. Sufferings endured for a free government; . ul justification oftheir inhumanity, but as a pretext; and this they do, notin sorrow, but in the intense maliciousness of diabolismitself. They gloat over it, that, for the display of theirfiendish cruelty, they have an argument plausible enoughto quit themselves in their own wicked foregone con-clusions, however transparent its flimsiness to all theworld beside. I stood at the bedside of a dying youth,from Tennessee; I kneeled at his bedside in prayer; heclaimed to have made his peace with God, through faithin Jesus Christ. In the very article an
. Sufferings endured for a free government; . ul justification oftheir inhumanity, but as a pretext; and this they do, notin sorrow, but in the intense maliciousness of diabolismitself. They gloat over it, that, for the display of theirfiendish cruelty, they have an argument plausible enoughto quit themselves in their own wicked foregone con-clusions, however transparent its flimsiness to all theworld beside. I stood at the bedside of a dying youth,from Tennessee; I kneeled at his bedside in prayer; heclaimed to have made his peace with God, through faithin Jesus Christ. In the very article and hour of death,when all purposes are honest, and all secrets are revealed,I asked him: Do you think, my young brother, that themen in Richmond have starved you to death from choice,or were they driven to it from necessity ? His answerwas, God forgive them, they might have done better ifthey wished. The utterance of another was, I knowthey could have given us more food than they did, fromthe amount they gave to the guards; but they wished us. Private CHARLES R. WOODWORTH,Company G, Sth Michigan Cavalry, Admitted from Flag-of-truce boat,April ISth, 1S64.—Wests Building Hospital, Baltimore, Md.
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