Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 25, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1876 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL MONDAY, JANUARY 17, 1876.

AMNESTY.

BEN. HILL'S SPEECH. THE ANSWER TO BLAINE'S HARANGUE BHTTLO PATH BE INCLUDED IN THE AMNESTY ACT THE C NFEDKRATE GOVERNMENT'S RfcfP I 1BILIIY FOB ANDERSON VILLE NORTHERN PRISONS A PATRIOTIC PERORATION. On Monday Mr. Blaine delivered his malignant Speech cpon the amnesty bill. On Tuesday some minor matters were disposed of and the amnesty bill w s discussed by Mr. lli'.l, of Ua. He disclaimed all desire on the part of himself and his asiociatesof the Sou b to reopen 111 feeling between the sections. The country had already Buar.-red enough from feuds. He and his associates bad come here with the patriotic Idea o remembering nothing but the country asd the whole oue.iry, and turning their backs upon the horrors of ihe past, to look with all earnestness to flal glories for the future. Th- gentleman (Kleine) who was the acknowledged leader of the republican pary in the House and w-s the aspiring leder of the republican parry of the country, his, however, willed herwise. and seeratd determined that the und which we e begins should be r-opened and thst thep s-iotis which were hushed sh -u!d benind ind. He (M1H) wished the House to unt. rs.au 1 Iba', lit and his associates did not rt lpr.'C -ii either trie purposeor the manifest dtiie'f the icei tl'-ruAU, and while they If It it tn ir Imperative duty to vindicate the ruth ot hi.-lory as regards the r net on, did not calcu ate to aid the gentleman in that worn of crimination am of recriminaüon and of ae-pini? up the war by poll lei s a U-r the brave mtuhv sail that the war shall end. Trie g-nile nan from Maine had made two pom '3 In uh h;- eh, iba uia;uautmity a- d grace of tri republican party and the b: uti.ity of i ho whom tie wms pl ad tu term rebels. As to the lirhi qu stion. he cild not propose to weary the ll.uise i d-i , because witit the history of thd last li years yet fresh in the mlnaof the world, 1 1 was unless o s eak of the grace and magnanimity ot the republican party. With the master enslaved, wii.ii li telligeuce disfranchised, wiih society d:BOrdered, with states subverted, with legislatures dispersed, the people couid not afford to talK of grace and magnanimity. If thatweie grace and magnanimity, he prayed God to sa v the country in the future from such virtues. The gentleman from Maine had made the grave iuuictmeut g tin-a Mr. Davis that he was guilty ot the murders and crimes at Andersonvilie, and the gentleman (Hialne) s'.ocd betöre thecouutry wltn his very lame In peril if, after making such a charge he failed to prove lt. II' (Uli.) would take up the gentleman's proosltioas in their order. He hoped that no one wouid im gine he was here to p -ss any eulogy on Mx. Davis. Ihe record ou which his fame mut.t rest hd been made np, and bis companions and friends i ad reml led tbat record io the only tribunal that Wim. Id ha e an impartial judgment honest , posteilty. n tne meantime no eulogy o hs cou d help it, no censure fr m the gentleman (Hlaiue) coul'i dam elt,a d no act or resolu lion of the House couid effect it. THE CHARGE AGAlNT MR. DAVIS was that he was a deliberate, willful scheming murder, r of thousands of bis fellow-citizens. Knowing the high character and reputation of the gentleman from Ma ne, be (Hill) had sup posed, whe he heard the charge fall from bis lips, that he had certainly made a recent discovery and he listened for the evidenca. But what was it? Notbin but the partial report of a cocgresSionnl committee. The te-tlmony read was exclusively n parte testimony, taken white the gei.lleman nowon trial belore the country was in prison, without a heart ngand without an opportunity of a henrln .. Ii there was any principle held eacr d In tbe Ang o-Hiion mied it was thai an Euglmhraan waxno to be condemned until he si.ou:d be con Ton ted with his witnesses. But the testimony was not only ex pirtp, but was mntil.ve.1, viciously mutilated, palpab y mutilated, most adroitly mutilated. In this col nee ion Mr. Hi 1 refoired to the statement of Dr. Jones, one of the witne-s-8 in th Wirz trial, who bad been sent by the cmfederaie government to ninke a report as to the c -nJitlou oi Anderson ville, bet whose report had nev r reached the confederate authorities. That report had, in the hands of the Judge advocate been w.utilated, and Dr. Jones nad called the alien ion of the court to the tact, one ot the suppressed statemenis being that home-sic sn ess and disappointments among the pi Isouers h id been inor destructive ol life I ban any physical cause. During the whole three mouths ol the Virz trial fie federal goveinxnenu wltn all the me- ns atitsdi-posal, had not, pmduc-da ingle witness to connect Mr. Davl with a single atrocity. Even on the dny of hi execution, W'hz had been otfered a commutation of his sentence if he would implicate Mr. Dl. But Wlrz's answer to bis counsel was, Mr. Schade, you know that I have lways to d yu that 1 do not know anything atainst Jefferson I 'avis. He had no connection wlrh me as to what was done at Anderson ville. I would not become a traitor against htm, or any body else even to save my life." But, said Mr. Hill, what poor Wirr within two hours of his execution woo d not say tor bis li e, tne gentleman from Maine says to Ihn country for the sake of keeping his party in power. Sensation, tir, CHRISTIANITY 14 A FALSEHOOD, humanity Is a lie, civilization is a cheat, or the man who would not make a false charge for his liJe was ver guilty of wilful murder. Mr. Hill went on t ia'gue that by the logic of Mr. Biaine's speech, in holding Mr. Davis responsi ble for the acts of Winder, President Urant might be beld responsible for ihe acts of JdcDouald and Joce, and ho asied whether Mr. B'sine meant to est - bilsh a ru e of construc tion mm, won a aumorize ine ciirtryln arraigning Pre-iden' Urant lor comp icily In the wnissy trauas as air mini responsible, he ftsk-d. (or the C'red.t Mobil ler, for the Snnborn coDtiaci. !nd for ihe fruu.ls on the District of toiu-rnia? let .Mi. Oram had aOsnuely to go to tbe öena e of the United states for the col nrinat:u for a hl,'h office of the name of a rr.an (ailuding to