The special correspondent of the Times has convinced himself by
careful inquiry that the stories of the treatment of the Northern prisoners by the South were true. He has seen and conversed with victims of the South, and believes that in the Libby prison, close to Mr. Davis's house, the prisoners were literally starved, that boxes of food were sent by their friends, but the authorities re- fused to distribute them, and "the prisoners died from hunger in sight of plenty." At Andersonville, 15,000 Northern prisoners lie buried, all dead of fever and hunger, having been kept " on a piece of land without even a tent to cover them, with a tropical sun beating on their heads, and without food enough given them to keep a dog alive." It is for permitting this, which he could have stopped by an order of two lines, that, says the writer, the North hungers for the execution of Mr. Davis. The truth about this war will penetrate England at last, and people recognize among other things
that it is possible to be on the sacle which ". society " opposes, and be nevertheless in the right.
