Frederick Douglass, the colored men's representative, called on the
President to procure a pledge that the unfair treatment of negro
soldiers in the Union uniform should cease by retaliatory measures on
the captured Confederates. But his hearer shrank, from the bare thought
of hanging men in cold blood, even though the rebels should slay the
negroes taken.
"Oh, Douglass, I cannot do that! If I could get hold of the actual
murderers of colored prisoners, I would retaliate; but to hang those
who have no hand in the atrocities, I cannot do _that_!"--(By F.
Douglass, in _Northwestern Advocate_.)
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