Alex. H. Bhepherd, ol Waihinn'ou.lwbo stood chanted before the e net ry wltt the grosses1 pecuJatious and frauds on this district, alter the charges had been niMde and wnl.e they were pending. He (Hill) was neither the author nor Uiscipie of sncb po itlcpi logic, but if the gentleman's (Hiaine) proposition wnn regaru to Mr. Davis s were true, then by the same logic U-neral Urant, lnsieau oi oeing euuuea to a third term, was entitled to twenty terms in twenty penitentiaries. (Laughter.) The argument was false. It was a libel on the American ru es of law and was without precedent. lo precedent for it could be found tu and dvi'ized co"nt y. He Hil-J acquitted Ueneral uran. or ompuciiy la the whisky frauds any revenue frauds, and tli- facta acquitted Mr. havn of complicity with any atrocity anywLere. Mr. Hill proceeded to quote the law of it e comeaerate government on tne sub ject ot the treatment of prisoner-. In which It la provided that the ration for prisoners ot war final, be the same in quantity and qulaity, as those furnished to the 'enlisted men in the army of the confederacy. That law, be aM, was patted by tbe confederate congi ens, was approved by Davis, and was, so far as Davis's agency was cone med, executed. The gentleman from Maine had gone so far as to say thai Mr. Davis had sent lien. Winder to Andersou vl.le lor the purpose ot organizing a den of borrurs The answer In that was an order locating the priHon, which Hill prooe-ded to read ai.d which provided that it should be In a bealfiy locality, with plenty of pure water, a running str am -ud, If possib'e, shade trees and in tr:eifiirned,atenelzhborhiod of grist and aw mi ls. That, ie said, did not looK Iikeoramzlng a aen f br rrors. Mr. Blaine bad sxld that no conleder-it pr soner In the bauds of the federal utho.ltles had i-ufljre1, but that they bad slway beeu allowed to buy whatever they wanted. The onlv answer he would give to that w is that he bimseli had once had the honor Of being IN A PBISON IN THE NORTH, and, on the first day of his imprisonment, the o3ctr la charge of thn prison bad kindly told nlm that be would put him on Andersonvllle fare and would not allow him to buy anything. II Hil!) only got released from imprisonment, after ten days' efforlbj Uen . Dix, of New York. Tie then proceeded to discuss the cause of the horrors at Aidersonvllle. lie tall that the first cause was the want of xm-dicine. li it where was the fault? It ws tbat they couid not g-l m-dicme. They did not have mediciue in the confederacy, and the ledetat government bad made medicine contraband ft via.', a thing ten ch no other country ou earth bad ever do e betöre, not even had the Dnkeof Ai?a doue fach a thing Eventhegen, erat officers bad received Instructions to examine women parsing through the lines, to searcn their petticoat even, ao as to prevent their carrying medicine to the cosJederacy. Who, he asked,

was reponeible for that. There was, also, another misfortune, and that was the want ot clothing That, ot course, bad been made contraband of war. He declared tbat whatever horrors bad existed at Anaersonvllle, not one of them con d be attributed to a single order of tbe confederate government, "od that every oneof them grew out of the necessity of tbe occasion, which necessity was fostered on the confederates by the conduct et the other sMe. He challenged Blaine to meet bim face to face and fact to fact in discussion ol the question, declaring that tbe lime wss past when tue country could accept impudence of assertion lor force of argument, r reo eesness of statement for the truth oi history. Ha (Hill) did not want to unfold tbe chapter on the other side. He was a i Ameri can who honored his country an t his whole country, and it was net pleasant fo- bim to bring forward proof (hat any portion of his c untry had b-eu guiity of wilful crime, or the wll.ui maltreatment of poor, manacled p. isoners. Most of li ese horrors weie iuseperable liomar-tste of war, and be wanted the people to recollect that, so that herealter they hould not ba hurried into another war. etill, as a seton" to tbe gehtleuiHu's (Ltlalne's) otatateraent about Audersonville, be -would rend some extracts lnm a letter wcltten by a conafed-rate surgeon who was a.riontr of war at Kim Ira. tie read portions of that letter, tu whlcu it was stated that THE MORTALITY AT ELMIRA was no less than at Andersonvllie. Mr. rialt, of N. Y., aiked him who was the author of the letter. Mr. Hill replied that he did not know. Mr. rutt dictated that he was living within &i miles of Klniira and that the statements were unqualifiedly lalse. Air Hill replied that be did not say that the

statements Mere t ue. but only that they were us good as the statements quoted on the other side II-merely Used tb tu as a feel-otl. But, alter all. wual was the test as to the d gree ol misery sulTer d lu the Northern and rtu hrn prisons, 'i lie ttt was ihe result. The report of Mr. btantou, secretary of war the republican side of the House will believe him e blotted the fac , tnatof the federal crlsoueis in the baudsor the confedetate authoriiles dur lug the war .2, "b had died, and that of the cunfeUet a e prisoners in lederal hands i'6, o3 had died. Kurgou Ueneral arne.s he supposed the repubiictius wouid believe bim tl.-o nad giveu the number of confederate pnsouers In the federal hnuJs during the war as 2-0.00U, and of the federal prisoners In the confederate hands at 27 ,ocU. Ihereloie, out of the 2 ijku prlsouers in tbe confederate hands only i"2.-7ö bad died, whi e out of tbe üJU.uu con federate prisoners In I be hands of t he lederal hands !M,4tf had died Tbe ratio was twelve per cent of the confederate p. Isoners in the federal hands who bad died, and less than nlue per cent, ot the federal prisoners in tbe cou fed era e haud s, and my friend (addrceiL'g Clalue with great emphasis) who is the muiderer? I would have believed Uen. Barnes iu preference o any politician over tnere. 