. Sufferings endured for a free government; . e barbarities are being en-acted in Eichmond, under the immediate cognisance ofthe so-called Confederate authorities Had they everoccurred in the wilds of Arkansas or Texas, or amongthe Sioux savages on the Pembina, they might challengesome degree of palliation; but, when we call to mindthat the voluntary starvation of defenceless men is occur-ring at Eichmond, within the sound of the voices ofJefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, and their associatesin crime, then does the bogus Confederacy itself becomeresponsible for these atrocities to God and ma
. Sufferings endured for a free government; . e barbarities are being en-acted in Eichmond, under the immediate cognisance ofthe so-called Confederate authorities Had they everoccurred in the wilds of Arkansas or Texas, or amongthe Sioux savages on the Pembina, they might challengesome degree of palliation; but, when we call to mindthat the voluntary starvation of defenceless men is occur-ring at Eichmond, within the sound of the voices ofJefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, and their associatesin crime, then does the bogus Confederacy itself becomeresponsible for these atrocities to God and man; and im-partial men, all the world over, who use all efforts tobewilder the human mind, by leading it into a mazylabyrinth of doubt, will reach the inevitable conclusion,that these men deserve the scorn of the civilized world,not to speak of the just vengeance of Heaven. Surely,surely, the vengeance of an incensed Omnipotence mustultimately overtake them! Yery truly, your friend, E. W. HUTTER, Pastor of St. Matthews Lutheran Church, Private L. If. PARHAM,Company B, 3d West Tennessee Cavalry. Admitted per SteamerNew York, from Richmond, Va., May 2d, 1S64. I ied May Kth, 1864,from effects of treatment while in the hands of the enemy.—U. Hospital, Div. No. 1, Annapolis, Me*. M CONDITION OF RELEASED PRISONERS. 51 RELEASED PRISONERS. Report of the Committee on the Conduct of the Waron the condition of our released prisoners, after theirconfinement in the dens, and prisons, and unshelteredfields, at and near Richmond :— In Senate,Wednesday, May 9, 1864. Mr. Wade, from the Joint Committee on the Conductand Expenditures of the War, submitted the followingReport, with the accompanying testimony:—- On the 4th instant your committee received a commu-nication of that date from the Secretary of War, en-closing the Report of Colonel Hoffman, commissary-general of prisoners, elated May 3, calling the attentionof the committee to the condition of returned Unionprisone
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