as
Clearly recognized there as at the South
c., That the North. and not the South.
Vas the aggressor IN bringing on the
War.
tsl That on the part of the South, the
war was conducted according to the ltin-
cit,es OF civilized warfare. whilst or TIE
,,a1-t of the North. it was conducted in
the most inhunaan and barbarous nan
Ter
The last of the ahove-named was the
=
way was conducted on our part ard the
way ii was conducted by our quordam
..:,e.,-ics which we think was gttalN
TO the credit Of the South. Inc sun1ec1
of this report. the Treatment and t.N-
change 3f Prisoners is really con
Iin,1a1;on ana further discussion of the
contrast begun in that report and
NO, essa,y sequel to that discussion The
further treatment of this subject be-
comes most important. too. from the
fact that our people know very litfsa
about the true state of the case whilst
both during and since the war. the pep
h,le Of the N-s-th. with tho super:oc1
means at their command. have de-
rounced and ,naliGned the South and its
leaders as murderers and assassins. and
illL.trated these charges by the alleged
inhar1an and bas'barous way in which
.l.ay treated their prisoners during the
E lalc war. For example ths.lafe James
G. Elaine of Maine, said on the floor of
the United States Congress in 1876:
MIR Davis was the author. knowingly,
deliberately. gEiltily, and wilfuliy, of the
Eif:antic murder and crime at Anderson
vie. and I. here before Gcd. measuring
my words, knowing their fcil extent AMI
IMPORT, declare. that neither the deeds
! of the Duke of Alva in tie Low Coua-
tries. nor the massacre OF Saint Bar
.holomew. nor the thunlbscrews and en-
s!nes Of torture Of the Spanish Inauisi-
ton, begin to compare in atrocity with
she hideous crimes of ..Ander.onviile..
It2 also quoted and endorsed report of
a committee Of the Federal Congress
made during he war. in which thew say:
No pen can describe. no painter sketch
no imagination comprehend its fearful
nnd unutterable iniaIity. It would seem
that the consecrated madness of earth
End hell had found its final Judgment in
The breasts CT those who had inaugurated
the rebellion and controlled the policy of
The Confederate Government, and that
the prison at AndersonSi'le had been
selected for the most terrible human sa-
crifce which the world has even seem
THESE STATEMENTS ANSWERED..
1t is true that the statement made hyS
Mr. Blaine was denied, and its fnisity
fully shown by both Mr.. Davis and Sena-
Tor IA H. of Georgia. and the report of
the Committee of The Federal Congress
and an equally slanderous and partisan
publication. entitled Narration Of Suf-
ferings In Rebel Military Prisons" ((w1th
hideous- looking skeleton illustrations of
alleged victir,s). issued by the Uni
ted States Sanitary Commission in Is,5f
was fully answered by a counter report
Of q committee of the Confederate Con-
gross. And it is also trme that in 1876
Rev. John William Jones. D. D. who was
& then editing the Southern Historical So
cie,y Papers, made fun and mastery
1iiNesISdIoil AM icl'oi = " LIS eupJeSt
NindicatinE the South and It's leaders
from these aEpera tons. For this work.
as We said in our last report. the South
ern people owe DR.. Jones hitting debt
of gratitude The letter Of Mr.. Davis.
the report of the Committee OF the Con-
federate Congress. with other valuable
material collected by DR.. Jones. are all
published IN the first volume. But
whilst these publicatio were most sat
Isfactory to US at that tine. they neceE-
sarily did not contain the coatcmpora-
neous correspondence in reference TO the
exchange and treatment OF prisoners.
contained In the publication known as
Rebellion Official Records" published
by the Federal Government since that
sine correspondents invaluable. as> IL
makes the representatives. o.. the two