'J he gentleman (Piatt) says be lives 3 mi es away from E:mira. Perhaps he could have sraelled tbe small-pox that far. He certainly could not have sea it and I venture to say that If the small pox was at the p lson camp, i o one could have got him nearer than36ml:e. He isa wonderful wi ness. (Ijiuhter ) But it is not equal to the mutilated evld-nce whlca the g t eman from Maine introduces ytsterday. We know how our prisoners toffered in the federal bands, if we choose to tell. Thousands of our poor fellows Cime borne frost E'mlr-, Fort Delaware and other r laces with their fingers frozen off, with their toes frozen off and with tbelr teetb fallen out. But the great question is at last who was responsible for that state of things and tbat is really the only im or tan t question He went on to dl -cuss the history of the change of prisoners, stating that ail the propositions from the con'ederates for an exchange and for the amelioration ot the condition of the prisoners were r.Jected by the federal government Mr. Blaine as&ed bim whether he bad not been a member ot the confederate Senate. Mr. Hill rep.ted that he had b en. Mr. Blaine theu proceeded to quote a resolu tion on e reo in vue comeaerate congress by Hen a tor Hill, of Ga., to tbe folio? lug effect, that every person pretendl- g to be a a ldteror omcerof tbe United states, w no fnouiu oe cap'uieu on tne soil or the conlederate stales after the first of January, 1H3. shall be presumed to nave ntered the territory d the enn'ederate states with intent to incite Insurrection and to abet murder, and that, an less MiiisTaciory prooi oe adduced to tbe con trary before tbe military court before which his trial should be h d. BE SHOULD 6CFFER DEATH. He asked Mr. Hill whether he was the author of that resolution. Mr. Hill I will say to the gentleman from Maine, very frank y, that I have not tbe slight est recollection of bearing It before. Mr. Ill aloe You do not deny it. Mr. Ulli I do not know. My own onlnlontls that I re ver was the aut or of that resolution. but 1 have no recoliec ion of it. If the gentle man can give me the circumstances under which i' was Introduced I may recoil- ct. Mr B alne On the let ot October. IstfZ. the judic ary committee of the confederate congress D.aoe a report anu ou'Tco a series or resolut ions, Btia thereupon oeunior 11111,01 ueorgta, is re corded us having offered the resolution which I have Just read. Mr. Hl I -1 was chairman of-he Judiciary com mlttee IntheSimate a?d, very lUely, iliethe cheirmanof the committee on rules at tho last session, I may have consented to tbat repott. ILsnh er at ibe exnet seot Mr.Blaine.l Mr. B aine Does the gentleman admit that be made thai rep- tit Mr Ulli 1 do not know, bat It In very likely. I Derisive laugmer on tne republican side I Mr. Blaine Ihe copy which I have Quoted fromiseutltled "Itepub.lcanisin in America." 1 wish to know whether the geutleman was the author Of id at resolution. Mr. Hill I really do not recollect (renewed lausuterou inerepuo ic n nie. Mr. 11 a ne. per steutly The gentleman does notMiv inai n was not tne author of it. Mr. Hill I do not, but think I was not the authrortt. Mr Blaine I tliousht that as the gentleman's eflorts was to show the humane character of the confederate onngrei, this might aid him lu re memoerin me me n. Mr. Hill-WUh all due de'erence to the gentle man, he did not thluk any such thing, haiiihter.j tie thought he would divert me from the purpose of my argument. Mr. Blaine (apologetically)-Ob, no. The gentleman can have all the time he wants Mr. Hill bat measures the confederate government might have thought proper 'o take at 'hat time to piotectthe women and children of the confederacy from insurrection, I do not recollect. But 1 shall not be diverted by tbe gentleman from tbe course of my argument to go into the history of slavery, or of ins3ne',tlon,orof John Brown's raid. I know tbls. tbat whether . I or any other man on the committee was the author of the resolution, which 1 think more than probable, our purpose wa not to do injustice to any man, woman or child. Nor h or South, but to adopt what we deemed stringent measures to protect our wives and childrea from sei vile Insurrection and slaughter, while our brave s us were in the fl-Id. (Murmurs of applause on the democratic si Je) Mr. 11 in theu continued blaremarks relative to THE EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS and said that the confederate government officially proposed in August, 1861, that if the federal government would send learners and transports to Savannah, the confederate government would return the sick and! wounded prisoners on its bands without an equlavlent. That proposition, which was communicated to Ike federal authorities in August, 1861, was not answered until December, lvil, when some ships weres-ntto Ha van nab. The record will show thai the chief su -erlog and tbe chief mortality at Andersonvlii6 was between August and December, lGi. We sought to allay that eufiering by asking you to take your prisoners off our hands without an equivalent and without ashing your return ofa man for them, and you refused to do so. Mr 11111 went on to qnote a series of resolutions pnsed by tbe federal prisoners at Anoer tnville on the 2sth of Sep tember, 1SH. in which all due praise la given to tbe confederate government for the at entlon paid them, and In which it is said that tbe suffering which they en dured was not cau-ed Intentionally by the confederate e vernment. out by tbe torre of clr cumntanct8. Commenting opon that resolution, Mr. Hill said: Brave men aie always houest. and true soldlers nev-r slander, i would be lieve tbe statements of those gallant solo ler at Andersonvllie, as contained in that resolution, l preference to tne wnoie trioeoi repuDiican Dolitictuns daughter on the democratic side.) wbit can be ssid of tbe people who could reject such appeals fr m their own soldiers. And yet, even in r -eponss to that, succor did not come. Why, he continued, were all these sp.eals resisted? Wbydldthn fejeral authorities refuse to aliow their own surgeons to attend oton their own soldiers when prisoners of war and carry tbem medicine and com forts? Why did the federal government reose to exchange prisoners, man for man, and officer for offlrer? Why did it refuse to it od npto its own solemn engagements, made In for an exchanes of nrlsoiieraf who Is In 'fault? There mast be a reason for this great 1 atrocity, and that la. tho next, point to which I

wish to call tbe attention of the House. Listen to the reason. Tne New York Tribune in 1864, referring to the occurrences which 1 have related. Hays tbe Tribune-I suppose you would believe the iriDune In 1464, If you don't believe it now. (Laughter.) In August the rebels offered to renew the exchange, man for man. Ueneral Urant then telegraphed the iollowlng important order: "It Is haid on the men held in Southern prisons not to exchange them, but It is humane to those left In the ran a to fight our battles. Kvery man released on p role or otherwise, becomes an active s Udler against us at once, either directly or indirectly. If we commence a system ol exchange which liberates ail the prisoners taken, we will have to fight on nntil the whole Houth is exterminated. If we hold those caught, they count for NO MORE THAN DEAD MEN. At this particular time to release all tbe rebel prisoners North would insure Sherman's defeat and compromise our safety here." Mr. Uarfield, of 0., asked Mr, 11111 from what books he read. Mr. Hill replied that the volume which he was reading was the life of Jefftrson Davis. Derisive laughter on the republican side He asked Mr. Uarrield whether he would tay that the teUgram was not true. Mr. UainelJ. I haven't naid a word about the telegram. 1 merely asked you what book it was. Mr. Hilt. The extract in the book Is takec from the New York Tribune of löi. But here is U- n. Grant's testimony before toe cotumlttee on the conduct of the war, taken on the 11th of Kemusry, 185 . You oeiieve him, don't you? I Laughter.! Mr Hill here read Uen. Urant's

testimony bfo'e tneco umutee etpiaiuiu? tue reason why lie was opposed to au exchange of pri-oner. and which was in eneci the same a? was given lu the telegram quoted from tfco Tr.buue, one sentence ben g in these word-.: "1 di I not deem it advisaole or Just to re.nforc the enemy, and an Immediate resumption of exchanges would Lave hd thit effect without any corresponding benefit. Mr Hill then quoted from a letter from Junius Henri Browne in the New York Tribune totheellrci that Uen. Buller ha i stated In a speech at Lowell, Mass., that he had been prompted ty Mr. Htauton to iut lorward the negro que-tton in rdtr to complicate the exenajge of prislouers, Mr. Browne's commui. upon it being that Mr. Stanton was the d'ger.f the unnamed graves which crowded tne vicinity of every s utaern prison wun never to be foreotteii horrors. Mr. Hill then proceeded to euiu up his argument, and said: WHAT HAVE WE PROVED? I have pre ved that the federal authorities broke tbe cartel deliberately. I have proved that they refused to eopen that cartel when approached by Mr. Stephens as a commissioner, tolely on tbe grounds of humanity. I have proved that they made medicine contraband of war and thereby left u to the dread necessity of supplying prisoners with suoli medicine as c u d be improvised in th 'coulederacv. I have proved that thy refused to allow surgeons ot tbelr own army t ) accompany their pri-oners to the Hou;h. I have proved that the confederate authorities proposed to ieturn your sick sn l wounded without an equivalent in August. 18tii, and that you n-ver deigned to repl until December, IHni. I have proved that your high of ficers in command gave us a leaon way mey wouiu not ex change prisoners, that it would be humane to the prisoners but cruelty to the sol-dl-ts in the field- It was a part ot your military policy to let your prisoners suffer rather than that the (Southern confederacy should have an increase of its military force. t have also proved that, with all th horrors which you have made sach a noise about as occurring at Andersonvllie, greater horrors occurred in prisons wnere you ha i our troops, and that the percentage of death was 3 per cent, greater among our prisoners in your hands than among your prisoners in our bands. When tbe gentleman from Maine rises again to give birth to that udml tig Ucfd effusion of genius, without a fact to sustain it. in which he says: "And here, bef ire my Und measuring my w rds, knowing their full intent and Import, I declare that neither the d.-eds ot the Duke of Alva In the Low countries, nor the massa re of Bt. Bartholomew, nor the bumb screws and eDglue of torture of the Spauish Inquisition begin to compare in atrocity with the hideous crime of Andersonvllie." let him add to it, and the atrocities Oi Andersonvllie do not be gin to compare with tbe atrocities of Elmlra, Fort Douglas, or For Delawasre and of all the atrocities, both at Andersonvllie and K'mtra, tbe confederate government stands acouitted from ail reHDonsibilitv and blame. Mr. Hill then quoted lrom tbe SPEECH MADE BT JEFFERSON PAVIS to tbe confederate soldiers after tbe retreat of Uen. McCiellan from before Richmond, In which he said tbat the crowning glory of the soldiers was their humanity to the wounded and prison era who had fallen into their bands. He also referred to the fact that the Richmond Examiner, which Mr. Blaine had quoted yester day as an authority against Di vis, had s'ated that the humanity and generosity of Jefferson Davis won Id inevitably ruin the coniederacy. The gentleman from Maine has introduced mat witness to prove Davis's guilt of inhumanity, and yet the witness said that the humanity and generosity of Davis would rnln he con fed racy. Hill also o noted the following from the Richmond Examiner: " The enemy i as gone from one unmanly cruelty to another, encouraged by their impunity, till they are now and Lave been for some time inflicting upon the people of the country the worst horrors of barbarous and uncivilized tvsr. Yet in spite of all this, Mr. Davis in his dealings with tbe enemv is as gentle as a Bucking dove." And tnat.contl ued Mr. Hill, Is the truth. Tnose of us who were tbe' e at th im know it to be the fact. One of tbe moot persistent charges brought by tbe Ruhmond Examiner and wm" others against Mr. Djtvis was his humanitv. Over and over again has Mr. lvlrt been heard to say, when applied to to re. tallate lit the horro s inflicted on our prisoners, I quote his Vtry lan Kuae: '-The inhumanity of the enemy to our prisoners can be no Jnstifict ion lor h dir-regro by us of tbe rules or civil ized warfare and Christianity." ihereiore ie persisted in it aLd tr is paper cried out against h rn that he would ruin the confederacy. But why bring np such a subject? War is-always horrible. War always brings hardships. death, sorrow, pain and devastation and he is unwoi thy to be considered a usiesnian loOKlug to tbe pacificat on of tbe country who win parade the horrors lnsepatabie lrom war for the purpose of keeping up tbe strife which produced those horrors. My message to tbe gentleman from Matue is tbls: There are no confederates in this House. There are no confederate ambitions. desires or purposes in the House. But tbe South is here and here she intends to remain Enthuslastle demonstrations on tbedemocratio side and in tbe galleries. Let tana lcism do its worst, let it pass its nullifying acts, trample on the constitution. abro gate the pledges of the fathers, incite raids on our people, multiply wrongs lnnnueiy until they shall be Hie tbe stars of heaven or the sands on tbe sea shore without number, but know this: for ail your Iniquities, the south will never again seek a remedy in THE MADNESS OF ANOTHER SECESSION. (Renewed applause.) We are here. We are In our fathers' houte. Our brothers are our com panions, and we are at home. Thank Uod! (Enthusiastic applause.) We come to gratify no Teageance, to retaliate no wrongs, to resent no past Insults, to open no strife. We come with a patriotic pur pose to do whatever bhall be in our political power, to restore an honest, economical and constitutional adminis'ration of the government. We come charging on the Union no wrong to us. Tee Uniou never wion-ed the (South. The Union has been aa nnmlxed blessing to every section, to every state, to every man of every color in America. We char e all of ur wrongs to tbat h eher law, faLatlcism. which never kep pledge or obeyed a law. We sought to leave tbe association of thoee who would not ket-p fidelity to te covenant. We sought to go by ourselves. But bo far from having lost our nd-l ty to the cmstl'utlon we hugged it to our bosom and carried It with us. Biave. Union men of the North, follow era of Webster ana Hi more, of Cass nd Doug lass, you who fought for the Union, for the sake of the Union, you who ceased to fight when the bat tie was endei and tbe sword was sheathed, wlih yon we have no quarrel. We felt your beavy arm in tbe midst of the struggle But above the roar or tbe cannon we hea.d your voice of kindness calling Brothers, come back. we are here to co-ope i ate with you, to do whatever we can do in spite of all our sorrows, to rebuild the Union. to restore peace. to be a blessing to the cou u try and to make the America' Uuion what our fathers intended it should be. the glory of Amerlea and the b easing ef bnmanlty. Bu nn. rntlnin. vhn npraMiiUd uahv vourlnfl delltles until youd ove us out of the Union, you who then claimed to be the only friends of the Union which you bad before denounced aa leaeue with death and a covenant win hell you who followed np the war when tbe soldiers Who fought it bad made peace and gone to their Homes, to you we nave no concessions to make.

Martyrs owe no apology to tyrant's, and, while we aro ready to make EVERY SACRIFICE FOR THE UNION, ' aeoesaion, however defeated and oppressed, wil

confess no Ein to fanaticism, however bigoted and exacting. Yet while we make to you no concession, we say this: We come even to you with no spirit of revenee. We have but one ambition and that Is to add our political pawer to that of ihe patriotic Union men ot the iO-th, lu order to compel tana'lclsm to obey the laws and live In thn Union according to the constitution. We do not propose to compel you by oaths, for you never kept them. Tbe Houth did tbe Union one great wrong, and we come as far as we can do to repair it. We wronged the Union crlevonsly when we left it to be seized, and rent and torn by tbe men who bad denounced U as a J league with dea'n and a covenant with bell. We ask you, gentlemen, of the republican party, to rise above all your animosities, and to forget your old sin. Let us unite to repair the wrongs tbat distract and oppress the country. Let us turn our backs on the past, and let it be tald in the future that be shall be tbe greatest patriot, tbe truest patriot, the ab est patriot, wbo shall do the most to repair the wrongs of the pest and promote the glo'ies of the future. (Loud and sustained applause on tbe democratic Bide of the House and in the crowded galleries.) RtMARKS OF RANDALL. On Tuesday Mr B alne delivered another addxess in favor of bis amendment excluding Davis from the beneflt of the amnesty act. Mr. Kandall closed the debate. He said that in preparing ihe bill he had followed tbe words In substsme ol the one which the gentleman from .Malne.(Hlaine) as a member of the commit leeou rule', had hliiT-etf eoncurred In at the Ixstteslon. He (Blaine) had not then iu hed tolhelront with his vmum, because perhaps he occupied at that time a dlderent p ltlon from that which he occupied now. i u-lug the war, while the gentlem u and hl tu ell were members of the; House together, fhev had coopeta'eu In every measure to prosecute lue war lor ihe res'.oranon ot toe uuionaudine securtigof peace throughout the laud. It was only afier the surret der at Appomattox Court House that their ways bad b-guu to diverge. He Randal. had begun then to lor k for the ensctneut of measures havlnt; in view the peace of ihooumy and the res-.oration of ha mony, v bile the gentleman pursued a course of legisla tion calculated to irritate and to keep alive THE HATES AND PAKSIoNS of the civil war. To-day he (Rand ill) presented this measure and asked its passage in tbe spirit of the resolution offered the .other day by the gentleman from Indiana (New) for which the gentleman from Maine voted, but which be bad signally departed ; rum. Amnesty, to be or any value, mot be impartial, its enect on mere in dividuals was unimportant. Ii great efiect was on tue heart aud mind oi tne people at large. He (Kandall) wanted to bave an euu of the war and or the political rancors engendered b It. Unlike the gentleman from Maine wbo rubbed a sore. n s eaa oi applying he piaster, he (Kandall) asked In the w rds o Uen. Urant and he commended them to the fentleman from Maine Let Us Have Peace." i was not h s province to inquire into the eot.eman's ( aiue's) motives, out bis conduct would led to the conclusion that bis ambttlou prompted him to ride into some high pace on ihe bad feelings sought to be aroused b? bim by an appeal to the passions of men, so unwortny ot nim.anu nuwortny oi uis par'y. ne referred to the two infamous ru es passed by tbe last House, under the lead ot Biain , aud said in conclusion tbat be brought forward the measure in no spirit or pariUausbip. but in tne plrlt of patriotism, ana tne gennemaa imm Maine lUUe UDfiertood the teatimentor the pet pie wnen ne lntenerea witn mis diu oi amnesty. Mr. Blaine inquired wnat two lniamous ruies he referred to. Mr Kandall said that be aTlndfd to rules lbö nd 167, designed to cut off the rights of tbe minority and which the present House had repealed . Mr. tsiaine reminaea mm mat ne nim&eii (Randalli had the credit of voting lor the first of these rules, The debate having c'osel Mr. uanrau asaea unanimous consent to have Mr. Banfes' amend ment voted on. but Mr. Blaine objected. He then moved to commit tbe bin to the Judiciary committee with la tructlous to report It back forin Ith with Mr. uanas' amenam nt. Mr. Starkweather, who had been iu the speaker's chair, came down on tbe floor and said that as one member of tho Judiciary com mittee be desired to consider the but in tne committee. Mr. Kandall I never classed you as an oppo nent ot amnesty. Mr. Stars weather I am not an opponent oi amnesty, but 1 am an orponeut of ev.ry at tempt to i-HBs a measure without an opportunity of offering amendment-! The bin w.ih Mr. Kauks s amendment, Mr. Bliane's not having been dmlited, was referred to the Juoiclirv oinralttee, and a mo ion to Jerons id er t he re ere Cd was made by Mr. Blaine and Md on the table, so tha the bill can not be reported back except under the regular cllo the committees. The House then at 3:15 ad Journed. BLAINE'S BLUADERBUSS. THE RECOIL HA.TTLED HIM. A Graphic Description of the Stir ring Scenes In the Hous j A fter the Explosion of a Magazine of Hate. A FIELD DAY IN THE HOUSE. BLAINE APPEARS IN THE MEPHISTOPHELEAN ROLF OF BUTLER COX Rl-PLIKS TO HIM AND RIDDLES HIS AHM R WITH SARCASTIC KHKTOBIO SOLEMN BCUNES CLOSE THE DAY'S DOINGS. Ihe stirring scenes In the Hous? reported in detail in the Sentinel of yesterday are thus graphically portrayed by Mr. Keenan in bia telegram to the Chicago Times: A scene more passionately dramatic than any episode since tbe war electrified tbe House to-dav on Blaine's m tion for an amendment to Randau' amnenty bill. Mr. Randall presented during the fits weQk ol the s sslon an amnesty bill identical In terms with the two that passed tbe republican House in previous sessions without demur from either party. Mr. Blaine also presented the first week of tbe session a bill identical with Randall's in terms, save that Jeff Davis is excepted from the rights of amnesty. There was no an ticipation tbat any unusual debate would be brought about on tbe bills, until Mr. Blaine, as soon as an opportunity c fife red, demanded tbe right of tacking an amend ment to Mr. Randall's bill. Ibis was voted down, but instead of giving up tbe contest, tbe ex-speaker pushed bis poiut, and to tbe astonishment of ev -ry one, tLe bill was lost, falling to receive a two-thirds majority, and Blaine inter lcted, wltn a ready under standing of tbe situation, a movement for reconsidering by which be gained tbe right of debate without the consent or instrumentality of tbe majority. It was a mystery to those not versed in parliamentary law, ni even a majority of the best parliament arians HOW THE FLOOR WAS SECURED, and how, in spite of Randall, Blaine virtually gained, by his celerity and dexterity, charge of the amnesty bill, instea 1 of Ran dall, its mover. Tbe rule of tbe House is tbat when a vote is taken a member of the majority on tbe winning fide ot a pro do sition can move to reconsider. This motion to reconsider gives tot mover tbe n or to open and close the debate upon tbe mo ion Now in tbe vo'e upon the pas-age of Randall's bill a two-thirds vote was tequired, as it was offered under a suspension of the rules. The minority. ol which Blaine is a member, constitutes more than one-third ot tbt si voting upon tbe bill, and was therefore a virtual mnj irity against tbe measure, Mr. Blaine then moved a red -ns deration. This rict ot bin, It is raid, bas no preceient, but everyone upon both sides conceeds Its correctness. Having won bis position, Blaine was ready with bis ammunition. It was plain to the House, whicb was now crowded In the gal leries, on the floor, and In tho lobbies, tbat A TREMENDOUS EFFORT was about to be made, and an oppressive hash fell upon tha House u Elilne, radiant,

resolute and confident, strode forward a few benches and began tbe most overpowering harangue tbat ever fell upon tbe ears of a legislative assembly. The lines of the speech may be read, but the terrific, envenomed, harrowing intensity of emphasis, and motion and gesture with whici the words were accompanied, It is not possible to represent. He prcte-ted against restoring to citizenship Jeff. Davis, not because be was tbe hed and front ot the Southern confederacy; not because be was tbe arch conspirator in a galling rebellion, but oecau89 be was responsib e betöre man or God tor tbe murderous slaughter

and unspeakable infamy of Andersonvllie. As theee words rang out.sbarp, bitter and denam, and tbe lazy attention which tbe House bad st first given was changed to a mingle 1 amazement and anger. Tois was what tbe speaker wanted. With the entire assembly eagerly attentive to ever word,Jhe plunged Into a scathing review ol tbe condition of our prisoners, winding up with THE CLIMAX OF THE HORRORS which Andersonvllie presented. 4,I have read," said he, "recently, to refresh my mind, all historical horrors ot the past. I bave io lowed up the atrocities and crimi nalities of Alva in the low countries, and I bave re-read the story ot the slaughter oi St. Bartholomew. 1 bave one through the lainiiiar horrors of the SpuHh inquisition. and I declare bstore God. with a full knowl edge ol what 1 am saj ing. and in temperate Hpoech, tbat these were humanities as comptred to the barbarism if Auder-on-ville." As these words, clear, sottmn. studied, aod pathetic, broke out upon the House, a hundred livid faces frowned on the democratic benches, while the glistening eyes and clenched bands ot his own immediate followers and the hoarne murmur ot applause in tbe gallery told only too wt 11 the baneful power of the treaienduous phillippic. wasting no time on tbe surpernuius points of oratory, ne carried the horrified assembly through tbat SHUDDERING GOLGOTHA OF CRUELTY and despair ol tbe prison stocks and touched with a supremely skillful band the unspeak able miseries of tbat devoted 30.000 ot emaci ated hero marjtrs wbo, uueer tbe burning breath of a Southern sun, which was even more kind than the hot breath of Southern hate, wasted and fell away before tbe hideous barbarity ot Andtrsonville. He read from the committee on tbe cot duct of tbe war, teat gratuitously onesided report on tbe treatment of cur prisoners in tbe fsoutb. a report manifestly Intended to bold tbe hatred of the North forever black and strong against all thought of recon ciliation; a report eo vigorously bitter and so obviously parlizsu tbat tbe hor ror wbicn Mr. Blaine's recital bad aroused gan to recede and the relaxing muscles ot aces, tbe 1 loseninz of clenched üss, and the audible murmurs which fell upon the House indicated that tbe tension was done, and bat tbe speaker, though s ill holding tbe perfect attention of the House, bad jarred that one cord of fairness which had hereto fore blinded every man, woman aod rbild woo beard bim into impulsive adhesion to his arg a tuen t. Though every paper in the land publish this matter pbillippic in full, without bearing it it will sound tame and in potent as com i area to ITS PRODIGIOUS IMPRESSION upon the House, it was a studied enort. Every line bad been prepared with care. Every fact had been elaborated, as the effort showed. Ue bad made inquiries in tbe war department, navy department and other de rariments, and fonnd that about seven bun dred people would come under the terms of this bill, aud on man only would Da de barred, Jen. Davis, lie was willing to extend the inestimable right of citizenship to all who desired it, but he was not among tb' ss who would force it upon a reluctaut people. He understood, on very good authority, tbat Mr. Robert Toombs bad boasted in foreign countries and at fashion able watering places In tbis country that be wouldn't cond. sound to accept a restora tion ot tbe privileges which bis trei-on and fdlony bad forfeited. Never in au hour was S3 MUCH SWELTERED VENOM put on the ears ol a listening auditory. A more lniamous inhuman revival of tbe bates aod horrors ot the past was never at tempted even by tbat arch demagogue, Morton. It was utterly unexpected from Mr. Blaine. As tbe most rancorous periods struck tne ears of the gallery, the exclama tion was, "Butler this is a speech tbat Butler should make, not Blaine." He said no word tbat was untrue, probably, Lor did be torture to any undue extent the hideous criminalities of tbe Southern treatment of Union soldiers, but the ueneral ceutiment of the House and evi dently to bo in- extent of bis own psrty r voited from a recrimination in every sense baleful and Larmtul to the beet interests and best sentiments of tbe country. Somewhat to the disappointment of tbe House, when Mr. Blaine took bis seat, the eptaker rtcog nizud Mr. Cox, who coveted tbe perilous bouor of tbe reply. Burdened with a file ot Congressional Globes bound in bulay volumes, and a flaring armtul of papers, THAT SHALL MAN made a bolt lrom bis .sta' toward the center of the House, changed his mind, hesitated, turned again, amid tbe rising jeers of tbe republicans and tbe suppressed murmurs of bisowD side, and fina ly landed in a seat tastily vacated for bim immediately behind Randall, tbe bigoest point among tbe dem jciauc benches. He began in au uncertain, rambling strain, with his voice pitched up among the Dasal uncertainties, and excited lor a lew minutes merely a languid contempt lrom the republican side, wbicb was busy in oongratula ing Blaine, and a hostile incredulity lrom tbe dem crats who demanded aid expected Randall. For a time there was an uncertainty wbetoer it was the Yorick or Hamiet otthti House tbat ba l taken up tbe gauntlet flung down by B!aine. He seemed to feel tbe oozit g out of tbe interest and was conSClOUS of ihe danger of lobing his opportunity. His wandering and incoherence suddenly ceased. He lent bis efforts to tbe ludicrous aspect of Blaine's astounding revival ol tbe horrors of war, and in a fdw momenta tbe scowling lace, boetile glances, nervous clutching of bands, and rigid bodies relaxed into convulsive merrimeut, every stroke of which scored tbe ludicrous side ot Blaiue's broidside. It was not so much the coherent argument or logical reasoning process which Cox depended upon to undo tbe thoroughly apparent mischievous retuKs of Mr. Blaine's unwise effort. Cox depending raiber upon a series of droll Inferences and waggish contra 1 let ions in point of fact, aud the utter di-p. oval of many of tbe mtiu features which Mr. BUine had cuarged upon tbe democratic parly. It was a whimsical, witty, brilliant, cogent rei aito?, and served tha purpose f Its autlsor to periectioo. It di-pelled som of the growing gall and disstpa e J to some extent THE INF&RNAL BITTERNESS which Mr. Blaine's ill-advised utterances were calculated to engender. Passing from a kindly eulogium of Blaine as a man ol humanity and lair dealing, Cox declared that the House would not Lave been aston ished to bave beard a speech so Inhumanely hostile to brotherhood and reconciliation from the! vitriolic lips of Butler, but tbat from Blaine the House and country bad a right to expect better things. He could only account tor this unexpected change ol character on tne part ot the ex

speaker by taking into view a re-

culiar necessity which compelled bim, against his more human Instincts, to take np the tail of the bloody shirt which Morton is fl mrishiog in tbet-uaie. Then contrasting this with Blaine's boast tbat the republican party was the emrwfiment of generosity and maznan'mitv. On-r traversed the carpet-ban record of the last seven Tears, forced lpalalatlon military nsurpation, Louisiana infamy, and kindred atrocities to prove tt at Blaine's point was wroDg. Then turning facetiously to the democratic ranks, be cried with mock uneasiness. D0WN ON YOUR KNEES, men who bave come from tbe South! Down on your knees to bis majesty lrom Maine, who fcas permitted you to vote and become as other ixea are." In contrast to Blaine's double dfallng in magnanimity and vlndic iveness, he revived tbe benignant utter ance oi It aa. Meveus. wbo. on a similar occasion, declared tbat all men south ot Mason aod Dixon's line, should be throat into tbe penitentiary of Lell. Tbere were moments when ihe speaker warmed up into abso lute eloquence, carrying ti e imnasi-ioned sympathy ot the II uss un 11. uiüdz Into jxo-i'y, be brought dowu e'emion and ridicule upon bw . pie.lec s-or. Blaine. Stopping a moment in Ms nid areer, be was remitod at a bib.ical illustration which would illustrate) things more ftliciti-tus-ly than bis own periods. He tripped down to bis dek, brou-it, out a Bible, and read tb liMin palm, re nun dir g Blaine, at the sim time, that the lt occtsion this sacred wiit had heon tailed into r-Jav was when jLde Wood aid recuinu'euded it to tbe bbbignaut Butler in ot e of his FIERY, UN T AM KD M KjDS. Cox read the palm, and the H use cheered vocilerouly. The b g books and flaring manuscript which Cox had ladened bimself with were next used With these be traced the whole bihtory of amnesty, showing by ti e record tbat Blaine, in tbe ommittes waere the bill was first introduced in 1S70. nad favored universal amnesty. "When?" said Blaine, spri. ging to bis feet excitedly and p jintiDg bis finger Imperatively at Cox. Ml will tell you when in the proper time," re-ponaed Sunset, with aggravating ease. "But I want to know now," said Blaine, pdremptorl:y. Cox stopped, twirled bis eye glssses, locked the exSpeaker calmlv in the eye, and sad, "Well I will tell you," and he told bim, here giving the date and circumstances, aod succeeding in showing the House that Mr. Blaine had countenanced universal amnesty from his own side oi the Houe, but denied it to the democia s. Blaine explained that being in the chair be could not object to the uoat.imous lutroducion of the bill from tbe committee ot which be was chairman, but be had requested a member to make an ob jection. It. was tbe impression of tbe House, how -ver, tbat tbe ex-speaker was not clear on tbe lecord, and by general consent Cox was admitted to bave ENTIRELY PIERCED HIS ARMOR and destroy the effect of bis speech. "Is that," said Mr. Cox, maliciously, having impaled bis adversary on tbe point of this dilemma, "the statesmanship that a?pirea to the presidency ;" to tbe uproarious amusement of the House. "He reminds me," t-aid Sunset, reflectively, "of a small darky who hoped to get tbe better of a mule by climbing bis tail, to whom bis father gave comtort when the mule's heels bad done tbelr worst, by saying tbat be was not sobandsoma, but tbat be bad learned something," whereupon Blaine wanted to know whetner Cox played tbe part ot the mule. Tbe speech was full of personal points ot this sort, Blaine being worsted in every sally. In conclusion Cox, amid tbe vehement urglogs of bis cn. leagues to go on, win mock gravity confided to tbe House tbe cause of Mr. BlalDe's astonishing charge of base. He aspired to the presidency. Grant also aspired to tbe presidency, and as Grant bad recommended uuiversal amnesty, it was Mr. Blaine's tactics to draw a line between third-termers and bimself. Mr. Cox regretted this unseemly difference among brethren, and wound up iu an enthusiastic outburst of applause, bis compatriots rushing to bim en masse to congratulate bim on THE MOST BRILLIANT EFFORT OF HIS LIFE. But the surprises of tbe day were, by no means, done when the shades of Digbt had fallen on tbe House. The figures on tte floor were obscure in tbe uncertain light between day and night, when, by preconcert, the selpulchral voice of Judge Kelley struck tbe waiting ears of tbe crowd to those long measured, melancholy accents of supernatural solemnity with which tbis singular nan addre ts tbe House. To tbe astonishment of everyone be opposed blankly the motion of his coheau from Maine. As tbe vigorous denunciations of K Hey attracted hi ui, li.aino moved nervously in bis seat. The republicans wbo bad been passing in review and congratulations before the blood-and-boues bauner, turned with eager aud angry attention upon tbis rebel in tbe ranks. He reviewed the whole history of legislation during 15 years of bis term. A? bis sonorous sentences rang out upon tbe house AN ISDESCRIBJBE CALM came upon tne noor ana gaiiery. xne democrats, who had been grouped in the vacant space between the speaker's desk and Cox, moved en masse, like a dim swarm of hazy spectres, led onward by a voice. The ghastly figure of Kelley, slim and dark and tall, swaying ta and fro in tbe twilight, was the onlv sign of movement upon the floor for nearly ca'f an hour. A tumultuous, fascinating flow of mingled history and argument poured from bis lips. He em bodied tbe peace and good will of the day i Blaine bad tj pined tbe death bead and cross-bones of partyl-m. Tbe final drift of Kelley 's utterances marred tne wnoie enect by being turned Into a special plea for the centennial grab. sr. LOUIS GAS. IT GUSHES FROM THE GROUND AND COM MINGLES WITH THE C1TT ARTICLE. The St. Louis Times of yesterday says: Several days ago tbe Times described the tapping of a gas well at the works of the Cotton Compress Company, in the lower part ot the city. The company while boring lor water lor their engine, struck tbe well, and tbe gas has been rusbsng out through the tube ever since. Woen lighted a column of flifme rises several fet from the outlet. Various experiments have been male, and tbe conclusion reached is tbat a permanent supply of gas has beau struck A company, styled the Mound City Gas Company, has been formed to utilize tbe product. A charter ha been obtained and officers and directors elected. Tbe officers are J. W. Paramore, president; W. M. Senter, vice president; L-slie Mar maduke, secretary and treasurer. The board of directors Includes the officers and also John A. Scud . der, S. A. Bemls, J. L. Sloss, D. W. Mar ' maduke. W. N.'B, Beal, Riebard B. Wright. C. N. McDowell, W. P. Shryrock, M. C Humphrey, Miles Sells. Tbe tets show tbat the product is what is known as coal oil gas aud In the crude state has eleven candle power, from two to four less than tbe general run of the St. Louis and Laclede gas. The company will at once sink more tubes and develop the supply. An application will also be made to the Council for permission to lay mains.